rodomontade

Example Sentences

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The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2015

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

To engineers and architects, Hart Crane's rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an unscientific, rummy rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Le vent de la mer Souffle dans sa trompe.’— to the Romance Mauresque, to the barbaric fury of les Reîtres, to the magnificent rodomontade of the Romancero du Cid. 

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by Henley, William Ernest