Sentences with phrase «with bombast»

These sculptures impress with the immensity of their production and amuse with their bombast, but if you are not susceptible to Hirst's brand of extravagant humour, they will sit empty.

While Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony showed off their wares with bombast, the excellent games and infinitely more powerful hardware on the PC received no such spotlight.

The characters, aside from our mute protagonist, are all voiced with bombast and rarely come off as annoyingly over-the top and the music is delightfully twee and charming.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Al Pacino has such a rewarding role that he never sees the need to clinch the deal with explosive tirades and bombast.

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.

The performance borders on scenery chewing, but its bombast works because it's tinged with Gary's sad desperation.

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.

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.

Like Game of Thrones crossed with Braveheart but stripped of most of the budget, this scrappy film tells an intriguing story without the usual Hollywood bombast.

While it may promise some action bombast and movie stars, Greg Mottola's Keeping Up with the Joneses basically operates at the level of a network sitcom, and not a critically acclaimed one like Black - ish or Fresh Off the Boat.

Over-indulgence, bombast, and excess have been part of Vaughan's filmmaking DNA ever since he severed ties with the similarly over-indulgent, bombastic, and excessive writer - director Guy Ritchie, transitioning from producer to director more than a decade ago.

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.

Edgerton, channeling a young Kurt Russell, proves again to be an immensely compelling and versatile presence, choosing naturalism over bombast, and together with Ejogo, currently experiencing something of a genre moment with this, Fantastic Beasts and Alien: Covenant, they're a believable, empathetic couple.

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.

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.

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.

Both Dead Again and his version of Hamlet were among my favourite films when I was growing up, and no one can balance bombast with sincerity quite as well as he.

His character's elitist, intelligence - fueled humor is paired with a whole lot of poignancy, which, though feeling somewhat out of place alongside Emmerich's bombast, makes Ifans's effort all the more memorable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rather, it was Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond that delivered franchise - movie goods with a minimum of bombast, plus nods to its series» past that felt elegant or clever, rather than like the missing first 20 pages of some overwritten instruction manual.

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.

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.

It wasn't just the promise that was later kept with «The Avengers,» but it was the idea that disparate elements could come together in a fluid way to tell a massive story full of bombast and circumstances.

Amidst Trump's bombast and the «hell - with -»em - all» frustration that has propelled outsiders, measured talk about education improvement can seem out of touch, like the candidate is missing the big picture.

This has less to do with substance and more to do with talk - radio bombast and interest group resistance to change.

«Even with all the noise and bombast,» said Michael J. Petrilli, an education analyst at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right - leaning think tank that supports the standards, «40 - plus states are still standing with the Common Core.»

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

With tentacle - ridden new enemies, Lambent Beserkers and all of the bombast we've come to expect from the series, we're already pant - wettingly excited.

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.

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.

With its simple, cost - effective Nintendo Direct videos it is ditching all the silly bombast and taking its news straight to its audience.

The problem with this show is that our attention is diverted through forty years of billboards, book jackets, bombast and a lot of derivative painting and sculpture.

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

At the end of a long incubation period, SITE is aiming to elbow its way back into the big league, equipped with a literal sharp edge — and perhaps some added wisdom to protect from bombast and frivolity.