Finlandia is not a long piece but manages to combine both bombast and lyricism, with a main theme that I really like. |
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The president conveyed strength and reassurance and firmness, without bombast, without posturing. |
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This is an important but ponderous book, but if one can endure the Communist bombast, it is well worth reading. |
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If post-rock has proved anything, it's that subtlety and bombast aren't mortal enemies. |
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The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seem slightly silly in retrospect. |
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For all its ire and bombast, there's rarely blood spilt, ground shifted or damage done. |
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This gives me hope for media bombast in general, that it can be scaled back without the whole house of cards collapsing. |
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For all their bluster and bombast, each display of physical power proves in the end to be ineffectual. |
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If he did he'd have surely come up with better arguments than bluster and bombast. |
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But the music was everything I imagined it would be, all bombast woodwind and deep gravelly voices. |
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The answer, it turns out, has something to do with excess humbug production and a decline in the exchange rate between bluster and bombast. |
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The independent film holds the hopes of the discerning critic, weary of mainstream bombast, in its hands. |
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As a display of scenery-chewing bombast, it might even have been an enjoyable guilty pleasure. |
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They vary up the torture tactics via new school hardcore, the furious primal bombast of thrash metal and every barbed edge in-between. |
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But his shout has not been mere bombast, nor has it been without back talk. |
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But for many years now bombast, rant, and confident obscurity have been his reigning notes. |
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Certainly the bombast of cable's top yak show host, Bill O'Reilly, seems anything but cool. |
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In such circumstances, some recalled the bluster and bombast of Lenihan's late lamented father in other testing times. |
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He delivers a Ride Of The Valkyries in which he supplants bombast with an intelligent compliment to the story as it appears on stage. |
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Sitting centre-stalls, listening to the opening bombast of the Brahms First, I saw the old-timers around me beam with relief and satisfaction. |
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Her wild, rash and unprecedented bombast was a shameful act of utter disrespect, not only to her constituency but also to the nation. |
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But let's not compound our losses with deluded bombast about what we have to gain. |
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A lot of nationalistic bombast was spouted during this era, but there was also a quiet betrayal of an entire generation. |
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There was more bombast and bluster than football, the most notable happenings on the park being the accumulation of bookings. |
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But not overly strong on our sense of irony, if the rhetorical bombast of this article is anything to go by. |
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Thoughtful Marxist intervention requires attention to developments in a given society, not empty bombast. |
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His impeccable timing, engaging bombast and unexpected emphases do the text a huge amount of good. |
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I think that the music has this bombast and epic feel to it sometimes, which you have in the name too. |
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The government fears that the union bureaucracy cannot indefinitely contain the mounting anger of public-sector workers with bombast and impotent protests. |
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In the midst of all her bombast, I suddenly saw her as the sad, lonely old woman she was. |
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A few weeks later the target of his bombast had been expanded to all mental health patients. |
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He was to be Iran's moderate president, reflecting public sentiment to avoid the bombast of the erstwhile Ahmadinejad. |
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Either a quintessential cult record or another cocky slice of childish bombast, the CD is still a more personal confession than many of its posey peers. |
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It combined the delicacy of ballet with the bombast of a Lloyd-Webber musical, and every move was executed like the denouement of a Shakespearean tragedy. |
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The basic truth is that this party, which is so full of bombast and self-righteousness, has a choice today. |
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These truths can sink many religions and sweep aside the bombast and drivel of your governments. |
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Outsiders face a mix of bombast about these new business lines and wobbliness. |
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How, after seventy-five years, do you unlearn the artistic lessons of Communism: the bombast, the corniness, the texturelessness? |
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They're hardly the Wrecking Crew, they don't have that commitment to detailed bombast, and there are no strings or horns. |
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The bombast of UK X Factor, meanwhile, has a cheeky knowingness to it, thanks to Peter Dickson's voiceover and Walsh's innate sense of lunacy. |
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This entailed an ongoing struggle to combat opportunist flinches as well as empty bombast in our propaganda. |
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Sorel shared this disdain for patriotic and obscurantist bombast. |
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They are full of bombast and hypocritical interest, without ever naming who produces, spreads and uses these weapons. |
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This of course does not pervade the whole movement, which has excitement and even an occasional bit of bombast. |
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It'd be nice to hear sincere, self-critical reflections from you instead of the usual bombast. |
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It was powerful stuff, delivered with plenty of bombast, but to the audience it was just be a sign of how far the music industry has gone from its roots. |
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Unless he acts, allies insist, he will be painted as an impotent puppet, thwarted by London Labour, and vulnerable to the opposition leader's bombast. |
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Certainly both the music and these performances have real rhythmic life and a good deal of energy, even if some passages are over-scored and tip over into brassy bombast. |
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We've been reminding him of all the calumnies and vituperations and bombast he has heaped upon the trade unionists of this country in recent years. |
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The whole exercise may have sounded interesting while distracted by 10,000 buff, flag-waving foreigners, but out of context the cheeseball bombast proves too much. |
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The Nigel Farage bombast, it has to be said, did add to the gaiety of the Irish nation for a while, but of course the contempt that he holds for Irish democracy oozed from every pore of his body here today. |
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The crowd listened quietly for much of Rubio's remarks, which at a brief 13 minutes were largely devoid of the pomp and bombast of the other Republican heavyweights who had descended on Greenville that weekend. |
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Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia who accumulated a magnificent list of titles before being deposed in a coup in 1974, has a strong claim to be called the all-time king of bombast. |
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The programme implements this demand, which is why there is no need for pseudo-humanitarian bombast about improving national systems, combating discrimination and so on. |
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In absolute terms, one may be forced to admit that this sequence of threadbare shots, this display of two cent bombast benefits from a very honest performance. |
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This little amp overachieves with serious bombast in a small body. |
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At best, such appeals serve only as rhetorical bombast. |
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It led to a public outpouring, with millions posting their outrage on microblogs. In this section The unkindness of strangers Bizarrely consistent Architectural bombast ReprintsSimilar incidents crop up every so often. |
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Sigur Ros deals unapologetically in grandeur, while it avoids the combination of bombast and saccharinity that ruins so many new-age attempts to conjure majesty. |
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All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national beautiful letters. |
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His son, Denardo Coleman, played drums with hard insistency, even bombast, but he also kept closely attuned to the flow of improvisation. |
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Following a dazzling opening ceremony jam packed with explosive spectacle and eardrum shattering bombast, it was the unlikely Slovaks who provided most of the on-field fireworks on 27 November. |
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Wheel Of Time: For the end, another huge helping of bombast. |
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The Battle Symphony itself is a truly dreadful piece of music, full of bombast and hot air, and it is also 15 minutes long, far too long for the purposes of the play. |
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Tracks such as Ichiban and Parker are full of urgency and youthful bombast, disguised as brattiness in the vein of Coachwhips and Times New Viking. |
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Iverson in particular brings the sensibilities of Keith Jarrett and Don Pullen to his playing, and King can go from hi-hat swing to floor-tom bombast in a single chorus. |
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It was a new kind of bombast, and Luger was prodigious, supposedly averaging just 20 minutes to produce a beat, even if they were mostly variations on a theme. |
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Less full of bile, more the youthful bombast and frenetic, feverish energy usually reserved for sugar-addled youths, running hell-for-leather around a playground. |
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