Benito Mussolini giving one of his bombastic speeches.

You've heard Bottom do a bombastic speech before, with its hard-pressed alliterations.

Before crossing the Danube, he gave a bombastic speech to his horsemen.

He'd pointed that out to his men in his own less bombastic, and more professional, prebattle speech, and it was close enough to true to satisfy them.

Their "Commander" would not have reacted well if he'd realized how his "loyal and courageous warriors" actually regarded his bombastic speech.

He is typically very loud and likes to make bombastic speeches and has a habit of calling everyone Percy, even if it is not their name.

Young men, after hearing bombastic speeches, volunteer to fight in Bosnia, buying old royalist insignia from street vendors to pin on their uniforms.

It will stand for security only if the case for security is not cluttered with bombastic speech and arguments for settlements.

His unpretentious play offers no bombastic speeches about man's inhumanity to man, no onstage violence and no debates about Middle Eastern politics.

Senator Richard B. Russell, Democrat of Georgia, realized that the bombastic speeches of some of his racist colleagues were hurting the cause.