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The tone of these scenes is windily self-important, the intellectual content embarrassingly slight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Newley's Oh-So-Little Man, windily inflated with his rights and his wrongs, is a human editorial page who deplores God, the upper classes, atomic war and racial injustice.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an announcement following the feat, Tass hinted windily at the purpose of the unmanned docking maneuver.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Chicago's white-gloved Drake Hotel, around a decorously felted table, A.F. of L.'s Executive Council had conferred long and windily over taking John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers back into the fold.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is hideous, of course, even more hideous than Toronto or Montreal; but cheerily and windily so.

From Letters from America by Brooke, Rupert