variants
also rhodomontade
as in rhetoric
boastful speech or writing
for all of its jingoistic rodomontade, the government had no thought-out plan for the war and its aftermath
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However, much of the rhetoric online around looters seems steeped in racist sentiment.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2025 -
In this upcoming moment of truth for Illinois, the speaker has the opportunity to give power to that rhetoric, which many on the GOP side don’t believe for a minute.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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After all, marketing itself is somewhat narcissistic, with its continual cries for attention and thinly veiled braggadocio.—
Martin Kihn,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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Since then, the rise of social media has been marked, among other dreadful things, by lifestyle braggadocio and algorithms fine-tuned to serve scarily relevant ads.—
Ron Lieber,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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Much of that singularity was centered in McCarthy’s prose, which ricocheted—sometimes gracefully, sometimes jarringly—between gruff matter-of-factness and soaring, biblical grandiloquence.—
Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
13 June 2023
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Several of them can fly, and all have at least a touch of grandiloquence to them.—
Michael Nordine,
Variety,
11 Aug. 2022
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Most of the psychological handwringing is thus offloaded to Garner, who proves that her terrified facial expressions are truly top shelf, and the switch of perspectives is an interesting pivot from the usual how-do-I-tame-my-inner-predator bluster.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Rodomontade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rodomontade. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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