Sentences with phrase «for 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.

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.

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).

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.

Not exact matches

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.

His bombast about technology and progress does not fare well against Don's lyricism — especially when the subject is the stars, for heaven's sake.

The troubling fact, though, is that so far he's shown a weakness for eccentric vulgarity, bombast, bullying, and punitive instincts on immigration and America's role in the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

Senate President Martin Looney, D - New Haven, wrote an editorial last week that accused the GOP of «fear - mongering, misinformation and bombast» about the state budget for short political gain.

That the town board has been vilified beyond even impolite discourse remains a subject for legitimate discussion, bombast notwithstanding.

While President Obama says he's reaching out to Iran and his Iranian counterpart is responding with bombast, the outlook for scientific diplomacy with Iran is growing chillier than ever.

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

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.

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

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.

It's disheartening that the film becomes a poster child for the cliched accusations of thin characterization and soulless bombast that this kind of entertainment faces, and squarely because it comes from one of our most skilled populist filmmakers.

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.

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.

Cohen's brainless bombast proves to be a perfect fit for this shamelessly, deliciously ridiculous reinvention of James Bond - style spy shenanigans.

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.

It achieves them in a two - and - a-half-hour festival of bombast that sustains a heightened emotional state for almost its entire run.

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.

Before it came to a thudding halt, the rich world of «Highlander» — in all its bombast and bereavement — was, and still is, worth getting lost in for two hours.

Having mastered the art of bombast with the Just Cause series, Avalanche Studios dials down the silliness but not the scale for the apocalyptic deserts of Australia in its Mad Max video game adaptation.

We'd seen hints of it in earlier films: the heroes» general fecklessness in Shaun, for example, or their tendency to confuse fictional bombast for real life in Hot Fuzz.

He doesn't show off with his direction or the performances, going for detail instead of bombast with eerie silences, traded glances, trembling gestures and beaded sweat.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

In stark contrast to James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer's loudly generic bombast for the Nolan films, Burton opens his Batman with the operatic strains of Danny Elfman's full - orchestra heroism, slyly suggesting the unabashedly heroic way Batman sees himself.

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.

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.

That «Lone Survivor» also marked an impressive segue from the flag - waving bombast that director Peter Berg had Jablonsky give to «Battleship» shows how personal these collaborators have now gotten for their third picture — albeit in the epic, real - life disaster of «Deepwater Horizon.»

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).

Sergio's bombast and manic attitude make for what could have been a fairly aggravating stock character, but Combs is terrifically funny in what amounts to a very extroverted version of himself.

The Fremont SAGE team had won top state honors in spring 2002 for its Business Operations Management Business Academy Student Team (BOMBAST) project, which had nearly halved the school's 70 percent truancy rate.

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.

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.

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.

Another 2016 soundtrack from the mad - for - sadness section is Disasterpeace's Hyper Light Drifter (listen on Spotify), which while possessing flourishes of action - backing bombast, is for the longest time a yearning, aching listen.

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.

With a penchant for creating powerful emotions and memorable themes, Hulick's original scores range from fantasy landscapes and sweeping sci - fi to orchestral bombast, intimate piano and small string ensembles.

Surely Bill Viola has manipulated images for years to the point of bombast.