Word: bluffe
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...effort to legislate virtue - like the Volstead Act. The truth bill might lower the general level of mendacity in Washington, though the cautionary example of Watergate and the Roundhead vigilance around the capital these days should be warning enough. But if the law were enacted, could a President bluff another power by announcing a course of action he had no intention of taking...
...bonds it issued would be repaid. City officials balked at such a surrender of their fiscal authority. The question is whether Big Mac will be established in time to prevent the city from defaulting on $792 million in notes that fall due this week. True to the politics of bluff and brinkmanship that characterize New York, the solution was not likely to come until five minutes before midnight on D-day-or even five minutes after...
...Lion has a view of the glories of combat and courage that is both willful and wistful. All enemies are united in a common bond of honor. Blood shed is never ignoble, always ennobling, and adversaries fight with grace and mutual respect. The movie even has enough bluff and crust to look, at least superficially, like a real military romance, even a plea for manifest destiny. These notions are not being advanced as political theory but as the sort of antique sentiments that keep the movie true to its storybook sources. The glory, Milius knows, was mostly a dream...
Adolescent Bluff. The central figure of the Ortelgan religion is Shardik, a giant bear god. Though only a caste of virgin priestesses preserves this memory, Shardik actually lived as a real bear during the time of Ortelga's supremacy. When Adams' story begins, a great bear appears, driven to the edge of the River Telthearna by a forest fire. Confused and maddened, he stops, rises awesomely on his hind legs, standing more than twice as tall as a man, and beats at the flames. Burned and half-conscious, he is driven into the river, across which he drifts...
...sodden bear. This extraordinary ability to evoke physical detail carries the book to whatever success it has. Where the author seems weak is in the sentimentality of his conceptions. These shape what is not meant to be a children's tale into a kind of pretentious adolescent bluff: a tragic chronicle of conquest, corruption and decline that dribbles off into happily-ever-after...