bravado

How much of this is bravado, how much rumour and how much fact is hard to say.

Private Rangel was not a sergeant, but he had an air about him, a mixture of bravado and charisma, that made people think he was.

She took a Lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.

She put it back, and proceeded to get dinner early and in good time. Her little bravado made her feel as if she ought to make amends.

You'll need a little kitchen bravado to try some of these, but you'll also need to be plagued with a healthy weakness for chocolate.

With a bit of bravado, the old gang hung out their new shingle: the Prediction Company.

I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.

Listen, it may have been bravado, Norman grandstanding to me that he spotted a genius early on.

Whatever the dent to national bravado, or to the free-enterprise ideology, the phrase "too big to fail" suddenly carried an American accent.

He was lightly afoot again, turned and waved his cap in a bravado, and was out of sight next moment in the margin of the wood.

The Frontline Club in London has long been where foreign correspondents gather to swap boozy stories about far-flung adventures and bravado.

The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.

He wears the blue blazer and tan chinos of an academic but has the bravado of a heavyweight who used to box for the marines.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N. Y. ), one of the loudest prognosticators of a coming shut down, followed with bravado.

He was first into the sea, and at once swam out with the bravado of justifying his self-given reputation.

I was intrigued by his bravado, but I think the film captures a change in his personality.

That's clearly the sign of a player who would rather not deal with his defender, so on this night, DeShawn's bravado paid off.

She swayed the knife in her hand. It was just an act of bravado.

For all the bravado, the Lakers can be careless, a team with holes and an inability to finish off an opponent as a champion must.

Despite the bravado, Mr. Prokhorov's latest ambitions seem at least partly in line with the Kremlin's plans.

He had the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he had plundered a police post simply out of bravado.

For all his bravado, the real-estate broker Ramesh Ajwani is no more than a minnow in a sea of sharks.

He dusted off some of that old Shaq bravado after torching the Raptors.

These were nothing but the outcome of youthful bravado.

There is no denying his courage and bravado, nor does he make any attempt to do so.

He believes it is "unnecessary bravado" for a private bank to have an investment approach that rests primarily on manager selection.

However, she is still childlike, while all her cunningness is no more than bravado.

Iron Maiden, with their distinctive, "Eddie" evil-faced mask mascot, have been with Bravado since the early 1980s.

When the family views the body, they go as a little army "full of bravado and hilarity" .

For rookies or veterans, guarding Bryant can become a humiliating undressing in a sport that feeds off boasting and bravado.

But the young kamikaze's final letter to his grandparents was full of bravado.

Nearly all Bravado's turnover used to come from sales at concerts. Now about half comes from retail stores.

Sontag could work with inspiring bravado, pounding away at her typewriter in long, Dexedrine-fuelled binges.

It crowns the hill, defying the wind and the rain, not out of bravado but so that the man can see the sheep.

Is waiting upon the Lord a kind of Stoic bravado, or is it a stubborn refusal to accept our situation?

In the face of this bravado America's trading partners duly backed down.

Like the naval skirmish, there is an element of bravado.

But this was classical Chinese bravado, or "offensive deterrence. "

He can pick the bottom Pillar peak plight Looking to the future, which will be run through the bravado of his life, let him forget : .

Senna was a passionate figure, charismatic and full of bravado.

Nevertheless, with suicidal bravado, he volunteers as a tail gunner.

By all accounts he was a tall and handsome guy with no shortage of bravado.

My friends, each full of swagger and bravado, bet one another they could lift the most.

That LeBron attempted to outdo him later in the week was nothing more than meaningless bravado, which the media ate up hook line and sinker.

The bravado seemed incongruous with the shyness in his shoulders.

Mr Bennett says Bravado's international links with apparel chains have provided benefits for artists.

Such is Triumph's bravado, it even boasts of plans to be the second-biggest seller of cruisers within 10 years.

The impeached governor, Rod Blagojevich, has much bravado and little authority.

Amidst much bravado about the potential for world revolution, Marx praised the Opium War for throwing China into chaos.

However, they did it with such consummate skill that we delight in their bravado.

"But when you sit with them for an hour or so, under this veneer of bravado are children who are fairly traumatised. "

The promise to build a new district is no mere bureaucratic bravado.

What were his plays if not a mix of false bravado, mortal dread and the struggle for human connection?

Mere bravado, perhaps, but many Venezuelans fear he may be serious.

Sometimes they can back up the bravado with prodigious intelligence and skill, but even those who can't probably think they can.

Bravado already represents Metallica in North America.

Anti-American bravado was always a sure way to excite a crowd and strike a pose of national virility.

Such Silicon Valley bravado may ring hollow in a period of diminished expectations.

Bravado released more than 100 items, from baseball caps to boxes containing signed lithographs.

Full of bravado, young farmers in straw hats vow to defy Colonel Qaddafi's Grad rockets, but as soon as any start landing nearby they flee.

The bravado of the criminal disappeared when the victims fought back.

What he lacks in courage he compensates for in bravado.

Instead of Ariadne solving Cobb's task with brilliant bravado, she completely failed.

I am inclined to believe in the legendary bravado, in that mad laughter of the healthy man provoking a non-existent God.

The soldiers cloaked their fear with joking and bravado.

But he was the first to face it with such bravado.

I do not say this in any spirit of bravado or belligerence .

His bravado carried him too far and prejudiced his case .

And it should provoke no triumphalism in India, for behind the bluster and the bravado, there is arid pain and sadness.

The temptation, when coming up with projects such as these, is to plump with much bravado for either an elitist or a populist approach.

Instead, if my friend is right, part of the lack of availability is bravado. An even bigger part is school holidays.

Strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.

In fact, Coleman thinks the stricter cybercrime laws have tamped down hackers' bravado to some extent.

The bravado was wearing off.

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A restless figure, Lang Lang brims with self-confidence, almost bravado, but he is truly in his element when playing the piano.

This is similar to the hard-core coder's bravado, "We do the heavy lifting, " or "We don't do GUI. "

His bravado had gone now.

Mr. Huang , 41 years old, combined a tough business mind with a gambler's bravado and a knack for cultivating officials to engineer deals .

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