Blimp energy is the unmistakable aura of someone who enters any room with the settled conviction that their opinions are the most important ones in it. Not aggressive, exactly — more like a barometric pressure front moving through, filling the space with a kind of authoritative, slightly airless pomposity before anyone else has had a chance to speak. You know blimp energy when you feel it: the slight raising of the voice to address a group that didn't ask to be addressed, the long sighs at anything unfamiliar, the absolutely unshakeable certainty that they are right and everyone else is simply confused.
He walked in radiating pure blimp energy and spent the next hour telling everyone how things worked as if he'd personally invented them.
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