Examples from literature

• He was a quiet, mild-minded man, devoid of bombast, neither cynical nor meddlesome, and was well liked by all. 
• His tragedies, which, with much bombast and frequent untrained flights of imagination, have occasional fire and tenderness, are generally based on classical subjects. 
• The style of the great eulogy, born of the occasion and the speaker, becomes only exaggerated bombast and nonsense from the lips of a student. 
• This introduction is one of the most extraordinary pieces of bombast, mixed metaphors, loose syntax, and incoherent expressions that Latin literature possesses. 
• Yet there was a certain sincerity of feeling underneath all the bombast and platitudes, and this saved the book.