Word: braved
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...brave souls who ran the Boston Marathon: "Forspent with toil, as runners with a race" ("3 Henry...
...quarterback who just got pummelled [sic] isn't trying to be brave, he's just not crying. Big difference...
Tragically, the awkwardness will only continue with Jerry Springer as Harvard's leisure-time mentor. To those who brave Bogdanovich's TV room: tune in to "One Life to Live" and talk amongst yourselves...
...while his literary production grew and he became a Nobel Laureate and one of the most important literary influences of the 20th century, Hemingway's public persona expanded as well, and threatened even to overshadow the writing: Hemingway the brave idealist, the avid fisherman, the boxer. The mythic man impinged on the literary production all the more so because his poise and his life ran together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself...
...works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave coward"--take a certain joy in Hemingway'ssuicide, which proves once and for all that theman was really a posturer, masking fear withmachismo...