rodomontade

Everything I have learned about him indicates this is really true and not some mere bit of rodomontade.

Would you not call that Cheltenham rodomontade of the most ridiculous?

The argument he used was still being used in the time from which I came, give or take a little rodomontade.

The cat's use of "rodomontade" is a linguistic explosion.

His name is the source of the expression rodomontade, meaning "boastful, bragging talk".

So goes the documented rodomontade.

They did so, and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade.

Said poster's preposterous rodomontade has left him looking rather the bumbling ninnyhammer.

There is, however, another ocourrence of rodomontade about fifty years earlier, in the writing of John Adams.

It is not rodomontade but merely a statement of fact to say that no individual or group in America would undertake the job I have assigned myself.

It is lavish, it contains rodomontade, it is literary, sentimental and florid.

A closer attention to duty might produce more Presidential concern about the stray-bullet crisis at home and less rodomontade about putting boots to butts abroad.

A threat and boast of a mother, an absolute mother, an infernal, appalling mother, a rodomontade of a mother.

If you knew one of his murders, the latest one, to be nothing but rodomontade ..." Hibbard nodded.

Vladimir Nabokov criticized Fyodor Dostoevsky for his "gothic rodomontade."

The amazing thing is, you forget this rodomontade as you watch Bertrand escape to England with the help of his Jewish friend Pierre.

But it seldom gets much closer to Rostand's heady flights of rodomontade and romanticism, or truly felt emotions, than an entry in a reader's encyclopedia.

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.

Literary it definitely is, with words like reticule and rodomontade brandished like fencing foils; as for sapphic sensuality, sorry but no soap.

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.

In one slim volume, you - yes, you, you mealy-mouthed poltroon - can learn the priceless "three R's" of Rodomontade, Ridicule and Revenge.

Pictures of cross-burnings and clips of Southern politicians of the 1950's in the throes of segregationist rodomontade establish Mr. Duke's roots.

Hannah Arendt describes Adolf Eichmann's boasting as "sheer rodomontade" in Eichmann in Jerusalem:

In America, during the 19th century, the noun rodomontade , spelled rhodomontade, appears in the autobiography of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, whose work dates from 1853.

What follows in "George Washington Dances," written and performed by David Margulies, is a rodomontade journey through America's past, as recounted by a very vocal oral historian.