| 1. | His poetry of this first period is generally, though not always, shallow and insincere in thought, and declamatory or bombastic in expression. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 2. | And on its part, German Socialism recognised, more and more, its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty-bourgeois Philistine. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| 3. | In both these works Macpherson succeeds in giving an air of primal grandeur to his heroes the characters are big and shadowy the imagery is at times magnificent the language is a kind of chanting, bombastic pros. - from English Literature by William J. Long |