As far as a show of bombastic masculine bravura was concerned, this was a total flop. |
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Composer Christopher Dedrick combines bombastic orchestral arrangements coupled with delicate choral and piano pieces for the instrumental score. |
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It may be bombastic or vituperative or full of pop psychology, but it seldom presents a critical argument based on facts or logic. |
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While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
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Back in the 1990s Ed Schultz was one of a legion of bombastic conservative talk-radio hosts. |
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They know exactly when to unleash the bombastic, fuzzy electric guitar to propel a sunny-day strummer to psych rock heaven. |
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He is opinionated, irreverent, sometimes bombastic and often contradictory. |
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Once the initial thrills are over, the movie's bombastic swagger and dime-store gravitas become deadening. |
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Crowds delighted in speeches filled with double talk ridiculing the pompous, bombastic oratory that characterized familiar memorial rituals. |
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Just when it seems like it's going to turn bombastic or become overproduced and yawn-inducing, it surprises. |
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But it's hard not to examine the writing or the characterization without regretting their overwrought, bombastic tones. |
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That's the mantra of many a hack desperate to meet an inelastic deadline or dying to use a bombastic headline. |
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The chorus unveils gleaming shards of bombastic wit and cut-throat tuneage before the shroud of unfriendly uber-noise descends once more. |
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This is an unashamedly bombastic work but one cannot help being moved by the grandeur and sublime beauty of the piece. |
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Scouse wit undercuts bombastic couplet, and the text is presented irreverently and iconoclastically. |
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He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any. |
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If Robertson is infectiously bombastic about theatre, there's a surprising nonchalance about his career on screen. |
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Students' formal vocabulary can be quite extensive and the more advanced sometimes produce somewhat bombastic performances. |
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The difference between us is that you write like a bombastic lecturer and not like a prudent and circumspect lawyer. |
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Barrel-chested and bombastic, he's always been the quintessential, larger-than-life, rah-rah leader. |
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Given the star's history of bombastic public behavior, she may be greeted with skepticism about her intent. |
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He last worked with them on Born in the USA, an extraordinarily bombastic album that still represents the acme of 1980s stadium rock. |
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Ady's poems became required reading joylessly recited by generations of Hungarian schoolchildren in bombastic voices of patriotism. |
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It never occurred to me that that bombastic yachting commentator would become the ambassador for New Zealandese all over the world. |
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The seduction hilariously unfolds over a bombastic bass track laced with suggestive whinnies. |
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Did you look at the talk news landscape and view it as too bombastic, and decide to take a more measured, conversational approach? |
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In a TiVo age, who watches political ads anyway, no matter how specious or bombastic? |
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Yearning guitar licks, frenetic scratching, and bombastic drums are the order of the day on nearly all of the tracks giving the album both a cohesive and monotonous feel. |
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Not every kid who returns home suffers from bombastic dreams matched only by their lack of direction and flabby self-discipline. |
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There are a multitude of directional effects and surround sounds to be found on this track, including a rollicking score at the film's bombastic finale. |
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It opens with a bombastic set piece, but it was far less compelling than many of the little, dialogue-driven conflicts that arose. |
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The yellow ticking clock that punctuates every episode of 24 is simultaneously bombastic, methodical, menacing, and relentless. |
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Others seemed to be performing bombastic recitals of their grievances as if they were ill-trained actors or undercover agents. |
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His bombastic millenarian populism has long irked his more pragmatic conservative allies. |
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The song's arrangement is nearly perfect with Branch slowly building the first verse into a bombastic chorus in which she asks the song's title repeatedly. |
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The title track, an echoey and bombastic pop ballad, was clearly overproduced, but rode all the way to No. 2 on the success of the film and the soundtrack. |
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Theatrical costume, tawdry play-acting, lying rhetoric, bombastic and blasphemous oaths should go. |
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I'd already drafted a bitter, bilious, bombastic broadside against the right-wing hacks on the Republican Court. |
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Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic. |
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When I opened James Howard Kunstler's first nonfiction book four years ago, the irascible, bombastic tone of his descriptions immediately put me off. |
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May God spare us the disastrous consequences of the bombastic principles that you have just put forward. |
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The usually bombastic Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities seems to be now the meek and mild minister for public apology. |
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Usually when you do these epic metal records, you use bombastic elements, which I love and I'm basically known for. |
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Some films and television shows about trials lawyers in American courts, invite the conclusion that anger, hyperbole and bombastic rhetoric are persuasive. |
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Nietzsche's more bombastic utterances would later enter popular culture without hindrance. |
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And from that point of view I'd say that we have become even more bombastic and playful. |
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This work is a brilliant satire on the vain and tastelessly bombastic preaching that predominated in Spanish churches. |
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We place emphasis on collective action rather than the bombastic individual forcing their way through the world. |
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Some critics were turned off by Williams' bombastic, proclamatory emceeing, which often made no pretense of rhythmic consistency or tonal variety. |
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Number two, he's very bombastic in his motion papers, saying the prosecutors should be recused or the prosecutor should be substituted or thrown off the case. |
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You would never know that Larson was infamous in evangelical circles for his bombastic showmanship by talking to him. |
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In 1914, the League sponsored a witty satirical play, The Parliament of Women, which reversed roles and cast women as legislators, making bombastic speeches and listening to a group of men petitioning for the vote. |
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From 1 November 1991 onwards, the music had a sombre violin and a bombastic fanfare. |
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But if the last two years are a teacher, look for the bombastic tweets to resume before sunrise. |
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Finally, he brings it home with a perfectly bombastic biggie. |
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For all the eccentric Dr Hinzpeter's efforts over a ten-year period, that too was to no avail. The Kaiser grew up to be emotionally needy, bombastic, choleric, hyperactive and hypersensitive. |
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The bombastic wrath of Lord Azphel and his underlings in response to the decision for peace was just so much sound and fury, the petulance of children denied. |
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Kalaj is bombastic, reckless and self-important. |
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There is bombastic claim after bombastic claim week in, week out, month in, month out and year in, year out which has not been backed up by facts. |
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My trick when we got in was that I inserted as much ambitious and bombastic language as possible on open data into the speeches I wrote for George and David. |
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The impeccably-coifed rockers from Sheffield opened the ceremony in bombastic style, launching into their hit single R U Mine? on a spectacular fire-throwing set in the middle of the arena. |
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The Commission has sought to distract the public attention from unresolved internal problems in the present by making glib and bombastic promises for the future. |
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Secondly, had I been commenting on the bombastic bill now being debated in the Quebec National Assembly, a bill that pretends that Canadian federalism does not exist, my remarks would have been even nastier. |
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I feel that the Strategy has been a victim of its own ambition and of the vague, almost bombastic nature of some of the targets that were set, without their being pegged to a properly laid out and workable timetable. |
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In fact I was quite shocked that the President-in-Office of the Ecofin Council made such a bombastic and ballistic attack on a single country when he was supposed to be acting in a neutral position. |
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Musically characteristic for Delain are the prominent keyboards, bombastic choirs and changes in tempo, added with heavy guitars, ultra-tight drums and great melodies. |
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The ensuing document is both ambitious and bombastic. |
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He was bombastic and braggy to the point of trash talking fellow performers. |
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Nicolas Sarkozy has broken his studied silence in a bombastic op-ed. |
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The opening title track features a trippy story narrated by Mehldau against a synth cushion and interspersed with bombastic jazz-rock eruptions. |
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What an arrogant, bullying, vindictive, childish, harrumphing, leotard-lurking, bombastic bloater of a toad-shaped Bagpuss wannabe. |
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The gallery was started on La Cienega Boulevard in 1957 by the bombastic assemblagist Ed Kienholz and the flakily brilliant art historian Walter Hopps. |
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Combined with Canada-based Chinese composer Kuan Nai-chung's bombastic score, a blend of Western neo-Romanticism and Chinese harmonics, it makes for a wearisome experience. |
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The bough certainly breaks during Jupiter Ascending, a bombastic space opera with a muddled narrative glued together by jaw-dropping digital trickery. |
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A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. |
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