Word: bravados
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Sheer Aplomb and Bravado...
...impossible to overlook the adolescent in Hemingway-his bravado, his emotional friendships, his vague but all-important code, his deep sentimentality about the good, the true, the straight, the beautiful, and occasionally the unprintable. But to preserve something of the adolescent through three decades in a world of literary critics, parodizers and cocktail-party highbrows takes a certain admirable courage. Above all, Hemingway can laugh at himself. Typical of Hemingway making fun of Hemingway is El Ordine Militar, Nobile y Espirituoso de los Caballeros de Brusadelli-which means, more or less, the Military Order of the Noble and Spirited Knights...
What Is "Modern"? By now, the birth and growth of jazz have become American folklore. The critics like to call it "music of protest": it started with slave chants, work songs, blues, gaudy Negro funeral parades in New Orleans−those noisy expressions of bravado in the face of death by such greats-to-be as King Oliver, Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong who blatted their way from the cemetery playing High Society or Didn't He Ramble. New Orleans jazz moved to Chicago, where a crowd of delighted white musicians pounced on it, adding a few refinements...
...ward in the military hospital at Hanoi, the corridors are filled with other wounded, in cots crowded head to foot in a row. The legionnaire talks matter-of-factly of the paratroop drop and of the wound he got only half an hour after landing; no heroism, no bravado, no whimpering, just acceptance of his fate and future. You are reminded of his face often when anger rises in you over the situation in Indo-China. You find yourself resisting the impulse to understand everyone and wishing only that you could stay angry and hortatory...
...exhausting position of having too many women after his heart and too many police after his head. But Olivier is not an invincibly haughty brigand. In one delightful scene a former lover deters him from a robbery with a school-teacher-type lecture. He switches from bravado to bashfulness with aplomb and later in numerous slapstick scenes, he cavorts about the set with admirable grace. In all, he demonstrates that he is an expert actor of convincing versatility, and also, that he cannot sing...