rodomontade

1 In general, the French captains have more rodomontade and solemnity, with less buffoonery, than their Italian prototypes.

2 That wild desperate talk of last night was perhaps the merest folly—a caprice of the moment, the shallowest rodomontade, which he would be angry with himself for having spoken.

3 Do you not know him well, my Susan, by this opening rodomontade?

4 It is probably the cause of a fault that never quits her for long, a tendency to make her characters express themselves with a lyrical extravagance which sometimes comes close to the confines of rodomontade.

5 Among their opponents the most formidable are Rogero and the pagan Rodomont, whose boastful language has given rise to the term rodomontade.

6 What is most intolerable in art is scholastic rodomontade.

7 Mrs. Masters hated such arguments, despised this rodomontade about love, and would have crushed the girl into obedience could it have been possible.

8 for all of its jingoistic rodomontade, the government had no thought-out plan for the war and its aftermath

9 That he should credit such a rodomontade, and carry the pamphlet on his bosom and the words in his heart, is the clear proof of the man's lunacy.

10 No, he did not believe in the probability of an approaching conflict, unless it should be provoked by French turbulence and by the rodomontades of the self-styled patriots of the League.

11 That he should credit such a rodomontade, and carry the pamphlet on his bosom and the words in his heart, is the clear proof of the man’s lunacy.

12 What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

13 For all his rodomontade, Daddy had never done him any real harm that she could remember.

14 They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.

15 If he had not been endowed with a perfectly marvellous capacity, a wealth of nature beyond the reach and plumb of his rodomontade, he would have been ruined from the start.

16 Her brother, Laertes, is a character we do not like so well; he is too hot and choleric, and somewhat rodomontade.

17 No understanding reader could be imposed upon by such obvious rodomontade to suspect me for an alien, or believe me other than English.

18 Not only his greatness, but his rubbish, his rodomontade, his quips and quibbles and buffoonery, were treated as if they belonged to a sacrosanct canon of dramatic art.

19 She felt that this was not mere rodomontade, but that the man was perfectly capable of doing as he had said.

20 He cites the rodomontade as contained in the express despatched by Washington, whom he pronounces a "brave braggart."

1 说大话

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2 自夸的

big vain boastful braggart

3 说大话的

mouthy

4 吹嘘

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5 吹牛

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6 吹牛的

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7 大话

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8 自吹自擂

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9 自大

pride vanity hubris egotism put on the dog

10 自夸

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11 虚夸

windy high-sounding