Sentences with phrase «bombast of»

But the descriptiveness and deliberate bombast of Chicago's often immense figurative statements are light years from the circumspection of Remington's images.

Rather than the large - scale bombast of a famous work such as

This may be a shocking melodrama, but it grips the imagination with the ingenuity of the master storyteller, the wit of the court jester, and the bombast of the prodigal composer.

These become human «nudes» descending (or ascending) the minimalist stairs, their flesh tones and undulating forms chiming with the anthropomorphic bombast of the larger structure.

I have always approached his large - scale works with the same caution I bring to the bombast of Anselm Kiefer.

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 doesn't have the lean efficiency and murderous creativity of the Hitman series; it trails the razor's edge stealth and gadget lust of Splinter Cell; it lacks the vision and bombast of the Metal Gear series.

The Halo 4 approach to multiplayer add - ons has been low - key compared to the bombast of its more earthbound shooter peers.

Unrest captures something of the lives of people rather than the bombast of heroes and protagonists.

Stylish and inventive in equal parts, Modern Warfare captured and exaggerated the fire and bombast of modern warfare in an irresistible way.

No game exemplified the bombast of these cartoons than Turtles in Time.

In between the bombast of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare explosions, Sunset Overdrive, and Rise of the Tomb Raider exclusivity gasps, Microsoft showed this awfully promising little sizzle reel just above.

In education, of course, outspoken Trumpers were few and far between, which seemed only to add to the self - regard, certainty, and bombast of the resistance crowd.

The bombast of these pronouncements couldn't be further from the world of a non-studio, intensely personal artist like Terence Davies, but the British filmmaker nevertheless begins the narrative proper of his 1992 masterpiece The Long Day Closes with the blazing brass pomp of Twentieth Century Fox's iconic fanfare, written by Alfred Newman.

The comic - book bombast of Justice League; the romanticism of Call Me By Your Name; a Martin Scorsese masterpiece in the form of The Age of Innocence; indie comedy courtesy of The Disaster Artist and I, Tonya; the»80s charm of Joe Dante's The «Burbs; and, uh, Downsizing!

There are a surprising number of empathic character beats leavened through the technical bombast of Good Time.

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

Because sometimes actions really do speak louder than words, Nolan keeps dialogue to a minimum in Dunkirk, allowing the actions taken both by the individual and of the collective to drown out even the bombast of Zimmer's incredible score.

Those who've found solace in the bewilderingly esoteric arms of A Serious Man or the bombast of The Hudsucker Proxy will likely concede Hail, Caesar!

The Town is the perfect September movie to bridge us from the bombast of the summer to Oscar season.

The bombast of the beginning and ending always exhausted me in comparison.

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

Not surprisingly, the lossless DTS - HD Master Audio 5.1 mix is similarly excellent, capturing the subtleties of ambience and bombast of Stravinsky's music without ever sacrificing any clarity of dialogue.

Shot on quasi-grainy digital at close range and evenly lit in autumnal tones, Zachary Treitz's Civil War - set Men Go to Battle lacks the polish and bombast of much costlier historical dramas.

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.

Ditching the high - budget bombast of his previous work, director Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) has put together a minimalist production that would make early work like Swingers look well funded.

Audiences who go to see The American expecting a conventional Hollywood spy thriller will no doubt be disappointed to find out they've stumbled into an art - house film — and an unrelentingly grim one at that — but those seeking relief from the inanity and bombast of the summer movie season will be pleasantly surprised.

Stripping down the bombast of the original games (and films) allows Uthaug's reboot to feel comparatively grounded and immediate, without dragging itself down with unnecessary pathos.

Dragons soar, statues come to life, and ghosts deliver strategic clues, but it» s not the bombast of tumbling crenellation that delivers the drama.

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.

We've already suggested taking your date to the Florida Grand Opera, but the pageantry and bombast of opera isn't for everyone.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Not exact matches

«We've opened up a new front in the trade war, and while it's quieter than all of the bombast about tariffs that had people freaking out, there are still a ton of companies that can get hurt here,» the «Mad Money» host said.

If IBM and LeaseTech's «technological advancement» bombast — their linear model of predictable and ineluctable triumph — is not a true model of progress, what is?

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

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 thin:

Ficino, with his «natural magic Paracelsus for all his bombast, Giordano Bruno in spite of his «Egyptian» fantasies, did more to advance the concept of the investigation of a regular «Nature» than many a rational, sensible, Aristotelian scholar who laughed at their absurdities or shrank from their shocking conclusions.

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.

Overlooking the bombast, Balentine, while acknowledging that Elihu's discourse «increases, rather than diminishes,» the tensions of the book, still finds merit in Elihu's explanation of Job's suffering: the real answer to suffering is human pride.

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

The sound of their voices was very different, and Husing would have sneered at Cosell's bombast.

Alfonse M. D'Amato celebrated his 80th birthday Tuesday with all the bombast and bonhomie that made «Senator Pothole» an historic figure in the U.S. Senate for 18 years and which since has made him one of New York's most powerful lobbyists and political power brokers.

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.

A certain degree of bombast can be expected at these preachments to believers.

Cuomo, an early supporter of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has repeatedly criticized Trump directly and indirectly for his bombast on the campaign trail and hard line against immigration and Muslims.

Al D'Amato celebrated his 80th birthday with all the bombast and bonhomie that made «Senator Pothole» an historic figure in the U.S. Senate for 18 years and which since has made him one of New York's most powerful lobbyists and political power brokers.

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.