He listens actively as Welsh orates, but internally he makes faces at the pompous wind-bag. ❋ ____Maggie (2009)
He is doing nothing to dispel the widely-held view that he is a giant wind-bag. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I say he's nothing (and has never been anything) but an opportunistic wind-bag who will say and do ANYTHING that he thinks will get him elected!! ❋ Unknown (2010)
Albany, meanwhile, is struggling right now largely because of a drastic deficit of leadership, because of the inability of our impotent, wind-bag of a governor to tame the wilds of the State Senate, to reap fruits from a Democratic majority, or to secure votes for his policy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Byrne darn near beat a vacuous wind-bag who outspent her how many times over? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Take Rhodri Morgan please – somebody, anyone … Rhodri is such a wind-bag that if someone plugged him into the national grid we could forget about the LNG pipeline now straggling across much of South Wales. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The evening drew on, and at dusk they started on foot, Rosa pulling up the edge of her skirt under her cloak out of the way of the dews, so that it formed a great wind-bag all round her, and carrying her satin shoes under her arm. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He is painted green, and carries a wind-bag on his back, a long sack tied at each end, with the ends brought over his shoulders and held in his hands. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
“What a wind-bag it is, to be sure!” thought his companion, as he smoked and listened, in a gently ironic silence, to abuse of the Government. ❋ Unknown (2003)
You're nothing but a wind-bag; get out of the way; I will find out the truth by myself. ❋ Unknown (2000)
He was an advocate of violence — in short, a swaggering, bombastic wind-bag. ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)
_On the contrary, _ The Philosopher says (Ethic. ii, 7; iv, 3) that the "vain man," i.e. a vaporer or a wind-bag, which with us denotes a presumptuous man, "is opposed to the magnanimous man by excess." ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
A Norwegian witch once boasted of sinking a vessel by opening a wind-bag she possessed. ❋ Percy B. Green (N/A)
Indeed, those of the "wind-bag" species generally, wherever they appear in important affairs, are so admirably exposed, that we see how they inevitably lead States to disaster and leave them ruins, while their pompous and feeble methods of doing it are so put as to call forth the contemptuous smiles, yea, the derisive laughter, of all coming generations. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus, in time, he had acquired a reputation for being unreliable and a wind-bag, with the result that skippers were chary of engaging him. ❋ Gordon [Illustrator] Grant (1918)
"And now, my lady," quoth Sir Gui, frowning upon her loveliness, "and now having discharged yon gaudy wind-bag, what of this letter I did receive but now -- behold it!" and speaking, he snatched a crumpled missive from his bosom. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Father Lasse is not such a cowardly wind-bag as any of them, old though he is. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)
A mere wind-bag, that's what he is, with a lot of nonsensical ideas about his own importance. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)
