bluster

For all the bluster, one can't help feeling the tough EU stance is a bit of a bluff.

He always try to bluster his way out of difficult situation.

He got to be like a high wind in the summertime, all bluster and no bite.

Lou began to bluster , as he always did when he talked politics .

I wasn't frightened by what he said it was just bluster .

On the Republican side, foreign policy talk is all bluster and braggadocio.

When Alan was caught cheating, he tried to bluster it out but he couldn't deceive us.

Beneath the bluster, participants are beginning to notice this problem and the difficulty of solving it.

At another time, that remark might have sounded like mere nationalist bluster.

French officials privately admit this was pre-summit bluster because 95 per cent of the Franco-German demands had been met beforehand.

He was not at ease with me, and much of his bluster rose from timidity .

At home, meanwhile, Geithner sometimes must resort to a more American style of negotiation: bluster.

For now, however, much of China's recent bluster turned out to be self-defeating.

Loneliness is just a gorgeous bluff and bluster.

He will bluster and fumble - giving you a variety of new weapons with which to attack him.

He is basically dishonest; the argument was essentially a technical one; for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person.

For all the company's bluster, its outlook is as uncertain as anyone's.

Penn is a surprising choice for the role, but he reins in his Method bluster to create a complex, manipulative yet gentle man.

We could hear the bluster of the wind and rain .

Although Ellison is famously combative and outspoken, analysts say the public vitriol is not mere bluster.

Incidentally, its students borrow money from the state to pay for their tuition, so its claim to be truly private is actually bluster.

EXAMPLE 2: A sudden bluster came up while we were sailing across the bay and nearly capsized our boat.

We do not believe their nice word nor are we intimidated by their bluster .

In the Brazilian team to rely on penalty shootout victory over arch-rival, the proud Turio bluster, "Maradona could be hand, why not? "

These takeover bids are so full of investor bluster and bluffing, it's hard for any chairman to really know where his shareholders stand.

He impressed no one by his bluster.

Conversation limited to sports or shopping may get boring to someone who likes to ponder philosophy and bluster about business.

Behind his bluster at the ECB he is pushing supply-side reforms, including a loosening of the gummed-up French labour market.

In spite of a lot of bluster earlier this year about "seizing historic opportunities, " few of its deals move the needle.

This helps to explain why the PES, for all its bluster, has not fielded a candidate against Mr Barroso.

The ECB, for all its bluster, may have to loosen sooner than it would wish to in order to stem the euro's rise.

China is not prone to empty bluster like its all weather friend Pak which in fact is bluster and only bluster.

But Mr Schumer's interventions look increasingly like bluster rather than threat.

For all his bluster , he is in essence a shy person .

We must be clear-headed, that is, we must not believe the "nice words" of the imperialists nor be intimidated by their bluster .

He doesn't try to bluster around it; he considers his answer as the car turns onto the main road.

There was a bluster and zest in Anthony.

We shall never be cowed by the bluster of reactionaries .

And the Chechen tragedy helps to explain why Mr Putin's neurotic bluster plays so well among ordinary Russians.

Would we have landed on the moon if it hadn't been for our misunderstanding of Khrushchev's bluster?

While men bluster and boast, Christ calmly governs all history toward its God-appointed end.

A couple of years ago, such boasts would have been ignored as bluster.

For all of Beijing's bluster, it failed to alter U. S. policies on Tibet and Taiwan.

But in fact he may never have uttered those precise words, and there is both ambiguity and calculation behind the bluster.

As for Pakistan, for all its bluster, it desperately needs foreign, ie, American money.

India may keep on dismissing them as Pakistani bluster, an easy thing to do if you are upstream.

But the political posturing and trade-union bluster signifies little.

The question in the minds of most Indians is how we should react to this piece of bluster?

Others in Ulan Bator suggest the movement is waning and suspect the groups' menacing stance and claims of 3, 000 members are bluster.

To make noisy, empty threats; bluster.

Empty bluster is unlikely to bother China.

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

We fear no evil spirits, nor any evil bluster.

Are you determined to bluster your way into every nook and cranny, or are you a quiet pilgrim to be put in your place?

I am bluster and bluff and empty show.

But by the end of the scene his bluster has revealed Osborne as a malingerer, a rummy and a jerk;

mr . khrushchev , moreover , was all bluff and bluster

Rational children know they can ignore threats of punishment if you have a record of bluster.