He was a quiet, mild-minded man, devoid of bombast, neither cynical nor meddlesome, and was well liked by all.
His tragedies, which, with much bombast and frequent untrained flights of imagination, have occasional fire and tenderness, are generally based on classical subjects.
The style of the great eulogy, born of the occasion and the speaker, becomes only exaggerated bombast and nonsense from the lips of a student.
This introduction is one of the most extraordinary pieces of bombast, mixed metaphors, loose syntax, and incoherent expressions that Latin literature possesses.
Yet there was a certain sincerity of feeling underneath all the bombast and platitudes, and this saved the book.
bombast
noun[U]
uk/ˈbɒm.bæst/us/ˈbɑːm.bæst/
languagethat isintentionallydifficult, usually to make somethingsoundmoreimportantthan it is
浮夸的言语；大话，空话
Examplesofbombast
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Here, his balanced tone is a welcome contrast to thebombastof many plan supporters and opponents.
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We do at least need an awareness of how the royal epistle had its own rhetorical world in whichbombastand boast had a special diplomatic function.
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That is the real lesson of history, conflicting directly with thebombastof nationalism.
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I detect no sense of jingoism orbombast.
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Bluster andbombasthave characterised his handling of the situation since the spring.
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He put in his tuppence worth ofbombast, but he was rather off target.
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I do not believe that that speech was mere idlebombast.
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It was characteristically witty and full ofbombast.
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Bombastand pompous rhetoric will not get us through this problem.
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Further, they have matched the hour, have been carried out efficiently, calmly and withoutbombastand with much patience and understanding.
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All thebombast, all the easy assurance of victory, all the comforting self-complacency, had gone.
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Pride andbombastare still detected and despised for what they reveal in the person.
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Apart from the opening and closing, which were full of his hectoring andbombast, it was an excellent speech.
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He raises posturing, wriggling, dodging and whingeing to the status of high parliamentary art and one has to admire his cheerful cynicism and aggressivebombast.
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Instead, we see them moving amid more noise and clamour and with morebombast.
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