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Robert, whose infomercials are excerpted in the movie’s opening scenes, is the quintessential TV pitchman, at once blusteringly self-confident and transparently disingenuousness.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2011

It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was stretched on the ground, just under the shelter of a bush of algae, when, raising my head, I saw some enormous mass, casting phosphorescent gleams, pass blusteringly by.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules

But all that I have described is there—aggressively, blusteringly, optimistically there—and is going most confidently on.

From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John

"As you please," he began blusteringly, "but those who disobey the King's order may find their lives forfeit."

From The Adventures of Akbar by Shaw, Byam