Bluster

I bluster as though I know what I am doing.

If you take away all the geopolitical bluster between India and Pakistan, you can still see how much these two nations have in common. I personally am fascinated and love both of them. I even wish they never split.

They’re just bluff and bluster.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek.

Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.

He bloweth and blustereth out […] his abominable blasphemy.

As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.

And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.