It later became Merv Griffin Enterprises in September 1984 ( at the end of this show, the theme for MGE was a bombastic, jazz-like horn theme that was heard only on the Merv Griffin Show ), and produced the final two seasons.

The show featured a bombastic music package, including a main theme strongly reminiscent of the Santa Esmeralda disco hit " Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood ," which had been used itself on the pilot.

After a bombastic return to A ’, the quiet C theme is played in the piano and then handed off to the clarinet.

The theme was a considerably more traditional and standard ( but still peppy and bombastic ), theme than the one of the past four seasons.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

Sports Illustrated, in its postmortem, noted the drastic change between 1974 and 1975 as if the two seasons were played by totally different leagues: one ( 1974 ), a bombastic credit risk, and the other ( 1975 ), a safer but much quieter, and much less noticed, entity that failed because it was ignored.

He issued a bombastic proclamation in America announcing an imminent general rising in Ireland ; but he was himself soon afterwards deposed by his confederates, among whom dissension had broken out.

O ' Ceallaigh, who had been fired by U2 for complaining about them in an interview, was outspoken with his views on music and politics, and O ' Connor adopted the same habits ; she defended the actions of the IRA and said U2's music was " bombastic ".

As an actor, Garrick promoted realistic acting that departed from the bombastic style that was entrenched when Garrick first came to prominence.

From his first performance, Garrick departed from the bombastic style that had been popular, choosing instead a more relaxed, naturalistic style that biographer Alan Kendall states " would probably seem quite normal to us today, but it was new and strange for his day.

He was one of the first German poets to substitute for the bombastic imitations of Marini, to which he himself had begun by contributing, a clear and simple diction.

On the invasion of Italy by the French, he wrote in support of their cause, received a pension, and was made knight of the iron crown by Napoleon I, to whom, in consequence, he addressed a bombastic and extravagantly flattering poem called Pronea.

Bullmoose's bombastic motto ( see Dialogue and catchphrases ) was adapted by Capp from a statement made by Charles E. Wilson, the former head of General Motors when it was America's largest corporation.

The Second Symphony was commissioned to include a poem by Alexander Bezymensky, which glorified Lenin's role in the proletariat struggle in bombastic style.

Another Rogers contribution to modern wrestling was his bombastic interviewing style.

Part of Thomson's downfall was due to a bombastic personality and an arrogance which would not permit him to interact with regular doctors or even to pursue additional studies in anatomy and physiology.

The music was never predictable and could get quite bombastic, but it managed to swing while still keeping the Kenton sound.

Young was an outspoken and even bombastic politician, once calling Reform Party MP Deborah Grey " a slab of bacon " in the House.

It was there that his knowledgeable but bombastic and over-the-top broadcasting style would first be heard in the New York area.

During the episode, a visibly irritated Gene Simmons ( bass ) and Paul Stanley ( guitar ) tried to contain the bombastic ( and drunk ) Ace Frehley ( lead guitar ), whose nonstop laughter and joking overshadowed the rest of the band, though Snyder was obviously enjoying it, chiming in with several jokes, much to Frehley ’ s delight, and Simmons disgust .. Drummer Peter Criss made repeated references to his large gun collection, to the chagrin of Simmons.

Chrononhotonthologos was a parody of bombastic tragedy and, particularly, the very hack-written spectacle plays he had collaborated on at Drury Lane.

Robinson was able to garner national attention due to his bombastic and exaggerative rhetoric.

The manifesto's rhetoric was passionately bombastic ; its aggressive tone was purposely intended to inspire public anger and arouse controversy.

", and that " from the vocal sample introducing the opener (" behold ... they're coming back "), it's clear Rowlands and Simons know the importance of this fourth album, and it detonates like a bomb blast, as though the duo knew that Come With Us had to be bigger and badder than all the bombastic breaks they'd dropped in the past.

Plutarch remarks here that Colotes attacked Stilpo in a bombastic manner as though he ignored common life: " for how shall we live, if we cannot style a man good, nor a man a captain, but must separately name a man a man, good good, and a captain a captain.

His literary style, highly coloured, bombastic, egotistic, and full of turgid periphrases, gradually became associated by the public with their conception of the Daily Telegraph ; and though the butt of the more scholarly literary world, his articles were invariably full of interesting matter and helped to make the reputation of the paper.

He was somewhat more courteous to Beust's successors, though he remained given to bombastic pronouncements that may not have reflected his actual sentiments.

Some Huguenots used it for baptisms, marriages and burials but not for everyday worship, preferring their own chapels ( their chapels were severely plain compared with the bombastic English Baroque style of Christ Church ) though increasingly they assimilated into English life and Anglican worship — which was in the eighteenth century relatively plain.

She wrote, " The book is bombastic, baroque and like so much else about Carl Jung, a willful oddity, synched with an antediluvian and mystical reality.

Festivals with international stars and noteworthy films gave way to others filled with bombastic socialist rhetoric, which nearly caused the complete loss of the festival audience.

He speaks with an exaggerated Yiddish accent and his bombastic entrance resembles that of the wizard in The Wizard of Oz.

In conversations with Eidelman, Meyer mentioned that since the marches that accompanied the main titles for other Star Trek films were so good, he had no desire to compete with them by composing a bombastic opening.

The antiquities of Herculaneum showed that even the most classicizing interiors of the Baroque, or the most " Roman " rooms of William Kent were based on basilica and temple exterior architecture, turned outside in: pedimented window frames turned into gilded mirrors, fireplaces topped with temple fronts, now all looking quite bombastic and absurd.

For this version, which is present as a sketch in the Violin Concerto's autograph alongside revisions to the solo part, Beethoven wrote a lengthy, somewhat bombastic first movement cadenza which features the orchestra's timpanist along with the solo pianist.

" Complete with anthemic choruses, spoken word story lines, and plenty of bombastic power metal punctuating every dramatic turn ", says Allmusic's Vincent Jeffries, " Nightfall in Middle-Earth is perhaps Blind Guardian's most triumphant ".

Most songs escalate into falsetto vocals and bombastic, over-the-top anthemic choruses, with crushing guitars and subtle samplers.

Their first major commercial success came with Frengers, released in 2003, described as " a work of quiet brilliance, aiming for the epic without straying into the bombastic, offering cerebral arrangements while keeping things accessible.

She single handedly brought classical tragedy back with a difference, breathing human passion into figures with tradition and a bombastic delivery.

" This type of bombastic style went over well with the fans and has been followed ever since.

The album met with a mixed reception from critics and fans upon release, some of whom were disappointed by Harvey ’ s experimental and less bombastic new style.

The previous poet laureate had been William Davenant, and Davenant did stage spectacles and plays with exceptionally bombastic speeches from the heroes ( e. g. The Siege of Rhodes ).

The Grocer and his wife are bombastic, sure of themselves, and certain that their prosperity carries with it mercantile advantages ( the ability to demand a different play for their admission fee than the one the actors have prepared ).

Virgin Steele play what they call " barbaric romanticism " which is a symphonic, romantic and bombastic music with many elements taken from classical music and fantasy / mythological lyrics based on real life events.

As the discography progressed, the material became more lively, with the more bombastic approach and a focus on a form of martial industrial with emphasis on neoclassical instrumentation combined with experimentalism.