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

Most excesses do not display the exaggerator's art in it's best light: they are merely blurbs and rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

From toppling seas to garish motel interiors, from Huck Finn fishermen to Piranesian renderings of ruined superbowls, all the rodomontade of fallen America is there.

From Time Magazine Archive

The speech had held no rodomontade, none of the pyrotechnics that, had lent a flavour of sensation to past court trials.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie