Triumphalist

Reading some of the recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the triumphalist tone with which precedents are being almost casually discarded, makes one nostalgic for Justice Handler’s view of the role of Supreme Court opinions.

But then the barbarian figure of Commodore Perry leaps out to perform a traditional Kabuki "Lion Dance", which ends as a strutting, triumphalist, all-American cakewalk.

Strong, 164. The triumphalist image that Elizabeth had cultivated towards the end of her reign, against a background of factionalism and military and economic difficulties, Haigh, 170. was taken at face value and her reputation inflated.