R100 employed conventional technology, including
gasbags and reconditioned Rolls-Royce Condor petrol engines.
"This makes it less likely to break through to the
gasbag," says West.
"The
gasbag which lost its way: Comedy of a navigator who dropped bombs on the wrong town" its front page story on April 16, 1915, said.
Limbaugh is a grossly overpaid
gasbag, a fixture propagandist for the GOP establishment, whose only real claim to fame is reviling infamous Democrats.
I'm not always "brilliant," still less am I a teacher, but if O-level Shakespeare classes drummed anything into me it's that it's always more interesting to hear your peers read the parts in a five act play, even if they cock it up, giggle and can't read terribly well, than it is to listen to a pompous
gasbag in grand recital mode.
Easily Got (by Ballylanigan Tanist) and Envious
Gasbag (by Knockeevan Champion) ran-up for Waterloo Plates in 1956 and 1958 respectively.
Indeed, the very object of the Ueberroth campaign seemed to be to position the candidate as the
Gasbag Businessman.
The abrupt switch provoked a scathing April 7 column from Shafer, who charged that "master
gasbag" Apple "dismounts from the Defeatist Express and joins the All-American war wagon, writing with no sense of irony or self-correction." Shafer further lambasted Apple for failing to quote any named sources in the piece published March 27 and, in an interview, for "writing out of his own fevered imagination."
To present an opinion is to risk being presumptuous, pompous, and, as Epstein calls Emerson, "a
gasbag." It is to assume a knowledge of one's neighbor one cannot or should not have.
With no hail-to-the-chief fanfare or
gasbag intros, Lula took the microphone.
Vanderhulk, in particular, is a foolish
gasbag who warrants only ridicule; he shares some of the pretensions of Polonius in Hamlet.
Swamy cannot question him on fiscal management, inflation, growth rate etc because he knows that in the ensuing public debate he would be exposed as nothing but a
gasbag.
