Word: blusterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slimily threatening bellhop, the sadistic cop on the beat, not to mention the dawning mysteries of sex and some sudden deaths and dislocations among his friends. The wary reserve of Bradford's performance has a crystalline quality in which you can read in his response to his father's bluster and mother's passivity. You sense in him a future manliness that will avoid both modes...
People are "captivated" by it, he says, and he suggests that this was the largest demonstration in recent years. Recent agitation for an all-Black Africa House produced bluster among Brown's activists but only 12 volunteers to live in a 20-bed home. On the other hand, the could've-been-me-flavored financial aid debate actually brought the masses into the streets...
...this bluster ignores a couple of realities. Roseanne is owned by Carsey- Werner Productions; it, not Roseanne, has the ultimate say on the show's future. (Carsey-Werner executives would not comment on Roseanne's problems with ABC.) Nor are the Arnolds likely to find life outside ABC as rosy as they might hope. Roseanne has shown no ability to draw an audience in any fictional role besides Roseanne Conner. Her last film, She-Devil, was a flop ("They exploited me," she says now), and an April TV movie, The Woman Who Loved Elvis, in which...
...their prowhaling bluster, Japan and Norway are well aware of how many people romanticize whales as sentient creatures that should be spared the horror of harpooning. A recent poll found that 52% of Norwegians worried about international boycotts should the country resume commercial whaling. Says Richard Fuglsang, managing director of the sleeping-bag company Ajungilak: "Foreign sports-equipment dealers tell us straight out that they dare not sell Norwegian goods...
This is more than bluster. The deputies spend more time in the battle zones than in assembly meetings, and they share the same grim, heedless determination as the men guarding the bicycle path. "The reality on the ground," said Ratko Adzic, the Bosnian Serbs' designated interior minister, "is very different from what the politicians think...