Sentences with word «bombast»

It's the fireworks and orchestral bombast of Peggle.

Musk, who tends to respond to criticism with bombast and address missed goals by setting an even more ambitious one, didn't disappoint.

«Faith never came out in bombast or brimstone; it was just a part of who they were, as much as the books they read.»

In a meeting with major health insurance company CEOs Monday, the president employed his well - known penchant for bombast, promising a «fantastic» replacement plan that the industry would love.

Even if these references hint at the sort of story that Midnight Special tells, what you won't see coming is the genuinely extraordinary coup de cinéma that Nichols pulls at the climax, about which I'll say only that, after years of brain - numbing visual bombast from Hollywood, here is a sequence that restores your faith in the capacity of special effects to achieve real grace, strangeness and beauty.

I want now to cut through the self - righteous bombast on both sides and find a way to a more constructive engagement.

His first prominent screen credit, which won him an Oscar, was for the screenplay of Midnight Express (1978)-- Alan Parker's masochistic bit of bombast about an American preppy serving time in a Turkish prison for possessing hash.

At his Chicago brewery, trained chef Jared Rouben applies a culinary mindset to brewing, deftly incorporating ingredients for create layers of flavor, not bombast.

Nationalists north of the border are strutting around like bombasts who have drunk too much Coca - Cola.

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.

«Jack Pierson Spoofs Hollywood Bombast in His Show at Regen Projects.»

Analyze clips from the daily news together to help students differentiate between bombast or name - calling and effective argumentation backed by evidence.

While much of his work over the last few years has been dominated by bombast and self - parody, Pacino's performance here as the title character proves to be a refreshing and very colorful one which shows he has never lost his touch.

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

Raffertie by and large stays out of the way of his songwriting, and opts for subtlety over bombast — an asset that eludes many songwriters.

When Apple introduced the latest version of OS X back in June, it did so with little bombast.

You can find wheel - to - wheel racing or explosions and bombast elsewhere.

Of course, visual bombast of this kind is enormously popular, which is why Bruckheimer's name now features prominently in marketing campaigns for his films.

Big Red One showed us that there was more to Call of Duty than the big - scale bombast of war, opening the door for an even more personal, character - driven tale in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

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.

In his mind — and with characteristic bombast — he has leapfrogged over long - range cures for disease to a far more mystical ideal: the betterment of all mankind.

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...

If the director occasionally strays into bombast,... he still manages to make a strong case for war between democracy and capitalism, two systems conjoined in Western thought, but now terribly at odds.

Uncle Drew features Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O'Neal, Tiffany Haddish and more in a summer movie that might be a nice distraction from all the usual blockbuster bombast.

It means the cinema will turn from alien invasion bombast to thought provoking, character driven awards... read more →

Had it been any other director, the word «restrained» would probably not appear in that sentence, but Bay dials down his own bombast to a degree that is genuinely surprising.

Though we'd never expect bombast from Palermo, this exhibition is easily lost in Chelsea's shuffle.

Its swirls of Day - Glo pink, yellow, orange, and blue expand to fill both the visual and physical space of the viewer, carrying both feminine seductiveness and stereotypical masculine bombast.

«Logan Lucky» is an entertaining romp, a popcorn - munching venture that is a rarity among the CGI - dominated bombast of summer movies.

In an age where character and stakes take a further backseat to increasingly absurd, conxtext - free bombast (for which the Star Wars prequels take massive flak, with current examples like Jurassic World even more guilty than those lackluster films), Abrams» film feels almost subversive in its steadfast focus on character to get us cheering.

The hallmarks are there, from the microscopic attention to the family dynamic to the ridiculous, set - piece bombast of the grand finale.

The activity barely matters: you can play games, race cars, build models, and do yo - yo tricks with the same bombast... Read more»

But as the president's approval among core Republican constituencies craters, such bombast increasingly may sound like whistling past the graveyard.

In contrast, Trump released a one - page note that has been roundly criticized for its lack of specifics and general bombast.

The news was announced with the typical bombast for which Stone and founder Greg Koch are famous — but that doesn't mean the lawsuit isn't serious.

I liquidated my short position on the NAFTA / auto news because the market had been very focused on Canada's vulnerably to Trump's protectionist bombast and any «let up» could trigger a rally in an oversold market.

It is similar to the self recognition of the exaggerated bombast of the typical Texan in his talk of ultimate independence — you too might seek to be loved for who you are, let alone seek love from those whom in you own snobbery think they are worthy of your own love — but you aren't as good as you think you are.

Or maybe Daft Punk are just smarter than we are about music in general, able to recognize beauty and immediacy where others see only bombast.

Its ideology, if one can call it that, is a crude and contradictory mixture of anti-Westernism, nationalist bombast, and Soviet nostalgia.

His take - no - prisoners conservative bombast lets him literally get away with asking — and doing — anything.

One can detect behind these words a certain bombast and desire to be provocative.

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.

Winston Churchill's bombast made him a figure of ridicule during the 1930s, but also made him ideally suited to being a war time leader.

Low - key Pete Loughran, once a tiger but now much the pussycat, will assuage bombast.

Treading a fine line between Trump bombast and the depths of anger and frustration that carries his candidacy, Faso for now chooses to err on the side of caution.

The Queens - born businessman, after all, is technically one of their own, leading the Republican field for president by conjuring a brash combination of Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani's knack for generating tabloid headlines and populist bombast, but pumped up on the steroids of the 24/7 cable news cycle and social media buffet.

But Trump's candidacy has been less about substantive policy than strong man bombast, and here Cuomo can also be a counterpoint.