(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.
Loudmouth
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This, or so the knowing forecast went, would be the end of a half-diverting saga of an appealing loudmouth.
(2) Donald Trump is a loudmouth who has never spent a day in public office.
(3) Their paths to showbiz acclaim have been intricately linked, from their on-screen depiction of the loudmouthed rapping brother-sister duo Smithy and Rudi in Gavin and Stacey to their subsequent two-year relationship off-screen.
(4) It is this poverty-drenched environment in which Hussain met James Cromitie, a loudmouth Walmart worker who claimed to deal drugs and stolen goods.
(5) The rapper was replying to those who have criticised his dress sense – hip-hop loudmouths who have tried to "label" him as gay, including a recent homophobic diss by 50 Cent.
(6) Comedian and musician Tim Minchin will star in his first sitcom as a loudmouth cocktail pianist in 88 Keys for the BBC.
(7) The EU’s failure to craft a coherent response to the crisis of mass movement from Africa and the Middle East is tailor-made for Ukip loudmouths.
(8) They regard Malema as a clown, a loudmouth and a bully.
(9) I am the greatest" - Ali shouting at reporters who had dismissed him as a loudmouth and a fake before the Liston fight in 1964.
(10) In order to escape jail, Monsegur, a notorious loudmouth elite hacker who was considered a ringleader of the groups, had been covertly cooperating with the FBI to help build cases against, and track down, his former partners.
(11) Nor is my daughter, and I hope she never will be, because luckily we are all loudmouths.
(12) He was one of those loudmouthed New Yorkers with a big cigar.
(13) How do we fight the loudmouth politics of authoritarian populism?
(14) A skilled politician even then, this tall, long-haired 16-year-old – with a penchant for jeans and tweed sports jackets – managed, while attending to his official duties, to humour an argumentative cadre of awkward first-year student loudmouths whose pimpled number included me.
(15) He subsequently said he regretted his comments, saying: “People think I'm just a loudmouth, angry guy … there's more to me than that rant.” Speaking about his own experience, he said: “You've got a lot of racial backlash, and a lot of racist comments that were uncalled for – I can never see a time where racism is called for.
(16) The sensationally funny and daring cameo for Marshall McLuhan, who magically appears in a cinema queue to tell some loudmouth academic that he is wrong and Alvy is right, is an inspired and sophisticated flourish.
(17) Over at the SNY TV Network, which is partially owned by the crosstown Mets, there was a diatribe from from Chris Carlin, who co-hosts a show called Loudmouths .
(18) Once, at a showbiz party, I remember someone said, "And this is such-and-such from the Sun," and I swung round, almost with a clenched fist, expecting to meet a physical embodiment of the tabloid, a loudmouth yob with a penchant for puns.