| While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
| Once the initial thrills are over, the movie's bombastic swagger and dime-store gravitas become deadening. |
| Ady's poems became required reading joylessly recited by generations of Hungarian schoolchildren in bombastic voices of patriotism. |
| He last worked with them on Born in the USA, an extraordinarily bombastic album that still represents the acme of 1980s stadium rock. |
| As far as a show of bombastic masculine bravura was concerned, this was a total flop. |
| Scouse wit undercuts bombastic couplet, and the text is presented irreverently and iconoclastically. |
