| 单词 | windbag |
| 例句 | The night nurse had always been the biggest windbag in the school. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z If not, he might have been remembered as a self-aggrandizing windbag with an old-fashioned speaking style and a love of the sound of his own voice. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He was, if possible, even a bigger windbag than Dr. Roland. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z There were some who admired him and others who considered him a pompous windbag. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a bore to expect the average guy to parse these processes, worse than listening to a top-chef windbag dilate on salmon three ways. Zegna Turns Jackets Into a World View 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z On a roster that leans heavily on burly windbags spewing sarcastic quips, he stands out as the squeaky-clean, flag-saluting role model devoid of divisive edge. John Cena Grants a Wish Before His Wrestling Match 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Still, while Dwight in the introduction questions why "this privileged Hollywood windbag" is writing a memoir in his 40s, Wilson thinks the time is right. Rainn Wilson gets spiritual in his memoir 'The Bassoon King,' and Dwight Schrute has something to say about it 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He may be a bit excitable, a bit of a windbag. In Joe Biden’s Memoir, Private Grief and Its Effect on a Public Life 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z “My one complaint,” joked Sherwood, “is that Kojo with his NPR approach is too polite and lets some windbag guests on ‘The Politics Hour’ ramble on way too long. Kojo Nnamdi, long-running Washington radio host, is retiring from daily show after 23 years 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Dressed in his trademark outfit — black swallowtail coat, string tie and sneakers — with his hair marching in several directions at once, Mr. Corey was a caricature of every windbag who ever emptied his lungs. Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The vain soldier pals around with not one, but two legalistic windbags whose job is to assert his courage. Review | Two 400-year-old soap operas rip along in stagings by Brave Spirits Theatre 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z In some cases, he finds that cruel windbags like Thiel have distorted what were once good ideas. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “Ach! The Brits are so feudal. They don’t listen to a civil servant like Jeremy Corbyn, but they will listen to a windbag Tory like Johnson. And my country has suffered for it,” he says. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Jefferson was a clever tactician, but also a preening showboat; Hamilton had serious “skill with a quill”, yet he could also be a self-destructive windbag. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z And as befits these trying times, CNN announced this weekend that it would step up and address a troubled nation’s need: for one more cable-news show about partisan windbags arguing with each other. Crossfire Is Returning Early, Just in Time to Oversimplify Syria 2013-09-03T15:20:07Z He was the vacillating prince of “Hamlet” in 1975 and that pompous windbag Polonius in the same play 33 years later. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z A beekeeper recounts his experience moving from novice to master, providing ample advice and presenting the eccentrics, oddballs and, as our reviewer, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, put it, “flagrantly self-promoting windbags” he encounters along the way. New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Its brevity made it an excellent vehicle for wit — a barb for puncturing bloated egos and windbag grandiosity. A Smart, Playful Book About the Underappreciated Index 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z My successors didn't want to be the Sedgefield or Scottish windbags. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z This windbag at a party about five years ago told me, very loudly, that I had written only one book; the rest are screenplays. Q&A: John Grisham – ‘My most embarrassing moment? It involved the passing of gas in church’ 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z All, from oddballs to flagrantly self-promoting windbags, are described in an effective, relatable way that is never malicious — more like, affectionately barbed. Dripping Slow and Sweet, Four New Books About Honey and Bees 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z He’s not just a household windbag who never changes. Rainn Wilson: In Defense of the Anti-Hero and Cracking Offensive Jokes 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Yet there he stood — noted anti-vaxxer, suspected antisemite, overexposed anti-logic windbag — in a position to hijack attention and humiliate a league that has gone to great lengths to promote social equality. Perspective | Delusional, defiant Kyrie Irving is a stain the NBA could no longer ignore 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z He knows which way the wind is blowing, and he will do his best to become a windbag that blows in that direction, whatever humiliating deflation is required first. Opinion | The ongoing mortification of Ted Cruz 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Wolff on horner: “Christian is a bit of a windbag who wants to be on camera.” Azerbaijan Grand Prix: F1 – live! 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z He’s a windbag, a craft-o-maniac, a guy who goes, is really into eggs and keeps things fresh. Jimmie Johnson ditches vanilla label during IndyCar debut 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z He was sort of a goofball and windbag. Opinion | Old Pol, New Tricks 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Michigan law professor Joseph Kimble, an early leader of the plain writing movement, recently penned a children’s book about a windbag called “Mr. Mouthful Learns His Lesson.” These word cops stand guard to keep language clear and simple 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z But I have high hopes for the economic future of the United States — hopes based on the productive energy of Americans, not the windbag of Pennsylvania Avenue. Opinion | Trump must think autoworkers are stupid 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z When the virus raged in China, windbags in the west had plenty to boast about. Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z A windbag tries to impress his fiancee and her family with false accounts of his success. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Lassner also recently referred to the president as an “orange, portly windbag” and mocks Trump and members of his administration on a regular basis, often with profane language. Melania Trump invites 'Ellen' producer to event about kindness in response to his snarky tweets 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Furthermore, in 2016 Paul called Trump “a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag” and said “a speck of dirt is way more qualified to be president”. Rand Paul breaks with Republicans as he doubts Trump supreme court pick 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Magic and Rob Pelinka have only themselves to blame for allowing this colossal windbag to make them look like fools. Letters: Dodgers don't appear willing to pay the price to the next step 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The windbags keep talking about the “eye test” and “body of work.” Perspective | Rather than arguing about who makes the College Football Playoff, why not let them all in? 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Each summer, usually around the British Open, some windbag at a grill room near you begins to wax about the lost art of “the ground game.” Playing with one club is the perfect answer to bad greens - Golf Digest 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The aggressive positioning by Mr. Temer, who called Mr. Batista a “notorious exaggerating windbag,” raises the stakes in the political impasse engulfing Brazil. Brazil President Says He Won’t Resign in Corruption Scandal 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z An all-star lineup of speakers systematically sought to reveal Trump as an ignorant windbag full of incoherent bluster. The Democrats channel Reagan 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Paul, a tea party favorite, was one of Trump’s harshest critics during the GOP presidential primary season, once referring to him on a comedy show as an “orange-faced windbag.” Rand Paul skipping Republican National Convention 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The windbag in question is Thomas Wolfe, by all accounts the most difficult and irrepressible talent in Perkins’ stable — and also the most outlandishly theatrical, to judge by Jude Law’s puckish performance in the role. No work of 'Genius,' this literary drama is strictly by-the-book 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The German was alluding to Ecclestone's comments at the previous Bahrain Grand Prix, where he was asked by reporters whether he felt the drivers were 'windbags' for issuing an open letter calling for improved governance. Rosberg takes a dig at Ecclestone's 'windbags' jibe 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Asked whether he considered them to be 'windbags', Ecclestone replied: 'Some of them'. Ecclestone hits back at 'windbag' drivers 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z This wasn’t about a religious figure taking on a political windbag. Call it David Brooks syndrome: Antonin Scalia, Marco Rubio and the media’s morally hazardous obsession with manners 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Most of their noise and theatrics are just ego-gratification and fluff for the media and their 'fans,' designed to fool them into thinking that the louder these windbags yell, the better they coach! Vocal Strain Poses Long-Term Risks for Coaches. Anyone Have a Lozenge? 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z In confirmation hearings, Biden has been very much himself—a decent, honorable man, and an insufferable windbag. Biden and the Supreme Court 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z If it were a person, the 1,500 would be the windbag at the mixer who quickly empties the room. Katie Ledecky Breaks World Record in 1,500 Freestyle 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z "I have a tendency of being a windbag. If you sit at a table with me, I do most of the talking," Big Jim says. The latest tale of woe at Wyoming's Cowboy Bar: It's for sale 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z "He used to say all sport, except motor sport, was a waste of time, and that football was no more than kicking a windbag around a field and pointless," says Payne. The Jeremy Clarkson story 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z You windbags and toadies, members of parliament, generals and professors. Viewpoint: Why I loved Nemtsov 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z One of the memorable characteristics was his scorn for MBAs, whom he viewed as at best overeducated windbags. Are B-Schools Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Problem? -- Just Asking 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z He had a reputation as a loudmouth and windbag. David Greenglass dies at 92; '40s A-bomb spy who betrayed his sister 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The words "bloviating" and "windbag" come to mind... David Stern: Final decision on Sacramento Kings expected on or about May 13 2013-04-25T21:33:20Z They had headphones and games on their cellphones, expecting some windbag to drone on about left turns and proper signaling. Character Study: Jim Chodan Gives Lessons in Driving, and in Life 2013-04-20T02:16:14Z But it took former Arkansas governor and current Fox News windbag Mike Huckabee to really torpedo our national conversation to a whole new low. Huckabee blames gays for the Newtown massacre 2012-12-17T16:26:00Z At first, people thought my father was just a windbag, but after testing him several times they were believers. Mo Yan: “Bull.” 2012-11-19T05:00:00Z To be honest, I’ve always thought they were a pair of windbags. Alice Munro: “Amundsen.” 2012-08-20T04:00:00Z He's been dubbed a pompous windbag but he remains one of the reasons the Open is fun on the BBC. Cor lummy, chum, sleepy St Annes has left Peter Alliss in wonderland 2012-07-22T22:08:00Z Let the useless mouths go hungry, the windbags and the prattlers. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Put to the test, then, Nara was a windbag that had burst! The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Then cries briefer, and more to the point, such as "windbags!" "windbags!" filled the air until the crier collapsed on the sofa with exhaustion. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z There's some as is jest almighty windbags, and go about talkin' so much that they can't think, let alone allow others that has a mind to. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z He’s a real news guy, not some corporate windbag.” The Media Equation: Paton Prepares His Newspapers for a World Without Print 2011-11-14T01:18:52Z It was not until he lay a-bed that night, thinking over the curious adventures of the day, that a strong conviction seized him that Mr. Wilbur Meredith Legion was a windbag. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Apple's maverick culture, its blatant spite for government bureaucrats and Congress windbags won't do well there. Steve, please buy us a carrier! 2011-08-15T11:21:24Z Sweet women's faces lighted with some spiritual grace, poets, soldiers, rulers, and windbags, side by side, each telling their story in a well-known name. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z He aggressively targeted Connecticut’s blue collar "Reagan Democrats," stressing his death penalty and foreign policy positions, and lampooned Weicker as a lazy, out-of-touch windbag. The making (and unmaking) of Joe Lieberman 2011-01-19T05:20:00Z He said that Cicero was a windbag, and that Plato was a dunce. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z But still, Chauvin, the tedious windbag, became famous for his zealotry. The Spin 2010-12-21T11:08:25Z What bothers me about this generation of parental windbags is their painful lack of subtlety; when they speak to little Cassidy or Aidan, it is at an almost nuclear volume. Complaint Box | Yes, Brilliant Parent, We Hear You 2010-03-05T16:52:00Z This is how Buffett has typically viewed investment bankers: as useless, self-serving windbags, which is why he doesn't waste time befriending them. When CEOs Have Warren Buffett in the Boardroom 2010-02-25T22:00:00Z He was admonished, but stood impenitent, and even "called the worthy magistrate a windbag and a sham." Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series “Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the Amabuna?” The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley "Do you call me ordinary, you windbag?" said the oak. The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories With vivid strokes he paints me scene after scene, episode after episode, of his life in “a windbag,” and I see that he exaggerates not at all. An Ocean Tramp So Sexton, rising at five o'clock, with the windbag conveniently disposed under arm, pumped and pumped away for two mortal hours, and an odd three-quarters that seemed more than mortal. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 He shall not be a man of the people; else in that case he would be a demagogue, a windbag, a vox et pr�terea nil. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 Happily less, far less, than usual of the windbag about Sexton. Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. We pay no attention to the Irish Nationalist members, whom we regard as a bankrupt lot of bursted windbags. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The kind of person whom Carlyle called a windbag, and to whom he applied equally vigorous epithets, was especially obnoxious to him, however dexterous might be such a man's manipulation of difficult arguments. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice He’s too ardently on our side, or thinks he is, the old French windbag, though he’s never even been naturalized. With Hoops of Steel "The Parliamentary system tends, not to the summoning of thoughtful patriots to their country's service, but to the exaltation and glorification of plausible windbags." British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals But if you put a general question he will flounder resentfully; and if you generalise yourself you will see him dismissing you as a windbag. Appearances Being Notes of Travel He breaks every sentence with a scoffing laugh—'windbag,' 'monkey,' 'donkey,' 'bladder;' and let him describe whom he will, it is always 'poor fellow.' Stories of Authors, British and American The members were on the look-out for any indications of intellectual originality, academical or otherwise, and specially contemptuous of humbug, cant, and the qualities of the 'windbag' in general. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Presently came more bullets, smashing his drones, his chanter, and his windbag, whereupon the splendid fellow had to give in. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 By all means let M. De L'Angle-Beaumanoir be empowered to experiment on the windbags of the House of Commons when they next meet. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887 Just to write down the words of a lot of windbags. Grey Town An Australian Story He had depended upon information which came from unimpeachable sources to secure the co-operation of this pompous windbag. The Green Rust Musettes were often of most elaborate construction, the covers of the windbags being of plush or velvet, richly embroidered in needlework, whilst the pipes and mouthpieces are inlaid with ivory, ebony, and silver. Chatterbox, 1906 Still, you may be thankful you didn't have to hear Harassan—a gigantic windbag, if there ever was one. David Malcolm Whereas extempore oratory is easy and facile, mere windbag, having neither beginning nor end. Plutarch's Morals Hunter thought of the way she had looked in the starlight and said, "Why did she let that windbag sit at the head of the table and ruin the meeting that she had arranged?" —And Devious the Line of Duty Showed what Sexton can do when so deeply moved as to forget himself, and resist besetting temptation to play the fatal windbag. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 He felt ashamed for even considering the possibility of bending to the will of a windbag like Crane. Ten From Infinity Chancellor Khane, he knew, was a stupid and arrogant old windbag with a swollen sense of his own importance. Ministry of Disturbance But a windbag may burst and do harm. Dross "And windbags don't get college scholarships," said Matilda Finn, the second daughter. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Rand began to suspect that Goode might be just another such self-righteous, opinionated, egotistical windbag. Murder in the Gunroom Thinks I'm a flippant old windbag, I know. A People's Man Carlyle thought Darwin a poor creature, and Comte regarded Hegel himself as an empty windbag. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science "Why couldn't that old windbag have stuck to Greenwich?" Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences "I know half a dozen old windbags at the present moment," said the doctor, "who were great fellows at debating clubs when they were boys." Phineas Finn The Irish Member I don't propose to have"—shake—"an old windbag offering me his blubbery old bosom"—shake, shake, SHAKE—"at this time of my life!—and don't you forget it, Appleby Cartwright! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Carlyle, who proclaimed the merits of silence in some thirty volumes, blames democracy for ignoring the 'noble, silent men' who could serve it best, and placing power in the hands of windbags. Outspoken Essays The windbag of the new Hibernian school Railed on with shocking sameness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 "Then another lamentable thing," said Des Hermies, "is that in addition to the dupes and simpletons, these little sects harbour some frightful charlatans and windbags." Là-bas For our Phineas Finn was a young man not without sense,—not entirely a windbag. Phineas Finn The Irish Member "Oh! so you think him altogether a windbag?" Marcella But the greatest wonder about him is, how the Poet could so run his own intellectuality into such a windbag, without marring his windbag perfection. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England The opponents of Victor Hugo called him a mere windbag; the opponents of Shakespeare called him a buffoon. Robert Browning But he had to confess that, so far, they were proving empty windbags. Broken to the Plow But you truly said that "persons are so very insignificant;" And the author of a speech I read, part scum and partly dreggy, Is perhaps the least significant—that windbag named CARNEGIE. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 I am curious to know whether such a French windbag is composed entirely of falsehoods. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It is possibly true that notorious windbags, conspicuously advertised adventurers, and the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists. An Englishman Looks at the World But a feller like that, a worthless windbag like George—he c'n lie to you day an' night. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II He was a knight of industry of the very worst description—a braggart, a talker, a windbag. The Slave of the Lamp In his eyes a windbag was as good as any other man. Jean-Christophe Journey's End And you would thus prove Association to be also a windbag and a lie! Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs They also spoke of him as a young upstart and a windbag, but after the beginning of his connection with Hugh McVey, something of conviction went out of their voices. Poor White He enjoyed the discomfiture of O'Rourke, whom he had learnt from the pages of the Croppy to despise as a mere windbag, and to hate as the betrayer of O'Neill. Hyacinth I was no sooner in the midst of Knebworth's delightful associations than I was anxious to return to the toilsome duties of the Law Courts, with their prosaic pleadings and windbag eloquence. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) In the eyes of my daughters I'm a windbag. Hobson's Choice The character who plays the title-role is a typical Russian windbag, irresolute and incapable, like so many Russian heroes; but whether drunk or sober, he is destitute of charm. Essays on Russian Novelists A windbag; a coward; a man without a heart for good or for evil. Jess His tail goes up and down from the intercrural to the stiffly erect attitude per telegram, while his head is sunk in the windbag of the House of Commons. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 "Shucks, he's nothing but an old windbag!" said Mr. Pegloe to a group of loungers gathered before his tavern in the early evening. The Prodigal Judge When Candida promised to marry me, I was the same moralist and windbag that you now see. Candida He was not in accord with those who declare that a Parliament is a collection of windbags which puff, and blow, and crack to the annoyance of honest men. The Duke's Children The title was, of course, satirical; the man an imbecile and fickle windbag. Such Is Life Like the rest of us I had always set this fellow down as a mere poltroon and windbag, a blower of his own trumpet, as Oliver had called him. Queen Sheba's Ring Several millions of savages are thus let loose by a few thousand windbags, the politics of the caf� finding an interpreter and ministrants in the mob of the streets. The Ancient Regime The self-made man is the funniest windbag after all! The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson A letter addressed to that awful Baron de Batz," said Marguerite, looking with puzzled eyes on the paper as she turned it over and over in her hand, "to that bombastic windbag! El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel "You—you old windbag!" he growled through a cloud of swirling cigar smoke. Roads of Destiny Well if it do not, Pilatre-like, explode; and demount all the more tragically!—So, riding on windbags, will men scale the Empyrean. The French Revolution No; she promised that old windbag of a father of hers that she would not communicate with me. Diary of a Nobody O seagreen Prophet, unhappiest of windbags blown nigh to bursting, what distracted Chimera among realities are thou growing to! The French Revolution A regular braggart and empty windbag, he had taken but one good care, and that was of his own skin. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel |
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