semi-bombastic

Updated: June 8, 2025

It is written, as usual, with his tongue in his cheek, in that vein of semi-bombastic paradox which was designed to mystify the simple and to amuse the acuter reader. But there is an inner seriousness in it all; and, as it has a certain correspondence with his public career and achievements, it must be taken as substantially true.

Frederic Harrison - Studies in Early Victorian Literature