Rodomontade

That is what is termed a rodomontade of equal foolishness to Gormless Gordon's 'decade of shared prosperity'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech." ❋ Unknown (1731)

Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.” ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio. ❋ C. Christine Fair (2011)

Ditch the shining rhetoric that lets politicians, with tongues of boughten silver, give Tiffany settings to rhinestone notions, decorate nonsense with bells of ringing phrases and frame their sorry bragging in glittering rodomontade. ❋ P.J. O'Rourke (2011)

We should try to memorize the meaning of rodomontade and use it in our everyday conversation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I had to look up what rodomontade means and it means arrogant boasting blustering or ranting talk ❋ Unknown (2011)

Her impression of him until then was of a vain, arrogant, cocksmen full of drunken rodomontade, too sure of his talent who'd told a friend "I must don my armour once more to play opposite Ms. Tits." ❋ Gabriel Byrne (2010)

The power of poetry, and art in general, to connect us more deeply with ourselves, rather than the empty rodomontade and blather of public life, is fundamental to Merwin's mix of ecological and personal vision. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If we cannot persuade the Iranians to abandon pursuit of nuclear capabilities, contrary to the rodomontade emanating from the White House and State, we will be unable to prevent them from doing so. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As usual, Ms. Rabbett, your post is rich in rodomontade but piss-poor in content -- in large part, I believe, because you don't have any idea of what you're talking about, economically speaking. ❋ EliRabett (2009)

Kenneth Burke, Counter-Statement We are all prepared to applaud eloquence when it is employed in the service of truth, but when it is turned the other way, should we continue to admire it anyway — although now as the display of splendid technique and an instance of inspired rodomontade? — ❋ Unknown (2008)

It often happens that in situations of unrestraint, where there is no thought of the eye of criticism, real feeling glides into a mode of manifestation not easily distinguishable from rodomontade. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I saw instantly that the old fellow was of a romantic turn, from this rodomontade to his lady; nor was she a whit less so; nor was ❋ Unknown (2006)