【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．(A) consonance… perorate

B．(B) rue… prattle
C．(C) casuistry … reproach
D．(D) adamancy … expostulate
E．(E) pomposity … self-aggrandize