| 单词 | bombast |
| 例句 | My father stepped forward and began a speech as stuffed with words as an actor’s coat is stuffed with bombast to make him fat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It’s a hint of the old bombast, the old peacock tail, and reassuring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “And there is a certain bombast in the way we speak that I had also forgotten. I started feeling truly at home again when I started being bombastic!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the script, the dialogue is written with some exclamation points, but Bobby has stopped playing it with bombast. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In an era of production bombast and fleeting popularity, a couple of sexagenarian singer-songwriters with classic songbooks put together a warm and intimate show and ended up with the surprise hit tour of the summer. Taylor-King tour hits right note for fans and business 2010-07-17T03:51:00Z A composer of sunny bombast, Respighi provided the stirring finale for the ensemble’s first subscription program of the season in October with “Pines of Rome,” the second piece in his Roman trilogy. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z This rarely performed compendium of virtuosic cliches found Wunder at his most relaxed, allowing him to indulge in splashy displays of technique and bel canto bombast. Pianist Ingolf Wunder gets carried away with his fearless approach 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Unlike most popular remixes, his are not designed to add danceability and bombast, but arranged to coax out emotional qualities that were submerged in the original recording. The Remix Grammy: For the Art and Science of the Musical Cocktail 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z In the absence of rational agency on either side, the narrative defaulted effortlessly into the tropes of legend: quests for magical weapons, duelling codes of conduct, ransoms and bounties, eschatological bombast, archaic barbarity. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-01-31T07:01:01Z But in a fight between screwball irony and blockbuster bombast, the heavy-metal action unfortunately wins. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-05-02T11:52:10Z Derrickson’s FX crew careens along the dividing line between excitement and silly bombast, conjuring hurricane-like forces and gory transformations while the holy man attempts to rescue an innocent mortal from his otherworldly tormentors. Review: ‘Evil’ mostly delivers 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Music, took the stage, nearly all of them in black leather jackets, and all of them backed with deep-bottomed bombast. ArtsBeat: SXSW, Brought to You by G.O.O.D. 2011-03-21T04:23:05Z The battle scenes—harrowing and bloody—are unquestionable technical achievements, though the film’s style harks back to the swelling music and emotional bombast of Gibson’s “Forever Young”-era glory days. Oscar Spotlight: Best Director and Best Picture 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z That's the disappointing basis of "The Watch," which unfolds not in a way that might have anything funny or enlightening to say about picket-fence fearfulness, but simply with conventional summer movie bombast. Review: Suburbia under sci-fi siege in 'The Watch' 2012-07-26T22:49:08Z Least successful, to my ear, if most overtly impressive, was “L’isle joyeux,” which threatened to yield to bombast at the very end. The right Hough: Pianist delivers superb recital at Terrace Theater 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z She might not have had the bombast of the some of the male speechifiers, but she certainly had the guts. Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Despite a career in night life, Mr. Becker exhibits little of the flash or bombast one might associate with an entertainment ringmaster. Up Close: At the Twilight of Night Life 2011-07-27T16:47:29Z In the chaotic — and lovely — second movement, the brasses that run riot over pensive strings have all the bombast that they need. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Often, she succeeded, especially when the material was already bursting with archetypal significance and musical bombast. Review: ‘Romantics Anonymous,’ a Challenge to Your Sweet Tooth 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s the first Fireman album with vocals, and McCartney role-plays to the hilt: a mischievous elf, a growling blues patriarch, even a hint of Bono-esque bombast. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z Unlike Stephen Colbert’s know-it-all blowhard on “The Colbert Report,” Mr. Friedlander doesn’t preen or ramp up the bombast. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z Also well known, at least among the architecture set, are “the vulgar narcissism and arrogance and bombast and egocentrism and reckless financial — not to say moral — ways” of this self-proclaimed, and yet actual, genius. Review | A look at the forces — and tragedies — that shaped Frank Lloyd Wright 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z And why, after 50 minutes of bombast, the trite little ending of such false modesty? BBCSSO/Nicholas Collon – review 2012-05-27T11:47:53Z It elucidated the role of Super PACs, shed light on the nitty gritty of congressional districts and provided the perfect counterpoint to the dead-serious bombast of cable news. Stephen Colbert’s most amazing lessons for America 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z While earnest bombast takes over some songs, the tracks with the lightest touch — like “A Django Christmas”; a Gypsy-jazz version of “We Three Kings”; and “Song for Kwanzaa,” with jaunty African-style guitars — work best. Holiday Hits, Christmas Comebacks and Some Jingle Bell Schlock 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z “Nearly a century later, the reactions to ‘Ulysses’ can feel overblown — like hype from like-minded friends and bombast from journalists trying to sell papers,” he writes. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z He rises magnificently to the challenges of act two, dancing with a virtuosity that's free of vanity and emotional bombast. Bolshoi: Serenade/Giselle 2010-07-27T20:30:00Z “Maybe nobody even notices,” he said wryly, adding: “It’s not bombast. It’s not, ‘Look at these technical things we can do.’ Trent Reznor contemplates the future, the road 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The next entry in the X-Men series leaves the increasingly nonsensical bombast of its parent series behind, choosing to dial things back into jump-scare psychological horror. The most exciting sci-fi, fantasy and horror films of 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Five years later, BBC News replaced the showy bombast with a warmer palette and desks that actually existed. The weird new world of computer-animated news 2011-01-31T08:00:00Z The Mumbai depicted in Manil Suri's third novel swells under the promise of nuclear attack with the same mixture of bombast, absurdity and yearning. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-03-21T09:00:01Z Broadway can be a place of bombast, but “Once” is the rare musical with reticence and uncloying sweetness. Times Writers Share Last Chance Theater Picks 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z His primary conceit is to turn the medium’s typical hyperbolic bombast on its head. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z Yet he could also exhibit Trumplike bombast: “The French can be governed only by me.” Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z You wonder if even James Bond, another part the 35-year-old star has been linked to, would ever offer up quite the same opportunity for operatic bombast as playing Thor’s evil stepbrother. Why Tom Hiddleston's Loki could be Marvel's next great supervillain movie 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z That eerie otherness has been traded in for Hollywood bombast, which is possibly why the latterday Who is never quite as hide-behind-sofa terrifying as its impoverished ancestor. Prom 2: Doctor Who Prom – review 2013-07-14T14:47:22Z “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States” sounds almost like a parody, a sendup of that filmmaker’s love of bombast and right-wing conspiracy. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z Politicians want bombast one moment – the Palace of Westminster, pre-fab tower blocks, the Greenwich Dome – and banality the next, especially when the financial going gets tough. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z During the Scissor Sisters hiatus, though, a bigger, stranger, more outlandish pop sensation emerged from New York’s club culture: Lady Gaga, whose bombast and fashion sense make Scissor Sisters seem less adventurous. Music Review: Sweating the Details for the Fun of Others 2010-08-25T22:45:00Z There was no bombast and there was no hubris: Adler wanted readers to be guided by their palates and instincts, as she was. Leftovers become luxurious with help from “The Everlasting Meal Cookbook” 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Maybe too big, for what it gained in bombast, the once-quirky line lost in charm, cheek and irony that the designer Christopher Bailey has previously brought to the Burberry Prorsum brand. Special Report: Fashion: Burberry: A Crowd Pleaser 2011-02-21T18:29:01Z The finale lacked the last ounce of fury, perhaps, but the march-like coda was free of bombast. BSO breathes new fire into familiar classics in Sunday matinee 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z He is, in fact, a more austere, abstract, hermetic, “difficult” artist in drawing than in sculpture, and this narrowness sometimes accentuates his penchant for bombast and opacity. Art Review: Sketches From the Man Of Steel 2011-04-14T22:01:21Z As Claudius, Steven Anthony Jones accentuates the ceremonial bombast of a ruthless political operator. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s a curious, bittersweet story, flecked with dashes of bombast and overstatement that Presley himself would have admired. Review: ‘Orion’ Tells an Elvis Tale 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Still, he has found the perfect solution in his Seventh for serving up a full-sized symphonic meal for hard-core Brucknerians while delivering something that could possibly turn those who can’t stomach the bombast. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The Norwegian artist, who was presented by Washington Performing Arts, is one of the finest musicians working today, an intelligent and meticulous player without a trace of bombast or showmanship. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Such a display of masculine bombast reminded her of her former career in politics, where she worked as a consultant on K Street for progressive Democratic campaigns. A Novelist Inspired by the Cold War, a C.I.A. Typing Pool and ‘Dr. Zhivago’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Genuine civic attachments are now canceled out in the bombast of vileness and shame, which has been made into a national pastime and the central feature of a spectacularized politics. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Her beats pushed with syncopation rather than bombast; her voice was both elfin and strong, flicking her zigzagging melody lines across the music. ArtsBeat: A Range of Styles in 3 Performances 2011-03-19T21:31:31Z It takes a truly brave artist to allow himself to be regularly laughed at as a caricature of English pomposity and bombast; to play, for decades, the role of Basil Fawlty without the charm. Piers Morgan is our greatest living artist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z This is indeed a powerful statement, almost more so than Liszt’s, for its relative lack of bombast. Almost as Much to Watch as to Hear: Mighty Organ Pieces 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The words brought to mind by Anton Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony—“awesome,” “sweeping,” “epic,” “apocalyptic”—have mostly wilted from overuse, which is unfortunate, because the Eighth invites bombast. Finding the Awesome in Bruckner’s Eighth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Imagine Dragons was more energetic in "I Bet My Life," but its bombast felt just as empty. Like or hate the American Music Awards? Blame it on the fans 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z What Samet calls our “tin-eared age of tweets” can make it harder to distinguish soaring oratory from flimsy bombast, but “most of the sentences won’t bear the weight of careful reading,” she writes. ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The tune’s inclusion in the 1992 film “Wayne’s World” allowed secret Queen lovers everywhere to start belting out this operatic bombast whenever it came on the car radio. Adam Lambert leads a cross-generational Queen through the hits at Merriweather Heartland hospitality is replaced by Beltway bombast, and the usual reserved approach to public discussion is drowned out by attack ads. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Does the blend of self-pity, vanity, petulance and bombast that Depp displayed on the stand represent how we want to see ourselves or our sons? The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Surface gleam counts for a lot in the music of MercyMe, a contemporary Christian rock band with a knack for earnest bombast. Making Merry With Music 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Those who want bombast in their Tchaikovsky will doubt his unmissable Fifth, so full of dark psychological shadows that it is almost redolent of Mahler. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The Hold Steady is all about bombast and getting bombed. Album review: Craig Finn, 'Clear Heart Full Eyes' 2012-01-20T05:03:00Z And there is plenty of bombastic bombast in tracks such as Crush and the whirligig Salt in the Wounds. Pendulum: Immersion 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z Beneath all of his band mates’ brooding bombast and anxious razzle-dazzle, Ulrich was giving the music its reptile pulse. Review | Blasting songs of death and destruction, a Metallica concert somehow feels like pure joy 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z And at the centre of it all, somehow playing the straight man amid all the bombast and bluster, is Cage as Cameron Poe, the burdened soldier who just wants to go home. Muscles, mullets and Malkovich: has Con Air got even weirder with age? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z While Snyder incorporated at least some of those elements into his 2009 retelling, the work was slapdash and, true to the director’s style, mined for bombast instead of meaning. Actually, maybe HBO shouldn’t adapt “Watchmen” at all 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Stacey D'Erasmo's exquisite "Wonderland" meets this challenge and succeeds, not through bombast but with beautifully measured, understated writing and meticulous characterization. 'Wonderland' vividly captures a rocker's comeback struggle 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the players – guitar, bass and drums, plus horns, vibraphones and piano – strike the perfect balance between quiet and loud, nuance and bombast. New band of the day (Knesset No 1,484) 2013-04-03T16:32:38Z The synth pioneer is one of the four vocalists the band have recruited to guest on the new record, and he lends adenoidal bombast to the mighty industrial clatter of new single "My Machines". Battles: 'Our music is?supposed to be fun' 2011-08-06T23:05:35Z Vito Schnabel is the son of famed ’80s painter and later film director Julian Schnabel, and his taste in artists often follows his father’s bombast and verve. Still Independent, and Still Exceptional 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z There was a lot of bombast in the air back then; grand-sounding but inflammatory writing and speechifying were in fashion, including among abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison. ‘Lincoln Speaks: Words That Transformed a Nation’ at Morgan Library 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Brown has clearly learned the art of bombast from the preachers of his youth. 'I had an early lesson in manipulation' 2010-12-23T22:33:00Z Thus did Mr. West return to Paris Fashion Week: with family in tow, outreach on the mind, a dose of bombast, a dollop of absurdity and a piece of home. Kanye West Returns to Paris Fashion Week 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z But it was the band’s ability to churn metal bombast, punk skepticism and pop smarts into radio hits that propelled it further than most. Perspective | Chris Cornell’s singular voice soared above the gloom of grunge 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Rock dinosaurs who occupied a different universe to "real" music, a place synonymous with studio excess and Thatcherite bombast. Fleetwood Mac: magic you just can't cover 2012-07-25T15:09:00Z Seldom is it slimmed down — certainly not to the degree that McGegan attempted: staccato brass kisses in place of usually stentorian notes, and long, limpid phrases in lieu of bombast. McGegan, BSO offer slender, uneven, but compelling Beethoven Ninth 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z Bratton trusts the power of his own story, and the discipline of his excellent cast, to keep the movie clear of bombast or overstated uplift. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z While some rock drummers chased after volume and bombast, Mr. Watts defined his playing with subtlety, swing and a solid groove. Charlie Watts, Bedrock Drummer for the Rolling Stones, Dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z With their crisp rhythms and a dearth of the bombast that bloated so much of his post-Thriller work, the best songs here evoke his music's lithe, whooshing agility. The New Michael Jackson Album: Not Bad, but Pretty Good 2010-12-10T08:00:00Z Unlike Kanye, she did not equate herself with the geniuses of silhouette, and drown her clothing in bombast. Rihanna and the Fashion X Games 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Rage Against the Machine's best work was a reaction to the times delivered with bombast. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z If Big Apple lacks the scope and scale of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey juggernaut, it neatly avoids bombast and overkill, too. Review: Luxury Travel With the Big Apple Circus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z First, it reined in the out-of-control bombast – the pastel vests and talking robots and weird Don King impersonations – that had eroded the charm of the first movie. Die Hard 6: why Bruce Willis is taking tips from Rocky Balboa 2013-05-03T15:40:25Z She played with heft but not bombast, sentiment but not schmaltz. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z But the sculpture park also chronicles the transition from modernist bombast to post-modernist humility. Gigantism 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Is there still a prejudice against what’s been perceived as Liszt’s empty-headed bombast? From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z We will never know exactly what the wild shifts among fervent expression, deep, depressive, trembling angst, playfulness, bombast and outright pomposity mean. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The strength of Banks's writing is as much in its wit and bombast as its smart political thinking, but readers will find plenty of big ideas to get their teeth into. Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF 2013-06-28T09:44:47Z She’s a more powerful singer than Mr. McCreery; there’s nothing on his album like the vocal bombast of her single, “Like My Mother Does.” New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z Maiden's thunderous, militaristic bombast is exactly what a spectacle of this kind requires. Why we need Iron Maiden for the Olympics 2010-03-25T14:58:00Z He doesn’t show off with his direction or the performances, going for detail instead of bombast with eerie silences, traded glances, trembling gestures and beaded sweat. Movie Review: ‘Argo,’ Directed by Ben Affleck 2012-10-11T17:05:05Z But even though these two spent their spotlight years in different places, they both trace their aesthetic arcs back to Public Enemy’s chaotic bombast, and it’s that urgency that they bring to this album. Albums From Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Like the other great works of 1925, it did not announce itself with the bombast of “Ulysses.” Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z But in this latest work, some of his masks and bombast fall away. A Writer Gets Candid About Marriage and Humiliation in ‘The Trouble With Men’ 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z “Waitin’ for a Superman” was the rare tune presented without bombast. The Flaming Lips bring the whole bag of props to 9:30 Club 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z You’re expected to appreciate that, so you can ease into the zany bombast. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z There are several moments where you say you should be offended by male bombast but instead find yourself compelled by its vulnerability. Laura Kipnis talks about power, anxiety and 'Men' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z As for his signature orchestral bombast, Luger’s sick of it already. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z There is no bombast here, no posturing on the highest available moral ground, no anthemic declarations of politically correct views. Readers' reviews: Def Leppard, Stephan Nance and Gareth Liddiard 2012-08-20T12:30:25Z After the thick bombast of the Messiaen, it was disorienting to hear van Zweden lead a “St. Matthew Passion” of wise, often deferential restraint and transparent, balanced counterpoint. Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Where her opponents within and outside the party use bombast, she drops literal bombs, and absorbs them. Meryl as Maggie in The Iron Lady: A Stunt of Genius 2011-12-29T16:59:44Z Its appearance in “Apocalypse Now” is no less grotesque, although there it serves to satirize American bombast and arrogance. A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The other track we've heard, Thief in My Mouth, is slightly preferable, with more of an alt-rock bent, until the chorus, which is pure Boss bluster and bombast. New band of the day: The Weeks (No 1,490) 2013-04-11T15:58:27Z There's plenty of flash and even some bombast. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Whether the reader is an Acker novice or an aficionado, seeing that insistently transgressive artist through Martin’s eyes offers new insights into her brilliance and bombast. Three Literary Critics Who Engage With Their Subjects, Unconventionally 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z In 13 minutes, Rihanna casually performed snippets of 12 hits, universally known songs that don’t require much in the way of fluffing or bombast. At the Super Bowl, Rihanna Returns to Music, Briefly 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z It was an older school of rock-hero behavior, full of preening and bombast. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z What the success of “Last Week Tonight” suggests, on a deeper level, is that American television viewers may finally be tired of the frantic bombast generated by the Stimulation Media. John Oliver won’t be your therapist: How he torpedoed the reassuring tropes of fake news 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z For all the comic potential, their version of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture had the right bombast and vulgarity. Proms 11 & 12: BBC Concert Orchestra/Hazlewood ? review 2011-07-24T16:46:01Z “The Undefeated” is a staggering work of bombast and overstatement, the closest thing in the United States to the campaign biographies of the newly elected Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. | ?Game Change?: In ?Game Change? on HBO, Julianne Moore Plays Sarah Palin 2012-03-08T13:00:00Z There’s vulnerability there — no wonder Ms. Clarkson’s publishing company is named Songs for My Shrink — but the music rises quickly to bombast, triumphal and glamorous but remote. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z What makes his commitment to mayhem somewhat interesting is that it’s never clear if this aesthetic of bombast originates from self-parody, a lack of self-awareness or maybe both. Review: In Michael Bay’s ‘13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,’ Clarity Isn’t the Objective 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Of course, because “1917” is a film of patriotic bombast and heroic duty, Schofield’s mind will be changed in the course of the action. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The Finale lacked its usual bombast or enthusiasm. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z As a finale, the Tchaikovsky provided enough bombast for a solid conclusion, with the brass, and especially the trumpets, powering the heraldic fate theme. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap In the “Emperor” Concerto, Lisiecki veered between two dominant modes: undisciplined bombast and bland understatement. In BSO debuts, young pianist Jan Lisiecki stumbles as conductor Paul Goodwin shines 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z I think what Verdi intended was a lot of militaristic bombast. David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z The list of tunes curved away from the real pop and bombast in Mr. Corea’s back catalog, the later iterations of the group Return to Forever and the Elektric Band. Music Review: A Jazz Man Returns to His Past 2011-01-23T22:40:51Z The brooding poetry of the lyrics got lost in the bombast. Review: 'American Idols Live' rolls into town; amiable twanger Aaron Kelly a standout 2010-08-21T19:03:00Z While Season 19 explored the forces that enabled Trump’s bombast and bigotry to resonate, Season 20 explored why these forces resonated. So much for hope: “South Park” abandons serialization, apparently all really is lost 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z This time it was with a Russian program, one part showy treacle and two parts epic bombast, heard last night in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Andrew Litton, conducting NSO, does justice to Russian program 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In one tragic scene, Ridloff also lets out an anguished cry that reverberates with something more raw and genuine than is often heard in the bombast of superhero films. Lauren Ridloff on playing the MCU’s first deaf superhero 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Yet, somehow, that house has turned into a clogged intersection of American celebrity and wealth, an odd mash-up of failed dreams, bombast, stubborn indignation, name-calling, angry taunts and legal bombardment. The time Donald Trump’s empire took on a stubborn widow — and lost 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z If the key to playing gigs of this size is to forsake subtlety for bombast, then Rammstein are the perfect festival band. Sonisphere 2010-08-02T20:46:00Z Sap and bombast: The concert, two acts and 27 numbers long, had overblown and maudlin moments. Signature sings out: The 25th anniversary concert These words, of course, run directly counter to the bombast about No Excuses schooling — “there must be penalties for failure” — that infests the dialogue of public education nowadays. Education experts share the best books they’ve read about teaching 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z The balance is sometimes off in other respects too: On the night I attended, the cast was ever so slightly off-tempo, and some lyrics were muffled by the bombast of the orchestra. ‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The movie is infected with a mild case of Christophernolanitis, in which the presumption of importance yields grimness and bombast. The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Is the nationalist bombast simply camouflage, to enable the Kremlin and its cronies to continue looting tens of billions of dollars a year from the Russian people? The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z And with the flick of his wrist, gone was the bombast. Zubin Mehta's L.A. return gives Shankar raga a proper home and makes Strauss hero's journey personal 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z The Lovato-Jonas “Future Now” tour kicked off in June in Atlanta, where it was described as short on bombast and long on musical value, though some fans were disappointed the two don’t sing together often. Demi and Nick, together again — on tour 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z What was less welcome in Ms. Adler’s Kael piece, as in so many of her later philippics, is her easy slide into bombast and overkill. Review: ‘After the Tall Timber,’ Renata Adler’s Collected Nonfiction 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Reviewing the musical’s Seattle run, The Stranger wrote: “As much as ‘Spidermann’ pierced the heart of Spider-Man’s self-importance, it relished the dumb bombast in its own way, too.” ArtsBeat: Along Came Yet Another Spider: Get Ready for a Third 'Spider-Man' Musical 2011-02-24T21:00:51Z Who knew that the duo had such a flavor for bombast? Tegan and Sara Bring Pop—and Heart, Of Course—to Heartthrob 2013-02-01T15:00:03Z Only “My Song 5” evinces a personality -- a collage of elephant noises, spastic beats and operatic bombast. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z “There is no mystical bombast here whatsoever,” David Orr writes in his review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z But for all their thunder and bombast, the mountains felt heartbreakingly fragile. I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Monumental doesn't describe their bombast: Springsteen-like, full of participatory choruses, self-important and rightly so. An inspired evening with Arcade Fire at KeyArena 2010-09-30T19:52:00Z This summer, though, has so far largely been a parade of joyless bombast. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z Ming-Trent, though, pulls off the perhaps the most challenging assignment: satisfying the expectation for a larger-than-life Falstaff without pushing the predictable bombast button. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z But he often resorts to bombast, undermining the complexities of Freud's thinking and his temperament. It's atheist vs. believer in Taproot's 'Freud's Last Case' 2012-03-29T20:02:04Z “Then,” he continues, “at the end of the piece, you get another cadenza, but it’s a timpani cadenza with piano accompaniment” — a quiet moment, furthermore, when you might expect bombast. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The “Années” as written track a more unexpected trajectory, ending not with bombast but with the third suite’s sober “Sursum Corda.” Music Review: Liszt Suites of Travel, United as a Journey 2011-03-11T23:45:19Z Among the topics discussed: growing up in Merrick, Long Island, his fashion world bombast on “Project Runway,” and his 30 years in fashion. | Michael Kors 2011-02-14T19:49:21Z It is about telling stories with bombast and bravado and the half-belief that if you say it, it will become true. Billy Liar ? still in town 2010-09-01T20:30:00Z There's lots more to Alberich than bombast and the big nasty moments: here, I can explore the part's subtlety and lyricism. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z It doesn’t aestheticise its subject, however, but rather evokes the power of words to make sense of horror and to cut through the bombast of empire. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The limits imposed by dramatic structure and spoken dialogue reined in his natural tendency for poetic bombast and symbolism. | 'One Arm': Hustler on the Streets, Missing Both a Limb and a Capacity to Feel 2011-06-10T02:01:04Z And “Ambulance,” which includes verbal shout-outs to “Bad Boys” and “The Rock,” is something of a return to form for this auteur of vehicular mayhem and muscular bombast. ‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s outrageously and unapologetically excessive in its R-rated violence and achingly awful in the florid bombast of its dialogue. ‘300: Rise of an Empire’: This violent sequel means war 2014-03-05T22:33:24Z All of which rings the alarm – Wolf is known for his bombast, his dramatic flourishes, and many of these are machine-made. Patrick Wolf: Sundark and Riverlight – review 2012-10-11T22:00:18Z Architecture as tool of propaganda is a long-established motif, but instead of the bombast, Moore chooses to focus on the relationship with power, not from the perspective of client, but of architect. Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z As for Mount himself, he wouldn't know how to deploy the bombast that comes naturally to Californians. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z Despite their breadth and heft, despite their marchlike pace, the pieces never descend to bombast. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z Then it explodes in gruesome violence and bravura set pieces, served up with the bombast and humour you just don't get from a Wire grumblethon. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z Their sound was a hodgepodge, too: metal roar, fey folkie drama, Gothic despair, arena bombast, progressive rock, psychedelia, a weird mix of hip and mainstream, the populist and the arcane. Smashing Pumpkins revisit breakthrough albums 2011-11-27T21:47:00Z “Sailor’s Guide” is rowdier, more emotionally insular and also far more musically surprising, an album of raw country cut with rich and messy Southern soul and sleek orchestral bombast. Sturgill Simpson, a Genuine Alternative to Alt Country 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The Washington punchpot was a contrast to the bombast of Frederick, Dr. Moon said. Ah, Tea. So Relaxing. But Its History Is Another Story. 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The finale’s lively fugue is leavened with slashing rhythms, then unseated by distant echoes of “1812”-style bombast. Music Review: For a Sextet?s Substitutes, a Chemistry Test 2011-05-10T21:30:25Z Which brings us to… The bombast: Where do they shoot this show, on the surface of the sun? The X Factor Live: It?s Not Idol. And That?s Not a Compliment 2011-10-26T14:23:13Z This is not exactly a rare war-movie notion, but “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” explores it with gentleness rather than sentimental bombast. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z His serenity is also troubled by a chance encounter with a former wartime shipmate whose sentimental reminiscences spark jingoistic bombast and earnest regret. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z One also got wafts of the blaring bombast of professional football broadcasts, and, yes, the stage-managed awkwardness of the lesser styles of reality TV. Perspective | Can we get past the idea that politics is a reality show? Not if CNN has anything to do with it. 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z There was no bombast, no prima donna attitude. Che Guevara's 'betrayer' tells his side of the story after 40 years 2013-07-03T13:53:10Z From the first notes of “Blue Moon” it’s clear that Beck has left the bombast and gimmicks of Modern Guilt and Guero far behind. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Henry reacts to his wife’s crisis like a stereotypical politician, with bombast, threats and angry rants that cover up anything that might resemble doubt or fear. 'Mad Men' Recap: The Long and Winding Con 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Punk began as a reaction to both the blandness and bombast of rock’s ruling class. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The opera has sounded scarier and more chaotic — its blood bath met with bombast in many interpretations — but Runnicles insisted on the possibility of dramatic momentum at a more restrained scale. Review: Two Sopranos Make an ‘Elektra’ Both Mythic and Human 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Offered at face value, all that registers is bombast. ‘The Walrus and the Whistleblower’ Review: The Fight to Free a Friend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “People have a right to have fun in this city,” Mr. Markowitz said in an interview in his office, his voice rising to a level of bombast well known to his constituents. Free Brooklyn Concerts, Thanks to Borough President 2010-07-15T22:18:00Z The wistful opening movement ventured into unusually dark territory, while the hard-driven finale verged on bombast. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Michelle is plenty self-fulfilled when the story opens, at least professionally, as telegraphed by her bombast and an office stuffed with her framed portrait. Review: Melissa McCarthy Takes Charge in ‘The Boss’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But nothing quite worked, and though its producers clearly aspired to the inspirational bombast of Steven Spielberg or perhaps Leni Riefenstahl, they could barely muster a second-rate pastiche of Charlie Chaplin. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Because Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's none-more-80s monument to bombast and epic folly, ushers the listener into a palace of bacchanalian excess, it will take all of your willpower to survive. Readers recommend: songs about visitors ? results 2011-08-25T13:46:52Z But the fractured nature of Mr. Cole’s album was echoed during the show, which followed flashes of impressive bombast and lyrical technique with moments of severe listlessness. Music Review: J. Cole at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-09-26T22:51:03Z In the person of Gordon Gekko, played both times with leonine bombast and reptilian cunning by Michael Douglas, Mr. Stone has conceived one of the definitive heroic villains of modern pop culture. | 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps': The Pride That Went Before the Fall 2010-09-23T16:10:00Z It forsakes the epic for the idiosyncratic, it tempers its bombast with both reflection and inventiveness. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z This paper trail – of London sights and its citizen's secret affairs – adds up to a monstrous portrait of the city, in all its bombast and sleaze. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z Overlapping polychrome circles and squares from the 1920s gave way to the postwar bombast of oversize sickle motifs and quasi-neoclassical rosettes and scrollwork. 4 Books to Inspire Your Inner Designer 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z It was this equal passion for rock bombast and classical finesse that made Lord such an unusual musician. Jon Lord 2012-07-16T17:47:58Z Though never signed to Wax Trax!, their performance injected the kind of bombast befitting the label's vision. A celebration of Wax Trax! and its iconic place in Chicago's music scene 2011-04-17T14:37:00Z The rappers have reigned for years as the undisputed kings of hip-hop, but if fans were expecting an album of easy good-times and bombast, Mr. Caramanica said, they would be mistaken. ArtsBeat: Popcast: Supergroups A Go-Go 2011-08-12T16:33:36Z Fiction writers are plenty capable of similar bombast. With a Little Help From Their Friends (and Agents and Librarians and Fact-Checkers ...) 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The ambient nuisance of Barr’s bombast had become a thing to actively ignore. Much Like a Trump Rally, the End of “Roseanne” Felt Both Shocking and Inevitable 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “What Now” begins with plain piano but gets to bombast by the first chorus. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna’s Album ‘Unapologetic’ Makes Most of Her Talent 2012-11-20T18:20:20Z Drake gets lost in all the bombast and the wild flashes of light, but he's still the coolest graduate of Degrassi Junior High. 2010-02-01T13:03:00Z Reborn in 2010 in an attempt to wrest control of the first-person-shooter genre from Activision, EA's Medal of Honor series is pitched as the authentic alternative to Call of Duty's Hollywood bombast. Medal of Honor: Warfighter – review 2012-11-11T00:06:00Z The match, which was played in Iceland, was a classic pre-Internet media circus, and the film efficiently captures the bombast it inspired in the United States, not to mention the chess mania. Review: ‘Pawn Sacrifice,’ Another Take on the Royal Game 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Even with action writ large, though, Brian Tyler's score too often reaches for bombast. "Expendables" revels in excess 2010-08-05T01:30:00Z When this claret concoction descends at Terminal 5, it does so forcibly, with a drama apropos to the night’s simulacrum of pre-millennial rave bombast. Blade Rave: the club night where blood rains from the ceiling 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z There was power aplenty in “Pictures”; there was also bombast at the end. Music Review: A Stick in the Spokes of a Philharmonic Night 2011-06-17T22:29:44Z He was attacked as a dilettante, one whose music wavered between bombast and bizarrerie, whose poetic productions mixed platitude and gibberish. Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Such bombast was detectable in “The Yellow Birds,” like mold in the basement, but here, left unchecked, it’s overtaken the whole structure. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In terms of grandeur and bombast, the Icelandic quartet ably matches and often exceeds that of its contemporaries. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z He set out to chronicle Moses' journey from privileged son of Egypt to embattled leader of the Israelites with enough blockbuster bombast to impress the Almighty himself. Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' casts a wide net of spectacle and family 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Others headed for the great flyover to spend time with the forgotten citizens who connect to the new president’s bombast. Review | It’s exhausting being a reporter in the Trump era. A new documentary captures the toll at the New York Times. 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z This is a movie based on a Hasbro toy, after all - it's all spectacle and bombast. Capsule reviews of `G.I. Joe' and other new movies 2013-03-27T21:27:34Z De Luca's maximalist sound flirts with bombast and kitsch, and it remains to be seen if he's got the balance right. Vito de Luca of nu-disco hitmakers Aeroplane on becoming a one-man band 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z Stripped of bombast and weepy self-pity, it became a blunt expression of how, in her words, “the dream changes as you get older.” Randy Graff Turns Nostalgic in ‘Made in Brooklyn Revisited’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In large-scale live-action filmmaking, digital effects have lost much of their luster, serving less as tools for innovation than as shortcuts to bombast. ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Fresh Take on a Venerable Hero 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Mostly, the new album is true to the sort of bombast he perfected on “Teflon Don.” Critic?s Notebook: In the Hip-Hop World, Blogs Mean Business 2011-05-27T23:15:20Z The in-jokes get pushy in “Will,” which is over-larded with thespian bombast and twisted Bard references. Review | The book on Lauren Gunderson, topping U.S. theater charts 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Enough time has passed that he can admit to being “entertained” by Trump’s bombast and found himself agreeing with Trump on issues such as immigration. Trump left his mark all over New York. Some in the city would like to erase it. 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Not many, especially when DJ Alesso was offering a more contemporary brand of musical bombast than the one happening on the main stage -- and without the inflatable Rosie. Coachella 2015: AC/DC delivers dirty deeds in desert set 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The fact that Snyder makes that point with a spectacle of uninhibited bombast is a self-critique as strong as any reproach that a critic can levy. “Batman v Superman” Is Democrats vs. Republicans 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Bender merely repurposed the bombast of Wagner and the movies, transforming it, as the title “Total Recall” suggests, into a vaguely menacing video science fiction. Art Review: Gretchen Bender’s Work Is Displayed at the Kitchen 2013-09-05T23:02:42Z For Stravinsky, there was just too much bombast in Wagner. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z There were times in that Dalek episode I couldn't hear the dialog for the bombast. TV Picks: 'The Chair,' 'Cinderella,' 'NOVA: Vaccines,' 'Doctor Who' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Giuliani has long been an attention seeker, but his bombast was tempered by moderate, socially liberal politics — a model for many Republicans hoping to expand their base. What happened to ‘America’s Mayor’? How Rudy Giuliani became Trump’s attack dog. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But he lost his nerve as a coproducer, going for stadium bombast instead of the unadorned grit these stories of hard times demand. Album review: Bruce Springsteen, 'Wrecking Ball' 2012-03-02T05:00:00Z This series comes at the right time for me - it is a fitting counternote to the endless acrimony of our election and the now grating sound of Donald Trump's sleezy bombast. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z At times as refined as a European opera singer, at others raw with back-alley bombast, Gardel was one of Argentina’s first tango superstars. Throwback tunes: Reissues from Frenchmen, Argentines, Brits, lumberjacks and Vaudevillians 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Love him or hate him, it’s hard to deny the satiric potential of Trump’s bombast and cartoon quality. The comedy defeceit: Donald Trump pre-presidency is jamming up comedians like Janeane Garofalo who say it’s just not funny 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Charles L. Mee’s script, which draws heavily on American literary classics, falls into simplistic bombast and self-consciousness. Dance Review: Martha Graham Dance and the Siti Company Perform 2010-06-10T22:21:00Z Pletnev and the orchestra maintained an exciting sense of forward sweep in the concerto's outer movements, handling some of Tchaikovsky's characteristic bombast with the right degree of panache. Yuja Wang and the Russian National Orchestra perform in Northridge 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Just over 20 minutes long, it’s more succinct than any other Shostakovich symphony, boasting wily, sonorous, captivating touches that take manic or thorny turns without ever veering into bombast — and that was the problem. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z Lately he’s been listening to the Mount Eerie album “A Crow Looked at Me,” an anti-pop grief purge that arrives at the same affect as Capaldi’s music with absolutely none of the bombast. Lewis Capaldi Will Break Your Heart. (But Don’t Take Him Too Seriously.) 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z “Vinyl” aspires to beauty and nuance, but routinely falls back on bombast. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 5: Hannibal’s Anagrams 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Mark performed with bombast and to-the-gut honesty; the show rattled along like a juggernaut. Rewind radio: Bowie and Beyond: A Music Fan's Guide to Berlin; Adam Buxton on David Bowie; Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro; Making News; Messy, Isn't It? The Life and Works of Richard Brautigan – review 2013-04-06T21:50:01Z Rarely does the righteous bombast of an AC/DC riff ask us to ponder our mortality. Maren Morris stands out on a stacked country bill at Fillmore Silver Spring 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Instead, I was concentrating on the work’s brooding transitions, and thinking about the second movement’s route between delicate pizzicato phrases and heights of bombast. Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But “Pressure Machine” puts some pressure on the band to find a way to incorporate its slower, more introspective songs into a set list that usually features sonic bombast and sly humor. The Killers detour into a new and rich sonic landscape 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s fun to look up the early reviews—peeved critics huffing and puffing about bombast and pretension. The Misfit Awesomeness of Neil Peart and Rush 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Whatever was wrong with last year’s Smith flop Winter’s Tale, it wasn’t a lack of bombast or sweep. Can Will Smith Become a Major Movie Star Again? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But little was humane about the bombast that took complete control by night’s end. Shania Twain goes big and bigger at Verizon Center 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But, for now, even as construction is still under way, the absence of commerce underlines the hall’s considerable architectural bombast. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Not that there wasn’t plenty of senatorial bombast. Perspective | Members of Congress can’t possibly regulate Facebook. They don’t understand it. 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z At the O2 Arena it is more about bombast, hot dogs and those darn video screens. Comedy at the O2 is no laughing matter 2013-01-09T13:15:36Z As the art world underwent a seismic shift away from impoverished but obligatory macho bombast and drifted toward being more inclusive and businesslike, Andy won his cultural bet big. ‘Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again’ Review: Pop Art’s Tragic Prince 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z A serious need for devotion lay beneath the sodden bombast. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z “Only kindergartners get credit for using their inside voices,” Bee said when others observed that Trump had opened the final debate with noticeably less bombast. We’ll pick a president, but the search continues for a perfect late-night host 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z For those who already found his records distasteful, his antics proved his music to be the bombast of a narcissistic clown, the meretricious noise of a child drunk on his own Kool-Aid. Kanye West’s post-Taylor Swift fallout: How he returned from spiritual exile with his masterpiece 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z If only the story were leaner and more nimble — but then again this is a Ridley Scott film, so you go in expecting bombast and bloat in the service of leaden themes. | 'Robin Hood': Crowe and Blanchett in Ridley Scott?s Nottingham 2010-05-13T19:58:00Z He says Helm "foul-mouthed, hard-rock bombast" is "masking an ego as frail as spun sugar". Edinburgh Comedy awards - Who's who? 2013-08-21T17:04:20Z Composing an envoi while fighting a duel, or reciting the famed catalog of rhetorical styles for insulting his nose, Mr. Hodge’s Cyrano is a man of brilliant bombast and many voices. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z One of the great powers of the internet community is its ability to shame the bombast, the overblown, the unquestioning. Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z And Mr. Gabriel took on the bombast of “My Body Is a Cage,” an indie-rock anthem by Arcade Fire, as if the song had been made to order. Music Review: Peter Gabriel and Orchestra at Radio City Music Hall 2010-05-03T23:48:00Z When you think of “Pines,” you usually think of bombast. For Riccardo Muti, a Grand Sort-of-Finale in Chicago 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Whatever the reason, this collection seems retrograde and oddly neutered, the chilly vulnerability of its inspirations recoded as muscular bombast. Cold Cave: Cherish the Light Years - review 2011-03-31T22:00:02Z Nakamura’s show opens with bombast: “Hermitage 11” is a huge, black-and-white, diagonal grid that vibrates against your eyeballs so hard it might induce vertigo. Gloppy abandon meets elegant restraint at Blum & Poe's Kazumi Nakamura exhibition 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Most similar films strain at the seams with bombast and sentimentality. Review: ‘Testament of Youth’ Recalls the Great War With Little Nostalgia 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z They are decay arias in some cases, spewing forth Wagnerian bombast. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Washed in the colors of surf and sand, and moving to the languid rhythms of swaying palm trees, “The Empty Hours” is like a mental vacation from the noise and bombast of the summer blockbuster. ‘The Empty Hours,’ Directed by Aarón Fernández 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But the film’s aversion to formal or rhetorical bombast as it discusses scientists’ hopes for a better future is its own balm. ‘Nuclear Now’ Review: Oliver Stone Makes the Case for Power Plants 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z For this return to decency one must take a little bombast and saber-rattling, was the general attitude. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Alter’s music sometimes takes its cues from the synthesizer-driven bombast that helps fuel excitement among the viewing audience. Theater Review: ‘Nobody Loves You’ Spoofs Reality TV at Second Stage Theater 2013-07-19T02:00:14Z So much bombast you could fill a truck with it, enough torrid emoting to boil a sea, all topped by a heart-swelling chorus that will inspire a generation. Foxygen, Bastille, Misty Miller: this week's new tracks 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z National Geographic in 2019 is an odd blend of Hollywood, bombast, and the kind of tender observation and educational precision that distinguished the yellow-framed magazines we grew up with. “Hostile Planet”: Animals Are Struggling to Adapt, and National Geographic Is, Too 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Others, however, found themselves able to see beyond The Expendables' aesthetic failings and enjoy the film's sheer brazen bombast. The Expendables: Old-timers wheel out the one-liners 2010-08-16T15:36:00Z Even so, its ongoing marriage of bombast and sentiment does grate after a spell. Back to 1942 – review 2012-11-11T16:11:02Z For all of its bombast, grandeur, melodrama and over-the-top chest-clawing ridiculousness, opera at its most grand is art at its most human. Review | Washington National Opera returns to the stage, and it’s something to sing about 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z There is a silliness to the juxtaposition, between the breezy yet subtly subversive tone of the TV show and the self-important bombast of the New York stage. Squidward Tentacles, voice of millennial despair 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Its relatively restrained dimensions are soothing in an age of bombast. How Memory Maps Fashion’s Future 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z But it was the tension between his protest and the song’s usual bombast, which he also captured, that really summed up his historical moment and made the rendition iconic. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Has the right sort of bombast for the power years, and is certainly well-cushioned, but lacks the common touch and is definitely not the lurking sort. Who should play Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell? 2013-01-24T14:32:00Z Anything less rhapsodic might easily turn into bombast. | The Antlers: Strumming Off This Mortal Coil 2009-12-17T05:48:00Z But it’s in the ludicrous whatnot that the glory of James Bond lies—in the glorious bombast, the mixture of the clever and the idiotic, the willingness to say or do something deeply silly. Sam Smith’s Song Breaks the Bond Rules 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z For its part, Fox got someone whose penchant for bombast and demagogy proved a ratings winner. The Incestuous Relationship Between Donald Trump and Fox News 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z The show starts with our host at maximum bombast, enforcing singalong participation in his metal anthems, orchestrating Mexican waves on pain of a perforated eardrum. Nick Helm ? review 2011-08-10T16:53:22Z Still, there was a strong sense of unity to the work, and a prevailing mood of insinuative bombast. Review: ‘Real Enemies,’ at the BAM Harvey Theater, Sheds Light on Conspiracies 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s refreshingly free of the bombast and fatuousness that often come with the genre and features a winning performance by Alison Brie as an actress who finds work doing chokeslams and piledrivers. The Summer TV Lineup: 13 Series to Watch 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Those who were turned off by his bombast could take comfort in her moderation. Is Ivanka Trump building bridges — or walking a tightrope? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In person, Noah comes across as deeply intelligent and thoughtful, but not necessarily prone to wisecracks or comedic bombast. Trevor Noah’s Crash Course in Surviving an American Election 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Black, on drums, struck an elusive truce between bombast and finesse, driving his agenda along with the pulse of the tune. Review: Jim Black Trio at Le Poisson Rouge 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z For Americans, the recall election, with all its bombast, would preview how politics would grow louder, more populist, more direct. Opinion: How Schwarzenegger's recall victory 20 years ago reverberates in California now 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z No unusual military movements have been detected in the North, and South Koreans – long familiar with Pyongyang’s verbal bombast – are not diving into bunkers. Hot air over Koreas — fresh balloon flights into North spark tension 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Donald would do the initial pitch, employing his usual bombast and braggadocio while telling ridiculous tales of his allegedly fabulous wealth. "I am not a misogynist": Ivanka's testimony shows how the Trumps exploit sexism to defraud people 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z As Trump's speech indicated, he is hoping to use bombast and culture war politics to persuade workers that their interests align more with the industry than with the unions. A study in contrasts: Biden stands with auto workers. Trump looks down upon them 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z But beyond the spectacle and bombast, observers question whether the meeting achieved any concrete deals. Kim Jong Un-Putin talks: What do the optics tell us? 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z All of that bombast was fun but completely unnecessary given Sheeran’s innate magnetism as a performer. Ed Sheeran smashes Taylor Swift’s Lumen Field attendance record 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Which means more maturity and pragmatism and less performative bombast and schoolyard antics. Column: A Democratic and Republican battled for Congress. They became unlikely friends 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z There are so many different flavors of the apocalypse film: the bombast and spectacle of a disaster movie à la Roland Emmerich, or the punky desert chic of a “Mad Max” movie. Review: High-concept, lo-fi 'Biosphere' doesn't know where to take its interesting premise 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z But looking at Trump these days, it's hard not to notice that his usual fake-it-til-you-make-it bombast, honed from decades of being a con artist, is faltering. For the GOP frontrunner, Trump seems awfully low energy lately 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “This was a bunch of bombast by an attorney general engaging in politics.” New law requires Kansas to reverse gender change for trans people in state records, state AG says 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Berlusconi’s polarizing style not only has remained in Italy, but it has become a global trend, seen most clearly in Donald J. Trump in the United States, who in many ways echoes his bombast. How Silvio Berlusconi Changed Italy, for Better or Worse 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z It is far easier, when using rhetoric loaded with bombast, lies and fear, to jettison fact, nuance and subtlety. Donald Trump has fallen, and he can't get up: This may be the week the Demogorgon is caged 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z With his innate ability at hucksterism and bombast, Trump is the crowning achievement of what American politics has become since Richard Nixon: a festering dung heap. Biden and McCarthy step back from the abyss: It's a huge defeat for Donald Trump 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z According to Spence, the Fourth Symphony is “bombast,” while the fifth is filled with romance and the sixth plumbs sorrow. Could Tchaikovsky's music spur a 'full body orgasm'? A brief history of surprising orchestra reactions 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Political fund-raising materials often engage in bombast or exaggeration. Prosecutors in Jan. 6 Case Step up Inquiry Into Trump Fund-Raising 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z In an era in which political insults and bombast have become common, Quarles has pledged to avoid aiming personal attacks at GOP rivals, while indicating that policy disagreements are fair game. Quarles avoids rivals’ spats in debut ad in governor’s race 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The bombast would seem fit for an enemy — not an ally that shares a 2,000-mile border and close economic, social and cultural ties. Mexico's president, saying the U.S. is suffering from moral decay, offers some advice 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The promise to save the devastated cathedral in so short a space of time seemed back then like a typical bit of Macronian bombast. Notre-Dame: Renovators rush to complete refit by 2024 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Some reveled in his bombast and the way Trump blithely bulldozed political norms. Column: Scandal after scandal, Trump has defied political physics. Will this time be different? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Haley’s allies said that because she served in Mr. Trump’s administration, she could bring the knowledge of the former president’s policy goals without the bombast that turned off moderate conservatives. In South Carolina, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott Appeal to the Same Donors, and the Same Voters 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z His youth and soft-spoken approach have endeared him to voters who don’t associate him with the ineffectual bombast of the previous political generation. Cyprus picks new president amid economic doubt, ethnic split 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Early in his presidency, he brushed off Republican attacks as senatorial bombast. As McCarthy struggles in House, McConnell appears with Biden in Ky. 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The only question was whether those conservatives would be moderate or whether they would emulate Elder, with his hard-line bombast and friendliness with far-right extremists, including Santa Monica native Stephen Miller. Column: White supremacy comes in all colors. 2023 will make this impossible to ignore 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z He sprinkles his political speeches with Bible verses and released a video extolling how "God created a fighter" in a style that echoes Trump's bombast. Christian nationalists: Wanting to put God into US government 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z While defendants may have engaged in “horribly headed rhetoric and bombast,” their venting was constitutionally protected speech and not an illegal conspiracy to violently oppose the government. In 2nd Oath Keepers sedition trial, U.S. ties 4 more to Rhodes 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But he himself was partial to epic tales of heroes and villains, inspired by ancient myths, classical music and arena-filling bombast. Review: Quirky heist movie 'Four Samosas' revels in Artesia's Indian American community 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Bright attributed the “inappropriate … bombast” of the defendants to the stress of that year, frustrations that drove them into the “wormhole” of right-wing media. ‘Democracy is fragile,’ prosecutor says at close of Oath Keepers trial 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z As predicted by Levy and Lenny Daniels, the chief operating officer for Turner Sports at the time, the bombast of Charles and Shaq’s repartee elevated the show. ‘Barkley’ excerpt: How Charles figured out how to work with Shaq 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “Yeah, I did say that,” Rhodes said but characterized his remarks as “rhetoric and bombast.” Oath Keepers’ leader Rhodes denies conspiracy to enter Capitol on Jan. 6 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z No need for a Gingrichesque marathon first day full of pomp and bombast, and cameo appearance by the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Opinion | Here’s what to expect on Day 1 of Kevin McCarthy’s Republican-led House 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z She became one of the first "crossover" stars, successfully fusing country melodies to the bombast of stadium rock. Shania Twain: I was touch and go with Covid 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The bombast of “The Old Drift” has been replaced with intimacy, intense emotionality and specificity, but the ambition, the acuity of the intelligence, remains. Review: The follow-up to Namwali Serpell's debut novel is less grand — and better for it 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Trump, with his bombast and open disregard for the law, enabled petty dictators everywhere. It's a scary time in America — but know this: Donald Trump is finished 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “He doesn’t have a tremendous amount of bombast in his personality,” said Buckel, the leader of the House GOP caucus. Dan Cox was a backbench Md. lawmaker. Then the pandemic hit. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It could be the desire to step it up a notch to bid farewell to the bombast of the summer movie season and welcome in the more adult fare of the fall. At 90, the Venice Film Festival looks better than ever 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Stories like his are taboo in Russia, where the wrenching grief of many families is buried beneath the triumphant bombast of state media. Russian men, dying in war, leave many families sad, angry and silent 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The four hearings that have been broadcast so far — a fifth is scheduled for Thursday afternoon — have been stately affairs, lacking the bombast and grandstanding that dominate most American political performance these days. The subtle stagecraft behind the Jan. 6 hearings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z If he’s less effective as the Ghost, it has more to do with the clumsy staging and cumbersome garb than his howling bombast. Antaeus Theatre Company presents a brisk, if not especially resonant, 'Hamlet' 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The “Manager of the Century” was unbowed in retirement, barreling through the twilight of his life with the same bombast that defined his tenure as C.E.O. How Jack Welch’s Reign at G.E. Gave Us Elon Musk’s Twitter Feed 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Talk of neutral status for Ukraine and internationally monitored plebiscites in Donetsk and Luhansk has been jettisoned in favor of bombast and grandstanding. Opinion | America and Its Allies Want to Bleed Russia. They Really Shouldn’t. 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Cunningham turned away from the stately, official bombast of the nationally important commemorative site and — pictorially, at least — got her feet wet instead. Review: Photo visionary Imogen Cunningham gets a refocus in new Getty retrospective 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Federalists surely groaned at such bombast but pugnacious frontiersmen cheered it. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The former corporate executive has been a Trump ally, but he hardly exuded the bombast of his political benefactor during his one term in the Senate. In Georgia, Trump Tries to Revive a Sputtering Campaign 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z And, in retrospect, this hit-or-miss Hindemith might simply have been a matter of programmatic contrast — its fearsome bombast a strange neighbor for Chopin, even when separated by a 15-minute intermission. Review | NSO delivers a showstopping Chopin, with a hand from pianist Jan Lisiecki 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Predictably, Junius criticizes him, insulted that his son has rejected his histrionic bombast for a more contemplative, naturalistic approach. Review | ‘Booth’ imagines the dysfunctional family that created John Wilkes Booth 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s brand of personality-driven, outsider bombast broke through to many disillusioned Hispanic voters. After Trump Surge, a Liberal Democrat in South Texas Shifts Tactics 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Eschewing the threatening bombast of the old-time fascists, Vladimir Putin projects the cool-headed, soft-spoken demeanor of a poker player or a chess master, displaying only amused disdain for alarmist European and American leaders. Putin’s dangerous mind games 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Welles’ “Macbeth,” while historically important for its bold auteur stamp, is similarly held back by theatrical fustian and bombast. What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z In this South L.A. enclave, the jump in deadly violence is more painful and complicated than the headlines and political bombast that followed a string of smash-and-grab robberies in high-end boutiques. In Watts, a rise in homicides follows years of declining violence 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z The careful, equitable reporting of “PBS NewsHour” and NPR remains a valuable public service, but in this age of extremes, the point-counterpoint structure is sorely out of step with the bombast of politicians like U.S. Our democratic crisis is a media crisis. And the mainstream press is losing 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z For all its bombast, the group needs Israel to reduce the impact of the blockade, which could improve the economy and temper domestic criticism. Hamas, Claiming Victory Over Israel, Is Stuck in Same Old Cycle 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z This is not the team of bombast led by the brash young cornerback Richard Sherman, who blanketed receivers, dared quarterbacks to throw his way, and never let a perceived slight go unchallenged. The Seattle Seahawks’ Boom Is Busted 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z In her brief speech before the bill finally won House approval Friday morning, Pelosi tweaked the Republican leader for his bombast — “as a courtesy to my colleagues, I will be brief,” she said to applause. Opinion | The GOP bets on resentment over problem solving 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Rather, Biden would persuade “the hard-working middle-class folks” he addressed Saturday that his programs had far more to offer them than the other side’s trove of culture war bombast could ever deliver. Opinion | Democrats avoided defeating themselves. Now they must defeat the plutocratic populists. 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Would you rather be seen and heard and "win the argument", or actually get stuff done with less in the way of bombast? How are the Scottish Greens settling in to government? 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Something has to change, and the key to that change is to convince some portion of the 30 percent that Trump has failed to deliver on his bombast. Opinion | Don’t be afraid of the election audits — they may be our only ticket out of this mess 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Except the triumph here is bombast, which can be a dangerous thing. Review: If you're missing Dudamel at the Bowl this summer, you're missing greatness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Voters, it seems, decided to choose boring over bombast. Voters Chose Boring Over Bombast. They Got Biden’s Penchant for Pontificating. 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z The Biden administration’s counter to such bombast is to argue that it seeks the rule of law, contrary to Xi’s fulminations about “insufferably arrogant lecturing from those ‘master teachers’” in the United States. Opinion | A criminal case against a Huawei executive poses a test for the Biden administration 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Plot contrivances and scenic coups, musical bombast and sentimental treacle, desperate poses and flamboyant gestures — the genre’s hallmarks are deployed with an anachronistic difference in “An Octoroon.” Review: L.A. theater is back with a boundary-breaking 'Octoroon' outdoors at the Fountain 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z “All your religious parade and solemnity are ... mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy.” Opinion | Think Juneteenth is only a symbolic win? Celebrate anyway. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Such bombast conveys a distinct lack of interest in genuine diplomacy needed to avert nuclear war. The Biden-Putin summit and the high cost of Democrats' new cold war 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z At the height of her powers, Ms. Merkel’s global diplomacy was defined much more by nitty-gritty negotiations than by bombast or political grandstanding. Angela Merkel, Anchor of European Stability, Stays Focused at Her Final G7 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z His stream of posts — principled and gutsy ripostes to Western anti-Chinese bias to his fans, aggressive bombast to his detractors — were retweeted more than 43,000 times from June through February alone. Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Yet for all of Hitchcock’s bombast, no films were more thrilling than “Rear Window” and “North by Northwest,” nor more disturbing than “Vertigo,” “Psycho” and “The Birds.” Review | Voyeur, dandy, entertainer, womanizer: Alfred Hitchcock from every angle 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Parmelin said in a weekend newspaper interview he would seek to move the discussion forward without bombast. Swiss president heads for damage-control EU summit | Reuters The Amazon deployment, his opponents say, is one of many examples in which Bolsonaro’s bombast obscures the lack of a real solution. Special Report: Brazil’s military fails in key mission - halting Amazon deforestation 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z With “Cherry” they do the opposite, applying the bombast of a Marvel action sequence to a slice-of-life drama. Review: Overamped 'Cherry' takes on plight of PTSD-afflicted war veteran 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Yet the announcement, delivered with much bombast but few details, also underlines China’s looming demographic crisis as its working-age population shrinks and businesses and companies struggle amid a stalled economic recovery. China claims to have eliminated poverty, but the figures mask harsh challenges 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z I can’t pretend to have found humor in the bombast that Limbaugh regularly unloaded upon all ideas and people he disliked. Opinion | Let’s not mince words about Limbaugh’s legacy 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z They whitewashed his once-unimaginably vile and divisive demagoguery as "comic bombast." Lame Limbaugh obits: Mainstream media fawns over a toxic bigot who poisoned our politics 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z But will the game be packaged as the usual spectacle of violence, commercialism and bombast? Staging the Big Game During a Big Crisis 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z From required mask-wearing to a new public information approach, the Democrat’s steady hand-on-the-tiller style marks an abrupt change from the bombast and volatility under the Republican Trump, a businessman and former reality TV star. A new White House under Biden: Discipline, diversity, dogs and social distancing 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Once a sharp Trump critic, the nation’s top diplomat fully embraced his boss’s bombast. Five takeaways from Pompeo's Twitter victory lap 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The kind of glamour tie between two of the worst sides in Premier League history that sells itself, it almost certainly doesn’t need any additional hype or bombast from us. Sheffield United v Newcastle: Premier League – live! 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z As Daily Beast media reporter Max Tani tweeted: "i imagine many people did not find the bombast to be comical." Lame Limbaugh obits: Mainstream media fawns over a toxic bigot who poisoned our politics 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Veteran counterterrorism officials say the bombast and sheer volume of chatter on those forums make it a challenge to differentiate between plotting and ranting. Domestic terrorism: a more urgent threat, but weaker laws 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z His older sister was a Trump voter, and she believed the president’s bombast about election fraud. He Wanted to Count Every Vote in Philadelphia. His Party Had Other Ideas. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Those Bears were so good and so beloved, booming to global fame with their own music video, “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” it was hard for them not to become enchanted with the bombast of attention. Perspective | As praise pours in for Washington football, Ron Rivera needs to mix confidence with caution 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z He even absurdly compares the administration’s anti-Beijing bombast to George Kennan’s brilliant dissection of Soviet conduct in the 1946 “Long Telegram.” Opinion | Trump’s China policy was a fiasco — not a triumph 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z “I wish people talked with less bombast. But I’m not going to fault the president for it,” Fleischer said. Trump’s wild claims test limits of Republican loyalty 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z And in a state with a large Latino electorate, Trump’s nativist bombast was supposed to prove toxic. Opinion | Trump’s gains with Florida Latinos were hiding in plain sight 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z However, our analysis found that Russian media also repeatedly claimed that, unlike 2016, voters today were tiring of his bombast. Russian media may be joining China and Iran in turning against Trump 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z He stormed into the White House on pure guts and bombast, unwilling to acknowledge failure, averse to saying sorry. ‘Our house is on fire’: Suburban women lead a Trump revolt 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z But nothing in Trump's history suggests he will abandon his reelection "strategy" of unceasing bombast, transparent lies, manufactured grievance, unhinged conspiracy-mongering and an unforgivable attempt to disrupt the electoral process itself. Opinion | Trump’s frantic desperation will only get worse 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Chinese propaganda is rarely subtle or particularly persuasive, but the torrent of bombast online and in state media in recent weeks is striking and potentially ominous. China Ramps Up a War of Words, Warning the U.S. of Its Red Lines 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z With his studied approach and careful reticence, McConnell is the opposite of bombast, and that surely helped him gain the Republican leader's job and stay there. Mitch McConnell’s legacy is a conservative Supreme Court shaped by his calculated audacity 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z But he advised that Mr. Putin was not ready to get the shot yet, despite all the state-media bombast about Russia’s world-leading achievement in developing it. Russians Were Urged to Return to Normal Life. Except for Putin. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z In contrast to Trump's bombast, unpredictability, childishness, ignorance, malignant narcissism and other mental pathologies — all of which were on display in Cleveland on Tuesday evening — Biden offers comfort, maturity and intelligence. Rev. Al Sharpton on Trump, Biden and America: "This is a hard test for the country" 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The White House’s current occupant values not persuasion or consensus but force and bombast, and he finds enablers in his fellow Republicans’ Senate majority. Opinion | Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life fighting double standards. Republicans should not embrace one to replace her. 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z They accuse ministers of embarrassing the UK, by negotiating with what they call "cavalier bombast posing as serious diplomacy" - an approach they say questions the very integrity of the nation. Blair and Major urge MPs to reject Brexit bill 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z “The press focused on his bombast and missed his effectiveness.” Irving Kanarek, hard-charging attorney who defended Charles Manson, dies at 100 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z What that has come to mean after more than three years at Trump’s side is a blend of deference when the president insists on dominance and steadiness when Trump offers bombast. The Loyalist: VP Pence preserves own presidential prospects 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Trump welcomed the treatment on Sunday night with characteristic bombast: Global stock markets gain as coronavirus treatment approved in US – business live 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z But there’s no mistaking that classic Killers mix of soaring vocals, sonic bombast and sly humor in such songs as “My God” and the title track. Review: The Killers return with songs of women and loyalty 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z A sense of European-American rivalry has been provoked by the bombast of a nationalist American president, making the pandemic a morbid opportunity to keep score. Despite Historic Plunge, Europe’s Economy Flashes Signs of Recovery 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Such discipline has been rare throughout Trump’s presidency, which has been defined by bombast, division and chaos. 2020 Watch: Can Trump turn around his beleaguered campaign? 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z He convinced more than 60 million Americans that the barnyard odor of his bombast was actually the pungent aroma of pure truth. Review | A deep dive into President Trump’s doublespeak and other rhetorical tricks 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Finally, a fourth frequent trait is a leadership style that favors bombast and crowd-pleasing antics. In struggle against pandemic, populist leaders fare poorly 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Finally, a fourth trait is a leadership style that favors bombast and crowd-pleasing antics. In struggle against pandemic, populist leaders fare poorly 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Each matches Trump's extremism while eschewing his most unrefined bombast by performing, far more strategically, crucial parts of the conservative aesthetic. Trumpism is an aesthetic, not an ideology — and it will survive Donald Trump 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z It speaks in plain musical language, without a trace of bombast, in a tidy arrangement that unfolds over a few basic chords. It's time to cancel 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Here's what should replace it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Full of echoed bombast and an army of timpani drums, the opening theme is as inventive a two minutes as you’ll find in film. Remembering Ennio Morricone: His 10 most mind-blowing film scores 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Baltimore has survived bombardment from the British; it will surely survive bombast from you. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z In a city famous for political bombast, Bowser is known as a cautious leader who expresses herself in the forgettable words of a government bureaucrat. From bland bureaucrat to anti-Trump fame: Mayor Bowser’s transformation 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z For all his bombast in invoking fake magical powers to override governors who did not act on the spot to declare churches, synagogues and mosques essential, nothing much happened. Trump bogeys the whole "open-up-the-churches" thing 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z It doesn’t really matter whether it’s the gentleness of Animal Crossing or the widescreen bombast of one of Rockstar’s open worlds, the general tendency is the same. Escaping lockdown into a world of video games is nothing to feel guilty about | Francisco Garcia 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z Rattle and Hum marked the point at which U2 allowed their passion and self-belief – and indeed their reaction to superstardom – to slip into bombast, but sometimes its experiments with US roots music work. U2's 40 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Along those lines, the president’s Monday night Twitter blast, announcing his intent to shut down all immigration, is long on election-year bombast but short on details of potential practical effect. Opinion | Trump and his allies are using the pandemic to push an unrelated agenda 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z In a June 2016 article I noted that in the extemporized mix of bombast, menace and bawdy humor, the symbiotic relationship with crowds, the articulation of long-repressed grievances, Trump channeled Venezuela’s late comandante. Bluster, distraction, denial: Trump follows Chavez's successful template 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Fortunately, the Constitution tops bombast, and Trump’s nonsense about having “total authority” to declare the nation reopened, gave way Thursday to recognition that states and localities will call the shots. Opinion | Directions on safely reopening the country must come from credible officials — not Trump 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z He lost a Conservative Party leadership contest to Johnson last summer, and he lacks the prime minister’s gift of elocution, his humor and his bombast. Boris Johnson heads into second night in intensive care unit 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z However, its sober tone is the opposite to the bombast of the traditional "disaster" movie, and it was made with the input of medical experts at Columbia University. How Hollywood films handle deadly viruses 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z “All the bombast and the delusional statements and the embrace of ignorance,” he said, “stand singularly alone at the top of a previously unreachable pyramid.” Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Deprived of the throbbing bombast of Big Sport, perhaps this is the moment when we seek solace in its unassuming older sibling: the modest, sweat-ringed pleasures of Small Sport. The pleasures of Small Sport can help us all through lockdown | Jonathan Liew 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z I heard Trump’s usual bluster and bombast at his Rose Garden performance this weekend, but I also heard realism. Opinion | Trump finally submits to reality 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z They expect the self-described democratic socialist to continue a public career defined more by rhetorical bombast than real results. Opinion | Bernie Sanders’s moment is calling him — in the U.S. Senate 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z “Abrams just hasn’t pared down the bombast enough to keep his story grounded — and with the trilogy at its end, it’s strange to be left with as many new questions as resolutions.” Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is available to buy now, a few days earlier than expected 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z There can be little doubt that many of the president’s supporters did not consider it bombast or delusion. Alarm, Denial, Blame: The Pro-Trump Media’s Coronavirus Distortion 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps there’s a growing sense of fatigue around the heady, visual bombast of more mainstream games and the hypermasculine heroes that dominate them. The rise of impossibly cute and wholesome games 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The bombast of people like Limbaugh and Trump in this case was lethal — but only if you believed them. Opinion | Beware the Deadly Contagion Spread by Blowhards 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Both prizes mark an important moment for women in architecture, but also a professional acme for the architects, a decidedly low-key duo in a field known for its gassy bombast. The male-centric Pritzkers honor a female architectural team for 2020 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z And also because the economy hasn’t performed nearly as well as he says, even if one discounts a good portion of his rhetoric as bombast. Column: Trump says the economy is doing great — but whose economy is it? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps when the consequences are potentially so huge, there is no need for bombast. Ramifications of City's two-year ban may be seismic – not least for Uefa 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z He reflected their ability to switch from simple English, to bombast, to peer-group slang, to pidgin English and native language. The Nigerian royal who loved to lampoon modern life 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Trump gave a State of the Union address that was an appalling mixture of bombast, mendacity and reality-television shtick. Opinion | Mike Bloomberg won the Iowa caucuses 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z And is Biden up to the task of matching Trump’s bombast with some fire and brimstone of his own? Opinion | Democrats need to focus on picking the best candidate to beat Trump 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Politics is now leaden with bombast, words strung together to shock, numb the mind, and images overwrought with self-serving sense of riotousness and anger. Impeachment and the politics of organized forgetting: This attack on Trump isn't nearly enough 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z In Trump, Dershowitz has found a client with a similar appetite for bombast — though his embrace of the president came as a surprise to some. Trump expands legal team to include Kenneth Starr, Alan Dershowitz for impeachment trial 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z As the world fixated on Venus and the bombast of their father, Richard, Serena took her first steps to relatively less fanfare and her rise was seamless. Four decades, 73 singles titles: Serena Williams’s epic journey | Tumaini Carayol 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z At the heart of the Democrats’ criticisms is a proper warning against Trump’s preference for bombast and dramatic actions over sustainable foreign policy strategies. Opinion | Hey Republicans, demagoguery won’t hide Trump’s incoherence 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Trump is not the only one given to Twitter bombast. Trump, after Soleimani killing, may finally get his wish to end the Iran nuclear deal 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The USSR's victory in World War Two is one of the most venerated pillars of state ideology, and more than 70 years on it is still celebrated with much fanfare and bombast every year. Why is Putin angry at Poland? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z But Abrams just hasn’t pared down the bombast enough to keep his story grounded — and with the trilogy at its end, it’s strange to be left with as many new questions as resolutions. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — our spoiler-free review 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Other songs summon the masculine bombast of gangsta rap. In seedy clubs on Turkey’s border, serenades to swaggering smugglers and dark tales from Syria’s war 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It was a set-piece ritual of the kind that Washington loves, and for all the bombast and the bloviating, it’s unlikely that a single mind was changed. Impeachment vote against Trump draws saturation coverage 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z But, as they emphatically demonstrated in 2016, bombast is not a deal breaker for this state’s voters. Kentucky Governor’s Race Tests Impact of Impeachment in States 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z With Grande, Martin has helped to define pop’s current dominant mode, where intimacy and sensuality is prized over trashy bombast, and yet still works in the club. 'We're not made to be famous': Max Martin, the powerhouse of pure pop 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z During the 2016 campaign, one way Trump saved money was by leveraging his celebrity, bombast and larger-than-life personality to attract coverage in the media. Trump’s 2016 campaign was run on a shoestring. His reelection machine is huge — and armed with consultants. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z People were beginning to wonder if the stylish figure in the plus-fours and flat cap, the cocksure Missourian with a reputation for bombast, had the maturity to win a major. A young Payne Stewart rarely made it easy, even in victory - Golf Digest 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In his introductions and footnotes, he distanced Nietzsche from fascist bombast—naming the Übermensch the “Overman” was just one strategy—and recast him as a kind of existentialist. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Trump, by contrast, spews the same bombast and profanity in public as he does in private. News Analysis: Trump’s defense on Ukraine goes beyond Nixon’s in Watergate 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z In an industry filled with raw ambition and bombast, Fitzgerald developed a Hollywood reputation for courtliness mixed with consummate professionalism. Wayne Fitzgerald, the king of movie title sequences from 'Godfather' to 'Chinatown,' dies at 89 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Beshear, a state attorney general whose affable demeanor cuts a contrast to Bevin’s bombast, wouldn’t bite. Democrats in South’s governor races hit hurdle: Impeachment 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z President Trump, whose penchant for bombast, scaremongering and diplomatic bombshells is well known, will be surrounded by like-minded company on Tuesday when the speeches begin. What to Expect at the U.N. General Assembly This Week 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Even in her most ambitious projects there’s a lack of bombast. Woman of Steel 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s clear at this point that Trump’s ill-advised gambit of tariffs and bombast is hurting both economies. Opinion | Trump’s trade war could get him kicked out of office 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Some Trump administration officials hinted that the president was prepared to disrupt the meeting’s carefully planned script with his trademark bombast. G-7 leaders hope for productive — and quiet — summit amid worries Trump will disrupt the gathering 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The word “rhetoric,” at its worst, implies bombast or pomposity. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Don’t create Obama-Biden drama where it doesn’t exist 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Before the moon landing, movie music for space travel mostly dealt in fantasy as well, whether with Wagnerian bombast or ghostly theremin. Hollywood Bowl concert goes to outer space, from '2001' to 'First Man' 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Whether Trump’s unpredictability, bombast and use of tariffs as a bludgeon result in a good outcome remains to be seen. Washington’s China trade dilemma 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z That makes sense, since he's a narcissist who uses insults and bombast to cover up for deep insecurities. Trump's racist accusations: As usual, he projects his own sins and crimes onto others 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z On present trends, Britain risks becoming a mere satrap of this militarised empire, a vassal state of Trump’s America where Independence day is celebrated with tanks and bellicose bombast. This Death Star presidency is no ally for modern Britain 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z If insults and bombast were the valued currency of the Republican debates last time around, then realism and passion were Wednesday’s cachet. To shine in debates, Democrats will have to (gulp) learn from Trump 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Sung with tenor bombast by Thomas Segen, Trump vents his racist fury while sitting on a gold Trump Tower toilet. Meredith Monk’s “ATLAS” and the L.A. Phil’s Extraordinary Season 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z It lacks the bombast of “Game of Thrones,” the star power of “Big Little Lies,” the lacerating humor of “Veep.” The perfect storm that made ‘Chernobyl’ must-see TV 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Tory members might not mind that the ministerial careers of Johnson or Dominic Raab were marked by self-defeating bombast and ostentatious ignorance, but those who met them in the international arena are less indulgent. The Tory contest shows that the Brexiters’ dream is dying before their very eyes | Rafael Behr 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z “Indecent” has fun spoofing the theatrical bombast as Asch’s work picks up different national inflections while traveling from country to country. Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Ahmanson pays haunting tribute to a daring Yiddish play 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps the shell-shock from the bombast of Donald Trump interferes with their grasp of the persuasive power of her shaker rocker-like delivery that embodies the simplicity, utility and honesty of that style. Here's what Warren understands about the economy that the Democratic pack does not 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z As for the president, he kept the bombast to a minimum. An 'end of an era' for Theresa May 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Robert Mueller is that rare public figure who, in this age of bombast and baloney, still uses language with discipline and economy. Opinion | An invitation to impeach, in Mueller-speak 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It means swallowing all bombast and pride and taking forward a compromise based on May’s deal. The EU election changes nothing. May’s deal is still the only way forward | Simon Jenkins 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Kaori Ozawa, an editor who oversees the page, said people initially were shocked by Trump’s unrestrained behavior, rhetorical bombast and excessive pride in his own wealth. From the emperor to sumo wrestling, Abe harnesses Japan’s traditions to impress Trump 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z In Ritchie’s hands, the charm is pounded out of them and replaced by bombast. ‘Aladdin’ review: A rather loud remake without any of the magic of the original 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “Not bluster and bombast, but intrinsic confidence in yourself, rooted in your values.” Think you don’t have executive presence? Think again. | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Trump, veering between bombast and conciliation in his quest to contain Iran, threatened Monday to meet provocations by Iran with “great force,” but also said he’s willing to negotiate. Dual hearings on Capitol Hill focus on Trump’s Iran policy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Trump, veering between bombast and conciliation in his quest to contain Iran, threatened Monday to meet provocations by Iran with "great force." Trump team to brief Congress on Iran; Dems seek counterpoint 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Trump, veering between bombast and conciliation in his quest to contain Iran, threatened Monday to meet provocations by Iran with “great force.” Trump team to brief Congress on Iran; Dems seek counterpoint 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z This new video is a sober production – even its soundtrack, with its minimalist singing backdrop, lacks bombast. The caliphate is gone, but Islamic State has a new plan | Nicolas Hénin 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Another collaboration with Antonoff – this time in full-on We Are Young bombast mode – Out of the Woods attracted attention because of the belief that it was about One Direction’s Harry Styles. Taylor Swift's singles – ranked! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Hnath told me that, despite the changes in his life, he still “had faith,” and this seems evident in the way he takes the self-parodying bombast of megachurch preaching and finds its poetry. Lucas Hnath Lets Actors Fight It Out Onstage 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “Do I want bombast or Midwestern nice? Pragmatism or someone who really digs in?” said Dan Heying, a bank manager from Concord who took part in a roundtable with Hickenlooper in Manchester on Friday afternoon. Even in crowded Democratic field, early state voters flock to see long shots 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Mueller’s history of public service, reticence and rectitude provided a sharp contrast to Trump’s life of tabloid shenanigans, bombast and garish wealth. Report submitted, Robert Mueller ends Russia investigation in silence 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z To them, he represents calm in the face of a storm, quiet in a city of bombast, a symbol of hope that a presidency they view as dishonorable might soon face some type of consequences. ‘All is not lost’: For many, Mueller is now an unlikely icon 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z But critics say the proliferation of Twitter diplomacy reveals an administration long on bombast and short on policy. Trump’s Aides Are Imitating His Aggressive Twitter Diplomacy. The Results Are Mixed. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z It wasn’t all insult and bombast as Miller reflected on his long and unconventional path to the shot of a lifetime in his hometown. Anthony Joshua brushes off Jarrell Miller testosterone claims before fight 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Stone’s bombast and unscrupulous business practices will, likewise, lead to something positive — such as campaign reform. Opinion | Roger Stone’s chance to make a positive impact 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Even for those who relish Trump’s bombast and bluntness, it’s necessary to understand that many more people find it off-putting. Second accuser claims rape by Virginia Lt. Gov. 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z And a large part of his speech, especially the replay of his Chamber-of-Horrors bombast on immigration, was nothing but partisanship. Opinion | Trump delivered the Eddie Haskell State of the Union 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Even the critics who turned up their nose at the bombast of Van Halen in favor of the bookish pop-rock of “Armed Forces” weren’t exactly innocent of such blinkered, ego-driven pathology. Why Do We Obsess Over What’s ‘Relatable’? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z He fired up the score on his computer and true enough, the weird little machine gave the music a vintage edge that cut through the bombast. Tom Holkenborg's journey from dance floors to Hollywood royalty 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Impatience and bombast have been hallmarks of Trump’s foreign policy. Opinion | Can Trump revive his deal with North Korea? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Obama, on the other hand, derided those in politics who traffic in “bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage.” From Kim summit to Kavanaugh's Supreme Court hearing, 7 political moments that defined 2018 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z It’s clear from early on that Knight isn’t interested in the bombast of earlier movies, which introduced dozens of nearly indistinguishable Transformers that blurred together in all the sheer visual chaos. Bumblebee proves Transformers movies can actually be resonant and emotional 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Bludgeon ears with a musical score set in the key of bombast. ‘Aquaman’ sinks under weight of endless battles 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Fans loved the early bombast of the Legion of Boom; they grew tired of it by the end – and the players grew tired of the organization itself. How the Seahawks dismantled the Legion of Boom and still thrived 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Viewers seeking American action bombast may grow impatient waiting for the ground to start shaking and the walls to start crumbling. Reviews: Jack Black in 'The Insufferable Groo,' Sylvester Stallone (barely) in 'Backtrace' and other movies 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Pichai was the measured, mild-mannered political tenderfoot in a sea of Washington bombast, not showing agitation at the silliest of questions or taking his interrogators’ bait. Google CEO Sundar Pichai emerges ‘unscathed’ from the circus in Washington 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z But both Wan and Momoa have a surprisingly firm grasp of who Aquaman is, and they ultimately - more than two hours later - steer their film toward sincerity and away from bombast. Film Review: Jason Momoa swims but ‘Aquaman’ sinks 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z She is an old-fashioned English public servant, devoid of bombast and rhetorical flourish, and uninterested in personal power. Theresa May Tried to Lead Britain to a Brexit Compromise. Was It Too Late? 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Some might accuse Kalb of overreacting — inflating the danger of the president’s Twitter bombast because it targets his own beloved profession. Review | Is Trump the new McCarthy? 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Image: Marvel Comics His Dr. Strange writing featured the usual exclamation points and bombast, but on top of that, he ladled nonsense words and phrases that were half H.P. The larger-than-life huckster dialogue of Stan Lee 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The young men in the trenches grew numb to their bombast. Opinion | The War That Never Ended 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Although some admirers believe he remains too restrained in an era of Trumpian bombast, Mr. Obama has excoriated the incumbent for “lying” and “fear-mongering” and pulling “a political stunt” by sending troops to the border. Once Reluctant to Speak Out, an Energized Obama Now Calls Out His Successor 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “Mirage Detroit” is more poetry than bombast, and exudes a Zen-like peace that encourages wonder and introspection. Detroit bank transformed into mirror, light installation 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The U.S. and the rest of the world have endured more than a year and a half of Donald J. Trump, his bluster, bombast, and horrific blunders. All eyes on Nevada: A chance to swing the Senate 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “Maybe the antidote to Trump’s bombast is a low-key approach that avoids the noise and just focusses on the work,” the former official told me. Does the Kavanaugh Investigation Show How Trump Will Use the F.B.I. in the Future? 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But beyond the bombast and spectacle that accompanies McGregor everywhere, this matchup is a fascinating chance to re-examine a classic MMA debate: Who wins in a matchup between a top striker and an elite wrestler? Conor McGregor makes long-awaited cage return at UFC 229 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z They engage in the bombast of cutting-edge innovation, and they build physical representations of it, but that’s all an extravagant form of marketing. The future of electric car design has yet to be written 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z “In The Rain” is the album’s tour de force but sans any bombast, one of Perry’s most emotional vocals supported by a restrained piano-and-strings arrangement emphasizing its anguish: “You got me even though you’re gone.” Review: Steve Perry breaks long silence with ‘Traces’ album 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z After he was formally introduced with the requisite spotlights and bombast, to the predictable burst of cheers, he took the court in the famed, golden Lakers uniform. For LeBron James and the Lakers, a Dress Rehearsal for a New Era 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z But after a year of such bombast, many in the audience at the United Nations treated him almost as a source of levity, not fear. Trump Boasts and Scorns Globalism to Skeptical U.N. Crowd 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Unlike last year, when aides fretted over Mr. Trump’s belligerence and bombast, it is his tendency toward comity with the North Korean leader that now worries White House advisers. What We’re Watching at the U.N. General Assembly 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z America, according to Kennedy and those who vibrated to his bombast, was living on the lip of a volcano, with no secure civil rights. Opinion | The Supreme Court was America’s least damaged institution — until now 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Lighthizer does not traffic in the bombast of his boss, he is well schooled in the art of the deal. Can Nafta Be Saved? These Two Negotiators Are Trying. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Bolton’s bombast aside, however, this has been pretty much the attitude of every U.S. What Is John Bolton’s Bully-Pulpit Attack on the International Criminal Court Really About? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z “So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, tracking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage,” Barack Obama said. Why we heard so many condemnations of Trump at the McCain service 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z “So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and manufactured outrage,” Mr. Obama said. In McCain Memorial Service, Two Presidents Offer Tribute, and a Contrast to Trump 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage,” Obama said. McCain ends 81-year journey with burial at Naval Academy 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and manufactured outrage,” Obama said. Sen. McCain’s farewell carries message for Trump 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “So much of our politics can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and manufactured outrage,” Obama said. John McCain's Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z For the West, Mr. Erdogan has devolved from a righteous hope — would-be proof that Islam and democracy can peacefully coexist — into another autocrat whose populism, bombast and contempt for the ledger books have yielded calamity. The West Hoped for Democracy in Turkey. Erdogan Had Other Ideas. 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Trump’s own bombast also creates legal trouble for his administration. Why Trump’s “sloppy” policies keep getting held up in court 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Johnson is known for his bombast, elocution, gaffes and provocative stunts, but even a few fellow Tories said he had gone too far this time. Boris Johnson faces probe for saying women in burqas look like ‘bank robbers’ 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z There was no call for bombast and the boisterous nature that accompanied regular cartoons. Classic Hollywood: For 30 years, Jim Cummings has brought Winnie the Pooh to life 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Behind his bombast, Putin fears a combination of both grassroots and elite mobilisation. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a creaking ship. Don’t fall for the propaganda | Marie Mendras 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z For him and for his readers, it was bombast or bust. Why you should be drinking Gamay Noir this summer 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Chollet offered the usual explanations, including Mr. Trump’s inattention to detail and his preference for macho bombast over bipartisan or multilateral solutions. Opinion | Trump’s America first is America alone 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Today, amid fake news and misinformation — and climate deniers eager to conflate uncertainty with doubt — Mann’s initial just-the-facts approach would not simply fail to win over hearts and minds, it’d be drowned out by bombast. A sea change in science 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Eschewing the heroic, monumental approach which for centuries was sculpture’s default mode, his figures are evocations of disquiet and discontent that fit a world disillusioned with bombast. How Alberto Giacometti became a legend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z For the bid branded an underdog recurrently enough that El Amrani spots “a cliche kind of thing” therein, the former secretary general of African football speaks with flowing paragraphs and without bombast. Morocco seeks two World Cup upsets: On the field in 2018 and in bids for 2026 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “For a key slice of his coalition, it was attacks on their values on the national stage by a culture careening leftward that drew voters to his bombast,” they write. Review | How to slice, dice and make nice with the Trump coalition 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The bombast hinted at the condition yet to be diagnosed. This fight broadcaster lives with bipolar disorder; now Mauro Ranallo aims to beat down the stigma of mental illness 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z That kind of bombast may satisfy Trump’s tough-guy urges, but it’s unlikely to produce the win he seeks. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The contemporary style is different from the classic Broadway bombast of Lloyd Webber’s “Evita,” ”Phantom” and “Boulevard.” Andrew Lloyd Webber weighs in on Tony Awards favorite 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “While he has always been bombastic, there has always been a logic to that bombast,” Kirtzman said. ‘I was going to get this over with’: Inside Giuliani’s explosive Stormy Daniels revelation 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Apart from vocal stylings and tone, instrumentation, and erotic charge, what really connects Monae with her mentor Prince is the double-edged hook of perfectly modulated bombast and a wicked love for playful teasing. How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Beyond the bombast on both sides, Syria’s daily misery will continue. The Syria bombing is a disgraceful act disguised as a noble gesture | Moustafa Bayoumi 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Foster is known for his lush, sentimental sound — the ornately rendered bombast of pop hits like Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" and Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing." David Foster on his return to producing and a recent invitation from Drake 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Kim could match the president he called “the mentally deranged U.S. dotard” bombast for bombast. Trump’s Abrupt ‘Yes’ to North Korea: The 45 Minutes That Could Alter History 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z This year's festivities in Tehran took place in a relaxed, carnival-like atmosphere, lacking some of the bombast of previous anniversaries. Iranians mark 39th anniversary of Islamic revolution with a milder display of nationalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z We live in a time of heightened fear, both in verbal and bombast and very real violence. ‘Can I help?’ Bystander training program teaches people how to stand up for others 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z When his claims appear in print, they are carefully hedged — delivered with none of his signature charm and bombast. The Mystery of the Exiled Billionaire Whistle-Blower 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z He’s not always crazy about Trump’s bombast, but Dickerson doesn’t think he’s getting a fair shake from the media, and he understands why Trump feels like he needs to punch back. In the heart of Trump Country, his base’s faith is unshaken 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Yet for all the bombast, the criticism does seem to cut Mourinho. Style Points? José Mourinho Tracks His on the Scoreboard 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z I’m pretty cynical, but this guy seeks to play Machiavelli to my Prince – and fails by sheer surfeit of bombast, as well as a massive excess of presumption. Opinion | The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z For all his bombast on China during his 2016 campaign, Trump is turning out to be more of a mouse abroad than the tiger persona he portrays back home. Trump, Aiming to Coax Xi Jinping, Bets on Flattery 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Despite all his bombast and chest-thumping, President Trump goes to China this week having handed Xi and his powerful nation hegemony on three important fronts. Wooing Trump, Xi Jinping Seeks Great Power Status for China 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Gillespie ran a restrained primary race and nearly lost to rival Corey Stewart, who fully embraced Trumpian bombast and made defending Confederate statues and fighting illegal immigration into central issues. Democrat Ralph Northam defeats Ed Gillespie in race for Virginia governor closely watched by national parties 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z In the GOP primary, Stewart astonished Virginia’s political establishment by aping Trump’s bombast. Can a career tactician navigate Trump and a GOP civil war and win Virginia? 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The progressive bombast is meaningless if prosecutors continue to promote the same harsh practices behind the scenes. Opinion | The Myth of the Progressive Prosecutor 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z |
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