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Examples for "bluster"
Examples for "bluster"
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Despite his bluster, I noticed that he was keeping clear of Steakhouse.
2
The event was not a clear win for Washington, despite Trump's bluster.
3
Few people will take Nick Clegg's latest bluster on tax fairness seriously.
4
At the time it was easy to dismiss Ellison's statements as bluster.
5
So underneath the bluster, Batou was afraid his new look was disturbing.
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Even then, the fear was covered up by plenty of intellectual braggadocio.
2
How dare you be a cowardly, bullying, braggadocio of an unmanly landlord?
3
At the time, however, CIA analysts dismissed the boasts as typical Cuban braggadocio.
4
It is in no spirit of braggadocio, but simply to give the facts.
5
They beat the braggadocio and the self-confidence temporarily out of him.
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His plans were castles in the air: his talk was rhodomontade.
2
The old hero, with his lewdness and rhodomontade, is excused from the stage.
3
Most of my fellow-countrywomen must need read your French books-uselessrhodomontade-
4
What the deuce are you about, Chapeau, with all this rhodomontade?
5
But it demanded that the passion should be winnowed, and free from all rhodomontade.
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The logic of events was at length subduing the rodomontade of soap-box oratory.
2
This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it, reached the ears of George II.
3
His old passion for a theatrical piece of rodomontade was not yet subdued.
4
They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade.
5
He spoke with warmth and feeling, but with an entire absence of boastfulness or rodomontade.
6
He delighted in social conversation, in which he was sometimes tempted to what he called rodomontade.
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Any man with brains in his head would have known what all this rodomontade really meant.
8
For all his rodomontade, Daddy had never done him any real harm that she could remember.
9
Stripped of all the rodomontade with which French historians have enveloped this incident, the essential facts are as follows.
10
With this piece of rodomontade the old Rochefoucauld ceases and makes place for the author of the "Maximes."
11
He cites the rodomontade as contained in the express despatched by Washington, whom he pronounces a "brave braggart."
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And this delicious bit of rodomontade being satisfactorily performed, it was with great difficulty the bystanders could restrain their laughter.
13
She admired Tom for his exterior, but the admiration of no moderately sensible woman could overlook rodomontade so exceedingly desperate.
14
Her brother, Laertes, is a character we do not like so well; he is too hot and choleric, and somewhat rodomontade.
15
Among their opponents the most formidable are Rogero and the pagan Rodomont, whose boastful language has given rise to the term rodomontade.
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Mrs. Masters hated such arguments, despised this rodomontade about love, and would have crushed the girl into obedience could it have been possible.