Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. ❋ Curufea (2005)
Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. ❋ Unknown (2004)
MACDONALD is magniloquent, perhaps a bit thrasonical; ❋ Various (N/A)
Junker-led men could do they have since done to make that thrasonical brag good. ❋ Various (N/A)
He guffawed silently in his own mental chamber at such sanctimonious, thrasonical ravings, for childish behavior of long ago was not evidence for his untenable claim of being a kind man and thus a good one. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
With this thrasonical challenge the pirates set sail for Otoque, another of the islands in the bay; for Taboga, though it was "an exceeding pleasant island," was by this time bare of meat. ❋ John Masefield (1922)
Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Buckingham's fanfaronading, thrasonical disposition, a form of vain, empty boasting peculiar to megalomaniacs. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Climene, was moved almost to tears by the hard fate which through four long acts kept her from the hungering arms of the so beautiful Leandre, howled its delight over the ignominy of Pantaloon, the buffooneries of his sprightly lackey Harlequin, and the thrasonical strut and bellowing fierceness of the cowardly Rhodomont. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Not since the superb Mondor amazed the world has so thrasonical a bully been seen upon the stage. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Phenomenal, soon, we hope, to perish unregretted, is (at least indirectly, through the abuse of phenomenon) from Metaphysics; immanence, a word often met in singular company, from Comparative Theology; epochmaking perhaps from the Philosophic Historian; true inwardness from Literary Criticism; cad (which is, it appears, Etonian for cadet) from the Upper Classes; psychological moment from Science; thrasonical and cryptic from Academic Circles; philistine from the region of culture. ❋ Unknown (1908)
His “thrasonical boast” was sober truth, and he stands above military or literary criticism, a lesson and a model. ❋ Paul, Herbert (1905)
For instance, the refrain of "Rule, Britannia!" would be shorn of its thrasonical quality and rendered suitable for use in elementary schools if it took the following form: -- ❋ Various (1898)
Macaulay tempted more of them to declaim: if Mill set an example of patience, tolerance, and fair examination of hostile opinions, Macaulay did much to encourage oracular arrogance, and a rather too thrasonical complacency; if Mill sowed ideas of the great economic, political, and moral bearings of the forces of society, Macaulay trained a taste for superficial particularities, trivial circumstantialities of local colour, and all the paraphernalia of the pseudo-picturesque. ❋ John Morley (1880)
Unlike the ordinary soldier of fortune, he was not in the least thrasonical. ❋ Justin McCarthy (1871)
The monster's thrasonical boasting is thus given (Yt. 19, 43): -- ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
But it was to be supposed that you were, at least, not more ignorant and thrasonical than Gundlings generally are. ❋ Unknown (1861)
His humor is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical .... ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)
Novi hominem tanquam te -- his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
In amongst his general [thrasonical] ranting and ravings concerning his own merits, Skogan had promised the company that tomorrow the world would know how good his verses were – when he [read aloud] at the court gate some poem which he had written in honour of the birthday of Thomas, Duke of Clarence. — Robert Nye, [Falstaff] ❋ TheBlighter (2007)
