Substance and bombast But though Trump's threats took the headlines, his address -- the most encompassing summation of his global vision that he has ever attempted -- contained substance as well as bombast.
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It needs to attract eyeballs, and bombast does that best.
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The journalist described Musk's bombast as "evidenceless criticism" of Unsworth.
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There is an enduring consequence however, of the empty bombast.
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Its opportunities for bombast have shrunk along with its population.
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But to break Japan's deflationary mindset, some bombast was required.
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Who will it feature who is deserving of such bombast?
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"Oh," Mr. Hannity replied, his usual bombast briefly escaping him.
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What a disheartening spectacle of bombast, braggadocio and rude behavior.
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A serious need for devotion lay beneath the sodden bombast.
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I like modern bombast like Zimmer, Debney, Beltrami, Elfman, etc.
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His grandiosity and bombast make him an entertaining media personality.
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Their variety and bombast have swelled in an increasingly competitive field.
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Maguire was a grounded presence in the face of Dafoe's bombast.
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The threat embedded in Trump's bombast was made apparent when NOLA.
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That's especially interesting given prog rock's reputation for bombast and excess.
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The evil Pyongyang regime's bombast and technological ability is not unique.
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Trump can't seem to stop either his bombast or his lying.
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Yet, it's more than a cheap approximation of luxury and bombast.
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Sonically, it's a million miles away from Joanne's balladry and bombast.
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The young men in the trenches grew numb to their bombast.
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Even in her most ambitious projects there's a lack of bombast.
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His default position is retaliation; when threatened, he succumbs to bombast.
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Explaining the news to our kids Keep the bombast at bay.
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Christina Ricci played Zelda with all of her sass, class, and bombast.
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As Schuster points out: "There's a big gap between bombast and action."
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The bombast is so committed to volume that the tunes get muffled.
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Here, this video will explain it better, and with more bombast: Exciting?
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"Vinyl" aspires to beauty and nuance, but routinely falls back on bombast.
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With such bombast, Trump is beating the crap out of American norms.
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The Dursts were low key, not the stereotypical gold-and-bombast developers.
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Putin's campaigns are insidious, operating under cover of bombast and exaggerated threats.
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Yet for all the bombast, the criticism does seem to cut Mourinho.
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He has the hair, the bombast and the disregard for the truth.
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It's touching that culturally disparate strains of bombast should find a common home.
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Despite the speech's bombast, it signaled little in the way of policy change.
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But whether Trump will pull back from his bombast is an open question.
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McMullin's campaign became a lodestar for conservatives who opposed Trump's bigotry and bombast.
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His role has been an x-factor, enhancing our improvisation and adding bombast.
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The defence secretary's combination of bumbling and bombast makes him an easy punchbag.
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Trump's trip to Texas was full of head-scratching bombast and, well, hats.
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I didn't want to try and match the bombast of the album version.
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This was the era of Julian Schnabel-style Neo-Expressionist bombast, and Pope.
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Mr. Dietl, in his characteristic bombast, said Mr. de Blasio had no plan.
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"I don't want war with anybody," Trump said Monday before returning to bombast.
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And North Korean officials use Trump's bombast as an excuse for their own.
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But in this latest work, some of his masks and bombast fall away.
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And taking that supervillain analogy one-step further, Putin's speech was full of bombast.
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"He had both incredible bombast and ambition, and also a fragility," Bloom tells PEOPLE.
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There's something to be said for the brawny bombast of these huge American SUVs.
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The few times he did say something noteworthy were eclipsed by his overall bombast.
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It had always sounded more like optimistic bombast than a real statement of purpose.
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The government decided to celebrate the Forever War's golden anniversary with loud, shiny bombast.
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"I think it lacks the bigger bombast that the Academy looks for," he says.
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You can hear it in the high-minded bombast of our country's founding documents.
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Trump's bombast is already alarming the allies and fueling the enmity of our enemies.
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But its body politic largely avoids the technicolor bombast U.S. politics are known for.
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Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim appear to believe that bombast serves their domestic needs.
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Now Mr. Johnson's bombast is about to collide with the realities that undermined Mrs.
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His bombast is no longer an object of disapproval and derision, but of admiration.
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Rubberstamp the merger and Boris's bombast would penetrate 72 percent of our living rooms.
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It will require tempering Mr. Trump's bombast without losing favor with the White House.
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By contrast, most of Jucifer's studio albums are devoid of any of this bombast.
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He was elected not because of his personality and bombast, but in spite of it.
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It regularly allowed Trump to dominate the media discussion with his bombast and incessant attacks.
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He exhibited a measure of the boxer's bombast when he described the feeling of validation.
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In fact, Huckabee said, Trump's bombast was the reason he is in the White House.
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Above, she performs the song with considerably less EDM bombast at a concert in October.
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Mr. Trump's bombast is already alarming the allies and fueling the enmity of our enemies.
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Trump's campaign has been filled with statements whose ignorance and bombast have appalled the establishment.
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For sheer bombast, scale, and unalloyed star power, there's surely been nothing like it. Glastonbury?
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Every blast of audio shrapnel was balanced by crystalline melody or burst of symphonic bombast.
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His anger is seen by his fans as strength and by his detractors as bombast.
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Both Washington and Tehran, meanwhile, have engaged in an escalating exchange of insults and bombast.
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This year's shiny corporate tree matches our new xenophobic government's inexplicable self-assurance and bombast.
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Trump's bombast and his policies — particularly toward immigration — are at odds with Mormon political ideals.
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It concluded not with bombast but with poignancy, and was all the better for it.
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Neither leader responded with like-for-like bombast, but even so distaste for his tactics growing.
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As befits the Tweeter-in-Chief, this meeting is all about appearance, spin, boast and bombast.
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Some of it's pretty hasty, some of it's garlanded tropical bombast, but by God, it's painting.
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The bleeding memories of her witnesses clashed with the gloss and bombast of the official rhetoric.
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He connected the comic, fantasy superhero world with the bombast of Marshall stack heavy metal power.
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He disdained the American tendency to bombast and, as he saw it, the fetishization of childhood.
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Bombast, berating and public brow beating is not going to solve all Trump's foreign policy forays.
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With that in mind, cast aside Trump's bombast and focus on his substance, or lack thereof.
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The lay-low strategy is a departure in style for a president accustomed to rhetorical bombast.
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But the bombast from the right and the left is as misdirected as it is angry.
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"I feel the video for 'Two Hearts' mirrors the song's alternating intimacy and bombast," says Lovett.
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Of course, two days of gratuitous and self-defeating Trump bombast and threats preceded this resolution.
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Kavanaugh still managed to make a mess of things with testimony filled with bombast and vitriol.
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Yet everything points to two more years of occasional bombast about infrastructure, with no follow-up.
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Kanye creates #moments, and this one is captured forever in all of its confused, sacrilegious bombast.
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Throughout the day, his public remarks lacked their usual bombast, an obvious effort to appear more presidential.
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The respite from Mr. Trump's bombast may have provided a rare opening for candidates such as Gov.
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Beyond his bombast in Sunday's announcement of Baghdadi's death, here are some of the more complicated takeaways.
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Yet for all its popularity, Aventura never takes on arena bombast; its bachata keeps a gentle touch.
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The song's a great example of Snail Mail's mix of emotional vulnerability and openness, and musical bombast.
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Even when the language tips toward bombast, space is at a premium; every word has to count.
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Adrian Sparks, white-bearded and bearish in the title role, lacks the dynamism and bombast we expect.
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This is indeed a powerful statement, almost more so than Liszt's, for its relative lack of bombast.
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Republicans have fretted that Mr. Trump's bombast could invite Democrats to fight to keep it in place.
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Its chants, tangy harmonies and hints of Cecil B. DeMille-style bombast conjure a realm of exoticism.
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Trump's bombast and scandals aside, actual American policy on Russia doesn't appear to be changing very much.
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November, 2014 After Born This Way's bombast, Gaga takes the fatal step further into hubris with ARTPOP.
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NEW YORK — On Twitter and in public, Donald Trump remains an uncompromising mix of bluster and bombast.
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The progressive bombast is meaningless if prosecutors continue to promote the same harsh practices behind the scenes.
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There are already indications that Mr. Trump's bombast will not leave the political scene when he does.
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The trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley favors subtlety over bombast and slowly winding structures over obvious drama.
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Mr. Krauthammer would marshal his arguments with logic rather than bombast and deliver them with polished prose.
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Does our bombast serve only to make that country feel among the great nations of the world?
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Mr. Modi remains popular, partly because India's opposition is hopeless and because many Indians like his bombast.
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Mr. Barenboim kept it vital, flowing: He didn't linger either on the bombast or the Adagio exhalations.
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But amid the bombast and the misogyny and the cynicism, there is also some sincerity and sadness.
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This knack for breaking through political custom shouldn't be underestimated or scorned as mere vulgarity and bombast.
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And while DC reporters may not miss his fact-bending bombast at press briefings, the internet sure will.
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Mr Christie's promise to "tell it like it is" to America was drowned out by Mr Trump's bombast.
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On one hand, the game captures the excitement, speed, and anime-infused bombast of the original Budokai games.
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Bowie songs don't sample well — they unfold, like great cinema, then crescendo and satisfy with their earned bombast.
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This ability to shift seamlessly from tense, quiet dialogue into explosive bombast became, arguably, the show's greatest strength.
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The aesthetics of this glammed-out dystopia are pure bombast — a sensibility that's been replicated many times since.
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Like all Far Cry games, though, the story, for all its bombast, plays second fiddle to the exploration.
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It will now be even more difficult to identify new leadership capable of tackling the far-right bombast.
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Perhaps no Republican on Capitol Hill is in a better position to thwart Trump's legislative and rhetorical bombast.
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He was the festival's cheesiest act by a mile, all sepia photographs, peace sign projections, and pyrotechnic bombast.
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Applied to foreign affairs, however, Trump's bombast has unsettled every country that lives under the U.S. security umbrella.
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During his remarks, Obama appeared to rebuke "bombast" and politics of "phony controversies" in the current political climate.
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But critics say the proliferation of Twitter diplomacy reveals an administration long on bombast and short on policy.
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Unlike Kanye, she did not equate herself with the geniuses of silhouette, and drown her clothing in bombast.
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Just as importantly, there was comparatively little of the bombast that can imbue Trump's tweets or his speeches.
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Trump's more outrageous bombast may prove an even more flimsy construct, not just failing once but multiple times.
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Both are the sorts of showpiece occasions that warrant the bombast of the Champions League's lofty theme music.
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There's none of the bombast leveled almost daily at Republicans by the man Schumer is replacing, retiring Sen.
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Trump quickly responded to Francis's remarks with his usual bombast, warning of a potential attack on the Vatican.
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And then there was all the race-baiting and the bombast of the general election and the primaries.
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The braggadocio and bombast of the modern shooter is antithetical to the creeping, indiscriminate death of the Great War.
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They've become defensive, self-serious and aggressive, and they've adopted Trump's rhetorical penchant for hyperbole, bombast and fact-blurring.
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His supporters here, it turns out, are energized by his bombast and his animus more than any actual accomplishments.
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Bombast and scandals aside, Trump's top Cabinet members are working to maintain US policy toward Russia, not change it.
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The only question is who will be the primary target for his bombast as the general election drags on.
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Sometimes it's like you transform into something else and it's pure energy and bombast and it's like 'Thank God!
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Others, like former Libertarian Party Vice Presidential Nominee Wayne Allyn Root, can't get enough joy out of Trump's bombast.
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He fills in the vacuum of his policy knowledge with lies, bombast, and dangerous (though often crowd-pleasing) improvisation.
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And after more than a year of campaign bombast, it was strangely pleasing to hear his quiet voice again.
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His bombast on an immigrant "invasion," and harsh border policies in the name of stopping it, serve that purpose.
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Every, single day, he subjects the country he was elected to lead to a stream of ugly, divisive bombast.
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The aim of the podcast was to channel the pulpy bombast of the very people they wanted to discuss.
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Drawn to spectacle and bombast, and often criticized for it, the band concluded some live performances with cannon fire.
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But if you take out the bombast and look at the substance of what he's saying, he's never wrong.
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The bombast of people like Limbaugh and Trump in this case was lethal — but only if you believed them.
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She is an old-fashioned English public servant, devoid of bombast and rhetorical flourish, and uninterested in personal power.
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When his claims appear in print, they are carefully hedged — delivered with none of his signature charm and bombast.
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A cutting joke can deflate bombast, educate the public, and convince the unaware or unconvinced to stand with you.
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You won't hear bombast from these artists: They make anguished pop that transports solitary anxiety to the dance floor.
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Its Turner is all bombast in historical clothing, the heavy-handed film devoid of insights into Turner's creative spark.
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But North Korea has a well-established penchant for bombast and bluster, making threats without following through on them.
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The mayor is intelligent and thoughtful in contrast to the bombast and bluster coming out of the White House.
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But for a president known for falsehoods and crisis-churning bombast, the test of credibility appears far more daunting.
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It has been said that Trump the director has borrowed from World Wrestling productions with their bombast and caricatures.
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No matter how much swagger and bombast you have, you must abide by the law, otherwise the courts block you.
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Trump, leaning heavily on Breitbart's readership, with the addition of his own bombast, has brought these fears to the fore.
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Ancestors builds upon the band's eldritch foundation, channeling all the bombast of latter-era Bathory without succumbing to the darkness.
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The 2016 Pete's Dragon, while not flawless, succeeds because in a summer full of bombast, it's content to be quiet.
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The news media should neither be cowed by Trump's bombast and track record, nor should they be fixated by it.
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Where they err is in believing that a politician who deals in trivia and bombast will treat them any better.
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In the case of climate change, moral bombast threatens to perpetuate the paralyzing dynamics already in place around the issue.
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Yet many voters who ought to find those positions appealing have been alienated by Mr. Trump's bombast and political inexperience.
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Strengthening a great logo with a fresh system is a less muscular process — it requires subtle shifts rather than bombast.
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Cinematic and self-possessed, they offered up Wagnerian bombast stripped down and filtered through wild pagan folk and thunderous doom.
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She is one of the few artists who can pull off being this visceral without sliding into bombast or mawkishness.
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Faithful listeners adore Zolak's bombast, his Everyman outlook and his playing-day yarns of locker room fights and beery weekends.
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Multiple Hill Democrats said Milley came across as trying to match the bombast of the President in defending the strike.
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Erivo portrays Celie's complications with an astonishing emotional readiness and purity; she has no truck with the standard Broadway bombast.
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National-level policy messaging must be better coordinated, while discouraging ill-disciplined public bombast that alienates friends and energizes foes.
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The goal, presumably, was to counteract the growing impression that his bombast on trade was sound and fury signifying nothing.
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Mr. Trump's bombast, outsize personality, lack of restraint, flippancy and vulgarity could not be more out of place in Washington.
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I am no great fan of Schnabel, the era's bombast-in-chief, born in Brooklyn and raised in Brownsville, Texas.
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Democrats, here and in Washington, say it is folly to engage him on his preferred terrain of insults and bombast.
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Yet the president's populist style, complete with the bombast, is setting off a wave of "mini-Trumps" in Central Europe.
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Bombast drives the plot of those games; explosions and violence make the world move whether it wants to or not.
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Sung with tenor bombast by Thomas Segen, Trump vents his racist fury while sitting on a gold Trump Tower toilet.
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No word on specific pricing of Innoviz's solution, but given the bombast, you can expect it to be less than $70K.
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It was his unique and coarse bombast that helped set him apart when 17 people were running for the GOP nomination.
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Both are splendid ideas, though they resemble pea-shooters against the bombast of Donald Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban and their ilk.
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It's a perfect medium for the lyrical candidate, allowing him to showcase his bombast, swagger, and lack of foreign policy experience.
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Trump does seem to satisfy some Americans' taste for bombast, their innate desire to watch someone ridiculous and cartoonish on-stage.
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Empty bombast can be fun every once in a while, but when that's all there is, it's easy to tune out.
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This would have been exciting (and likely impossible), but showbiz, celebratory bombast isn't what his albums Blonde or Endless are about.
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This is pure, empty machismo and bombast, the likes of which we have not seen in American politics in my lifetime.
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It's a riotous punch of powerpop bombast, finishing with a windows-down outro that careens down the highway into the sunset.
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In place of facts, the Brexiteers had furious bombast; lurid assertions about immigration, sovereignty and national destiny; fantasies of purgative chaos.
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The hope is that people who needed to hear what he really said did and that the toxic bombast stops here.
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Much like its alternately victimized and victimizing antiheroine, "The Kingdom" pins the reader in the cross hairs of bullets and bombast.
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The R-word in the title of Asquith's book invokes the slightly corny chorus of pussy hat–wearing bombast on Twitter.
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Long on bombast and short on details, Ms. Leitch's Canadian values proposition has a certain Donald Trump-like whiff to it.
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The brash, obstreperous, high-macho bombast of Schnabel's work does not come close to Picasso's intelligent, sensitive, and brilliantly bold art.
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While Camp Cope don't aim for the arena-filling bombast and guitar pyrotechnics, their songs are similarly both cathartic and fun.
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The climactic sequence of "It" sacrifices horror-movie creepiness for action-movie bombast, staging a big fight in a cavernous space.
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His interruptions won him valuable screen time, but it was not clear if his constant, almost Trumpian bombast would break through.
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It's reasonable to wonder if Iranian leaders are emboldened because they see Trump as someone full of just bluster and bombast.
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In lieu of his typical impeachment bombast, Trump spent his day challenging claims that his protectionist impulses have disrupted global trade.
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First, when considering the consequences of another state gaining nuclear weapons, we should not make too much of its leader's bombast.
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Mr. Putin's interview on Russian television, in which he announced the reduction in staff, was free of bombast, the official noted.
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For all their bombast, voters see both as authentic, which is why they can sell policies that would sink other candidates.
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Pop & Rock You won't hear bombast from these artists: They make anguished pop that transports solitary anxiety to the dance floor.
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They subjected the prime minister to two hours of questioning, in which the Tory benches roared their approval for his bombast.
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Political passions culminate in a post-orgasmic wasteland, populated not even by the dead, littered with shreds of bombast and glory.
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Shales' Elon-Musk-as-a-baby video, which he sees as playful and a way of puncturing the bombast of Silicon Valley.
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Bullshitting is easy, but governing is hard: Trump's bluster and bombast, so effective on the campaign trail, has backfired spectacularly in office.
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The first lady posts significantly less frequently than her husband on social media, and her tweets lack the bombast of the president.
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Does Trump want to double the bombast by picking a brash straight-talker who mirrors his own style, like New Jersey Gov.
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The film "balances blockbuster bombast with human-scale drama, child-friendly comedy and gushers of tears," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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The nation has neglected the legacy of its first astronaut, even as it celebrates with great bombast the mission of its latest.
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At this stage, he too hoped to avoid an all-out war, which beneath his usual bombast he knew he might lose.
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There was a similar striving for sincerity in the early 1960s when a plain, living language seemed an antidote to Soviet bombast.
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Her calm and compassionate response to the massacre in Orlando, contrasted with Trump's self-important display of bombast, is case in point.
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The President's vagueness on white supremacists stood in stark contrast to the bluntness, bombast and outspokenness Trump has built his career on.
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For all his war-hero bombast, he's surprisingly chill – he takes it in stride when Jane scolds him for his inappropriate behavior.
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After all, her main skill set—a knack for language and bombast—overlapped nicely with that of most successful hip-hop artists.
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Cable television, meanwhile, mixes field reporting and news-making interviews with personal asides from prime-time personalities and roundtables of bombast-mongers.
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Although it's not something I feel comfortable with, the bombast of this campaign will not be remembered with the passage of time.
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Lost in the bluster and bombast has been the kind of detailed policy talk that traditionally consumes candidates this time of year.
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Mr. Black, on drums, struck an elusive truce between bombast and finesse, driving his agenda along with the pulse of the tune.
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And above all else, its gentle family stories are the perfect palate cleanser for a TV landscape too addicted to pointless bombast.
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We've endured a version of political leadership characterized by near-constant outrage, bombast, bragging, personal attacks and the brazen flaunting of power.
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"It's classic Trump: bluff and bombast substituting for actual deeds," said Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, a foreign policy magazine.
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The rhetorical bombast may have overshadowed his broader project, of which the Alabama contest constitutes only one small, if unexpectedly lurid, part.
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But as history played out Wednesday amid the bombast and rancor of impeachment proceedings, many of them seemed intent on looking elsewhere.
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Without the bombast that characterized some other owners, he was a consensus builder who could work with players to hammer out differences.
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Mr. Trump, bombast and all, is surely more likely to make progress on that front than, say, the Council on Foreign Relations.
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"For someone like me, who's policy driven, the bombast about secession masks the reality of electoral politics in Staten Island," he said.
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Erdogan's nationalist bombast may be working among the large proportion of Turks who support him, but it has only further perturbed investors.
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They use the reporter's description of "Musk's bombast as 'evidenceless criticism'" to back up their argument that people didn't take the accusations seriously.
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In the past, internal federal bodies tried to limit their use to legal necessities and reined in the publicity and bombast around them.
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It was a big deal for much of 1003 and 2014, accompanied by a lot of flag-waving bombast and back-patting bravado.
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If Big Apple lacks the scope and scale of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey juggernaut, it neatly avoids bombast and overkill, too.
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Despite his initial depiction as a calming influence at odds with Trump's bombast, Kelly shares many of the president's cultural and political views.
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What's left is the kind of red-meat, anti-Clinton bombast Trump has been serving up from the podium for a year now.
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It was that "sweet creature of bombast" Sir John Falstaff, whom he first tackled as a teenager at the Todd Seminary for Boys.
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And that's a huge problem for McConnell, a quiet, steely operator who's allergic to bombast and who prefers twisting arms to slapping backs.
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For all of his usual bombast and confidence, Trump has shown moments of introspection post-Iowa, both about himself and his campaign operations.
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Since its inception, Bleachers has been defined by qualities that, combined, result in the very best pop music—bombast, sincerity, emotional intelligence, bravery.
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Rush Limbaugh has been relying on sensationalism and bombast for decades, but almost no one would question whether he believes what he says.
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This is not exactly a rare war-movie notion, but "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" explores it with gentleness rather than sentimental bombast.
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We need a president who will defend our interests around the world — not with ignorant bluster and bombast, but with toughness and resolve.
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Washington (CNN)The chaos and bombast that have driven President Donald Trump's White House into its deepest crisis yet just burst America's borders.
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Though Putin will likely have only raised the stakes for bombast and self-aggrandizement at home, the message, nonetheless, is chilling for everyone.
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This was a powerful, logical "Zarathustra," lithe and bombast-avoidant in a thrillingly controlled opening and airy in the lilting passages later on.
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Think preternaturally high vocals, more bombast than an Olympic opening ceremony, guitar solos that would make Yngwie Malmsteen blush, and you're halfway there.
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Here's what else is happening: IN THE NEWS • In New Hampshire, voters seem to be more accepting of Donald J. Trump's New York bombast.
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Unable to go against the public, yet weary of his bombast and seemingly lose party allegiance, traditional Republicans largely stayed out of primary politics.
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Burlington played host to one of the most volatile Trump rallies yet with Trump's characteristic bombast and swagger met by equally forceful, repeated protests.
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After all, enough Times firepower somehow has been found to document Hillary Clinton's every sneeze, Donald Trump's latest bombast, and Marco Rubio's shiny boots.
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Although many Indians, especially those far from the border with Pakistan, find local issues more pressing, the unrelenting bombast has flummoxed Mr Modi's opponents.
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They engage in the bombast of cutting-edge innovation, and they build physical representations of it, but that's all an extravagant form of marketing.
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In short, he was a perfectly normal human being, utterly devoid of the bombast, bullying, or bluster that are part of his public persona.
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With its character limit and an interface that's inscrutable to nonusers, Twitter tends to penalize nuance and moderation, while rewarding hot takes and bombast.
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Groups like the conservative Club for Growth, for example, had no trouble overlooking his bombast if he was willing to write them a check.
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Given his bombast, his inconsistency, and his preference for gut instinct over policy knowledge, he always seemed likely to be a dangerous wartime President.
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Instead, I was concentrating on the work's brooding transitions, and thinking about the second movement's route between delicate pizzicato phrases and heights of bombast.
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Amid all the bombast and tight editing, the film still features the same small-town core at the heart of Shaun of the Dead.
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For all the bombast in the news media, some have urged restraint, questioning the wisdom of efforts to drum up criticism of South Korea.
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Buttigieg's careful, professorial manner of speaking is far removed from the late Arizona senator's bombast and salty language that made him a media sensation.
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Thus, the Times's blunder created a nonsensical narrative that polluted a presidential campaign in which the rhetoric already is filled with hype and bombast.
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Did the Williamses assume that they too would elude the very-commonly-available evidence of a giant mistaken bank deposit through denial and bombast?
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And they lament that Democrats lack a prominent voice who is providing anything like the kind of sustained bombast coming from the Republican side.
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The early months of her premiership saw her Conservative Party riding high in the polls; newspapers reported her Brexit plans with jingoistic bombast. Mrs.
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Her photographs of works in collectors' homes, museums, or storage spaces, offer a critical commentary on the distribution of art without a hint of bombast.
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The social movements of today, not to mention the political bombast in our national campaigns, seem to illuminate the disparate realities in which we live.
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The Americans who voted for Mr Trump either overlooked his bombast, or they saw in him a tycoon with the self-belief to transform Washington.
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Instead, Trump trumpeted the success of his competing event at Iowa's Drake University – a night of speeches and bombast that he compared to the Oscars.
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Trump's binge of bombast in the wake of the Democratic convention only seemed to authenticate the argument Clinton and others had been making against him.
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As the battle raged on through the decades, the disease robbed boxing's greatest champion from the bombast and loquaciousness that he carried into the ring.
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The capital, a queasy brew of bombast and bling built by Mr Nazarbayev as a monument to himself, is now to be called Nur-Sultan.
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Tumultuous ties The allegations along with Duterte's bombast, actions and temperament have already strained his relationship with the United States and Australia, both key allies.
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Voters that spoke with CNN all praised the impact Trump has had on the race but said his bombast was not missed at the forum.
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"As long as Trump is a prominent part of the platform, the same voters who rallied behind his bombast will convert to viewers," he said.
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Trump is the exact opposite, gleefully breaking all conventionalities with his bombast, narcissism and seeming indifference to the intricacies of running a powerful, complex government.
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For a show so full of bombast, it's worth remembering how in control all the women seem to be in every moment they're on screen.
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The North followed that test with an escalating campaign of bombast that included threats to fire nuclear missiles at the United States and South Korea.
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Yet at the same time, beneath the bravado, bluster and bombast, Trump's views on a variety of other issues are actually quite cautious and pragmatic.
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Eschewing a simplistic focus on bombast and bling, Scottish photographer Ivan Wigan instead has sought to capture a nuanced portrait of these marginalized urban communities.
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They all sound fine, and are sung with the usual bombast by Idina Menzel (as Elsa) and, finally getting a belter, Kristen Bell (as Anna).
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Michelle is plenty self-fulfilled when the story opens, at least professionally, as telegraphed by her bombast and an office stuffed with her framed portrait.
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Producer John Agnello has sharpened the tone, made the vocal harmonies more present, and allowed Kyle's drums to lose some bombast and therefore drive harder.
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Sterling and Waldman don't exactly work well together, which is the result of Sterling's thermonuclear bombast and Waldman's singular overdetermined dottiness in about equal measure.
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In large-scale live-action filmmaking, digital effects have lost much of their luster, serving less as tools for innovation than as shortcuts to bombast.
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But after a year of such bombast, many in the audience at the United Nations treated him almost as a source of levity, not fear.
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While the world's leaders no doubt cringe at his bombast and inadequacies, his failures on the world stage encourage the enemies of peace and democracy.
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Facebook could have spent the past two years quietly building up its security, content moderation, and fused messaging systems without bombast or delusions of grandeur.
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Ironically, Trump's bombast and transparent corruption has already spurred unprecedented momentum in Congress toward finally cleaning up some of these American offshore vehicles and policies.
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Paul Walter Hauser, as the titular character, lumbers onto screen, physically commanding if almost boyishly deferential to Bryant, played with irritating bombast by Sam Rockwell.
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" Using the characteristic bombast of such announcements, he said that "the whole world will soon witness what eventful significance the great victory won today carries.
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Where "Emissaries" feels familiar is in its bombast — the trilogy might be a leaner, high-tech update of Matthew Barney's self-mythologizing "Cremaster" film series.
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In past months, Pence has played the loyal running mate, keeping out of the way and attempting to explain Trump's bombast to more skeptical onlookers.
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Rand Paul, for one, won't miss Trump, telling CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that Trump only brought "silliness, bombast and empty rhetoric" to the previous debates.
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While Inaba was quaint, quiet and largely uncluttered, the Shibuya of Persona 5 is all bustle and bombast, bright lights and the promise of wild nights.
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Instead of acidic caterwauling, the vocals are downright dreamy, floating above the gloomy marriage of heavy shoegaze, doomy downstrokes, psyched-out drone, and post-rock bombast.
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But the action scenes are all bombast and broad, mustache-twirling cartoon evil, with a heavy reliance on CGI animals ported in from the Uncanny Valley.
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" He chose an inclusive message that rejects the xenophobic rhetoric of Le Pen, much as Clinton denounced Trump's anti-immigrant bombast with her slogan, "Stronger Together.
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If summer movie season is when thought and reason are jettisoned in favor of explosions and bombast, then fall is when Hollywood decides to get serious.
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Tomorrow, DJ Khaled is releasing his latest all-star track, typically fertile grounds for iconic Wayne appearances, and he's hyping it up with his usual bombast.
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They ride on the line of the spectacular and the speculative, posing a future that is unlike ours both in its makeup and in its bombast.
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Behind Locke's bombast was the inexorable question of suffering: how it forged and brutalized the collective, forcing a desperate solidarity on people not treated as such.
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But where Red Dead 2 was weighed-down by its ambitions and technological bombast, Birdspotting looks as unpretentious and liberating a nice walk in the country.
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If some of his arguments sound familiar, it's only because, in response to the Trump administration's bombast and cruelty, they have been made again and again.
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The music is admittedly more Aliens than Alien 3, going big on bombast, but it's respectfully in keeping with James Horner's propulsive score for Cameron's movie.
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For all the bombast, Mr Low is not believed to have sued or tried to sue Hachette, Scribe, Messrs Wright and Hope, or anyone else involved.
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Twitter is far less effective in defense than offense, and unflattering fact has much greater power than Twitter bombast to set the narrative of a presidency.
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A developer known for his bombast and his bloviating locates a quiet beauty in solitude and work, and the response has been both divisive and heartening.
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Cats represents the excesses theater fans often associate with Lloyd Webber, with an emphasis on glitz and commercialism, bombast, and perhaps a touch of general weirdness.
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But Mr. Bishop's enthusiasm is for larger illusions, which he performs with only moderate bombast (though it wouldn't kill him to mellow out his music cues).
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That all the bombast and dramatics would be left in Cleveland with a party so divided that one of the convention speakers refused to endorse the nominee.
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Eschewing the heroic, monumental approach which for centuries was sculpture's default mode, his figures are evocations of disquiet and discontent that fit a world disillusioned with bombast.
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Unlike most popular remixes, his are not designed to add danceability and bombast, but arranged to coax out emotional qualities that were submerged in the original recording.
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This election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions -- not just bombast, fear-mongering, name-calling and divisiveness.
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After the shock of his election it is only natural that people, in the markets and in the Fed, will take Trump's bombast a bit too seriously.
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The anti-Jewish rhetoric that so infested our continent in the 1920s and 1930s bears dangerously close similarities to the anti-Muslim bombast that is common today.
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Is the nationalist bombast simply camouflage, to enable the Kremlin and its cronies to continue looting tens of billions of dollars a year from the Russian people?
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But it is often difficult to tell when he is serious about a strongman power move or is trolling critics and playing up his reality show bombast.
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How can Ryan or any thoughtful American not express revulsion that the GOP standard-bearer chose to politically exploit the Orlando tragedy with boastful and demagogic bombast?
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SCOTT I think what pleased me most about this "Ghostbusters" was how matter-of-fact — how chill — the movie was, notwithstanding the bombast of the climactic battle.
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Democrats slam alleged politicization of Trump State Department after IG report MORE (D-Md.), arguing the president's "stream of ugly, divisive bombast" could threaten his reelection chances.
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The Clinton and Obama documentaries had none of the bombast of Bannon's Reagan movie, but they were unapologetically crude and, in the case of "Hype," arguably racist.
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It's more of the former, which means the game is full of unexpected moments of quiet and silence, which is unusual for a series built on bombast.
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To me, this illustrates the depth of BlacKkKlansman, the thoughtfulness that's so easy to miss amid all the bombast and hit-you-over-the-head Trump references.
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George IV speaks without bombast and cuts an almost stealthy figure, but he has the unmistakable broad Steinbrennerian forehead, which he exposes by gelling his hair back.
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After he was formally introduced with the requisite spotlights and bombast, to the predictable burst of cheers, he took the court in the famed, golden Lakers uniform.
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Though Mr. Gleason's portrayal of Ralph could be brusque, Mr. McGrath said his version tries to find a sympathetic side underneath the bombast and the fat suit.
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If you examine any one of these statements, you see that Trump fails to provide any analysis, context or support; much of it is simply rhetorical bombast.
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This election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions – not just bombast, fear-mongering, name-calling and divisiveness.
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It's a small-scale, real-time tactics game that feels intimate and understated compared to the bombast of the Halo series or the self-mythologizing of Destiny.
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The short-lived genre fell victim to a glut of copycats and a cringeworthy name, but for a shining moment, it gave EDM's bombast a rhythmic power-up.
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The cover, which was painted by Chilean/Italian artist Claudio Bergamin, is a vision of classic Priest-ly bombast, and is a perfect advertisement for what lies inside.
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But the project, promoted with implausible bombast about "outreach" but increasingly seen as a metropolitan vanity, has few friends even in the music profession, let alone outside it.
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It's the latest evidence of Mexico's outsized role in the US presidential election, where opinions and bombast about America's southern neighbor have both generated outrage and galvanized voters.
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It's the same divide I want bridged today, as I watch Chicago admonished on a scale much larger than the school bus bombast that motivated me years ago.
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His opponent was not naive to this fact either, but produced his usual bombast in the pre-fight press conference, belittling Watson for his inability to accept defeat.
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And the music is arguably composer Ramin Djawadi's best work from the first season, capturing the immediate bombast and the subtle threat of the king's visit to Winterfell.
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He's often been accused (fairly) of caring more about spectacle and bombast than about characters that audiences care about — more interested in impressing audiences than in moving them.
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Though most analysts and diplomats have grown accustomed to Trump's combative manner, even with his supposed allies, the recent bombast has done little to comfort an anxious region.
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At the same time, Armstrong George — who remains largely offstage in this novel — lacks the attention-grabbing outrageousness and impulsive bombast of the real-life Donald J. Trump.
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The scripted sessions have eased concerns -- both among his Asian counterparts and his own advisers -- that Trump would employ his trademark bombast during intensive talks about delicate subjects.
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Eubank was the meticulously self-styled baddie, a bizarrely cartoonish dandy full of bombast who spouted pseudo-intellectual bullshit and derided the sport that was making him wealthy.
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His tempered performance was a stark contrast to the bombast and ire of his campaign rallies, though the substance of what he said often echoed those regular events.
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Ever since he introduced his first eponymous line in Paris in October 2011 (remember that?), his shows have been marked, largely, by bombast, pretentiousness and overwhelming self-seriousness.
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In his introductions and footnotes, he distanced Nietzsche from fascist bombast—naming the Übermensch the "Overman" was just one strategy—and recast him as a kind of existentialist.
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Partly this worry reflected Donald Trump's addiction to bombast and swagger, which plays fine in Breitbart and on Fox News but doesn't go down well with foreign governments.
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Buried amid days of blasphemy and bombast were quieter new details that collectively showed Trump and his aides discussed WikiLeaks with Stone months earlier than anyone has acknowledged.
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Rick Scott can continue to oversee the state election system that validates his own race for US Senate, saying Scott's "campaign-trail bombast" hasn't amounted to a constitutional violation.
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Trump's recent show of discipline is not the first time the billionaire -- known more for his bombast than his tact -- has managed to shed his over-the-top persona.
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There's more than a touch of U2's bluster and melodic bombast here (see "Burn"), but then it's not the first time the claim's been leveled at the singer.
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There is a direct connection between the detention of Yeang Sothearin and Uon Chhin, who face up to 15 years in prison, and that moment of early Trumpian bombast.
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Mike Pence certainly brings experience and a steady hand to Trump's campaign, but two questions loom large: One, will Pence have any sway over Trump's bombast and political imprudence?
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Even Trump, known for his bombast, attempted to model the Obamas' "when they go low, we go high" mantra, praising the President at rallies even as his crowd booed.
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"Saudi Arabia sometimes acts with bombast and violence that makes it look like the Donald Trump of the Arab world," says Rami Khouri of the American University of Beirut.
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"More poise, less noise" feels like The Rock making a bet that voters will be ready for a change after four years of bombast, boasts and taunts under Trump.
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Shadow Warrior 2 hits a lot of the same notes, but where it is less balanced, or has less inspiring weapons and enemies, it compensates with breadth and bombast.
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What this classic lacks in bombast and spectacle it makes up for with a soundtrack of Portuguese David Bowie by Seu Jorge and a climax that is downright magical.
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Unfortunately, through its strategic incoherence, general incompetence, poor decisions and dangerous bombast, the Trump administration has weakened most of America's alliances, undermined US credibility, and significantly empowered its adversaries.
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Obama also appeared to knock Trump with his comments, saying McCain urged us all to rise above politics based on "bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage."
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Makes you wonder if they made a deal down at the crossroads… The bombast of metal began with classical composers; Mahler and Wagner helped usher new magnitudes in music.
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A skittering keyboard solo comes tumbling straight out of the void, trailing flames; sonorous ritual chants arise from the mire, then disappear; orchestral bombast latches onto frozen chromatic riffs.
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"Ralph Northam will allow crime to be rampant in Virginia," the president claimed, the sort of bombast that could aid the get-out-the-vote efforts of both candidates.
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So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and manufactured outrage.
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Unlike last year, when aides fretted over Mr. Trump's belligerence and bombast, it is his tendency toward comity with the North Korean leader that now worries White House advisers.
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It was that economic reality that drove millions of people to pay attention to both the nationalist bombast of Mr. Trump and the democratic socialist message of Bernie Sanders.
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Hungary's adamant refusal to accept immigrants or refugees is popular in Hungary, where these election results show that the government bombast, echoed in the state-loyal media, finds resonance.
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So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage.
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In context, though, the journey doesn&apost seem that unbelievable, and it&aposs clear the chasms that once seemed so large were really just exaggerated by Trump&aposs bombast.
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He didn't embellish his speeches with bombast and he walked onto the stage and into the television studio dressed as he would on any other day in his office.
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Now that the initial aftershocks of bombast and forced narrativizing and Enes Kanter's shockingly bad memecraft have cleared, we can get a clearer look at what this all means.
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So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insults and phony controversies and manufactured outrage.
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Her biggest moment in the primary came when she played the role of the anti-Trump — someone with business acumen and private-sector experience, without the bombast and sexism.
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His Dr. Strange writing featured the usual exclamation points and bombast, but on top of that, he ladled nonsense words and phrases that were half H.P. Lovecraft, half Dr. Seuss.
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The reassurance Kristol found in some of Trump's Cabinet appointments, he said, has dissipated as Trump navigates the complexities of foreign diplomacy with a worrying degree of impulsiveness and bombast.
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But does Trump have the self-discipline to rein himself in, or is the narcissism and bombast -- not to mention the misogyny -- so deeply engrained that he can't help himself?
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There is barely a trace of bombast when Jack Ma, Alibaba's founder, says that he eventually hopes to see former Alibaba employees running 200 of the top 500 Chinese firms.
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What makes his commitment to mayhem somewhat interesting is that it's never clear if this aesthetic of bombast originates from self-parody, a lack of self-awareness or maybe both.
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Their "conventional wisdom" was that the trip would fall flat and the immigration speech would simply feature more of the same rhetoric Trump opponents already pre-judge as racist bombast.
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While Berg often diverts too much attention to the bombast of the tragedy itself, somehow through the fireballs and falling debris, Rodriguez delivers the most grounded performance in the picture.
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The mysteriously non-aging host, Sherman, is played by Salahuddin with amiable bombast and streaks of insecurity—during the first episode, he nearly passes out after an overambitious dance opener.
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The conservative press went into rhapsodies over his wild, angry, tearful testimony, which they took as compelling evidence of his sincerity, even as liberals dismissed it as surreal Trumpian bombast.
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Their take on black metal is aggressive, smart, supremely melodic, and often downright frosty, their winding compositions epic and imposing without relying on manufactured bombast or over-the-top theatrics.
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He had moments of bombast, from calling Vice President Dick Cheney an "enemy of the country" to declaring President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, or "Putie," a hero to Republicans.
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It hooks you in ways that make its quiet storm of bombast ("He always knew the layered grief of the world as well as its pleasures") almost possible to bear.
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Jackson, a wealthy slaveholding plantation owner known for his bombast, styled himself as a man of the people, beating the dominant political dynasty of his day to win the presidency.
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Thus did Mr. West return to Paris Fashion Week: with family in tow, outreach on the mind, a dose of bombast, a dollop of absurdity and a piece of home.
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"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, and phony controversies, and manufactured outrage," Obama said.
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It's clear from early on that Knight isn't interested in the bombast of earlier movies, which introduced dozens of nearly indistinguishable Transformers that blurred together in all the sheer visual chaos.
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Do they take the opportunity to consolidate progressive power and move America to the left, or try to siphon off all the disaffected Republicans out there turned off by Trump's bombast?
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Hours later, North Korea test-launched another ballistic missile, an apparent display of bombast ahead of Trump's highly anticipated summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Florida on Thursday and Friday.
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The messages came after another diplomatic scuffle prompted by Trump's phone conversation with the leader of Taiwan, a move that broke decades of US diplomatic precedent and sparked bombast in Beijing.
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There's the incredibly early material with Bobby O, which is all Hi-NRG sleaze and gay-club bombast, and the electronic ebullience of later records like the Stuart Price produced Electric.
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Paul Krugman There were two big economic policy stories this week that you may have missed if you were distracted by Trumpian bombast and the yelling of the Sanders dead-enders.
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In 1992, when Ali celebrated his 50th birthday on a television special, the ailing Cosell offered his greetings in a prerecorded segment that showed his emotional side, without bombast or gibes.
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Jules is like many arch heroines, equal parts bombast and fragility, shaken and poured over ice, or in her case, poured over a husband (Gabriel Ebert) who is decidedly a Boring.
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While only two years old, Ms. Trauss's Renters' Federation has blazed onto the political scene with youth and bombast and by employing guerrilla tactics that others are too polite to try.
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Even though Bennett would've seemed out of place amidst the pomp and bombast of Gaga's performance, there was a considerable lack of surprise throughout, which could be seen as a disappointment.
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There was Romantic bombast, amusingly dizzying runs, and a winking sense of humor through it all — and why not, in an apartment full of pianists including Leon Fleisher and Emanuel Ax?
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More broadly, financial markets spent the first year of the Trump presidency gaining comfort that investors could count on the administration to deliver business-friendly economic policy, regardless of presidential bombast.
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"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insults and phony controversies and manufactured outrage," Obama said.
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His fans clung to lyrics that melded familiar rap bombast with exaltations about self-discipline and long-term financial planning, a break from a music culture that often emphasizes flashy spending.
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Here is what to expect: President Trump, whose penchant for bombast, scaremongering and diplomatic bombshells is well known, will be surrounded by like-minded company on Tuesday when the speeches begin.
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Having scared a lot of people last week with his bombast over North Korea, causing jitters about nuclear war, he threatened on Friday to use force to quell chaos in Venezuela.
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"A Distant Center," Ha Jin's profoundly appealing collection of poems written in Chinese, then translated by the author into English, contains so many breathtaking cleanses-of-spirit — begone bombast and posturing!
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Remarking on his Twitter account, on which he had attained a new level of bombast in the preceding months, the Tesla CEO admitted he should probably stop engaging with his critics.
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This election is about which candidate understands the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions — not just bombast, not just fear-mongering, not just name-calling and divisiveness.
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"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and manufactured outrage," Obama said.
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Mr. Trump, a wealthy real estate developer known for his bombast, styled himself as a man of the people, beating the dominant political dynasty of his day to win the presidency.
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In June, Jay-Z released "4:44," his 13th studio album, his first in four years, and his first in a decade that didn't use maximalism and bombast as its guideposts.
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By now, it's taken for granted that Donald Trump, the candidate of anti-immigrant bombast, is a favorite to win or place second in Iowa's first-in-the-nation primary contest.
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Trump has been described as a web-comments thread in human form, and he has single-handedly brought the Internet's candor, bombast, and recklessness to the manufactured candor of the political process.
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Throughout his campaign, supporters of Donald Trump loyally stood by his in-your-face bombast, from that very lewd Access Hollywood clip to the blunt insults he threw time and time again.
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And while the Darkness were lovingly borrowing pieces from from their heroes—AC/DC riffs, Freddie Mercury poses, Def Leppard bombast—they'd also fallen into the familiar traps of rock stardom themselves.
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Beyoncé arrives in bombast, changing from her cape to jorts and a sequined yellow hoodie, fur boots, and all the good hair, wasting no time diving into highlights from Lemonade and Beyoncé.
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Even his attempts at a lucid thesis (title cards before each segment, "experts" in bowties offering weak corroboration) are drowned out by bombast, clumsy musical cues and frenetic celebrations of the apocalypse.
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The song, which also cracked the Billboard Hot 100 and is featured on Utada's Face My Fears EP, is also good, combining the bombast of Skrillex's best choruses with Utada's inviting croon.
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"Those of us who live here are not afraid of North Korea because the North, despite all its missile tests and bombast, doesn't have an ability to fight a war," he said.
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Editorial They can be hard to spot — let alone take at face value — amid the usual spray of insults and bombast, but every now and then President Trump emits a sensible idea.
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By leaving bombast out of his speech last week and even appearing before the cameras in a Western-style suit and tie, Mr. Kim clearly wants to be seen as a statesman.
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The diplomatic outreach was a sharp departure from North Korea's history of rhetorical bombast, chest-thumping theatrics, military parades and mass rallies, which have fed the country's image as an international pariah.
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There's no question the band has found a formula: lush arrangements (yes, there's still harp), soaring songwriting and a hearty helping of arena bombast make the album as evocative as its predecessors.
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"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and manufactured outrage," Mr. Obama said.
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They recognized his penchant for the superficial effect, his willingness to cheapen a subtle impulse, his tendency to exaggerate, his weakness (or is it strength?) for bombast and disinclination for subtle introspection.
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The Democratic death match was a replica of the Trump-dominated GOP debates four years ago, with competing candidates trying to outdo each other in bombast, distraction, and burn-it-down rhetoric.
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Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland have all joined in with videos that capture the president's trademark bombast, demonstrating a rare case of European unity through satire — and self-mockery.
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Clinton's weaknesses had come full circle: She was an unpopular, too corrupt insider, too uninspiring to win, even in the face of an inexperienced bombast running a divisive campaign on exclusionary policies.
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North Korea in 2013 also did a nuclear test and then unnerved the international community by orchestrating an escalating campaign of bombast, including threats to fire nuclear missiles at the U.S. and Seoul.
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But the thing that makes it confusing is that the disconnect between the bluster, the bravado, the bombast, and this insecure, thin-skinned, hyper-reactive child—that's where the disconnect is most apparent.
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They also share some stylistic habits, as much as some amount of bombast and stridency are going to be shared by any old guy from Brooklyn and any other old guy from Queens.
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I couldn't help but reflect on the stark contrast between the bombast of the new president and the quiet dedication of a mentor — a courageous, dedicated professional — who is memorialized on that wall.
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A Southern gentleman who could counterbalance Trump's bombast, he was deferential to the president and never humiliated the White House with a scandal over ordering furniture that costs more than a steelworker's salary.
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The kind of painting that the novelist had in mind is epitomised by Diego Rivera's "Sugar Cane" (1931, pictured), a scene of plantation life filled with tropical scenery and, yes, plenty of bombast.
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Meanwhile, beyond the tweets and bombast, the machine that sends immigrants from arrest to deportation will clank along with alarming efficiency until it's stopped by a new administration — long after Sessions is gone.
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The Taken King proved Bungie could identify and build on the original game's many weaknesses, yes, but the opening mission's bombast and spectacle, a key element missing for ardent Halo fans, quickly faded.
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By the time his era of scandal, controversy and bombast comes to an end, many politicians in both parties won't even remember what they were planning to do when they went to work.
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Instead, officials and confidants said Trump is more likely to muddle through the changed political landscape with the mixture of bombast and deal-making that propelled him into office in the first place.
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The bombast of "Seasons' Canon" feels all the more marked next to Mr. Forsythe's "Blake Works I," a detailed and joyous homage to French classicism, beautifully danced by its original cast on Saturday.
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Europe has precedence for bucking American ideological bombast, as just before this century, Brussels launched a case against the United States over American penalties against foreign companies trading with Cuba, and it worked.
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Underneath all the bombast and rhetorical excess that we are now subject to from our politicians, ordinary Americans are just trying to live their lives in a decent way, knowing some obvious truths.
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"Everything in one fell blow, thunderous bombast, magnified down layer after layer, and then after the task is completed, just chicken feathers everywhere," Professor Sun wrote, using a slang phrase for scant accomplishments.
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But President Trump's bombast and the precipitous way the decision seems to have been made have led to doubts that Mr. Trump has a serious plan for managing the ramifications of this move.
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Now everyone's asking the question -- has Trump confounded the pundits, has his bombast finally landed a knockout blow, or at the very least stunned his opponent into agreeing a face-to-face meeting?
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For Pompeo and his evangelical allies, Trump's bombast is superior to Obama's diplomacy, and they have spun his feckless week after the Soleimani killing as a shrewd balancing act between war and peace.
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But Abrams just hasn't pared down the bombast enough to keep his story grounded — and with the trilogy at its end, it's strange to be left with as many new questions as resolutions.
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He told reporters waiting at the bottom of the steps outside Air Force One that he would be more muted that his normal bombast, which he ascribed to fury at negative media coverage.
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Even the critics who turned up their nose at the bombast of Van Halen in favor of the bookish pop-rock of "Armed Forces" weren't exactly innocent of such blinkered, ego-driven pathology.
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With his own prospects dimming, Bush has found his voice as an onstage reality check for a field – especially his despised tormentor, the "jerk" Trump – which trucks in bombast, vagary and unsupported promises.
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Here he trades his signature trap bombast for the sinewy, hooky open space of Cali sound architects like DJ Mustard, and Tinashe jumps into the pocket and does that thing that she does.
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Just as helpfully, the Indian air force refrained from spoiling Mr Modi's martial bombast, delaying the revelation that during February's brief dust-up with Pakistan it had shot down one of its own helicopters.
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The pivot that didn't happen During the election campaign Trump was eagerly watched for signs that he would ease away from his bombast and offer more than rambling displays of emotion to the voters.
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Our current political environment is defined by bombast and hyperpartisanship and ideological appeals to people's hopes and fears — a strategy that Gianforte hasn't necessarily embraced so much as allowed himself to be swallowed by.
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With strong supporting performances from Holly Hunter and Ray Romano as Emily's parents, it provided the kind of "I laughed, I cried" gratification that studio films have largely abdicated in pursuit of franchise bombast.
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Despite Donald Trump's law-and-order bombast, America's prison population is falling, even in Republican-controlled states, as the system realises that jailing people is an expensive way to turn them into better criminals.
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Setting aside his usual bombast, Trump turned soft-spoken and nodded attentively as the women, some of whom held babies on their laps, described their concerns about the quality of schools and finding jobs.
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When someone dismisses Beyoncé's performance as superficial pop bombast, or calls fans' relationship with her "unhealthy," without paying heed to their experiences or what she represents within that, that to me is symbolic violence.
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The Academy chose to nominate eight films for Best Picture this year, as it did last year, and they ranged from small, quiet stories like Brooklyn to the action movie bombast of Mad Max.
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"If you marry someone, marry someone like Uncle Xi; Swift and decisive, conscientious in everything he does," belts out a woman in the folk-bombast style beloved of China's propagandists (the second video, below).
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THE Republican nominee for president may be all blather and bombast, but the party's leadership in the House of Representatives is trying to make up for that by producing lots of weighty policy proposals.
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By the time Trump departed late Thursday for his golf resort in New Jersey, the leaders of both North Korea and Iran had thumbed their noses at Trump's bombast, responding with their own insults.
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What follows is a whole lot of dramatic bombast as the team enters the egg-shaped spacecraft to meet our new neighbors, who look more like the aliens from Independence Day than anything else.
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Such bombast from Tehran was routine, and Solomon's failure to mention the array of other factors that shaped White House choices, including vocal congressional opposition to airstrikes, does a disservice to the historical record.
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Given the credentials of both orchestra and conductor, this Tchaikovsky lover was counting on the "Manfred" performance to convince him, finally, that the work offers much more than empty bombast, but it didn't work.
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They shun pomp, bombast, and theatrics in favor of just rolling up their sleeves and diving in; they write brilliant epics without making a fuss over it, and have consistently released impressive, vital work.
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From the Instagram story snippets and friend's recounting of the previous month's event, I'd built it up in my mind as a hybrid of WWE bombast and freestyle rap battle creativity, but with acrylic.
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Lounge music, a blurry, placid style of music born in the early '50s from the bombast of big bands—and readopted in the 90s in a fit of nostalgic revisionism—is essentially functional music.
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All Infinity Ward and Activision can do is wait and see if their reassurances have resulted in another blockbuster hit, or if instead they have fallen on ears deafened by the bombast of nostalgia.
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"I been told this by high up folks and they tell me Obama and Hillary both smell like sulfur," he said in his trademark style, a kind of shout that mixes bombast and panic.
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Hnath told me that, despite the changes in his life, he still "had faith," and this seems evident in the way he takes the self-parodying bombast of megachurch preaching and finds its poetry.
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Yoo creatively cuts between images that fascinate with their bombast and ones that offer something more tender, interspersing slices of a country as it wants to be viewed with times when that facade crumbles.
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But some discounted Mr. Trump's comments as the sort of bombast they have become accustomed to from a president who has publicly assailed not just enemies, but even allies like Germany, Canada and Mexico.
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American culture might thrive on noise and bombast, but Hong knows that power can accumulate elsewhere: "The circuits of a poetic form are not charged on what you say, but what you hold back."
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It was a pop culture showdown between Trump and LaVar Ball, the father of basketball sensations who has made a career of unapologetic self-promotion that many view as "Trump-ian" for its bombast.
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Over the sizzle of the pan, Gallab talked the late William Onyeabor's influence on the new record, the artistic bombast of his music videos, and how Caribou's Dan Snaith is like a big brother.
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It's largely a frustrating clone of the original movie — same songs, same script, often even the exact same shot choices — but it replaces every moment of authentic or moving emotion with bombast and hyperbolic overemphasis.
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Five Christians are on the IAF's list and Hamas, for the most part, has sidestepped the usual bombast about "resistance" and cast itself as a technocratic alternative to Mr Abbas's corrupt and sclerotic faction, Fatah.
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But it is clear that Mr. Wang, who spoke to The New York Times with the assistance of an interpreter, has gotten the message that a bit less bombast might help smooth Wanda's forward march.
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Used as propaganda and often denigrated as such, it can be interpreted more subtly, its crude bombast sardonically indicting Stalinist as well as Nazi totalitarianism, its pathos expressing private emotions forbidden by the Soviet state.
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Promising indies, unconventional horror, and new hope for franchises If summer movie season is when thought and reason are jettisoned in favor of explosions and bombast, then fall is when Hollywood decides to get serious.
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You can read about his other comments and typical bombast regarding Canada at the rally in South Carolina on Monday, which gets into tariffs and boring things, in this Toronto Star article by Daniel Dale.
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If confronted, he would try some bombast and storm out of meetings, as he did the other day with congressional leaders, ending talks on the partial government shutdown caused by a crisis he has manufactured.
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Sure, it's a nod to their solidarity with Floyd "Money" Mayweather—and yes, you could argue that all sporting events are cash grabs—but every intricate detail points to the outright bombast of the event.
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If someone is at all into the kinds of insular details that make this show tick — like the slow unfurling of bureaucracy, bombast, and bullshit you alluded to earlier — then season two is pretty okay!
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Federal workers watched with growing alarm last year as Mr. Trump waged a campaign filled with antigovernment bombast and then during a transition in which he recruited cabinet secretaries hostile to the agencies they lead.
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While he employed the bombast and braggadocio common to gangsta and other forms of rap, he also dealt in introspection a la the so-called conscious rappers such as Chance the Rapper and Talib Kweli.
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It's hard to ascribe Donald Trump purely to one decade, since he so assiduously kept himself in the limelight, but his preference for bombast and ornately gilded surroundings seems of a piece with the decade.
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And embracing politics as a contest of pure bombast and salaciousness is a surefire way to guarantee the chaos of the Trump era will last long after our reality TV-in-chief is out of office.
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The film serves Smith's Genie much better when he's interacting with Aladdin in human mode, without the bombast and with a hint of the charm that used to make a Big Willie summer so damned fun.
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It's not the first time Trump has sent such a message, but for critics of Twitter, it's yet another reminder of how the social media company has abandoned principles in the face of the president's bombast.
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Beneath all the bluster and bombast, Trump is offering Americans someone who will fight and who will keep on fighting regardless of what his opponents throw at him or what the "experts" say he should do.
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Trump's quip that only the Second Amendment could stand between the citizenry and a Hillary Clinton presidency has caused great concern among those who believe such bombast could cause real harm to politicians in this campaign.
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Langston, the son of a preacher, had the most pronounced transformation, morphing from stoic strongman to a gasping, bug-eyed bombast who would pull a hankie out of his singlet and dab sweat from his brow.
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There are strong sonic similarities to their homeland heroes Chthonic, who also meld Taiwanese folk with black metal bombast, which makes sense enough; the band has been deeply influential to an entire generation of local musicians.
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Throughout the record, the quintet—which also includes Peter Vale, Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo, Jaime Garza, and Nathan Karagianis—offer a complicated sort of bombast, riding psychedelic riffery and heraldic horn stabs to moments of genuine ecstasy.
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Agendas like the ones in Kentucky, Texas, and other heavily red states are one reason why so many Republicans, even those who flinch at the bombast coming from politicians like Trump, Bevin, or Patrick, are smiling.
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Trump, employing his usual over-the-top bombast, claimed in a speech on Tuesday that leaving Obamacare in place will "destroy American health care forever" and vowed to repeal it if he wins the White House.
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But the larger context likely matters more: Since Singapore, U.S.-North Korea relations have largely proceeded as usual, with "maximum pressure" from Washington and a mix of public bombast and likely private weapons development from Pyongyang.
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He is trying to demonstrate that, despite the insults and bombast, the U.S.-Australia relationship is bigger than the reckless actions of one man, and should be admired by Americans and Australians alike for doing so.
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The third bout of the Clinton-Trump trilogy came to a close last night, leaving television pundits hyperventilating over a handshake that never happened and viewers who tuned in expecting a night of vitriol and bombast.
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If there wasn't a thermonuclear trigger lurking in the background, the bombast might be easier to shrug off with the school yard adage: "Sticks and stone may break my bones, but names will never hurt me".
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Elsewhere on Born This Way there's a new bulk to the sound matching the weightier themes: stadium rock and eighties schlock add ballast and bombast to the clubby sound, flavors of Springsteen, Pat Benatar, Jim Steinman.
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While earnest bombast takes over some songs, the tracks with the lightest touch — like "A Django Christmas"; a Gypsy-jazz version of "We Three Kings"; and "Song for Kwanzaa," with jaunty African-style guitars — work best.
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For the West, Mr. Erdogan has devolved from a righteous hope — would-be proof that Islam and democracy can peacefully coexist — into another autocrat whose populism, bombast and contempt for the ledger books have yielded calamity.
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In an interview, Mr. Cramer, a Republican, sought to explain why his bombast from issues like tariffs to how he treats people had not undercut his challenge against Ms. Heitkamp, the most endangered Senate Democratic incumbent.
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Although some admirers believe he remains too restrained in an era of Trumpian bombast, Mr. Obama has excoriated the incumbent for "lying" and "fear-mongering" and pulling "a political stunt" by sending troops to the border.
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"The bombast makes Trump look like a predator, circling," said Cliff Kupchan, chairman of the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy in Washington who has followed the ups and downs of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
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He is one of two candidates to be Britain's next prime minister, and his rival and predecessor as foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, had already won cheers from this audience with his crowd-pleasing, pro-Brexit bombast.
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It is this, for example, that transforms his account of the sacrifice of Iphigenia from what could all too easily have been a ghastly version of operatic bombast into a moving tragedy on a human scale.
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Singing "All my old ways have started kickin' in / And my bad days are comin' round again," Wolfe trades in bombast for true vulnerability, stripping down to her folk-adjacent roots and centering her ghostly vocals.
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On "It Must Have Been Love," the ballad that was Roxette's biggest hit, it verged on melodrama, but never felt hokey — singing at her outer limit, she rendered the song with a kind of affectionate bombast.
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But my sense is that there's also something going on in our society: Many Americans no longer seem to understand what a leader is supposed to sound like, mistaking bombast and belligerence for real toughness. Why?
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But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the absurd spectacle of the legal team for the man Oliver described as a "geriatric Dr. Evil" trying to out-bombast the HBO comedian's signature hyperbolic wit in dry legalese.
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On Tuesday evening, Trump will appear before a besotted Florida crowd, seeking to once again electrify his base with politically incorrect bombast as he embarks on an apparently narrow but credible path back to the White House.
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Donald Trump took to Twitter with his usual bombast in response to FBI Director James Comey's recommendation that charges not be brought against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information in connection to private email servers.
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Boris Johnson — the former UK foreign minister and former mayor of London with a reputation for brashness, bombast, and bending the truth — has won the Conservative leadership contest, setting him up to be Britain's new prime minister.
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Bombay and bombast reign in Roberts's fictionalized account of his escape from an Australian prison to India, where, in swashbuckling scene after narrow escape, he is tortured, sexed up, and enlisted in a gang of Afghan gunrunners.
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Dismissing her as shiny pop frivolity, as manufactured bombast, as too much anything, is to miss the point—and the implications of doing so are way more loaded and shortsighted than simply flaunting your superior music taste.
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With its fire-lit nighttime color scheme, its clumsy bombast, and its weightless, slightly cartoony CGI, the climactic showdown between Wonder Woman and Ares, the God of War, feels like a hangover from the Zack Snyder era.
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While Bush's wonkish side impressed voters at his town halls, it never broke through as a winning profile in an election year where bluster, bombast and soaring rhetoric was more appealing to an angry and frustrated electorate.
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AMID AMERICA'S fractious political landscape, where cross-party trust is all but absent and bombast seems the currency of the day, concern is growing that wariness about foreign influence from Russia and China is morphing into paranoia.
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Neither of the candidates running for the Democratic nomination, who debate tonight, provides the bombast and sensationalism of the Republican candidates, especially the Republican front-runner, so ratings-hungry, shock-addicted television networks give them little coverage.
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The tune plays like a more cerebral love letter to Duran Duran, swapping in lyrics inspired by Hemingway's bullfighting-as-art passages in "The Sun Also Rises" for the genre's tired go-tos of hedonism and bombast.
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Were it not for the motherly cradle of her voice and the ecstatic bombast of the synthetic horns and strings, it would all probably be too much to take in—and to many listeners, it probably was.
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Norwich, UK There's often this weird thing that happens when a distinctly American cultural product gets run through the British filter, like it loses the bombast and misplaced bravado that made it original in the first place.
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Directed with high bombast by Sidney Lumet, with a fulminating script by Paddy Chayefsky, "Network" tapped into the populist rage of a post-Nixon society, suspicious of all authority and stressed to the end of its tether.
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Trump can kick and scream all he wants, but as long as the bottom line is good, many business and financial leaders could very well be willing to turn a blind eye toward the bullying and bombast.
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That a populist — or a populist cause like Brexit in Britain — can succeed in countries that are wealthy and seemingly stable suggests that deeply polarized societies are also vulnerable to extreme partisanship, and so to populist bombast.
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In its pageantry and bombast, "Stadia II" lays bare the hubris of the US war in Iraq, and of American culture more generally during our years of imagined economic invulnerability prior to the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
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Some of Trump's trademark bombast and recklessness are very apparent in his earliest hopes to forge some kind of relationship with Russia, which he considered largely uncharted territory for Western businesses and a potential boon for his own.
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Rex and the Donald share a love of bombast and flair, and they are easily the loudest men in whatever room they find themselves in, so it's not surprising that Rex would get on board the Trump Express.
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You can answer that question with a "yes" with a little more confidence based on the fact that a decent chunk of the voters are still undecided about Trump even after all the bombast we've heard so far.
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It's impossible to predict when Donald Trump's supporters will finally have enough of his bombast and bigotry, or when (if ever) he will decide to cancel the 2015-16 season of his reality-show campaign and go home.
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If candidate Clinton does nothing to address this issue yet continues into November promising Native Americans that she is our champion, then her words will be nothing but false promises -- just more bombast, more white lies to Indians.
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The bombast, pageantry and surprises that "tripped one into another" provided plenty of opportunities for the 15,000 journalists on hand to document Mr. Trump's acceptance of his party's nomination to also consider the unprecedented nature of his campaign.
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During a series of public appearances in and around the South Korean capital on Tuesday, Trump defended his provocative threats toward Kim, but declined to repeat the type of fiery bombast which has helped ratchet up tensions here.
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That it finds a new angle on the themes of mortality that 2010's Toy Story 3 already handled, but one that is bittersweet and wistful to the sheer bombast of Toy Story 3, is even more impressive.
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But despite the presidential bombast, those who live and work in the Congressional "swamp" (now downgraded by Trump to "cesspool" or "sewer" status) may have begun to find their voice as pressure on the American democratic system builds.
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" Using the characteristic bombast of such announcements, he said that the test heralded "a new birth" of the country's rocket industry and that "the whole world will soon witness what eventful significance the great victory won today carries.
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The movie that is in theaters, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Amy Adams in the lead role, is one of the best of the year, and a welcome respite from the usual bombast of Hollywood science fiction.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump delivered a sweeping prime-time address Tuesday without the hiccups and bombast that have put Republicans on edge for months, ticking through his administration's top priorities without distraction and leaving even some Democrats worried.
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While Trump's bombast and Twitter tirades gather more of the media attention, Beijing also has been inflexible on legitimate U.S. concerns over intellectual property and market access, and can share the blame for the failure to reach a deal.
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Background: Since the U.S. left the nuclear deal on May 8, Tehran has engaged in rhetorical bombast against Washington, tried to use "lawfare" to undermine sanctions, both intimidated and courted the EU, and demonstrated its growing ballistic missile capabilities.
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Despite all his bombast, the real reason Trump is facing die-hard opposition from so many Republican supporters and officials is because he is showing no strength at all in the polls against either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
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These quiet periods of exploration and puzzle solving are interspersed with periodic chunks of combat and scripted set pieces that lay familiar types of Star Wars bombast on thick—exploding ships, giant alien creatures, lightsaber duels, and madcap chases.
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Corey Stewart ran against Gillespie in the Republican primary with a campaign that The Washington Post editorial board described as mix of "bombast, nativist venom and red-meat, race-tinged pandering"—and lost to Gillespie by just 1.2 percent.
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The state was forced to concede that it does not really have the authority to bar refugees from crossing into Indiana, a concession that no Republican governor was willing to make in the states-rights bombast of last fall.
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These live-action CGI slugfests have become a case of barrel-scraping bombast, nonsensical explosions and muddled exposition over even a shred of relatable story or circumstances, ever since 2007's first one just about kept childhood memories intact.
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Their ideal player desired smooth controls, absolute clarity on what to do and where to go at any given moment, and a story that was told with bombast that was accompanied with compelling, top-of-the-line visual effects.
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If their weapon is art, their target is intolerance—hurled at the Russian government's crackdown on queer-identifying people and it's ban on what it deems gay propaganda, a subject they tackle with infectious bombast in their newest video.
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By expressing interest in talks with South Korea, Mr. Kim may be trying to drive a wedge between Mr. Moon and Mr. Trump, who has largely rejected negotiations in favor of crippling sanctions and dangerous bombast against the North.
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Over the past year, Trump officials have been concerned to discover that not all traditional allies will automatically side with the US. Despite bombast and threats, Mike Pompeo's lobbying efforts in Europe against Huawei met with only mixed success.
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It would be risky for Mr. Trump to let overconfidence and bombast, expressed in tweets and public statements, box him into some kind of showdown with the North's ruthless leader, Kim Jong-un, who has displayed similarly macho traits.
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While Iranian officials are no stranger to bombast and invective against the U.S., Iran's broadcasting of the missile strike, and Khamenei's repeated touting of it, does not neatly comport with Tehran's long-established preference for proxy warfare and deniability.
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The absence of his bombast created an actual vacuum at the center of the arena that Elton John rushed in to fill; his great 1970s hits played so repeatedly over the loudspeakers that "Tiny Dancer" began to trend on Twitter.
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Mr Mattis has to tread a delicate path between the bombast of Mr Trump's campaign promise to "bomb the shit" out of ISIS and the operational constraints imposed by Barack Obama, which many military and intelligence officers thought unduly restrictive.
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I loved Pinkerton and I loved bombast and big drum sounds, heavy guitars, and the riffs on Starflyer 59 records and I just realized there was almost a tradition that I was working in and I finished it that way.
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Consider the emotional impact Trump's statement might have on his base, which loves his bombast, and the red line the president drew can be seen as part of his effort to shore up poll numbers that sit at historic lows.
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Combine U2's sky-scraping bombast with a bass drum thwack and crash reminiscent of "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes, and the Aussie quartet's latest effort "Burn"—premiering below—is a classic Temper Trap anthem that's tough to deny.
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Appropriately, the supercut includes D. W. Griffith's pioneering though controversial film Birth of a Nation, while making equal room for the experimental surrealist film Un Chien Andalou and the blockbuster bombast of Die Hard, before ending with Mad Max: Fury Road.
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And while even I'm impressed by a great deal of Trump's real estate feats, it's going to be a different story in Washington where Trump's bombast is making it more and more politically advantageous to oppose him publicly and unendingly.
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"AIM" is full of crisply accomplished rhythm tracks and productions that steer clear of the bombast and the abrasiveness M.I.A. has tried in the past; her collaborators include the hip-hop and dance-music experts Blaqstarr, Polow da Don and Skrillex.
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The proposals, which Mr. Trump outlined in the politically critical Philadelphia suburbs along with his daughter Ivanka, represent a new attempt to court female voters who polls show have been alienated by his bombast and history of provocative remarks about women.
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As a theatre of high volume and hyperbole not so far removed from the bombast of a modern political campaign, pro wrestling is a prism to analyze Trump's taste for rhetorical combat and his blue-collar-white-male populist appeal.
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Even if you treat those musings as presidential bombast, his administration is making detailed projections that the economy will expand much faster in the decade ahead than it has in recent years — a forecast that underpins the Trump policy agenda.
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There were a lot of young bass producers working in similar lanes, but the giddy bombast of Streten's earliest work was like nitrous oxide—capable of producing giggly highs or rocket propulsion, depending on the context in which was consumed.
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It may be that American contempt and ridicule had their most entertaining expression a century ago in the work of H. L. Mencken, a master of bracing satirical bombast who was disgracefully unjust and cruel in many of his opinions.
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Chance the Rapper and Kanye West may use gospel elements to give their music a reverent lilt, but the genre hasn't had many crossover evangelists since Kirk Franklin's hip-hop bombast brought it to the pop charts in the 1990s.
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Mr. Pompeo, who is known for his bombast, occasional thin skin and contentious relationship with many in the State Department press corps, had declined to say during the interview whether he owed an apology to the ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch.
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It's no surprise that Bookchin is popular at Can Decreix: His critique of productivism and the naïve adherence to progress is a commonplace of the contemporary degrowth movement, as is the Bookchinian distaste for the pec-flex bombast of modern politics.
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And do we get to a point where... Do we keep covering this as news or is there a way for them to make these announcements without the bombast and without all of this crazy light shows, and disco party?
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In many ways anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself, because at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character, only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery and bombast.
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In short, the Clinton email "scandal" seems to me to be emblematic of so many Clinton "scandals": There's a kernel of impropriety there that in the public mind, thanks to her political enemies' bombast, has ballooned into something unrecognizably malignant.
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Damaging twin portraits of the President in a New York Times op-ed and Bob Woodward's new book are using the words of current top officials to fracture the mythology of vanity and bombast, conmanship and intimidation of Trump's personality cult.
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Mr. Trump's first news conference as president-elect, just last week, was a clinic in bombast and self-aggrandizement, punctuated by denials of the need to make his tax returns public or to curtail business interests that could invite corruption.
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The album sees Lewis turning inward, casting off the sleek 80s pop bombast of Eclipse and his past work—though he never strays too far from it—in favor of a more chameleonic pop repertoire that explores the spaces between sounds.
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Whenever something can be construed as a rejection of the establishment, or a win for authoritarianism, or a triumph for swaggering, braces-twanging bombast—or some other shift the writer does not like—the subject is ascribed to a global Trump-ite revolution.
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The Winter Soldier seemingly wants to send a message that it's tearing the system down through the sheer bombast of the crumbling buildings that belong to evil government agencies, yet it is also careful to extricate Hydra from the US at large.
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Above: 'Death Stranding' trailer from The Game Awards Amidst the bombast of an award show heavy with marketing and some awkward scene transitions, Ryan Green from Numinous Games gave a teary, brave speech upon accepting the Impact Award for That Dragon, Cancer.
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Short on policy, long on ego and bombast, promising to redeem a nation he disparages through the force of his will, Donald Trump's strongman shtick is familiar from Buenos Aires to Rome, inflected though it is by reality TV and the property business.
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After a couple of months of bombast, lawyers and spokespeople for President Trump appear to be trying to lower the temperature on the Russia investigation — talking more respectfully about special counsel Bob Mueller, laying off Attorney General Sessions, and making noises about cooperation.
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Residents in Seongju and nearby appear to fear irradiation from THAAD's electromagnetic waves more than the (real) threat of nukes from North Korea—which has lately promised, with signature bombast, to turn Seongju into "a sea of fire" and "a pile of ash".
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By the time that Saddam passed through CIA interrogation and landed under the care of the Super Twelve, his bombast was largely reserved for his public trial, where cameras could capture him yelling at the judge and decrying the proceedings as illegitimate.
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"We've opened up a new front in the trade war, and while it's quieter than all of the bombast about tariffs that had people freaking out, there are still a ton of companies that can get hurt here," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Mr. Trump has sent the party back to the Dark Ages — or at least the 1950s — with his provincial notions of masculinity and misogynist notions of femininity, his cartoonish bombast, his vulgar jocularity and his open hostility to women who question him.
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While Jay's version of "Lucifer" is all laser-focused bombast (including the famous "welcome to the murder capital where we murder for capital"), Wayne's is loose and playful, as interested in stretching out his voice as it is in landing its lines.
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There are many reasons to be skeptical of the North and pessimistic about the prospects for solving the crisis over its nuclear program, given the ruthlessness of its leader, Kim Jong-un, President Trump's bombast and the deep mistrust between the two countries.
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The project's progenitor, NKSV, serves up noodly, hard-charging, 80s-flavored heavy metal mixed with power metal bombast, thrashy breakaways, and screechy, distorted, black metal-inflected yelps that somewhat unnervingly recall both vintage Children of Bodom and early Leviathan's lo-fi sickness.
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Even John Woo has been known to punch through seriousness and on into giddy bombast in films like Face/Off, where Nicolas Cage and John Travolta teeter on the edge of self-parody, and then gleefully jump off that edge, guns blazing.
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"Customer Service," the episode that aired in the immediate wake of the T.J. Miller news, is a great example of why Miller's particular brand of comedy — a kind of masculine bombast that mistakes loudness for intellect — has always made Silicon Valley work.
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The headlines about the trade wars being touched off by President Trump's new tariffs may telegraph plenty of bombast and shots fired, but the most consequential war being waged today is a quieter sort of conflict: It's the new Cold War over data protection.
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Above: Hyper Light Drifter's release trailer (showcasing some of Disasterpeace's music) Another 2016 soundtrack from the mad-for-sadness section is Disasterpeace's Hyper Light Drifter (listen on Spotify), which while possessing flourishes of action-backing bombast, is for the longest time a yearning, aching listen.
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It's unexpected but not unprecedented to mint a pop hit with an old-school Broadway track (just ask Jay Z or Gwen Stefani), but doing it in a minor key, while the pop world lives for the bombast of major chords is a shocker.
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Laser weaponry capable of real harm has eluded the eager boffins of the world's militaries for several reasons, none of which sound like they've been addressed in this research, which is long on bombast but short, at least in the SCMP article, on substance.
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Gud's solo work—including remixes of Jacques Greene's "No Excuse" and Tinashe's "2 On," was well as 2014 EP called Beautiful, Wonderful—indicated a fascination with such disparate styles as UK Funky, industrial, chopped & screwed hip-hop, the LA Beat scene, and Kanye-style bombast.
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In the three years since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign with so much controversial bombast in 2015, Laura Bush has steadfastly kept her counsel about the polarizing first Republican in the White House since her own husband George W. Bush served two terms.
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The titles of recent books about President Donald Trump suggest to the reader that there must be a person of substance behind the weird hair and the too-long ties—that there is a profound truth amidst the tweets and the hoopla and the bombast.
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After the initial bombast of his and the other governors' announcements, Mr Pence had to confess that he cannot prevent Syrian refugees who have been admitted to America—after at least 18 months, and often much longer, of screening by intelligence agencies—from entering Indiana.
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The bombast of the opening sequence — which ends with the pyramid sabotaged into collapse, obliging the movie's eventual mutant villain to cool his heels for about five millenniums — leaves no doubt that the viewer is in for more of the superhero same old, same old.
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The reality competition became a sensation stateside because it has nothing like the usual bombast of American reality shows; both its slow and steady pace and its lack of actual prize — other than honor, a trophy, and maybe a congratulatory bouquet — make it weirdly soothing.
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Those butterfly wings are glued to boards to create both an indistinct portrait of Jean Paulhan, the literary critic and a fellow Art Brut supporter, as well as allover abstractions that foreshadow Damien Hirst's butterfly works, though with none of the British artist's bombast.
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Of course this all disguises a man who is rabidly opposed to things like gay rights and a woman's right to choose, but the political minds inside the campaign were apparently able to convince Trump that boring was the perfect balance to his own bombast.
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These new methods, underscored by a powerful presidential message at the United Nations, will present Kim Jong Un with a unified diplomatic push to sit at the table to deal with differences he thus far has responded to only with bombast and more tests.
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" He later offered another Twitter message, loaded with his signature bombast: "As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies, haters, and even the very dishonest Fake News Media, a Happy and Healthy New Year.
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The last image, seen if you stay all the way through the Christopher Robin credits — as I did, since I would probably recommend this movie as a pure filmgoing experience — is the gleaming edifice of the modern Disney logo, all faux-bombast and corporate sleekness.
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Once I saw them live, though, I gained a new respect for their skills; I couldn't deny the bombast and spectacle of their live show, of course—no one with functioning eyeballs could—but it took meeting the band themselves to really understand their appeal.
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These were songs about cigarettes and alcohol that didn't have the bombast of, well, "Cigarettes & Alcohol." and this was music for the kind of people who were more likely to be nipping out for Rizla at 4AM than watching a Riz La Teef set.
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One has to wonder what in fact was achieved at the much-touted Trump-Kim Jong-un summit last month, and what the United States can really do to ensure our security — something this president, for all his bombast, seems demonstrably incapable of achieving.
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They also cite his bombast —from his vitriol directed at a Gold Star family and a disabled reporter to his derision of prisoners of war — that has turned off Republican suburban voters, who are typically supportive of "establishment" Republicans like Mitt Romney or John McCain.
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The script—which is culled primarily from Baldwin's writing and read by Samuel L. Jackson, without his usual bombast—outstrips Peck's images, in depth, mystery, and knowingness, but that is often a problem with sensational writing, especially if it wasn't written specifically for the screen.
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The House will then embark on several hours of rhetoric, argument and bombast — none of which is likely to change the final vote or pretty much anything else, until they finally zero in on approving the two articles toward the end of the day.
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Every other day of the year, go ahead and gnash your teeth about President Trump or Nancy Pelosi, but take a break today (remember, just for a nanosecond!) to recognize that arguably the most important thing in the world now is not Trumpian bombast.
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It's a forum that encourages bombast, and to add to Alter's earlier assertion, in order for these sorts of brands to differentiate themselves, "they have to simultaneously stand out and not offend," Eugene Soltes, an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, told me.
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Few match the bombast of Arnab Goswami, whose brand of shriek show has launched a new network, Republic TV. He labelled the BBC's reporting of both a huge protest in Kashmir and shots fired by Indian security forces to disperse it "a dirty and a motivated lie".
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Dr. G Kevin Donovan, a bioethicist at Georgetown University Medical School, agrees that the existence of four disposed malpractice suits does not provide enough information to draw conclusions about Bornstein, but he said Bornstein's letter describing Trump's health is light on detail and heavy on bombast.
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But so far, analysts say, it is not clear that Trump -- for all his bombast -- is preparing to tear up the strategic framework that has underpinned Sino-US relations since President Richard Nixon went to China to open relations between the two countries four decades ago.
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The New Paltz, NY-based duo take inspiration more from jangly and infectious indie pop, making efficient and clever pop songs on their debut 21984 album Swear I'm Good At This that's miles apart from the Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno-produced bombast of The Joshua Tree.
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Instead of caving to North Korean demands, as weaker presidents have done, Trump is operating from a position of strength, first by calling off the meeting and then by explaining to Kim (whom he once dubbed "Little Rocket Man") the difference between bombast and a bomb blast.
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A stage regular who is infrequently seen in Shakespeare, Ms. Fairley counters the outsize bombast of a rhetoric-heavy play with a whispery quietude that prompts one to consider Cassius and Ben Whishaw's angsty, bookish Brutus not just as conspirators but also as would-be lovers.
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For all of Mr. Trump's bombast about the fight against the Islamic State — he said as a candidate that he would "bomb the hell" out of the militants, "take out" their families and "take the oil" — Pentagon leaders said they were preparing more nuanced options. Gen.
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It was a sobering day for Mr. Johnson, a politician whose bombast and supreme self-confidence finally met a wall of opposition amid a fierce backlash over his decisions to suspend Parliament for five weeks and to expel 21 lawmakers who rebelled against him on Tuesday.
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Shawn's favorite film is Any Given Sunday, the Oliver Stone football flick that, for all its bombast, has proven rather accurate about the dangers of the game and also features one of those sports monologues (the game of inches speech) you can replay endlessly on YouTube.
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The track is the sonic equivalent of those horrifying milkshake monstrosities that dazzled the Instagram feeds of suburban teens this year—take the hi-fi bombast of a Hard Summer headlining set, pile on a pound of sprinkles, and top it with a whole slice of cake.
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They weren't the first to establish a narrative on a record—but they popularized the idea of blending the "high art" of the classical form with the "low art" of rock 'n' roll using the bombast and intensity of the music itself to tell an ambitious story.
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He was a man among gods, grinding out rock 'n' roll with a growly Rickenbacker guitar and a plaintive warble, while the next generation was holding the genre together with weirdness and sonic bombast (The Pixies, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers — what we used to call "alternative" bands).
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And so with particularly American bombast and a reality TV star's penchant for manipulating the media, Trump tore pages from the us-against-them playbook of the European far right and presented them to a segment of the American public already primed to receive it with religious fervor.
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And although Warshofsky can't quite control what he's doing, presumably because of a lack of direction—his castmates are under-directed, too, and they compensate for it by either underplaying or overplaying their roles—if you scrape away the bombast, you can see what Shepard is getting at.
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We are in an illusory age of elective politics — a fantasy world in which candidates make wild promises and give new definition to the word "bombast"; a world in which the electorate tunes in with a complicit understanding that none of it has anything to do with governing.
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One is a campaign of bread and circuses — tweets, rallies, bombast about random issues of the moment, all meant to distract and excite — and the other is the constant assemblage of a cabinet full of fat cats and "mad dog" generals, a virtual aviary of vultures and hawks.
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The group's reshaped and re-purposed its sound on each record, and every Radiohead fan has his or her favorite phase, whether it's the crunching, stadium-ready sounds of the Bends era, or the astral bombast of the OK Computer years, or the blissed-out mysteries of In Rainbows period.
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If his last release was a study of id and ego, offering moments of bombast and restraint in equal measure, Life and Livin' It is Gallab's superego—a record at once rational and freewheeling, dynamic and explosive, yet capable of pulling back the curtain and revealing a vulnerability and intimacy.
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His band was playing the night, and in between the other sets, we talked for awhile about how much we'd both like to see extreme metal incorporate more classical influences—not so much the darkness and bombast (we've got that part covered) but more in terms of emotion, drama, and elegance.
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Setting aside the bombast and the self-congratulatory dicta, America expects great things from Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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Yes, the so-called U.S.M.C.A. treaty has been signed by the United States, Mexico and Canada, but after all the bombast about tearing up Nafta and the insults delivered to America's allies, Naft2, as it should be called, is a conventional, incremental result that isn't markedly different from the original.
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In his third U.N. appearance, Trump offered a more subdued tone compared to the bombast of his previous speeches in 2017 and 2018, looking to convey a more reassuring presence as he asks Americans for a second term next year despite a fresh push for his impeachment among some Democrats.
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Betsy DurenTucson To the Editor: As a Democrat I'd like to let President Trump know that I hope his failure to bully Speaker Nancy Pelosi into paying for the wall is the beginning of the end of the bombast and incompetence he has shown in his first two years in office.
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If his last release was a study of id and ego, offering moments of bombast and restraint in equal measure, Life and Livin' It is Gallab's superego—a record at once rational and freewheeling, dynamic and explosive, yet capable of pulling back the curtain and revealing a vulnerability and intimacy.
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Part of this bombast is simply the accepted style of social media, and in a world where many are at each other's throats over grave matters of domestic and international policy, everyone knows this is a safe space to channel a little emotion, like rooting for the home team with a war chant.
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Early on in the film, when she's playing onstage with Jackson, we hear the bombast of the rockier moments on Born This Way ("Diggin' My Grave" feels like the ex-husband of "Yoü and I"); later when Ally plays "Look What I Found" for record executives, there's some of Joanne's homely nature.
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It had a single player campaign that took the structure and bombast of a Call of Duty story into the future (before Call of Duty did its own future game) and a multiplayer mode where players flew around the map, wall running and flinging themselves with grappling hooks before calling down giant mechs.
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While Neil Young was tinkering away with electronic music on his 1982 Kraftwerk-lite LP Trans, Mitchell was going full 80s bombast, with her work on Wild Things Run Fast, Dog Eat Dog, and Chalk Mark in A Rain Storm sounding fuller, louder, and often less delicate that anything she'd previously made.
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Given the ascension of Donald Trump, with his suit and big red tie uniform (with its nod to Gordon Gekko and Ronald Reagan) and his unabashed love of gilding not just the lily, but every surface under the sun, the better to convey aesthetic bombast: big hair, big gems, big belts. Bigly!
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I trust that's because all of you recognize that, even if I may have said some things that made you uncomfortable and with which you profoundly disagree, there is a vast difference between intellectual challenge and verbal thuggishness, between a robust and productive exchange of ideas and mere bombast, between light and heat.
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In his third U.N. appearance, Trump offered a more subdued tone compared to the bombast of his previous speeches in 2017 and 2018, looking to convey a more reassuring presence as he asks Americans for a second four-year term next year despite a fresh push for his impeachment among some Democrats.
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Hicks isn't just good at PR. She fulfills Trump's particular PR needs, which require an incredibly delicate balance: She must please a man who loves bombast, but waries of it quickly in others; a man who requires constant spin-doctoring, but hates it when those who work for him get caught in a lie.
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The album has a discordant edge to it, almost experimental seeming in its lack of ambition or bombast, and it's great to see how they both worked to improve upon the formerly leaked song "Views from the 6," which is now titled "You with Me." The songs of Views are all, undeniably, Drake songs.
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This is the part of it that's specific to our time: the strategic cowardice of the anonymous source, the reversion to rhetoric of whinging woundedness and crocodile-tear disappointment instead of more straightforward and punitive swinging-dick bombast, the numbing corporate language that calls Kaepernick a distraction instead of something closer to what they mean.
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So far, however, that has failed to gain much traction in a race dominated by the bombast of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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But while "Empire," now in its third season, relies on bombast and opulence, with a plot twist every few scenes — "Dynasty" and "Dallas" by way of peak Puff Daddy and Bad Boy Records — "Star" finds its creator returning to his earlier, grimier palette, including foster homes and addiction, for a slightly more earthbound tale.
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Painters such as Mario Radice, Mauro Reggiani, and Atanasio Soldati were entirely new to me, and while not particularly groundbreaking, their work comprised a colorful, idiosyncratic response to Synthetic Cubism at a time when many Italian artists, seeking to curry favor with Mussolini's imperialist fantasies, took a sharp right turn toward Neoclassicism in all of its sentimentality and bombast.
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I've been encouraged by what I've seen of Destiny 2 so far, and while it's impossible to comment on whether the rest of the game will live up to the needed bombast and spectacle in the opening mission, the amount of time and attention Bungie's put into making the missions feel more alive is noteworthy and gives me hope.
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She would most likely float above President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's bombast — coming across as positive and reasonable.
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Esiason, not the humblest of men (a "type-A my-way-or-the-highway guy," as Carton called him), had the sense to let his partner lead, to recognize that Carton had an almost Trumpian nose for the kind of bombast and volatility that caused people to linger in the parking lot or to tune in the next day.
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Hans Zimmer's music may pilfer from Elgar's "Nimrod," the most patriotically charged of the Enigma Variations, yet such bombast is not really required, and the rest of the score is more attuned to the film's suspense; the strings unleash a machine-gun stutter, and a ticking sound suggests not a clock but a countdown to detonation.
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As a couple of senior congressional Republican aides told me on Saturday — on condition of anonymity, to speak candidly about private discussions — there is a view on their side of the aisle that, while Mr. Trump's bombast is notable, the press is being too quick to hyperventilate, and that, in the end, things will be just fine.
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After a week when Twitter seemed to bring out the worst impulses of President Donald Trump's bombast—including an ill-conceived (and potentially illegal) threat over the weekend to bomb Iranian cultural sites—both Trump and Iran's English-speaking foreign minister tweeted out Tuesday night that neither wished to escalate tit-for-tat attacks into a true war.
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I can get very cynical about these things (almost two decades of show-going will do that to a girl), and the bombast of the sets — Karl Lagerfeld recreating the Eiffel Tower inside the Grand Palais for his Chanel show, for example — tends to make me roll my eyes at the waste instead of gasp in delight.
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Yet where a dramatic opera traditionally announces itself with bombast, The Ferryman — about a family living under the cyclical sway of political violence in Northern Ireland — is infused throughout with a deliberate lightness, a joyous humanism that attempts to counterbalance all the weight it's carrying: the weight of history, of life under oppression, of personal and communal secrets.
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But in the looking-glass world of Trump, Houseago's colossus — a fierce, robot-like compaction of bronze-cast clay slabs and blocks of wood that ranges uncomfortably across the bombast of Antoine Bourdelle, the majesty of samurai armor, and the artlessness of a Lego toy — cannot be read as anything other than a personification of imminent authoritarianism.
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According to the World Press Freedom Index, Trump's bombast against the media has had an effect broader than just the U.S. "More and more democratically elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy's essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion," Reporters Without Borders said of Trump's vitriol towards the press, according to HuffPost.
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North Korean state television, with its usual bombast, said the country is now "a full-fledged nuclear power that has been possessed of the most powerful intercontinental ballistic rocket capable of hitting any part of the world," adding that the weapon will enable the country to "put an end to the US nuclear war threat and blackmail" and defend the Korean peninsula.
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"If candidate Clinton does nothing to address this issue yet continues into November promising Native Americans that she is our champion, then her words will be nothing but false promises -- just more bombast, more white lies to Indians," Simon Moya-Smith, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and culture editor at Indian Country Today, wrote recently in a CNN op-ed.
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"The movie is about something important and it's handled in such a really mature, serious way that to have it being embraced today when there's so much bombast in filmmaking – which I'm also part of – it's a very sweet moment for all of us," Ruffalo told PEOPLE at the Spotlight and Ketel One Vodka Golden Globes celebration in Beverly Hills on Friday.
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The answer, whether movie studios like it or not, is that without an element of human connection — without the sense that a film's characters are real people with emotions and wants and desires — it becomes impossible to really feel anything for the characters beyond the same dull horror at the endless bombast and destruction that we get from dozens of other modern blockbusters.
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John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMcCain's family, McCain Institute to promote #ActsOfCivility in marking first anniversary of senator's death Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE's (R-Ariz.) ability to transcend partisan fights at his funeral on Saturday while blasting the "bombast and insult and phony controversies" of the current political climate.
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Still, House Speaker Paul Ryan's response made it clear that even if the Republican line is more refined than Trump's bombast, it's still essentially an attempt to dodge responsibility: For a comparison, it's helpful to look back at the Hurricane Katrina aftermath, which included a report from a Republican-dominated Congress that was extremely critical of the George W. Bush administration.
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Mr. Trump's decision to make Stephen K. Bannon, chairman of the Breitbart News website, his campaign's chief executive was a defiant rejection of efforts by longtime Republican hands to wean him from the bombast and racially charged speech that helped propel him to the nomination but now threaten his candidacy by alienating the moderate voters who typically decide the presidency.
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Traficant was one of the most colorful members of the House who — like President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE — was best known for his toupee his bombast and his legal problems.
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Skrillex got his start in music with the screamy post-hardcore band From First to Last, and like Guns N' Roses, Skrillex's most famous compositions have a tendency toward unapologetic bombast; his subwoofer-destroying bass bursts are as radical within the context of mainstage EDM as a ripping fuzz pedal would have been in the early days of that invention.
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An election that involved, by the cultural critic John Leonard's accounting, an "immense expenditure … of money, bombast, blood and cretinism" ended, in effect, in a draw: a narrow victory by the candidate who had disclosed the least about his plans and beliefs, and a nation stuck somewhere along (or maybe off) the path from the old politics to the new.
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His evolution is a revealing case study about the incentives for Republicans in the Trump era, but also the risks they run: Longtime colleagues described Mr. Stewart as a brazenly cynical politician who could drag down the party as he tests whether a campaign of attacks on immigrants, schoolyard taunts and made-for-media bombast can prove effective in a state race.
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With a little help from disgraced hedge-funder turned fitness entrepreneur Pete Decker (Scott Cohen, lately of "The Americans") and his own employee Karl Allard (Allan Havey, as always a perfectly laid-back foil for Paul Giamatti's measured bombast), Chuck uncovers the fraud, sends the boyfriend packing, gets all of Ira's money back and persuades Taiga to sign a post-nup and run.
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It was so full of bombast and clichés, so larded with phrases like "we will break their will," so lacking in details and, most of all, so lacking in humility in confronting a problem and a region that has vexed better men for ages that I still don't know where he's going — only that he is going there very definitively.
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In January, Kanye West released his first Madlib-produced track, "No More Parties in L.A." (It will be included on his album "Waves," which is set to come out this month.) The song sounds like nothing that West has ever been part of; it has a depth beyond his bombast and a soulful mellowness that dials him down—a bit.
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But there are other instances, like on "Give Yourself a Try" ("I found a grey hair in one of my zoots"), and "Mine" ("I fight crime online sometimes"), which are less convincing—and yet, nine times out of ten on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, Healy's personal bombast, and his confidence in his project, just about carries even the most brow furrowing of lines off.
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NYC imprint Sweat Equity boss, JX Cannon, has turned to Qween Beat-affiliated ballroom producer Byrell The Great for a mechanically minimal remix of "Gagged," off of his forthcoming Tanked EP. Pairing back the hardcore-indebted bombast of the original, Byrell's take is sleek, precisely calibrated, and luxuriant in its rhythmic striation—building power and a sense of aura more through careful arrangement than full-tilt overdrive.
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The post, which made it to second place on the front page of /r/The_Donald, Reddit's hub of Trump support, elicited reactions ranging from bombast to concern: cries of "MAGA" ("Make America Great Again"), "TRUMP CHANGING LIVES FOR THE BETTER" and "GLAD TO HAVE YOU ABOARD THE HIGH ENERGY TRUMP TRAIN" followed advice to "steer clear of Muslims entirely" in case of an honour killing.
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"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage," former President Barack Obama said in a remembrance of a man whom he beat to the presidency in 2008, and who he wryly remembered hounded him for his performance almost every day he was in office.
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Of course, if you are a Hollywood screenwriter or even an American policymaker, the bombast is easy to satirise, as are Mr Kim's jelly-bean looks, or the pantsuit and elevator shoes of his late father, Kim Jong Il. The elder Kim once kidnapped a South Korean film director and his actress wife because, he told them, he thought a lot of his own propaganda films were terrible.
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These subplots about young love temper the grotesque bombast of the new season, because the Duffers seem to have learned that Stranger Things works best in the lulls—in the low-stakes, quiet moments between Mike and Eleven, or Steve and Dustin, or Brett Gelman's character and a random Russian hostage, in scenes were the show catches its breath and we're allowed to live alongside the characters for a minute.
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For such songs as "I Love All of Me," an empowerment anthem for the bullied, overlooked, and powerless; "Children Power," a jaunty march whose all-embracing spirit offers a lift for little ones from the playground to the boardroom; and "It's Gonna Rain," in which Ono, with little-girl glee, runs outside into a drenching downpour, Bartlett peels away the drum machines and bombast of their original 1980s versions.
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Let's assume Trump's lawyers are simply and understandably afraid that Trump can't help himself if he agrees to an interview or testimony; or that Trump does have something to hide; or that Trump's penchant for bombast and overstatement will seriously damage him when he is questioned by able prosecutors who have read everything on the subject and spoken to every relevant witness, something that Trump clearly will not have done.
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Colman approaches Elizabeth with the same clipped cadence and restrained flatness that Foy brought to the part, even though viewers have recently seen her play another British monarch with so much bombast and melodrama that it won her the Oscar: If anything proves that Colman is a versatile actress, it is seeing her swerve from The Favourite's petulant, barking Queen Anne into the staid and solid Queen Elizabeth.
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"You make me so happy it turns back to sad / There's nothing I hate more than what I can't have / Guess I'll just stumble on home to my cats" are actual lyrics that made the final cut of the song, and while this is probably an attempt at #relatability, it seems bizarre considering the isolated, "I don't trust nobody" bombast that she made such a big deal out of on the first single.
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The style that hews closest to familiar playbooks is K-pop, which embraces the boy band and teen-pop of the early 2000s and blends it with modern-day hip-hop and R&B hybrids and, sometimes, the bombast of E.D.M. The nimble boy band NCT 127 — currently touring with nine members — and the breakthrough four-member girl group Blackpink both came to the Prudential Center in Newark, offering slightly differing versions of the template.
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There was a time when some of his actions were interesting, but more recently his antics have been marked by insufferable bombast and bloated ego, a lethal mix that found its apotheosis in a tasteless, staged photo in early 2016 on the Greek island of Lesbos, in which Ai assumed the same position as the body of a dead, Syrian refugee boy which had been found in Turkey months earlier, washed up on a beach.
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Confessions of a congressman: 9 secrets from the inside That was when Elvis broke up his larger numbers — that probably pointed toward the "Also Sprach Zarathustra" Vegas jumpsuit bombast to come — with an intimate, acoustic set in the round with his old band mates from Sun days, Scotty Moore and Bill Black, as they played a medley of the songs that made Elvis a star, joking and joshing as they did it.
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He is quite funny on the beefcake bombast of the visiting Bolshoi Ballet's "Spartacus" ("Stalwart men leap and leap and leap, brandishing swords and muscles"), suitably repelled by the chic, misogynist Cruella de Ville aesthetic of Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake" and stoic in the face of the New York City Ballet's slow fade to gray under the sturdy but uninspiring leadership of Peter Martins, who retired under pressure in January, amid allegations of physical abuse and sexual harassment.
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To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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At a time when President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's foreign policy bombast unsettles old allies, and his rhetoric about immigration complicates relationships with our Spanish-speaking neighbors in the Americas, Colombia is preparing for its first post-peace agreement presidential election this May.
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To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
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Both Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE indulge in the bombast of protectionism.
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The 2016 presidential election leaves Americans with a dismal choice between Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's degrading bombast and Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's scandal-prone inauthenticity.
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See how the above proposals had nothing to do with political correctness, sexual assault, Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE's victims, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's bombast, or Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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