Sentences with phrase «by bombast»

Something this stripped - back hasn't won the Oscar since Crazy Heart's The Weary Kind in 2009 — which probably only won because voters were split between two Randy Newman choices — and Stevens» feathery songwriting will likely be blown away by the bombast elsewhere.

Not exact matches

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

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:

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.

By the same token, mainstream Republicans, weary of the bombast erupting from the top of their ticket, might just stay home.

Of course, that creates problems too, not least the incessant hand - holding, whether that be in the form of cursing out a trader at a financial firm or loudly lamenting the stupidity of a would - be participant to said participant — a situation common to all commodity markets, at least judging by the occasional bombast from the coal or weather desks.

All tech and design aspects here are first - rate, notably Patrick Taylor and Kevin Hilliard's ominous score (despite an occasional excess of percussive bombast), and cinematography by Alex Disenhof («The We and I») that makes excellent use of the widescreen format, both on land (the pic was shot in Kenya) and at sea.

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

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.

The score by Ludwig Göransson (in his third collaboration with Ryan Coogler) is full of earned bombast and triumph, and delivers one of the finest scores of the MCU so far.

and grating, Brit - accented bombast by Seth Macfarlane (no!).

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

Excited by the collectivist bombast, she proclaimed that if the union can advance its progressive programs, it will make every child and parent say, «I need those unions and teachers to be what they are for us.»

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.

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (novel), a book full of irreverence and bombast — about a pack of teenage beauty contestants stranded on a desert island.

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.

But when they get irritated too much by the mosquito, the music changes from a mysterious espionage soundtrack or elevator - grade easy listening to bombast fight tunes, and they engage in some of the weirdest battles with the mosquito: While they stomp around like Godzilla trying to squash it.

While some games desperately grab for your attention with relentlessly needy bombast, others are more content to immerse you in their world by way of osmosis, gently seeping into your brain and taking root in your imagination.

If you're coming from the console world, you'll be impressed by scale of the community and ecosystem that Valve has managed to quietly build in the shadows of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony's bombast.

Anthony Pearson occupies a quietly antithetical position in a contemporary visual landscape often dominated by speed and bombast.

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.

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 you're coming from the console world, you'll be impressed by scale of the community and ecosystem that Valve has managed to quietly build in the shadows of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony's bombast.

Establishments like Wall Street and Main Street may be astonished by the success of XRP, but they may be put - off by the anti-banking bombast.

Here we may see the rapid unfolding of persecutory delusions and an arrogant grandiosity characterized by verbal attacks and bombast.»