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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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| It's planting yourself and speaking as loudly and bombastically as you can. Senate Bill 1523, by the bombastically business-hating Democrat Richard Alarcon of Sun Valley, seeks to punish Wal-Mart. Perhaps Gaines faced a dilemma as a black man writing within the parameters of bombastically prescriptive black masculinist nationalistic discourse (and during what many now regard as the "second renaissance" of black writing), one that excoriated Baldwin for being gay and thereby testosterone-deficient. |
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