Word: bravado
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...imagine hip-hop fans' paying attention to a cd that philosophizes about mortality, at least not without a good shoot-out at the end. A purist mentality kept the genre loaded down with hard-core rappers, most of whom stuck with traditional formulas: shunning live instruments and embracing gangsta bravado. "I love hip-hop, so what I do is done with respect," says Everlast, "but there was a very closed-minded attitude toward live instruments and music that wasn't hard core. I wanted to get out of that...
...implacable T.R., we are taught to revere, above all else, the character of our leaders. Indeed, character is that thing which we most want them to give us. Our would-be leaders, in turn, do not tend to make promises so much of bread but of brilliance, bravado, and derring-do. They, in short, don't promise anything as much as they promise themselves...
...dyeing his hair a coppery red. "He says brave things, like how he will strike out batters, but then he backs it up," says 21-year-old fan Junko Kushima. "That's exciting." At the start of his first pro season in 1999, Matsuzaka predicted with un-Japanese bravado that he would be rookie of the year at season...
...sure," I said, and he handed me the package and the pen, the grimy list of deliveries pulled from his waterproof satchel. Thinking as an intern, I knew my signature couldn't possibly be traced if this package was lost, but with typical intern bravado I looked like I had signed many of these before. As I stood near him, the temperature in the office building seemed to rise from its normal level of refrigeration. The room also filled with a rich musty scent of a courier at work...
...specter of William Faulkner. The world he created in Yoknapatawpha County, perhaps the best-known plot of literary real estate, exerts its influence over the aspirations of the region's writers and the expectations of readers and critics. It could therefore be construed as an act of either bravado or foolishness that Randall Kenan, who lives in Memphis and was raised in North Carolina, has also constructed a fictional Southern locale, a swampy speck called Tims Creek, N.C. "I could have run," says Kenan, 37, of the inevitable comparisons, "but I'd be spending a lot of energy in vain...