Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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West and DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, seated like acolytes beside and behind the author, grinned with the audience at her unexpected but graceful bravado. Perhaps their glee stemmed in part from how effectively her comments deflated the near-pomposity with which they had begun the evening. Gates went so far in introducing, West to christen him "a true citizen of the Republic of Letters," a bold pronouncement for anyone to make when the queen of said Republic sits a few feet away...
John told me early on in our phone conversation how impressed he was that I'd called him; when he was a first-year, he never would have had the bravado to call a senior and ask her out. Not only would John's courage have failed him in that situation; even as a senior, he hadn't had the courage to call and ask out a first-year (me) who would have responded favorably...
...that." Even at the expense of losing ratings points. "We're not playing to win the ratings game," says McGrath. "Our value is in the checking-outness," which is MTV speak for the channel's role as the pre-eminent cultural barometer. Some of her bravado may stem from the fact that the network's ad revenues keep going up despite flat ratings, as advertisers queue to reach younger viewers...
...sharp minor. Chopin never wrote violin music; the Nocturne that Chang performed Friday night is a transcription of the original piano part. The Nocturne is unfalteringly sublime--in this adaptation, the violin part is elegant and the accompaniment somber and unintrusive. For this piece, Chang abandoned her usual fiery bravado for heartbreaking tenderness. Individual notes melted and the music rang with the unearthly sonority of a human voice. Its only fault was that it was tragically short, leaving one wishing that Chang had played Chopin all night...
...military action, Aziz exhibited the bravado of the doomed: "It makes no difference to Iraq's leadership if another wave of missiles falls on Baghdad, because nothing can be worse than what we are going through at present...