Word: bravado
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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...
...their bravado in public, however, Administration officials were scrambling behind the scenes last week to head off anything that might be called a Gore Tax, and they hinted that a deal is in the offing. On Friday the Commerce Department called on the FCC to do what it could to assure that any charge the residential consumer sees would not be more than $1 a month per telephone line. "I am totally happy to have a debate over whether or not it's worth $1 a month to wire the schools," said Ron Klain, the Vice President's chief...
...White House years Carter would astonish aides by proofreading their memos to him. Brinkley should have set Carter to work on the book manuscript, asking him to comb out the unaccountable sloppiness ("criteria" for "criterion," "bravado" for "bravura" and many other errors, including the "Pakistani billionaire" on page 224 who turns into a "Palestinian billionaire" on page 225) and moments of inadvisable rhetorical wing-flapping, as when Carter "embraced leprosy eradication...
...champions of the form over the past 17 years has been the New York City band Sonic Youth. "We got past the hardest part together," says band member Thurston Moore, 39, "which was getting through our 20s and 30s together." Sonic Youth doesn't embrace the swagger and sexual bravado of mainstream rock. The band's lyrics are often deliberately remote, seeking to capture, through abstract imagery, the wildness of adolescence, the plight of junkies and losers, and the social frustrations that come with gender barriers. Sonic Youth's members present themselves not as saviors but as everyday sorts...
...crime wasn't that bad--I mean I grew upokay," he says of the Lower East side with toughNYC bravado, but it is evident that theneighborhood--the people, the streets, the noiseand the danger--are in his blood...