| 单词 | rodomontade |
| 例句 | They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m finding it enriching, enjoyable literature, not rodomontade. New & Noteworthy, From Black Utopias to a ‘Little Women’ Tribute 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized. Charlie Chaplin's Scandalous Life and Boundless Artistry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade! Trump-induced nostalgia for the good old days of political debate 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z She felt that this was not mere rodomontade, but that the man was perfectly capable of doing as he had said. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z This F—— was a terrible Rattle, and could rodomontade better than any body. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-09T03:00:26.543Z Contemporary with Rotrou were other dramatic writers of considerable dramatic importance, most of them distinguished by the faults of the Spanish school, its declamatory rodomontade, its conceits, and its occasionally preposterous action. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z But I have no time to throw away upon rants and rodomontades, and I have no patience to waste upon impostors. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z In a kind of Dionysiac rage he has flung his noble ideas, original conceptions, pell-mell into the cauldron along with mere windy, mouth-filling rodomontade. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z The speech had held no rodomontade, none of the pyrotechnics that, had lent a flavour of sensation to past court trials. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z And the foreign visitor must control any desire he may feel to smile at the extraordinary spectacle he is witnessing, and at the marvelous rodomontade he is hearing. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z I will never marry a man I do not love——" "No silly rodomontade, if you please, my dear. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z He won their hearts by going for Sunday excursions with them, when they were allowed to smoke, while he bewitched their imaginations by boyishly conceived rodomontades about the greatness and severity of public life. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z This was rodomontade, with the advanced troops of the whole army now within sight of Paris. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z In general, the French captains have more rodomontade and solemnity, with less buffoonery, than their Italian prototypes. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z In a day of haphazard fiction and rodomontade criticism, the advent of a master workman is likely to be unheralded, if, indeed, he is fortunate enough to find a publisher to put him between covers. Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin 2011-03-09T03:00:47.587Z For this lover of great literature understood not one sentence out of twelve, and his favourite part was that of which he understood the least—the inimitable, mouth-filling rodomontade of the ghost in Hamlet. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) That he should credit such a rodomontade, and carry the pamphlet on his bosom and the words in his heart, is the clear proof of the man’s lunacy. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) This, with a certain added colouring of rhetoric and rodomontade, must have been the style of Burns, who equally charmed the ears of duchesses and hostlers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Imperial rodomontade and the inflammatory German Admiralty War Orders had deliberately rejected, one by one, the deep-seated principles of humanity and chivalry in war. The Long Trick In the first place, the stranger cannot but be struck by the perfect adaptation of Jefferson's rodomontade to an expected purpose. American Sketches 1908 And, as if all this analytic rodomontade was not enough, we are told in characteristic rhetorical vagueness that he was a pitiless watchman, a marble-hearted spy, a Brutus contained in a Vidocq. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. But the call for troops showed that the rodomontade meant something. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 The impostor they follow has nothing but fustian and rodomontade in his impudent lying book from beginning to end. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection He spoke with warmth and feeling, but with an entire absence of boastfulness or rodomontade. Benjamin Franklin At first the accompanist, accustomed to the rodomontade of voice as well as gesture of the excited performers, was not aware of the interloper. The Madigans There is not a bit of rodomontade in him about the charms of the country, from beginning to end; if there were, we should despise him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Real convictions were sometimes diluted with rodomontade, and a true feeling was to some extent stimulated by the desire to embarrass a rival. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series He delighted in social conversation, in which he was sometimes tempted to what he called rodomontade. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail No doubt the fact is that Vauvenargues saw in the rhetoric of Corneille a parody of his own sentiments, carried to the verge of rodomontade. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Such work was to him for the most part a detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century His old passion for a theatrical piece of rodomontade was not yet subdued. The Loom of Youth There is less rodomontade than in the previous plays, but again we have to record an absence of humour. The Growth of English Drama It is probably the cause of a fault that never quits her for long, a tendency to make her characters express themselves with a lyrical extravagance which sometimes comes close to the confines of rodomontade. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Florence takes no heed of this rodomontade, but sits quite still, with downcast eyes, tapping the small table near her with the tips of her slender fingers in a meditative fashion. The Haunted Chamber A Novel For whole days, if not for weeks together, he dealt in nothing but the wildest fiction, and the most extraordinary and grotesque rodomontade. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Cervantes had not struck more adroitly at Spanish rodomontade. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions No understanding reader could be imposed upon by such obvious rodomontade to suspect me for an alien, or believe me other than English. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 If here and there occurred passages that were querulous and even abject, there were also long passages of manly and altogether noble sentiment, and the strangest rodomontade and maunderings about religion. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Speaking at Ladybank on October 5th, he denounced "the reckless rodomontade of Blenheim, which furnishes forth the complete grammar of anarchy." John Redmond's Last Years Among their opponents the most formidable are Rogero and the pagan Rodomont, whose boastful language has given rise to the term rodomontade. The Book of the Epic If he had not been endowed with a perfectly marvellous capacity, a wealth of nature beyond the reach and plumb of his rodomontade, he would have been ruined from the start. Emerson and Other Essays During this function the Baboo will deliver some sesquipedalian reflections in the rodomontade mood. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series Was it possible to be sure that this was all rodomontade? Abraham Lincoln, Volume I That he should credit such a rodomontade, and carry the pamphlet on his bosom and the words in his heart, is the clear proof of the man's lunacy. Master of Ballantrae For this lover of great literature understood not one sentence out of twelve, and his favourite part was that of which he understood the least - the inimitable, mouth-filling rodomontade of the ghost in HAMLET. Across the Plains It often happens that in situations of unrestraint, where there is no thought of the eye of criticism, real feeling glides into a mode of manifestation not easily distinguishable from rodomontade. The Woodlanders That wild desperate talk of last night was perhaps the merest folly—a caprice of the moment, the shallowest rodomontade, which he would be angry with himself for having spoken. The Lovels of Arden So you are at last inclined to think Anna St. Ives must be something more than you every day meet, from the rapturous description of that rodomontade Count? Anna St. Ives Not only his greatness, but his rubbish, his rodomontade, his quips and quibbles and buffoonery, were treated as if they belonged to a sacrosanct canon of dramatic art. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Notwithstanding his rodomontades, it is certain that in his heart he was scared by Rome. Saint Augustin Folks are getting somewhat tired of the old rodomontade that a slave is free the moment he sets foot on British soil! Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography What is most intolerable in art is scholastic rodomontade. Modern Painting For all his rodomontade, Daddy had never done him any real harm that she could remember. The History of David Grieve He cites the rodomontade as contained in the express despatched by Washington, whom he pronounces a "brave braggart." Life of George Washington — Volume 01 Do you not know him well, my Susan, by this opening rodomontade? The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 This monstrous rodomontade is here related, because it seems better adapted to illustrate the subject of the present observations than any other instance which could be adduced. The Vampyre; a Tale Mrs. Masters hated such arguments, despised this rodomontade about love, and would have crushed the girl into obedience could it have been possible. The American Senator Her brother, Laertes, is a character we do not like so well; he is too hot and choleric, and somewhat rodomontade. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it, reached the ears of George II. Life of George Washington — Volume 01 And this delicious bit of rodomontade being satisfactorily performed, it was with great difficulty the bystanders could restrain their laughter. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter No, he did not believe in the probability of an approaching conflict, unless it should be provoked by French turbulence and by the rodomontades of the self-styled patriots of the League. Strong as Death Many of her Ladyship's letters were the most whimsical rodomontades that ever blue-stocking penned. Barry Lyndon Mr. Melton made a long rodomontade about her beauty, but presently, stumbling about in his speech, said something regarding it being unlucky to appear in grave-clothes. The Lady of the Shroud Its worst fault is distortion through sentimentality, and indulgence in the habit of putting the author's rodomontades into the mouths of Robertson and other characters. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground I saw instantly that the old fellow was of a romantic turn, from this rodomontade to his lady; nor was she a whit less so; nor was Dorothea less sentimental than her mamma. The Fitz-Boodle Papers Spain had, as William, in the bitterness of his spirit, wrote to Heinsius, contributed nothing to the common cause but rodomontades. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Wherever he came he pressed horses in defiance of law, swore at the cooks and postilions, and almost raised mobs by his insolent rodomontades. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 By most of Bacon's contemporaries, and by some people of our time, this remarkable passage would, we doubt not, be considered as an ingenious rodomontade, a counterpart to the adventures of Sinbad or Baron Munchausen. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 She admired Tom for his exterior, but the admiration of no moderately sensible woman could overlook rodomontade so exceedingly desperate. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief The "greatest happiness principle" of the 1st of July, as far as we could discern its meaning through a cloud of rodomontade, was an idle truism. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Any man with brains in his head would have known what all this rodomontade really meant. Armadale But it demanded that the passion should be winnowed, and free from all rodomontade. North America — Volume 1 They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Because he had boasted that he would perforate the stranger with whom you left him in dispute; whereas the stranger, on the contrary, in spite of all his rodomontades quickly threw him on his back. The Three Musketeers Leonarde—who has made herself as hideous as possible—as a fitting punishment for all his deviltries, rodomontades, and cowardice. Captain Fracasse |
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