(1) In June, just as Friendship was being published in the US, a blowhard critic named Edward Champion took her to task in an 11,000-word blog post titled “Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, and the Middling Millennials” , in which his principal beef appeared to be that Gould was a woman and not James Baldwin.
(2) The minister, Tory blowhard Duff Cooper, declared: “I won’t have that man on the air.” To say something friendly about Russia was not on the cards for another year.
(3) It’s a nation of deciders and robber barons and blowhards.
(4) This involves tight prioritisation – allowing yourself a certain amount of time per task – and trying not to get caught up in less productive activities, such as unstructured meetings that tend to take up lots of time.” We’ve all been there, wishing we weren’t stuck in the same room as a bunch of fatuous blowhards – or, as Michael Foley puts it in his superb book The Age of Absurdity , “the colleagues who speak at length in every meeting, in loud confident tones that suggest critical independence, but never deviate from the official line”.
(5) Schwartz told the New Yorker he found the process draining and said that he had made a concerted effort to make Trump appear “a sympathetic character” in order to ensure the book’s success, rather than “just hateful or, worse yet, a one-dimensional blowhard”.
(6) This is the blowhard who can’t help contradicting himself.
(7) Anchorman Adrian Chiles has been slagging them off since the start of the programme, in the style of the half-cut blowhard propped up at the bar who's best given a wide berth on the way to the lavvy.
(8) To them, Trump wasn’t a blowhard or a borderline racist.
(9) Colbert, wearing thick-rimmed glasses, spoke as himself, not as the blowhard character he has played on The Colbert Report for eight years.
(10) Hank is a blowhard man's man but also a DEA agent, whose path is inextricably, unavoidably drawn towards that of the mysterious Heisenberg.
(11) He was a narcissist, a megalomaniac, a racist war-mongering blowhard suffering from what one Twitter commentator called part of the "white saviour industrial complex".
(12) The blowhard billionaire’s appeal to authoritarianism and cries of rigging have led some to fear an existential threat to the republic.
(13) "It should be about attacking the powerful – the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards – going after them.
(14) Nobody knows whether isolationism or adventurism will dominate in the final foreign policy mix or which blowhards from Fox News will be appointed to run America’s diplomacy and defence policy.
(15) Trump is the face of that idiocy – saying this week that, “Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated”, when in fact everybody but him and the blowhards on Fox News knew precisely that many, many years ago.
Braggadocio
Definition:
(n.) A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
(n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Huck Finn , he could recall life on America's great river as a permanent thing, a place of menacing sunsets, starlit nights and strange dawns, of the confessions of dying men, hints of buried treasure, murderous family feuds, overheard shoptalk, the crazy braggadocio of travelling showmen, the distant thunder of the civil war, and two American exiles, Huck the orphan and Jim the runaway slave, floating down the immensity of the great Mississippi.
(2) Sometimes men launch these attacks on each other, hack each other in displays of techie braggadocio, but it is essentially yet another unwanted cost of being female.
(3) And then she allowed his style and braggadocio to rattle her.
(4) But he continues to show that he is not being “handled”, and it’s likely he will go on with this bluster and braggadocio.
(5) Yes, there are still braggadocio lyrics and attitudes but I would say hip-hop has made great strides.
(6) Already, the Kentucky fighter's braggadocio ("I am the prettiest ...
(7) But again, Trump seems extreme compared to other candidates, as witnessed in his near-constant self-references, his over-the-top braggadocio and his desire to plaster his name on skyscrapers, casinos, a so-called “university” and steaks.
(8) Donald Trump drew oohs and aahs for all of his one-liners and braggadocio , while more centrist candidates like Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich drew scepticism and a fair number of boos in the crowded hotel ballroom during Thursday night’s debate.
(9) Because people are saying ‘You know, Trump is right … Trump has a point’.” There is so much braggadocio involved in the Donald Trump Show that many people outside his political bubble have become accustomed to taking everything he says with a very large pinch of salt.
(10) Hurley's lyrics combine braggadocio and rebellious sloganeering with an underlying sense of bleak urban unease.
(11) If someone else was saying this you might take it as idle hip-hop braggadocio, but this is Rick Ross we're talking about.
(12) Isis is playing a game of braggadocio and provocation, dressing it up in the language of prisoner exchanges and execution, as though it really is the state it claims to be.
(13) Angst experienced after losing all of one's friends following a protracted bout of online braggadocio, often enhanced by the grim, slowly-dawning realisation that the maxim "you only live once" works equally well as a warning against such hubristic carelessness, so maybe you should've frigging well heeded it eh #yolo.
(14) Now, Ali – the Greatest, the inventor and ne plus ultra of boxing’s motor-mouth braggadocio – has fallen all but silent.
(15) Perhaps that is why I’m most proud of this achievement; the braggadocio is ever-present.