It transpires that he had a big Beethoven phase at 19 - loved the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies - but then fell violently out of love, found him too bombastic, all those declamatory openings that challenge the world.
In the tradition of colorful Hudson County politicians, Mr. Russo played hardball politics, delighting his supporters and exasperating his opponents with bombastic statements and heated exchanges with City Council in which he often shouted down those who challenged him.
I would like to say the following to agencies: a commercial with Jean-Claude Van Damme doing what's been dubbed "the epic split" between two Volvo trucks is a bombastic dramatisation of an incremental product difference and entertaining as hell, but your clients are facing bigger challenges.
We have challenges that must be addressed to be sure, but HRC does it not in a bombastic way like I am exposed to seeing her opponent continually advocating.
Watch the bombastic 12-seconds below.
The bombastic Jones took a bow this week.
They're as bombastic as ever.
When her narrators are bombastic, they are usually winningly bombastic.
Many hands toppled Libya's bombastic colonel.
