Sentences with phrase «as bombast»

You imply that I said education was a «precious» good and dismissed that as bombast.

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Gross's argument about the stock market, which in his characteristic bombast he referred to as a «Ponzi scheme,» took a completely opposite stance.

A defiant Kevin Burgess, better known as «KB,» announces over the glass - rattling bombast of «DNOU (Don't Nobody Own Us),» Radio hasn't bought this / Way, way too exhausted / to...

A defiant Kevin Burgess, better known as «KB,» announces over the glass - rattling bombast of «DNOU (Don't Nobody Own Us),» Radio hasn't bought this / Way, way too exhausted / to tap - dance for your profits.

Rush is just as Faulkner said, a «sound and fury signifying nothing», but bombast and HIGH ratings.

As for his «arrogance» and «bombast» I will end by quoting an article written (before his sentence was handed down) in the Canadian paper The Gazette, by L.Ian MacDonald, a former employee of this outstanding newspaperman, who was a proprietor who, for all his great power, always (as I can testify) supported his editors - and where they needed him, his journalists - through thick and thiAs for his «arrogance» and «bombast» I will end by quoting an article written (before his sentence was handed down) in the Canadian paper The Gazette, by L.Ian MacDonald, a former employee of this outstanding newspaperman, who was a proprietor who, for all his great power, always (as I can testify) supported his editors - and where they needed him, his journalists - through thick and thias I can testify) supported his editors - and where they needed him, his journalists - through thick and thin:

Popularizations often have this effect, but Bloom is a major figure and a serious literary critic (jacket - cover blurbs rightly identify him as «America's pre-eminent literary critic» and «the critic of our time»), so in trying to comprehend the level of the argument I found myself opting at times for disingenuousness, bombast or simple ignorance of the field of biblical studies.

Criswell sometimes referred to himself as «a holy roller with a Ph.D.,» and he mesmerized the throngs who came to hear him in Dallas preaching with the bombast of Billy Sunday and the urgency of Savanarola.

At first, it seemed that the baseless bombast of the year before had given way to a more thorough, organised approach to recruitment, at least until the rather more impulsive signings of Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao — players dubbed as «Galacticos» by the media.

While Ms. Barron hasn't gone as far as publicly showering Ms. Mugabe with praise, she is nonetheless a radical bereft of only some of her husband's bombast.

«All necessary pressure and diplomatic efforts must be brought to bear on North Korea to accept peaceful resolution of the crisis,» Buhari said in what could be read as a tacit rebuke of Trump's bombast.

On Wednesday, George Osborne delivered his spending review to the Commons without bombast or superfluous oratory: he galloped through his inventory of measures as if it were a standard financial statement, a spot of robust housekeeping to keep the nation's books in order.

The bombast of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired year for animated movies, The Lego Movie is a 3 - D animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.

Between the bombast and the excess, what I enjoy most is Bay's skittish, eager - to - please - abandoned - puppy sense of humor, exemplified best by the Transformers trilogy's scenes with Kevin Dunn and Julie White as Sam Witwicky's (Shia LaBeouf) TMI - prone parents.

Director / co-writer Roland Emmerich returns from part one, determined to re-create as many scenes as he can and up the ante on ships, aliens, and overall bombast.

Countless times he has been the poster boy for bombast and agressive speech, even once claiming, in an extremely offencive manner that verges on stupidity, while implying that «freedom of speech» is no longer tolerated in North America (which was / is rubbish then, as it is now).

The Frodo / Sam / Gollum story not nearly as involving as the visceral bombast of the Helm's Deep line (itself softened by a pair of sickly flashbacks meant to flesh out the love affair between Aragorn and the elf Arwen (Liv Tyler)-RRB- nor the awe and humour of the Ent storyline, a certain impatience manifests itself as an urge to indulge in frustrated, mocking laughter.

The characters, aside from our mute protagonist, are all voiced with bombast and rarely come off as annoyingly over-the top and the music is delightfully twee and charming.

David Thewlis plays the distinctly Smithian Johnny in Naked (1993), a shambling, splenetic, caustic, absolutely Mancunian figure, putting the wrath of his bombast to all those that cross his path — a prophet in the London desert, roaming the Roman shell as feral and fierce in his discourse as was M.E.S. and his dreaded, undying yawp.

It's got all the hallmarks: pedigreed source material (the play won the Pulitzer prize and a boatload of Tony Awards), a great cast of established actors with some mega stars mixed in, and constant melodrama that allows for these actors and actresses to play to the back row of the theater with as much bombast as possible.

As wildfires continue to devastate areas of California, it seems incredibly timely for the debut of a populist firefighter tribute full of bombast and manipulation.

Another churning Marianelli score, this time quite welcome, rolls us along, Wright pausing the bombast on a occasion for a quiet moment with two women in Churchill's life: a sweet assistant played by Lily James (appealing as ever), and Churchill's wife, Clemmie, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, doing her most with what could have been merely a bland supportive wife role.

Upon returning home, Thor learns that much is rotten in the state of Asgard, as usual due to his mischievous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston, «Kong: Skull Island»), and the stage is set for much intrigue, bombast and humor.

Both Dead Again and his version of Hamlet were among my favourite films when I was growing up, and no one can balance bombast with sincerity quite as well as he.

Watch and marvel as Ceylan's film deflates all that bombast like air from a tyre.

Anyone who feared Zimmer's involvement with the sequel would mean his usual bombast (see «Dunkirk» for the latest example) can rest easy, however, as the entire original score is now streaming online.

Don't expect bombast, though: festival programmers describe it as a «low - key epic,» which hopefully means that the filmaker's impeccably nuanced feel for relationship drama and beautifully sketched sense of character is still intact.

As spectacular as you might expect, it's actually the quieter moments amongst the bombast that leave the most indelible markAs spectacular as you might expect, it's actually the quieter moments amongst the bombast that leave the most indelible markas you might expect, it's actually the quieter moments amongst the bombast that leave the most indelible marks.

It's a random mishmash of juvenile ideas without a single lucid thread to hold them together, except for both the incessant CG bombast ripped off from video games and the works of Peter Jackson, the Wachowskis, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as the recurring lascivious gaze of Snyder's camera on the china - smooth skin and full lips of bleached - blond heroine Baby Doll (Emily Browning).

By Piñeda's next visit, in December 2002, the BOMBAST project was growing, and the students had created a peer - tutoring program (Club FrEd, short for «Fremont Education»), as well as taking on mini-projects such as Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and the Business Student Empowerment Team.

was at long last being asked in earnest, the worst of these critics used it as an excuse for bombast and dark mutterings while the best sat idly by, carping on the standards rather than using the occasion to guide thoughtful implementation.

I offer an apology if my bombast lacked civility as it must not interfere in the free exchange of evidence and ideas.

One is that «hissy fit,» as my mother would have called it, thrown by so many in the business whose egos seem to drive them to opt for tweet - now - truth - later bombast.

As an aside, I am time after time appalled by the number of stock market pundits who find a willing audience for their bombast about where the economy and the stock market are headed.

However, it's not all smoke and bombast, as clearly there is something to the fact that seemingly every single multi-platform game is running at a resolution, sometimes significantly, lower on the Xbox One.

Despite many differences among them, their work shares a highly sensual and plastic sensibility, which alternates between coy understatement, as in the paintings and sculptures of Daniel Sinsel, and erotic bombast, as seen in the paintings of Ella Kruglyanskaya and the sculptures of Anthea Hamilton.

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The late Harold Rosenberg disparaged her work as «decorative bombast sustained by dubious art history,» and younger critics have occasionally accused her of lapsing into formula.

The President's own bombast was also faulted for driving oil prices higher, as Bill Scheer noted, «Bush's saber - rattling with Iran raises concerns of war and more disruption of oil supplies, which more than anything right now prompts speculators to raise prices.»

As the above paragraph suggests, it's easy to throw out rhetorical bombast in response to over-the-top CAGW doomsday B.S. - especially if the bombast is directed at wealthy elites» galactically - sized hypocrisy and crony - capitalist climate change endeavors.

It pushes the rhetoric and arguments to one side or the other - by necessity, since the tendency is for each side to engage in greater and greater bombast until those of us in the middle have a hard time being heard as neutral without being cast to one side or the other, because all people know is either extreme.

If she were to exhibit the same discourtesy bombast and downright unpleasantness as Schmidt, then I would apply my remarks equally to her.