Word: blusterous
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thinking seems distant amidst the bluster of government officials...
...country is in a strange mood, filled with unease, and an odd passivity. At one time, a terrorist attack on an American destroyer, killing American sailors, would have brought an explosion of outrage, cries for revenge, Teddy Roosevelt bluster. Instead, the country seems subdued. Too many other anxieties are floating unmoored in the mind - fears about the stock market, about Middle Eastern war, about oil prices, about the possibility that the good-time '90s are about to turn, post-millennium, into their own evil twin. Americans have a sneaking superstition about Clinton: When he goes, the lucky '90s go. What...
...loved being a whore, and that offends people." Norma Jean Almodovar, 49, head of the International Sex Workers Foundation for Art, Culture and Education, has made a career from such bluster. But being an activist for prostitutes is less lucrative than her previous job--impersonating a bawdy Julia Child for her johns. (That was one specialty...
...Alec Guinness every time - there was a reliable pleasure in that. His eyes, which could droop or bluster or mourn or scorn, were canvases of the subtlest possible histrionics. The thin-lipped British smile that could be a billboard of polite derision, shy mischief (or searing wistfulness), usually in some part elegant. But every time you saw Alec Guinness he was a little different, as if you were watching a quietly joyous or angry or befuddled or quixotic little man who looked just like Alec Guinness. And boy, could this...
...both sides could develop a momentum of their own, provoking a military showdown that would inevitably draw in the U.S. During the 1996 Taiwan election, Beijing fired missiles over an outlying island and the U.S. responded by sending a naval battle group into the strait. But for all the bluster and buildup of missiles on the coastline of Fujian province, however, China right now lacks the military means to mount an effective invasion - a naval force capable of rapidly deploying tens of thousands of troops on the island, and an air force capable of dominating the skies...