Sentences with phrase «in bombast»

Though it's likely to be lost in the bombast and disappointment around a messy framework, there may be at least one tangible result from the Copenhagen summit: REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is essentially a mechanism to pay developing countries to keep their trees standing, thereby maintaining habitats and preventing the release of carbon that happens through deforestation.

Though it's likely to be lost in the bombast and disappointment around a messy framework, there may be at least one tangible result from the Copenhagen summit: REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is essentially a

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.

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«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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And, at 64, he gives no sign that he intends to tone down his bombast (in fact, in a YouTube video released last fall, he vowed to «bag» Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on arriving in the state legislature).

«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.

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.

All of the bombast and monotony lead to a third act battle that is egregious in its crumminess.

MTV's big swing at epic fantasy is a lot of hokey bombast, wasted on a cast of callow babes in the exotic woods.

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 a minor film but that's part of the charm, the lack of bombast and epic scale in a genre that keeps trying to top itself.

Devoid of bombast, the audience is presented with the always convincing story of a man who has no choice but to adapt and survive in a claustrophobic prison system.

Even without Roach's grating habit of shooting the proceedings in too - tight close - ups, Cranston delivers a titanic fill - the - screen turn, capturing the man's bombast and sincerity in equal measure.

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.

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 brilliance of A Scanner Darkly is how it suggests, without bombast or fanfare, the ways in which the real world has come to resemble the dark world of comic books...

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.

And even though I did really like most of it, Super 8 disappointed me a bit toward the end, when it eschewed wonder in favor of bombast.

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.

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.

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 cheerinIn 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 cheerinin its steadfast focus on character to get us cheering.

With unrepentant bombast — and, one imagines, a smirk — Yorgos Lanthimos announces, in just the first shot, that this is his film, and he doubles down on the stylistic tics that define his polarizing work.

GET OUT An unbelievable achievement from a first time director and a film which has inspired discussion around an important subject in the way that the best horror / suspense films always do, utilising subversion and subtlety instead of bombast and realism.

State - of - the - art filmmaking and showy narrative technique meld uncomfortably with some hoary old war movie clichés in Dunkirk, the latest exercise in borderline bombast from Christopher Nolan.

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.

Director Jordan Vogt - Roberts serves up the big ape early and often, while smart and talented writers effectively blend homage, humor, metaphor and bombast without ever committing the film too much in one direction.

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.

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.

Part of this may be due to director Taika Waititi, who is a newbie in the world of big - budget blockbusters, but like many other directors tapped to helm Marvel movies (including Gunn and Watts) has an intriguing background in indie cinema that would seem to have little to do with IMAX - worthy digital bombast.

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

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.

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.