| Anyone failing to display the expected arrogance and boastfulness was treated almost with contempt. |
| Takes easy all kinds of problems, boastfulness, overestimation of personal possibility. |
| But some potential customers may find the firm's arrogance, even boastfulness, offputting. |
| They must choose between a brash boastfulness and a considered confidence that speaks to the convictions of people everywhere. |
| The boastfulness, the wholesale endorsement of the philosophy that was to bring the world to the economic edge and the sheer ignorance are painful to read. |
| It secured him, instantly, a reputation for boastfulness which was then at odds with his limited achievements. |
