Sentence examples for puffed-up speeches from inspiring English sources
There is nothing wrong with such advocacy, except that in this case it means that the movie veers away from its strengths, ending in a welter of convenient (and dubious) plot twists and puffed-up speeches.
Pete makes a puffed-up speech to the SCDP employees regarding his success in landing the Mohawk account.
It provides a special vocabulary, or what the great French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, quoting Pascal, called puffed-up words.
Update: In his recently published book, Goldstone writes that he didn't mean Chaika but was using "puffed-up language to describe a government attorney" -- Veselnitskaya.
Perhaps there's some scholar out there who disagrees and has published extensive research showing the benefits of inefficient, puffed-up words and expressions.
King Baudouin of Belgium gives a puffed-up, patronising speech eulogising his great-great-uncle: "Leopold II did not present himself to you as a conqueror, but as an agent of civilisation". This was the King Leopold II under whose brutal personal rule of the Congo Free State, from 1885-1908, an estimated 10m Congolese died of disease, starvation, war, ill-treatment, and summary execution.
But when the time comes for the movie to make its point, it falls back on creaky plot twists and puffed-up, over-earnest speeches.
Mira is appalled by the "puffed-up, self-satisfied language of parents" adopted by NATO.
"Wearing that puffed-up old thing".
Unless that, too, is a puffed-up figure.
