The sheer bravado of its bid, and the unconfined joy with which its success was greeted, was evidence of a city with attitude. |
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I imagine they have made some bawdy bravado remark about wanting to see someone's helmet, and have met their match. |
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Unforunately, the bravado of temporary office sometimes does things to people. |
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I took it back with bravado having been so successful bartering the day before. |
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Faking bravado, I wave my hands about as a shopper walks by, and call out that I'm being prevented from leaving. |
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His combative language and his defiant shouting were full of bravado, and he had the large frame and muscular build to back up his boasts. |
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His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle. |
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This is the sort of bravado often uttered by managerial sidekicks, usually only to be jettisoned the moment they graduate to being their own men. |
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It was this false, uncompromising bravado, which led her to savagely beat a pensioner couple who lived in a flat below her. |
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It takes a generous mix of humor, bravado, and unflagging optimism for Krauss to persist in the task he's given himself. |
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He stalks his prey with bravado and near-relish, killing unremorsefully on his unremitting quest to destroy the accused. |
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Amid all the glorious fanfares and bravado there will be some frightened and anxious people. |
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The voices are loud and harsh, reflecting anxiety and bravado in equal parts. |
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The lawyer bobbed and weaved, then fielded questions with a touch of his own unique brand of bravado. |
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Later, alcohol-fuelled bravado saw him insist that he could do a better job than his friend driving to a nightclub. |
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He had certainly done his best to conceal it with his bluster and bravado and big bad persona. |
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They spun around in the car parks and many of the cars had two guys out the back windows holding hands across the roof in a show of bravado. |
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He manages to steal the film, even next to various scenery-chewers' bits of bravado. |
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His swaggering bravado has turned me and a number of people I know way off. |
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Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado. |
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My friend thought he had beaten a rapid retreat after the initial, face-saving show of bravado. |
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Despite such bravado, oil prices rose to near-record highs in trading as jittery markets reacted to the alert. |
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He put on a show of bravado, but inwardly he was seeking any way out of his predicament. |
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We recognise the familiar cushions and head rests, the trepidation of take-off and disguise of bravado. |
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The purity of the opening segment has slipped away, replaced by bravado and swagger. |
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Several witnesses related the story of that operation, usually with an Irish brogue to enhance the color of Madden's bravado. |
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Nicholson speaks of his future with the same mix of bravado and worry that marked his early career. |
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But I'm speaking up for all the other women he has betrayed with his so-called sexual bravado. |
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Bowyer, on the other hand, displayed a nonchalant grin, full of boyish bravado. |
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My bravado from earlier dwindled as he nodded, smiled again, and continued stacking the shelves. |
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The challenge is to undo the bravado that leads some workers to discard their hard hats or decide not to tie off, he explains. |
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And in fact, the film's potential strength lies in its undermining of such bravado. |
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Though widely acknowledged as a dazzling strategist, his impolitic, in-your-face bravado clashed with the staid Air Force culture. |
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Young drivers can put themselves and others at risk through a combination of inexperience and bravado. |
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He was not afraid of her, and she sensed his bravery was genuine and not the result of insincere male bravado. |
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But, filled with misplaced bravado, I decided this was the right time for a proper conflagration. |
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But red cards and bravado aside, there was plenty of good football played and entertainment provided too. |
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No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps. |
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The fact that they snapped my washing line was a small price to play for such a display of bravado and skill. |
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Keep quiet about the 4,000 recidivists who run city streets, committing crimes with increasing bravado and little fear of punishment. |
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The young Ali was pure boxing brilliance, backing up his bravado with breathtaking speed of hand and foot and sublime skills. |
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Yet one disruptive crew-member was met at the dock by a wife of leonine stature and all his bravado shrank. |
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His desperate opponent returns a weak shot or a lob, either of which he puts away with careless bravado. |
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The closeness of being in a packed car allows the trio the chance to swap stories and the lads to fabricate tales of bravado. |
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Behind the green baize bravado was quite evidently a character who talked big when the chips were up, but folded when it came to real life. |
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The band is amped, and even the ballads quake with fat bass lines, piano chords issued with sledgehammer bravado and the vocals hustled to the front of the mix. |
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The boardroom bravado, however, has already drawn criticism from some influential shareholders. |
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All bravado, Miguel rushes to her rescue, scooping up a three-inch, striped insect with threatening jaws and a large, baldish head that looks eerily human. |
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I marvelled at Clay's bravado but wondered if he wasn't going too far. |
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He treats his insecurities almost entirely with a combination of self-sarcasm and bravado. |
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Quite the reverse, in fact, with his bravado hiding basic insecurities. |
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Eating offal is not about bravado, it's a completely wonderful flavour. |
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It's for bravado or to be cool, but it inevitably ends in disaster. |
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Aries hide doubts about themselves behind a pretty convincing show of bravado, but taming your wild side and behaving considerately will express your best qualities this week. |
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Stripped of all glam rock bravado, the songs acquire a new life. |
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Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado. |
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But for all the jolly quips and witty asides public relations and advertising are tough, unforgiving industries, teaming with showmanship and bravado. |
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Picasso, with his polka-dot shirt and clashing tie attempted an air of bravado, but lost confidence by the minute. |
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Awarding chief executives shares and share options can encourage them to ramp the share price by acts of headline-catching bravado which rarely translate into value. |
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Zaharchenko on Friday night projected defiance rather than bravado, no doubt buoyed by the Moscow-sent materiel and fighters. |
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And we can listen to the pathetic, creepy bravado of a former vice president, wrong on nearly every decision he made. |
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I admire the brawny bravado of the pretence, but I'm not convinced. |
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The fans are awestruck and their earlier bravado quickly disappears. |
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He delivers his declaration not with reckless bravado but with a dignified, quiet, middle-management-lifer assurance, in keeping with his general mien. |
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It's with optimistic bravado that I approach yon quivering mountain. |
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It perfectly illustrates the combination of bravado, real toughness, and a kind of lost-little-boy appeal that he has with women. |
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He pressed a few keys and hit the enter key with some bravado. |
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His pitfalls have been unctuosity, on the one side, bravado on the other. |
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The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado. |
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It was at Eton that Ayer first became known for his characteristic bravado and precocity. |
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Peter himself was caught in the thick of fighting, and died as a result of a foolhardy act of bravado. |
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They have a great sense of performance, bravado, and audacity. |
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General Tri's bravado extended to his trademark swagger stick and stylish sunglasses. |
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Indeed, Magnotta was also betrayed by his cinephile bravado. |
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It's indicative of the movie's jokey, aren't-we-something bravado which, ultimately, comes off pretty hollow in light of its performance. |
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That musical bravado was there, too, in the sabre dance from Gayaneh by Khachaturian. |
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Chelsea were overcommitting, Cavani squandering two chances to put the tie to bed, leaving the chance for a last, late act of bravado. |
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First of all a degree of bravado at having reached such high speeds, a bit of nervous laughter and cursing the sneakiness of the cops. |
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As for Tallulah, beneath her bravado she was utterly terrified. |
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McCall has told sinning stars, including Bilel Mohsni, he won't tolerate bookings for backchat and bravado as they bid to return to winning ways against Raith. |
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The boom years facilitated widespread bravado, incompetence and unconscionability in Australian businesses that the finance sector has fostered and nurtured. |
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It goes to the bravado of the French security forces that they brought down the curtain in a more professional manner than the cluelessness that the Aussies exhibited. |
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