As his contemporaries gravitated towards large-scale, bombastic works, Newell moved in the opposite direction, at one point destroying all the pieces he'd produced to date.
In Destiny (1926), Otto Nückel (1888 1955) produced a work with greater nuance and atmosphere than Masereel's bombastic works; where Masereel told tales of Man's struggle against Society, Nückel told of the life of an individual woman.
Should the architect of a place like Brasilia - or of buildings like Mr. Bunshaft's more bombastic late works - be awarded a prize like the Pritzker?
Others think his work bombastic, pretentious, or claustrophobically male-locked: McCarthy has a tendency to omit half the human race from serious scrutiny.
Nielsen's symphonic output is varied and often impressive — particularly the Fourth, completed during World War I — and it will be fascinating to hear the full cycle, but the Second is a bombastic, dully relentless work.
("No Country for Old Men" opens with a prisoner strangling a sheriff's deputy with the chain of his handcuffs). Others think his work bombastic, pretentious, or claustrophobically male-locked: McCarthy has a tendency to omit half the human race from serious scrutiny.
Marc Anthony, are the icing to this bombastic and tropical work.
Listening to the man wax nostalgic about the beauty of creativity is a strange foil to his visually bombastic collection of works, spanning oversized mounds of rainbow Play-Doh, delicate glass recreations of his own sexual endeavors and gilded Michael Jackson-and-Bubbles figures.
For journalists and readers, Oransky said, the best thing to do when confronted with a bombastic new study from a respected outlet is to put it in context with previous work on the topic.
Magee is right, though, in claiming that it is still fashionable in many circles to dismiss Wagner and his work as bombastic and vulgar, if not downright evil.
