单选题 After five years as club president and thirty years as an orator, this colossal oaf, his style marked by______and boastfulness, is still unable to discipline his urge to______.

• (A) consonance… perorate
• (B) rue… prattle
• (C) casuistry … reproach
• (D) adamancy … expostulate
• (E) pomposity … self-aggrandize