On the one hand, this is as much production value as one would expect for elite athletes, and just as much bombast as directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui afforded their last documentary subject, fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
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In the midst of all her bombast, I suddenly saw her as the sad, lonely old woman she was.
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Bombast was trumping originality and critics were at the end of their ropes with it.
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A few weeks later the target of his bombast had been expanded to all mental health patients.
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He was to be Iran's moderate president, reflecting public sentiment to avoid the bombast of the erstwhile Ahmadinejad.
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The line captures the intriguing paradox that is West, a mélange of petulance, bombast, unintentional—or intentional?
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We have no longer the bombast and unreality of the revolutionary epic.
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The declamation sometimes shows Dryden at his best, the bombast and horrors are in Lee's worst vein.
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This utterly surprising rejoinder was given without a suspicion of concern or bombast.
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He tried to cover his errors by brags and bombast, which became ridiculous, and which are yet not without significance.
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He was betrayed into this bombast, which his better taste rejected, by the attempt to carry on the hyperbolical strain of Statius.
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British Dictionary definitions for bombast
bombast
/ (ˈbɒmbæst) /
noun
pompous and grandiloquent language
obsoletematerial used for padding
Derived forms of bombast
bombastic, adjectivebombastically, adverb
Word Origin for bombast
C16: from Old French bombace, from Medieval Latin bombāx cotton; see bombacaceous