Word: bravados
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blocks for undelivered blows. What the Hell! I never meant none of them things you say I couldn't have meant." The letters to Hemingway and Pound show the variety of MacLeish's voices. With Pound, he uses a crisp, precise telegraphese. Hemingway brings out a sporting and earthy bravado not fully expressed to anyone else...
Cancer specialists cannot afford such bravado. Most of their patients do not recover. "When you see as many people as I do," says Arnold Brody, "you collect quite a stable of sick friends. Then they start knocking off. It's like losing a friend every month . . . Year after year after year...
...openness to consider the idea. "Reading between the lines," said an Administration official, "I think there is a realization on Arafat's part that the Reagan initiative is the only practical way to go for the foreseeable future." Describing the P.L.O. leader's apparent shift from military bravado to pragmatic diplomacy, a Middle East expert in Amman remarked, "It is time to fish or cut bait. The hour has arrived when Arafat must become a political leader and not just a guerrilla leader...
...uninhibited inventiveness suits that atmosphere perfectly. One has to scramble back beyond the '50s to find a comparison with what he is doing in pictures like this and The Stunt Man. It is, of course, to John Barrymore, offering up his very self to parody the charm and bravado, the intelligence and weakness of the character behind a classic leading man's profile. The result, now as then, is work that goes beyond laughter into the more sublime realms of honest and poignant self-revelation. -By Richard Schickel
When word spread of SR's potential demise, its loyalists wondered whether Cousins might leave his professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles to try once again. Said he with a tinge of the old SR editorial bravado: "I like to think of Saturday Review as an antidote to the sleaziness that is invading our national culture, the cult of incoherence, the competition to pulverize language and glamorize brutality." He paused. "You bet I am tempted to return. But if I am wise, I will suppress the temptation...