rhodomontade

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Examples

• When one remembers that its vast scheme of transformation was the work of a few young exiles, it reads like pure rhodomontade.

• Codrington recites a long rhodomontade ending thus: I check myself and put a curb on the runaway muses.

• He got to think that she was really a genius in a way, and saw merit even in the verbiage and rhodomontade of her books.

• "I won't hear any more of this rhodomontade—this voice of the devil on the lips of my child," he said, snatching up his hat again.

• The whole thing was, most probably, nothing but a bit of rhodomontade on Chevrial's part.