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“I found more champions than anyone in history,” Van Pelt says without a hint of gasconading.

“Your gasconade and cache of catchphrases, so limiting and reflexive, escalate the emasculation of you by a world whose patience is in nuclear peril,” says the book’s title character.

For the rest, I calmly went on with my eulogy on courage; only that, instead of ludicrous gasconading, which directly betrays the coward, I purposely expressed myself in words at once cool, clear and firm.

But those, who know anything of our history or situation, must have the utmost contempt for all these gasconades.

No one excelled him in ingenuity, eloquence, bombast, gasconade or dialectic skill.