Word: blusterer
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Despite the President's bluster, Bush Administration officials are privately worried that U.S. forces are caught in a dangerous loop. The persistence of attacks has forced the U.S. to remain on a combat footing, which has diverted attention and resources away from the reconstruction effort. The heavy military footprint, in turn, has soured Iraqi opinion and created a more hospitable climate for anti-American agitators. "Going out on raids, busting up things and shooting people tend not to win you many friends," says a top foreign-policy aide to the first President Bush and adviser to the current White House...
...DIPLOMACY At least for now, Washington says it is resolved to talking Kim down from the ledge, using the promise of economic assistance backed up with the threat of force. In the best-case scenario, Kim will try to bluster his way through any negotiations, making outrageous demands until he is finally offered what he wants...
Supplemented by Kellin’s relentless drum machines and beats, Taryn pseudo-raps and yowls her throaty way through the 14 tracks on Boomkatalog One. But all her endless bluster and crazylove can’t save this album from disintegrating into a messy, genre-hopping katastrophe. —Tiffany I. Hsieh
...case, U.S. diplomats are used to Pyongyang's scare tactics. Through bluster and provocative moves?including becoming the first country to withdraw from the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?North Korea has spent the last seven months trying to convince the world it is a dangerous military power on a hair-trigger?one that must be appeased at all costs...
...clubs routinely admit both extremely wealthy pretty boys and social climbers from the lower classes. By throwing a few scraps to the plebes, the Porcellian Club prevents resentment. Your father might be a construction worker, but you can still get into the Porc with the right mix of social bluster and deference to the old-money boys. This throwing-together of very different classes promotes a convergence of social mores toward the mediocre middle; it’s not cool to be too refined, but then again, you need to be able to work a cocktail party...