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bombastInflated or high-sounding language. Pistol, from Shakespeare's play Henry V, is characterized by his use of bombastic language: ‘Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free,/And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.’ can be expressed simply as ‘Hang dogs but not men’. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Thus the heroe is always introduced with a flourish of drums and trumpets, in order to rouse a martial spirit in the audience, and to accommodate their ears to bombast and fustian, which Mr Locke's blind man would not have grossly erred in likening to the sound of a trumpet. He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly. Ordinarily I am not given to long speeches, nor ever before had I descended to bombast, but I had guessed at the keynote which would strike an answering chord in the breasts of the green Martians, nor was I wrong, for my harangue evidently deeply impressed them, and their attitude toward me thereafter was still further respectful. |
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