fanfaronade

Valour profits not; neither has fortune smiled on Fanfaronade.

The heavens added to the noise with a fanfaronade of thunder, which inspired the crocodile to bellow in response.

Fanfaronade (2012)

Kristoff Krane - "Mouth of the Beast" from Fanfaronade (2012)

Slow seemed the Day of Settlement: coming on, all imperceptible, across the bluster and fanfaronade of Courtierisms, Conquering-Heroisms, Most-Christian Grand Monarque-isms.

In an architectural form, Frederick the Great sought to demonstrate the power and glories of Prussia attributing it as fanfaronade, an excess of splendor in marble, stone and gilt.

Times Editorial Page Editor Howell Raines writes barrelhouse editorials demanding action--such as the resignation of Janet Reno--that stir substance and fanfaronade.

Most different, again, from both is the Cafe-de-Valois eloquence, and suppressed fanfaronade, of this multitude of men with Tickets of Entry; who are now inundating the Corridors of the Tuileries.

He was secretly chuckling to himself, and deriving a great deal of amusement from this fanfaronade of Trinket's, which he knew perfectly well had been made up for the occasion, purely to show Satrap Wu in an unfavourable light.

He returned to the provinces, but by 1856 was engaged in London at the Lyceum Theatre, including as Hilarion Fanfaronade in Belphegor, in which Marie Wilton made her first London appearance.