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marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases
a bombastic speech intended to impress the voters in her congressional district
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But even without such a bombastic story, the performances by Foster and Reis would be enough to keep your eyes glued to the screen.
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Trump's changes for Michigan As the nation anticipates President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House next year, there are a handful of policy issues the bombastic businessman championed on the campaign trail that stand poised to impact Michiganders.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2024
His road back to big-screen glory began in Steven Soderbergh’s heist movie No Sudden Move (2021) and led to his Oscar-winning turn in The Whale (2022) and a small, memorably bombastic role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Erivo’s live, bombastic singing is detached from black gospel tradition — the religious, moral basis of black survival — so that Elphaba represents the demoralization of black/green people.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Trump's changes for Michigan As the nation anticipates President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House next year, there are a handful of policy issues the bombastic businessman championed on the campaign trail that stand poised to impact Michiganders.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2024
His road back to big-screen glory began in Steven Soderbergh’s heist movie No Sudden Move (2021) and led to his Oscar-winning turn in The Whale (2022) and a small, memorably bombastic role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 26 Oct. 2024
Erivo’s live, bombastic singing is detached from black gospel tradition — the religious, moral basis of black survival — so that Elphaba represents the demoralization of black/green people.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
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