Word: braggings
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...Politically, neither side will be hurt by delivering moderation on an issue that the public has yet to accept as an urgent matter. But Bush, in his eagerness to keep ANWR alive and give his House Republicans something to brag about when they head home for summer recess, has put himself in a somewhat unprofitable position. And when energy hits the Senate in a month or two, he?ll be facing little but "Defeat" headlines from then...
...said Rogers was not the type to brag...
Scotty’s does have a sketchy element. (As my boyfriend said, “go figure...sketchiness at a truck stop.”) Men brag about how many wheels are on their trucks to my best friend Lisa and me—the youngest employees there, and to some minds that equates to us being fresh meat. Every day, she’s offered a place in a truck on its way to Canada, and I’m offered some guy’s phone number or a trip to his house—sometimes jokingly...
...mysterious behavior - mysterious for a distinguished and successful writer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, to brag and tell casually self-glorifying lies to his students, like a drunk maundering on his tenth beer at the Blarney Stone. When I heard about Ellis' concoctions, I wanted, out of loyalty, to find a way to dismiss them or excuse them...
...Green points to the pictures of his 26 children and five wives above the kitchen table and says, "That is my brag wall." At 52, Green is not ready to stop bragging. Three more children are on the way. A self-proclaimed "fundamentalist Mormon," Green lives with his extensive family in the remote desert of western Utah. He believes he is carrying out God's will with his polygamous lifestyle...