Sentence:  Generally, you know, I'm conspiracy-theory-phobic. But in this case, all Amis's <WSD>blustering</WSD> about how he's ill-treated seems to mask the reality of a completely simpering attitude to our greatest living novelist utterly regardless of the quality of his literary output. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Swaggering; braggartry; noisy pretension.