He was always ready, in a humorous, bombastic sort of spirit, to smash the aristocracy, to chaff Alfred Bunn, to abuse low-class Jews, and to discuss the theatre.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
He understood instinctively the difference between that and his bombastic pretensions.
"The History of Peru"
Henry S. Beebe
bombastic expressions of a soaring imagination, a commonplace and too familiar manner of speaking of Christ as a brother, of kisses and embraces, of individual souls as the particular Bride of Christ, of naive and pet images for the Christ-child,-all these I have scrupulously avoided, and serious-minded men will not blame me if, in this respect, I have revered the majesty of our Lord.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden