Word: boast
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...cheerily admitted, he learned how to fake the virtue. "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it," he wrote. In showing off his feigned humility, Franklin was America's first great imagemaker. Even after he became successful, he made a display of personally carting the rolls of paper he bought in a wheelbarrow down the street to his shop rather than having a hired hand...
...fewer than eight big-budget action films opening between May Day and Labor Day boast smashing, auto-dynamic set pieces. The multiplex traffic jam started last month with the freeway fracas in The Matrix Reloaded and the Hollywood-and-Vine destruction derby in The Italian Job. This week 2F2F is joined by Hollywood Homicide, with a careering, nonstop trip through Beverly Hills and other L.A. tourist spots. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle will show how car stunts can outdo kung fu. In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, mankind's savior will try to keep his Toyota Tundra...
Those most engaged in the protesting were quick to boast of its strength...
...Iraq is the key, in the Bush administration's most optimistic scenario, to remaking the Middle East to drain the swamp that breeds international terrorism. A swift and decisive military victory has provided an awesome demonstration of U.S. power and resolve, and struck down the traditional boast of Osama bin Laden's propagandists that the U.S. is afraid of a fight. Considerably less certain, however, are the prospects for a rapid postwar transition in which Iraq becomes the Arab world's first democracy with a prosperity and Western orientation Washington hopes will serve as a wakeup call to a deeply...
...built it in 1984, casting it in concrete at a scale of 2 cm to 1 m. "I know every nook and cranny of the (real) place," he says, and it's no idle boast. Dy, 66, was part of a team of artists that drew up complete architectural blueprints of Angkor Wat in 1969 for the Ecole Fran?aise d'Extr?me Orient research organization. Those blueprints are proudly displayed on a wall in his workshop, along with an award from Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk in recognition of his work as an artist. In a visitors' book, one tourist rates...