"Grandiloquence" is complex speech or writing judged to be pompous or bombastic diction. Thus began his transition into the brash, bombastic manager "Captain" Lou Albano. Searing guitars and busy drums, epic songs and complex arrangements, wistful romanticism and bombastic grandeur. He also praised the lively chord changes and bombastic choruses. "Empires" expanded on the band's bombastic, melodic synthesizer lines and incorporated tighter song structures. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue, which is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. A sort of bombastic march, it sound like the Carabinieri fanfare. Numb's instrumentation consists of an Egyptian flute riff and "a crashing bombastic beat". Their performances are more dramatically bombastic than sympathetic, or sometimes even believable. "Cue" described it as "shoddy, bombastic nonsense". The band is also known for a loud and bombastic sound. Their style incorporates pieces of hardcore, bombastic arena rock and post-punk. Nightwish recorded a second demo with "more bombastic, dramatic" songs in September 1997. A "NME" writer described it as "bombastic" electro.