| 词汇 | bombast |
| 释义 | bombast noun[ U ] mainly disapprovinguk /ˈbɒm.bæst/ us /ˈbɑːm.bæst/ a forceful and confident style that is intended to be very powerful and impressive, but may not have much real meaning or effect: 浮夸的言语；大话，空话 She expressed loathing for the dictator's propaganda and bombast. As a composer he knew that a film score did not need bombast to be dramatic. Related words bombastic bombastically Behind the bombast of his delivery, he makes some thoughtful points. The story is told plainly and calmly, without any bombast. Behind a constant stream of bombast regarding their accomplishments, they got on with enriching themselves at their investors' expense. There is more to Shostakovich than the bombast of his symphonies. Saddening, shocking and upsetting affecting agonizingly arrogance baleful be cold comfortidiom distressful distressfully distressing distressingly dolorous hurtful hurtfully impiously impiousness lacerating teary touching touchingly tragically traumatic He was a quiet, mild-minded man, devoid of bombast, neither cynical nor meddlesome, and was well liked by all. His tragedies, which, with much bombast and frequent untrained flights of imagination, have occasional fire and tenderness, are generally based on classical subjects. The style of the great eulogy, born of the occasion and the speaker, becomes only exaggerated bombast and nonsense from the lips of a student. This introduction is one of the most extraordinary pieces of bombast, mixed metaphors, loose syntax, and incoherent expressions that Latin literature possesses. Yet there was a certain sincerity of feeling underneath all the bombast and platitudes, and this saved the book. Examples of bombastbombast Here, his balanced tone is a welcome contrast to the bombast of many plan supporters and opponents. We do at least need an awareness of how the royal epistle had its own rhetorical world in which bombast and boast had a special diplomatic function. That is the real lesson of history, conflicting directly with the bombast of nationalism. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I detect no sense of jingoism or bombast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bluster and bombast have characterised his handling of the situation since the spring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He put in his tuppence worth of bombast, but he was rather off target. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that that speech was mere idle bombast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was characteristically witty and full of bombast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bombast and pompous rhetoric will not get us through this problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Further, they have matched the hour, have been carried out efficiently, calmly and without bombast and with much patience and understanding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the bombast, all the easy assurance of victory, all the comforting self-complacency, had gone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Pride and bombast are still detected and despised for what they reveal in the person. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Apart from the opening and closing, which were full of his hectoring and bombast, it was an excellent speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He raises posturing, wriggling, dodging and whingeing to the status of high parliamentary art and one has to admire his cheerful cynicism and aggressive bombast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, we see them moving amid more noise and clamour and with more bombast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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