Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather than playing with the confidence,leadership and bravado of players who know theyare the best, Harvard's skill positions playedfrustrated, scared, and afraid...
There is a trace of bravado in the stockyoutfielder's voice as he reels off the numbers,but then perhaps that isn't surprising. Lopez washeavily recruited in his senior year, attractingthe interest of the Atlanta Braves and PittsburghPirates. In July he ever appeared in a MiamiHerald magazine cover story...
...thirds of this Canadian country trio. Dad Steve sings harmony and co-wrote many of the tunes, which echo the sweet simplicity of Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers. Don't I Have a Heart gives a nice airing to Tyler's pubescent fretfulness, a mix of bravado and bafflement ("I don't have a clue,/ But don't I have a heart?"). And Amanda is the true vocal goods--her precocious alto dusky and authoritative--plus, she yodels. The whole CD is a lovely throwback. Innocence has rarely sounded so seductive...
...there is a lyric in the film that gives the lie to the bravado of the entire girl-power movement. "Look at me," Mulan sings, "I will never pass for/ a perfect bride/ or a perfect daughter/ Can it be/ I'm not meant to play this part?" In the end, however, she substitutes one part for another. And that's one of the limitations of girl power. Its lure is the image of girls kicking ass, being boylike. But how well does it prepare them to be adults in a complex world? "We're struggling to find alternative models...
Such talk was partly the bravado of engineers who recognize that everything in the universe ends in entropy and disarray. It's also the organized religion of any successful start-up: We're working 120 hours a week, and we may be doomed even if we ship our code on time--but at least we're doomed together, so back to work...