Word: bravado
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...covering everything. At its best, this tradition has produced Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...
...week, attention inexorably turned to a cluster of suites in the Old Executive Office Building next door to the White House. They house a select band of globe- trotting staffers of the National Security Council, the executive agency that coordinates U.S. defense and foreign-affairs activities. Known for its bravado and love of derring-do, the small group conceived and ran the secret talks with Iran. While the group is part of a crisis-management team within the 46-person NSC staff, its freewheeling style has led Washington insiders to call its members the "cowboys...
...Paul Treat's milieu, Allan would be a very small paper tiger indeed. Actors live in a vivid, generous, but to Frances, dangerous world. "Paul had two main voices," she notes, "one for pleading and one for threats." In fact, as she finally realizes, behind all the bravado, the lighted-up codpieces in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the sadomasochistic improvisations, Paul is dedicated to the pursuit of money for his productions, and he is totally unprincipled in his methods. It seems that he really does love Frances -- or so the improbable happy ending would indicate...
...STRONG POSSIBILITY OF YET ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT, TERRY WAITE KNEW MORE THAN HE WAS TELLING LAST FRIDAY MORNING WHEN HE CALLED THE BEIRUT OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. "SIMPLY, I'M HERE," HE ANNOUNCED. "SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN. NOTHING HARD YET, BUT IT'S MOVING." WITH A CHARACTERISTIC MIX OF BRAVADO AND DISCRETION, HE ADDED, "IT APPEARS TO BE MOVING. YOU KEEP AN EYE, JUST KEEP AN EYE. BYE-BYE FOR NOW." THEN...
...assure supporters and enemies alike that he had not been killed, Pinochet made a postmidnight television appearance. With considerable bravado, he described the ambush. "My first reaction was to get out of the car, but then I thought of my grandson at my side and covered his body with mine," he said. He displayed for the viewers a bandaged left hand, the result of a slight wound from flying glass...