Word: braggadocios
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...prostitution and gambling that have made "Steel City U.S.A."-as its boosters like to call it-synonymous with vice in a large section of the Midwest. "I hope to give the people of Gary an administration of which they can be proud," Hatcher says without a trace of braggadocio. "I'm going to be the best mayor Gary has ever...
...should be fat, stupid, and cruel, not thin as a rail, witty, and effeminate. He does what he does well, but it isn't what he should do. Roger Zim looks the part of the Drum Major who woos Marie, and he has a marvelously deep voice, but his braggadocio is too much a conscious parody of Anthony Quinn or the Marlboro Man; it draws laughs for that reason, but it is not right...
...conveyed that the reader is not surprised. Chapman's war is told without bitterness (though with an almighty disdain for the political bunglers and profiteers and civilian patriots who prolonged the agony), and this sets it apart from the more famous Goodbye of Graves or the tone of braggadocio-disguised-as-cynicism that taints Hemingway's Farewell to Arms...
...Here I am, Sukarno, President and Great Leader of the Revolution. I will not retreat one step or even one milli meter!" There he was indeed, full of bombast and braggadocio, munching cake and sipping orangeade - and apparently back on top of the heap. After five months of submission to his anti-Communist generals, Indonesia's Pres ident last week demonstrated the rea sons behind his reputation as Southeast Asia's most durable politician...
...private avowals." More important, he recorded some of those avowals in his autobiography, which he called his "moral memo" to the world. Published posthumously in France in 1946 and now translated into English for the first time, Witches' Sabbath is a bizarre compound of self-pity, fantasy and braggadocio, relieved by occasional passages of honest self-appraisal and sound literary sense. It constitutes, as one French literary critic put it, an anecdotal "chronique scandaleuse" of Sachs's own place and time...