"We often hear political rhetoric and bombast, and not constructive commentary," he said.    From LearnThat.org.  [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/10/04/saudi_envoy_criticizes_us_for_rhetoric_bombast/]

I am, even now, ashamed as I recall the bombast to which I treated the Countess de St. Alyre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Room in the Dragon Volant] Reference

Their bombast is a PR ploy, designed to dupe people into across-the-board opposition to the Western model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nato Is Not Our Enemy] Reference

We are used to this kind of bombast from our Arab leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday, January 31, 2005] Reference

I hate the word "bombast", because it sounds like Comcast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Franny: Why does the 9513 love the word "bombast" so much?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 9513] Reference

(Nothing screams 'bombast' quite like a well placed Latin phrase, does it?).    From Wordnik.com.  [One Utah] Reference

Far easier to pronounce your side of the table the objective truth, and any opposing line mere "bombast" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Fury] Reference

He thought it was the mere "bombast" of Confederate emissaries and refugees in the Canadian provinces, and made light of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865] Reference

Keller himself sarcastically attacked journalist Mark Bowden for filling a Vanity Fair piece with "bombast" and "recycled anecdotes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gawker] Reference

The bombast is the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday, January 05, 2009] Reference

MR: But your songs employ subtlety more than bombast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Ragogna: Paradise & Little Vigils: Conversations with Judy Collins and That Guy Mark Erelli] Reference

He never amounted to much, developing little but small bombast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Between bursts of bombast, Gingrich was capable of statesmanship.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Clinton Lost The Capital] Reference

A great many tears are shed, and a great deal of bombast uttered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Bourbon and bombast: Wobbling, Yeltsin began to rise above the horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeltsin's Challenge] Reference

The solemn, explosive, bombast of the land is awaiting everyone in the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.)] Reference

The bombast, the posturing, the prattling - together they make a mighty sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Brenner: Ode to a Dying God] Reference

"His bombast is alien to me," Swiss-German artist Paul Klee wrote in his diary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaped by Sunflowers] Reference

Theodore Roosevelt sometimes had a weakness for tough-guy bombast and braggadocio.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts] Reference

Or one that would quell the bombast of the traditional Monday Night Football opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Athletes As Heroes? Don't Think So] Reference

For all their faults, the bombast of Boone's artists back then lent them a certain gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts Extra: Color Me Cool] Reference

With such a mindset there is no room for accuracy and honesty, only bombast and false promises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Politicians Don't Care About Economic Accuracy] Reference

The thing is that bombast, when it's not tied to genius, is just loud and gives you a headache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolutionary Sounds: A Bastille Day Music Mix] Reference

But in a country that has seen much tyranny and bombast, that's probably his most endearing quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia's Magic Man] Reference

His rhetoric is filled with bombast and belligerence, even as Havana buzzes with rumors of purges and arrests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting The Squeeze On Fidel] Reference

For all their public bombast, Dershowitz and the AJC leaders are keeping their accusations out of a regular court.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Role Model In His Own Mind] Reference

The performances are pitched at just the right scale: theatrically exaggerated but untainted by "Broadway" bombast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: ‘Sweeney Todd’] Reference

The whole play abounds in bombast and impossibilities, and, as a composition, is unworthy of notice or remembrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Leverage doesn't come from bombast; it comes from the world saying to rogue states, "We did our part, now you do yours.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bring In the Big Guns] Reference

Nolan won the job by vowing to strip away the later sequels 'bombast and return "Batman" to its roots in character drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [BAT OUT OF HELL] Reference

There's lots more to Alberich than bombast and the big nasty moments: here, I can explore the part's subtlety and lyricism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The battle for Bayreuth] Reference

"A great deal of Oriental bombast, incoherence and absurdity, that the marvels recounted are often ludicrous or grotesque.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

Stripped of its note of bombast, this last paragraph echoed pretty accurately the feeling of the Garsiders at the loss of their flag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference