bombast
noun
speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words.
Example Sentences
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Rob Jabbaz’s transgressive zombie film was bombastically directed and exhaustingly gory — in other words, the year’s most gloriously brutal horror-watching experience.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
It was hosted by CNN, and the presentation was so bombastically stupid that it was almost condescending.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2016
Instead of the conventional opening credits, Reese and Wernick come up with a stream of tongue-in-cheek items, with on-screen type bombastically proclaiming "directed by an overpaid tool" and "written by the real heroes here."
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2016
It’s interesting that the bombastically titled foreign film “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared” made the cut above “Black Mass.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
Who God has joined together, let no man set asunder,” said he, bombastically, and even the surly milkman, and Rosenstein under his manipulating razor, when a laugh was dangerous, laughed.
From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens
