Jones is still free to beam his vicious rodomontade on the internet for all to see.
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Other recent selections, following primaries and caucuses: "rabble-rouser" ("Our users love agent nouns like this," Otto said), "rodomontade" ("vainglorious boasting or bragging"), and "skulduggery" ("dishonorable proceedings").
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The two fight a duel and Rodomonte is killed. Rodomonte's prowess is matched only by his arrogance and boasting. His name is the source of the expression rodomontade, meaning "boastful, bragging talk".Concise Oxford English Dictionary Rodomonte is also synonymous with strength and courage.
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Its Act 3 was so powerful that it had long deterred Verdi from beginning his own Otello, but the rest of the opera was "flashy rodomontade" with "the odd mauvais quart-d'heure". Philips's album, though, had no weaknesses at all. Frederica von Stade's Desdemona was "chaste and as luminous as a sculpture in Carrara marble". José Carreras's Otello was a "searingly noble Moor".
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Critical response to the first and historical part of the essay has generally been negative. Furbank, in his 1992 book, describes this part of the essay as mainly "empty rodomontade, a string of resounding sentiments aiming not at conviction but at applause. He fumes, he apostrophises, he utters ringing rebukes and challenges to imaginary enemies." Fellows noted that no work of Diderot, with the possible exception of The Indiscreet Jewels, has received the kind of harsh criticism either in the eighteenth or the twentieth century as this essay of Diderot.
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In spite of the overwhelming superiority of her opponents, Canonnière had managed to escape with light damage, and Captain Bourayne wounded, but not seriously. The British historian William James praised Bourayne for his sober and accurate account of the engagement: "No rodomontade; all is plainly, yet minutely told, and, in every material point, agrees with the entry in the British ship's log";Naval history of Great Britain, by William James, vol. IV, p.235 he furthermore cites the action as a textbook example of defence against a stronger opponent: Canonnière was very nearly captured on 29 April, however, when she sailed into the harbour of Simon's Town, ignorant of the fact that the Dutch colony had been captured by the British.
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Julian Hawthorne, the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, wrote (in his posthumously published Memoirs ) of his initiation into Delta Kappa Epsilon: > I was initiated into a college secret society—a couple of hours of grotesque > and good-humored rodomontade and horseplay, in which I cooperated as in a > kind of pleasant nightmare, confident, even when branded with a red-hot iron > or doused head-over heels in boiling oil, that it would come out all right. > The neophyte is effectively blindfolded during the proceedings, and at last, > still sightless, I was led down flights of steps into a silent crypt, and > helped into a coffin, where I was to stay until the Resurrection...Thus it > was that just as my father passed from this earth, I was lying in a coffin > during my initiation into Delta Kappa Epsilon. Meetings and rituals are sometimes conducted in what is known as a "chapter room" located inside the fraternity's house. Entry into chapter rooms is often prohibited to all but the initiated.
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