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bumptious

adjective as in offensively self-assertive

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Classical in conception — right down to a repeat of the exposition material in the opening movement — it also contains traces of crunchy harmonic modernism and the bumptious sounds of vintage American jazz styles.

These dragons are not awaiting a human slayer, a bumptious avatar of St. George.

Similarly wide-ranging is León’s “Alma” — the lyrical opening of which follows a winding, entertaining path toward the bumptious rhythmic fillips of its central section.

Writing in The New York Times, the critic Roberta Smith described Mr. Bickerton’s pieces in that show as “the most bumptious, engaging and least didactic on view.”

It's unrecognisable from the bumptious singalong it became - the words Yellow and Submarine are conspicuously absent - but Martin says the development of the song shows the Beatles at their most harmonious.

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