Word: bravado
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...yeah. I definitely had some guys walk away, who had been hitting really hard on me. I said sure, and they said, "What?" and turned around and walked the other way. Because it was all just bravado. Which was fine, because I didn't care. It was very interesting; it was kind of an interesting lesson in gender dynamics, on sort of a vast scale. It was interesting to watch different kinds of guys you would not have expected to behave terribly, behave terribly. Guys you would have expected to behave terribly, behaving like wonderful people, who had some different...
That new populist bravado, which Chávez has backed up with a multibillion- dollar social-spending program at home, has spread to South American countries like Bolivia, where two Presidents have resigned in less than two years after raucous protests calling for the nationalization of vast, newly discovered natural-gas reserves. Says Amy Myers Jaffe, an analyst at the Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston: "Chávez has seemingly become a leader who can galvanize antiglobalization agendas anywhere...
...season, or the music video for “Juicebox,†the newest pomp-rock mashup by the Strokes, those loveably trendsetters widely known as the saviors of indie swagger. And let me tell you, my friends, the “Juicebox†video has enough bravado to fill a bathtub or two. Over a pilfered bass riff, the video bounces between the requisite studio shots and semi-randomized staged hook-up hijinks. Really, “bounces†is an understatement: the slew of sexual scenarios trotted out before our eyes are enough to dizzy...
...country where politicians generally prefer evasion to bluntness, Nicolas Sarkozy makes a point of being an anomaly. As mobs of disaffected youths rampaged through the streets across France again last week, the Interior Minister projected an air of tough-guy bravado, using ghetto epithets to condemn the rioters, daring them to take him on. When he appeared at a televised town-hall meeting, Sarkozy took umbrage at what he deemed the insolent tone of a teenager in a hooded sweatshirt and shaved head--"We are not in the street here," Sarkozy said--but refused to apologize...
...Just as we now have the finest department of Af-Am Studies,†he says, displaying his infectious bravado, “Once we recruit these people…Harvard will also be the leading center for African Studies in the United States...