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  • He was determined to show Rick "Blowhard" Hillier that he was The Boss.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • He was determined to show Rick "Blowhard" Hillier that he was The Boss.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • "Blowhard," said the Captain, striking the table with such force as to cause a loaf of ship's bread to bounce up and down three or four times, "you've struck it.

    Nonsense Novels Stephen Leacock 1906

  • Blowhard bigots like limbaugh fuel the fire of ignorance.

    Blacks in survey say race relations no better with Obama 2009

  • Blowhard also referred to some kind of ancestral black market heritage.

    Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Blowhard the long-distance running whale from The Tick cartoon could take him.

    Epic Whale Guy | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Noting yesterday's post on this blog, A.C. Douglas maintains that I share with Michael Blowhard "the curious notion that the actual writing in a work of fiction is somehow separable or exists apart from the work's story."

    Narrative Strategies 2009

  • People have remarked that those determined sheep on your cover look rather frightening, but Michael Blowhard pointed out some even scarier sheep here

    Myth of the Rational Voter Now Physically Exists, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • It may be true that, as Michael Blowhard contends, Gold Medal Books, publisher of pulp/noir fiction in the 1950s, "had a greater impact on the content and form [of] American fiction-writing than any other postwar book publisher," although he doesn't really provide much support for this claim beyond citing a few films that were adapted from Gold Medal books, as well as various filmmakers who obviously enough have been influenced by the noir style.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • If Michael Blowhard thinks pulp fiction should be respected for its capacity to satisfy popular tastes, I'm not going to quarrel with him.

    Genre Fiction 2010

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