That is what is termed a rodomontade of equal foolishness to Gormless Gordon's 'decade of shared prosperity'. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
We should try to memorize the meaning of rodomontade and use it in our everyday conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna] Reference
I had to look up what rodomontade means and it means arrogant boasting blustering or ranting talk. From Wordnik.com. [Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna] Reference
He delighted in social conversation, in which he was sometimes tempted to what he called rodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
There is less rodomontade than in the previous plays, but again we have to record an absence of humour. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
No understanding reader could be imposed upon by such obvious rodomontade to suspect me for an alien, or believe me other than. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
There is not a bit of rodomontade in him about the charms of the country, from beginning to end; if there were, we should despise him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
This monstrous rodomontade is here related, because it seems better adapted to illustrate the subject of the present observations than any other instance which could be adduced. From Wordnik.com. [The Vampyre] Reference
Was it possible to be sure that this was all rodomontade?. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln]
What is most intolerable in art is scholastic rodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Painting] Reference
Cervantes had not struck more adroitly at Spanish rodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
Do you not know him well, my Susan, by this opening rodomontade?. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
But the call for troops showed that the rodomontade meant something. From Wordnik.com. [The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915] Reference
They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it, reached the ears of George. From Wordnik.com. [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference
His old passion for a theatrical piece of rodomontade was not yet subdued. From Wordnik.com. [The Loom of Youth] Reference
The logic of events was at length subduing the rodomontade of soap-box oratory. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography] Reference
It swelled his heart, till it broke out at his mouth in that rodomontade, Dan. iv. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.] Reference
But it demanded that the passion should be winnowed, and free from all rodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [North America — Volume 1] Reference
Any man with brains in his head would have known what all this rodomontade really meant. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
He spoke with warmth and feeling, but with an entire absence of boastfulness or rodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin Franklin] Reference
During this function the Baboo will deliver some sesquipedalian reflections in the rodomontade mood. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
With this piece of rodomontade the old Rochefoucauld ceases and makes place for the author of the "Maximes.". From Wordnik.com. [Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France] Reference
And after this elaborate rodomontade, Nate strode out of the tanyard, with the obsequious Tim following humbly. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
The impostor they follow has nothing but fustian and rodomontade in his impudent lying book from beginning to end. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
John F Kennedy brought a touch of rodomontade to the office, and an imperial nation welcomed an imperial presidency. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
He cites the rodomontade as contained in the express despatched by Washington, whom he pronounces a "brave braggart.". From Wordnik.com. [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference
Folks are getting somewhat tired of the old rodomontade that a slave is free the moment he sets foot on British soil!. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
Stripped of all the rodomontade with which French historians have enveloped this incident, the essential facts are as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference
In the first place, the stranger cannot but be struck by the perfect adaptation of Jefferson's rodomontade to an expected purpose. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
The FBI has said it is probing Duvall's filthy rodomontade (hat-tip TPMDC's Brian Beutler), and has spoken to two former Duvall aides. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Offender Issues] Reference
She admired Tom for his exterior, but the admiration of no moderately sensible woman could overlook rodomontade so exceedingly desperate. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief] Reference
This, with a certain added colouring of rhetoric and rodomontade, must have been the style of Burns, who equally charmed the ears of duchesses and hostlers. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Travel] Reference
And, as if all this analytic rodomontade was not enough, we are told in characteristic rhetorical vagueness that he was a pitiless watchman, a marble-hearted spy, a. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.] Reference
And I'm not going to take him up because he's a dab at rodomontade. ". From Wordnik.com. [Quisanté] Reference
Enough -- enough, contain thy prolixities and rodomontade and let me to the point explain -- ". From Wordnik.com. [The Geste of Duke Jocelyn] Reference
Thanks of filling me in in on `rodomontade`. From Wordnik.com. [Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna] Reference
How do you do, my Lady Dunroe? half a dozen times repeated, however, will awaken her vanity, and banish all this girlish rodomontade. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
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