Word: braggadocios
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Romain Rolland called Mahler "an egoist who feels with sincerity," and it is probably his unmistakable earnestness and depth of feeling rather than surface skill that will keep him from becoming a fantastic museum-piece. He was most effective in lyrical passages where his braggadocio and forced climaxes could give way to mood-painting and color. In this respect and several others he resembled Schubert. Despite his strivings for power and long-winded reiterations, he might well be called the Heine of music with a dash of Buddha thrown in, the nostalgic life-affirmer and the world-weary philosopher rolled...
These confident words were put on the wires of the world last weekend by D.N.B.. the official German news agency. The German braggadocio was given the lie direct by the official Russian communique, which said: "The result of the first three weeks of the war testify to the undoubted failure of Hitler's plan of lightning war." There was so much evidence that both Germans and Russians were lying that there was no reliable exposition of what was really happening. But a few inferences could be made...
...charged that "the Crimson declares war." He went on to say, "The fact is that the CRIMSON is not doing its own thinking; it is merely reflecting manufactured opinion that already has millions of the sons of men destroying one another. It is overcome by the 'tinsel and braggadocio" of marching armies and booming navies. . . .If we must fight let us at least know why we fight and what our gains will...
...Yague was reported as having said that if Generalissimo Franco had as many members of his family in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia as have certain Rightist commanders, presumably including General Yague, these cities might not have so greatly suffered. General Yague was said to have added with typical Spanish braggadocio that to win the war there is no need of "General Franco's foreign entanglements" and that the Germans and Italians now helping the Rightists are scum "who behave like beasts," in contrast to the fine Spanish qualities of many Leftist fighters...
...Epervier and La Palme. These took off the Marquis de Urquijo, the Duke of Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite the acute food shortage in Leftist Spain. With typical Spanish braggadocio they announced, on landing in France, that they were at once proceeding by rail to Rightist Spain to enlist under General Franco...