10 examples of rhodomontade in sentences

When the red men had indulged to satiety in tobacco-smoke from their peace-pipes, and in what they love still bettertheir peculiar metaphoric rhodomontade, which, beginning with the celestial bodies, and coursing downward over the grandest sublunary objects, always managed to alight at last on their "Great Father," Polk, and the tenderness with which his affectionate red children regarded him.

No understanding reader could be imposed upon by such obvious rhodomontade to suspect me for an alien, or believe me other than English.

The great leader and master of all this rhodomontade is Homer's "Ulysses," who talks to Alcinous about the winds {75} pent up in bags, man-eaters, and one-eyed Cyclops, wild men, creatures with many heads, several of his companions turned into beasts by enchantment, and a thousand things of this kind, which he related to the ignorant and credulous Phaeacians.

His reports were without rhodomontade or exaggeration, and his tone uniformly modest, composed, and uninflated.

I have sickened on the modern rhodomontade & Byronism, and your plain Quakerish Beauty has captivated me.

All that which Mitford tells you of H.'s book is rhodomontade, only H. has written unguardedly about me, and nothing makes a man more foolish than his own foolish panegyric.

"There is a certain kind of cad who is much given to boastful rhodomontade concerning his conquests.

I heard him preach one of his earliest sermons, and I have hardly ever heard such boyish rhodomontade.

When educated women "mistake vagueness for depth, bombast for eloquence, and affectation for originality," she is not surprised that men regard rhodomontade as the native accent of woman's intellect, or that they come to the conclusion that "the average nature of women is too shallow and feeble a soil to bear much tillage.

Osmanli journalists themselves treated one to rhodomontades punctuated with restless gesticulation, which revived memories of Athenian cafés in war-time.

10 examples of  rhodomontade  in sentences