Word: bravados
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...self interest: he sleeps with other men's wives, he drives his Cadillac over flower beds, he tries to have his father declared incompetent so that he can get control of the old man's property. Yet high school students have adopted him as a hero; they admire his bravado, his coolness, and they either ignore his amorality or admire that...
...class comics, Nym and Bardolph are in the capable hands of Harold Cherry and John Milligan. But the strongest impression accrues from Philip Bosco's superlative Pistol, whose ruddy complexion and handlebar moustache suit well his resounding bravado and gusto. When he threatens Fluellen, "Base Trojan, thou shalt die," he whips out his sword with a flourish and fumblingly drops it on the ground; that is Pistol in a nutshell...
...bravado was in vain. Warned that his comrades-in-arms were determined to remove him, Pérez Godoy had tried to rally support among provincial military commanders and among civilians working toward new presidential elections in June. All his efforts failed. Just before dawn, Pérez Godoy got into a car with his wife Lola and drove off to his suburban home...
...hope of appearing casual, and tensely chain-smoking. They ridiculed the therapist for wearing "square" clothes and not being hip. They complained of being persecuted by parents and police. When sex was discussed, the therapist found that the boys were utterly ignorant of the subject, and, despite their bravado, they were all virgins. The group sessions on sex became tense, often punctuated by uncontrollable laughter used to cover up doubts and fears. Within a year, though, the boys toned down in both dress and behavior. The self-constituted group, the therapists decided, had been readymade for treatment...
Roth's second book involved the boldest sort of risk taking. Letting Go is a long, complex novel about the entanglements of two of those songless goliards, the young university instructors. It is sober and often solemn; with a self-confidence approaching bravado, Roth refused to use in it the skill at satirical pastiches that had glittered so brilliantly in Goodbye, Columbus. "I had done that," he said recently, "Why do it again...