Posts Tagged: Falstaff

  • Commemorating the death of Shakespeare —Sydney statue is inscribed with—We are such stuff as dreams are made on

    We are such stuff as dreams

    Today is the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s death on the 23rd April 1616 (it is also the 452nd anniversary of his birth). William Shakespeare is considered the greatest of all writers in the English language. He wrote 37 plays that created some of literatures’ most famous characters. He introduced hundreds of words into English that […]

  • Bombastic—pretentious language; an inflated style; or pompous language inappropriate for the occasion.

    Bombast is cottoning on

    I am sure that you know what bombastic means. It is used to describe pretentious language; an inflated style; or pompous language inappropriate for the occasion. We have all had to sit through a speaker who thinks that he is orator but is really just a bore. I remember the first time I even heard bombastic. […]