Word: bravados
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...This bravado is always backed with action, though. Bok's preparedness to meet the issues head on is the basis for the judgment that his style is one both of form and content...
...Games makes up in introspective bravado what it lacks in characterization or martial grandeur for a dirty little war, it is a stylishly dirty little book...
Harvard does not exactly attach world-shattering significance to beating Yale-or anyone, for that matter. I don't think many people in Cambridge walk around believing that Frank Champi salvaged the 1968-69 academic year with his 42 seconds worth of athletic bravado. But then, in retrospect, the 1968-69 academic year was probably a lost cause to begin with...
...thinks he can exist with grace from this twenty-year error is a President who, when confronted with the possibility of the look of defeat-resurgence of the Communists, collapse of "Vietnamization"-will balk and grope for new "protective reaction," new flexing of the muscle, new acts of bravado, new targets of opportunity, new military adventure, up to and including, I deeply fear, the threat of the use of tactical nuclear weapons. There will always exist, waiting in the wings as an anguished President frets, persuasive peddlers of new ways to "win" this unwinnable...
Buckled Planes. Thus, with incredible bravado, Picasso and Braque (neither had yet turned 30) set out to displace a history of visual representation that had lasted more than 500 years. Every element of art had to be rethought in terms of a new function-line, color, light, volume, space. Thus the solidity of the rocks, lighthouse and boats in Braque's Harbor in Normandy, 1909, is not achieved through light-and-shade modeling, still less by perspective; instead, each form begins to buckle into planes and projections, and every shape is evenly compressed against the eye. Even space, which...