bluster

On Monday night, he vented his own frustration over the fair’s failure through his typical defensive bluster.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Before American rejected the proposal and Trump publicly shot down a potential deal, airline officials dismissed any merger as impossible to get past antitrust enforcers—and typical bluster from Kirby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

The performances are all from the grip-and-grin school of acting: neat and precise with a minimum of bluster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

“The market is still of the mind that we are going to see this kind of bluster from the get-go — an opening salvo that’s pretty aggressive,” Melson said.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

Then his bluster left him, and he leaned heavily against the wall, too weak to stand.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Mr. Xi blusters about Taiwan because he can’t say what he really fears from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Myers is especially fine conveying a sort of shyness seasoned with bravado, along with various degrees of worry that only increase as she blusters her way into ever more perilous situations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

In his effort to spotlight racism and racially motivated violence, the subject of “Loudmouth” rails, showboats, declaims and blusters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022

In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

The invited breezes of Daphne are Zephyrus and Auster; gentle ministers of life, they will gather sweets for thee; when Eurus blows, Diana is elsewhere hunting; when Boreas blusters, go hide, for Apollo is angry.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

From the moment he blustered his way onto the political stage, Donald Trump defied expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Johnson blustered on until Sunday night, when it became clear he couldn’t count on the party’s right wing for support.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

It shows a violent blast of wind, and streaks of rain, beating a dun-colored landscape, as if a summer thunderstorm had missed its cue in June and blustered in six months later.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020

He may be willing to make some genuine concessions for this; an improvement on past talks where Pyongyang has blustered and ultimately offered little more than a return to the status quo.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018

Rain blew and streaked down the window glass, and when Mrs. Diamant blustered back into the apartment, I hurried to meet her.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Andy Serkis’s General Braddock is a blustering fool who refuses to take Washington’s sage advice seriously until it’s too late; as Mary, George’s mother, Mary-Louise Parker is a suffering saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Students treat institutional rituals as a farce and openly mock their principal - calling him Yamdoot after the Hindu god of death - a blustering figure who addresses them as "My dear donkey".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Eilish is frightened, but when Larry returns later he dismisses her fears, blustering that he won’t “hop, skip, and jump” to the commands of the “GNSB.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

On Monday, a cold front will usher in rain and blustering winds through Wednesday, with temperatures dipping to the low 60s.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller