| 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. |
| They know exactly when to unleash the bombastic, fuzzy electric guitar to propel a sunny-day strummer to psych rock heaven. |
| While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
| He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any. |
| Once the initial thrills are over, the movie's bombastic swagger and dime-store gravitas become deadening. |
