I have seen great nations, formerly leaders of civilization, led astray by preachers of bombastic nonsense.

Besides all which, even the report of his wealth seemed to him, he said, bombastic nonsense.

A slovenly, dishevelled, vulgar woman, reciting bombastic nonsense!

My dear count, never mind the bombastic nonsense in which Prussia is going to indulge-weshall take good care that nothing comes of it.