Holding himself so beautifully aloof from the bombast, the bullying

Definitely overeducated, supercilious, and full, initially, of bombastic opinions about the girl

Its rage for reinventing itself and erecting very nearly bombastic architecture

This may sound more bombastic than I mean to be.

And on its part, German socialism recognized, more and more, its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty-bourgeois philistine

Like a bombastic speech, life appears to be meaningful but is actually vapid.

no longer Wagner as the poet of Teutonic mythology, of bombastic heroic grandeur