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Bombastic

Bombastic meaning

showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous | High-sounding but with little meaning. | Inflated, overfilled.

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He is a bombastic, sloppy hero from our bombastic, sloppy history, origins undetermined, a folk tale of American success.

Conan Stevens did provide a bombastic introduction to the character, displaying who the man was in his entirety when he cut the head off of his own horse at a joust.

Fans can surely debate casting decisions until the mockingjays come home, but if there was one universally praised casting choice, it was Stanley Tucci as the bombastic host of the Games, Caesar Flickerman.

He faces prosecution on several counts, and voters could yet decide whether the bombastic self-proclaimed billionaire goes to the Oval Office or to jail.

Kingsman: The Secret Service was a surprise hit that has resulted in a sequel and a prequel, but neither are as bombastic, crude, and delightfully over the top as the original.

Micah flashes a bombastic side eye to her and I almost fell off my couch.

Saturday night's card is one of the most star-studded in recent memory, with a raft of top heavyweights preparing to do battle in Riyadh as the Kingdom continues its bombastic expansion into investing in boxing matches.

Shinra is an okay hero in an otherwise bombastic anime.

Sure, I love the bombastic Beethoven of concertos 3 and 5 (“The Emperor”) but there’s something so emotional about No. 4 that gets me every time.

That honor belongs to none other than Combs, a bombastic country superstar whose songs regularly rack up hundreds of millions of streams.

The colorful and bombastic former director of Egypt’s department of antiquities used his public persona as “godfather” of Egyptian antiquities to help bring along 500 young specialists to staff all-Egyptian excavation teams.

The film series – from its humble 2001 beginnings as a street-racing crime drama, through to its latest instalment, the bombastic, preposterous (out this week) – is basically Hollywood’s answer to the Big Mac.

The image of Grogu riding a Mythosaur into battle while clad in Beskar armor is undeniably an awesome one, a moment that would fit perfectly into a bombastic series finale.

The Iron Sheik, a former pro wrestler who played a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport's biggest stars, has died at age 81. The WWE posted an article confirming the death of the ex-wrestler and Twitter personality Wednesday.

The Meg 2: The Trench falls further short of expectations by repeating the same formula as its predecessor, lacking sustained tension and resorting to bombastic action scenes.

The question: Why did the Jets organization, for months, lobby the powers-that-be to keep them off the 2023 edition of “HK,” a show the 2010 Jets took by storm, featuring their bombastic coach Rex Ryan?

The Reggae Girlz have captured the hearts of neutrals around the world with their bombastic attacking style and an underdog story that’s screaming for a film adaptation.

These are only the most recent examples of Azerbaijan’s belligerence, which has followed a well-documented pattern of war and provocation against Armenia and Artsakh, motivated by the bombastic rhetoric of President Aliyev and his regime.

This is also true for composers Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard, who have created the franchise’s gripping and bombastic musical identity.

As this year’s Oscar race unfolds, these early contenders — dramatic, bombastic or unconventional — offer a glimpse into an industry that balances audience appeal with artistry.