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Reviewers call Bloom's tome "a cloak-bag of ideas, stuffed with true wisdom and false bombast" (Jonathan Bate, the Wall Street Journal ). Bloom's vigor and intelligence in his examination of Shakespeare's plays make the book a joy to read, despite the fact that he "does not quite prove his tremendous thesis" (Jodie Morse, Time )--that Shakespeare single-handedly created the modern idea of individual personality.
North of Santa Maria Novella, spare a glance at the simple, clean-lined architecture of the Stazione Centrale (main railway station), built in 1935 during Mussolini’s heyday but somehow defying the prevailing monumental bombast of the Fascist regime that you can see in the monstrosity of Milan’s central station.
They substitute intensity for emotion and give us bombast when we want passion.
The Princes’ Chapel (Cappella dei Principi) is a piece of 17th-century Baroque bombast in flamboyant multi-colored marbles, for which the altar was not completed, appropriately enough, until 1939.
Unsurprisingly, Irony Inc. (a k a the New York Observer ) shreds the book, calling the chapter on the dangers of genetic engineering "a warning so bloated with bombast that one begins to wish that the gene for pomposity could be extirpated for the sake of future generations.