Word: blusterer
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...Defense: Had a reasonable answer for every charge that came his way - with little anger, bluster, or anxiety. Often interrupting McCain attacks with swift explanations and comebacks, he managed to spin accusations of being liberal as evidence of his relentless opposition to George Bush (in replies that were clearly planned). Offered a rather clumsy alternative to McCain's well-known, moving story of wearing the bracelet of a soldier lost in Iraq (a gift from the soldier's mother), with a story about a bracelet of his own. Fearless, without condescension, he attempted the gracious move of agreeing with...
...people are, in varying degrees, idiots, engaged in an enterprise that ought to be left to the higher IQed. The Coens' tactic could be a caustic commentary on the ineptitude of those employed to keep the secrets of the U.S. government (Osborne and Harry are figures of, respectively, raw bluster and empty charm), if it weren't that virtually everyone in the movie operates on seriously diminished candlepower. Linda believes that her advancing age has rendered her so unattractive that she seeks transfiguration through plastic surgery...
...clearance post at the State Dept. As he spits out retorts with majestic acerbity, you think for a minute that he's right and the Agency is wrong - that he knows too much or has dug too deep. But by the end of the scene his bluster has revealed Osborne as a malingerer, a rummy and a jerk; his prickly panache is simply the spy's cover that everyone who works with him has long since seen through...
...aftermath of the war, some talked predictably tough. NATO promised there would be "no business as usual" with Moscow. "Georgia's infrastructure will be rebuilt," said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "Russia's reputation, that's another matter." But for all the bluster, some old questions naggingly asked themselves. When will politicians learn that if they promise to protect someone, they better mean it - or not make the promise? How far, precisely, from its present borders does Russia think that its vital national interests extend? And how in the years to come will an energy-anxious West live with...
...notion of performers being mistaken for cutthroat adventurers has served movie comedies from the 1940s (Gene Kelly's The Pirate and a bunch of Hope-Crosby Road pictures) to the '80s (¡Three Amigos!). It speaks to the bluster and resilience of show people; when in mortal peril, they do improv and survive. The difference in Tropic Thunder is that the main characters are more eccentric than likable. That's just what you'd expect in a Stiller movie...