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bravado
1. It wouldn't be the first time he had made a law enforcer disappear and he would enjoy the slow task of peeling him down, literally, to the essential weakness underlying all human bravado
2. Locked down with the shock, bound in chains of fear, I tried to break my bonds by lashing out at phantoms amid irrational bouts of bravado
3. He understood the bravado in what she was trying to do
4. Early migrants to America and Australia were often photographed at weddings and in bars, raising a loving glass to the old country, showing great bravado, cigarettes drooping from their lips; young men sipping whisky in shirt sleeves and armbands, unbuttoned waistcoats and slackened ties, slicked back hair
5. This momentary act of bravado was all that the wolf could
6. Her false bravado and self-confidence was a cleaver disguise to hide the fact that she was always, totally alone
7. Nothing much to report, just the usual backhanders in the gentlemen's lavatory, rounds of drinks and shouts and bravado
8. IF I were able to maintain that new found wakefulness and peace until she was satisfied I wouldn't relapse into the blustering baboon of bravado I knew had always been
9. She had stood up when I entered, and had watched the bravado with a blank look on her face
10. After about an hour they were all sorted out to our satisfaction…and their dissatisfaction since they were bloodied and no doubt regretting their bravado and stupidity to invite us to come and get them
11. It alone is enough to show the world what weak and small men the nationalists were behind the bravado of respectability they craved
12. All the bravado about him going to London and killing Conrad Hunter had been just that - empty bravado
13. Caroline escaped to the washroom, just as he began boasting about having his own private cop he could annoy to his heart’s content, ‘and there’s nothing the prick can do about it, either!’ Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a story that she had heard too many times already and, more filled with bravado with each telling
14. “You make me laugh” he said, “all bravado about not being scared, but you don’t want to enter the haunted house alone
15. A short deliberation later, and after he had pointed at Ethan and Nicole quite fervently, they picked up their weapons and motioned with an awkward, mixed expression of confusion, fear and faked bravado to follow them
16. When Buffo threatened to pin Jason up by his ears at the locker, he tipped off more than the insecurity that fed bravado
17. This bit of bravado cost us quite a few men and horses
18. The truth is, it was no bravado, there weren’t nearly enough of them to give us any trouble
19. I could see that some of his bravado had been replaced with confusion
20. “Soccer practice, huh? That would explain the bravado”
21. “It was just an earthquake!” Moshe answered in a bravado that he couldn’t quite manage, while a memory of the ground that shook just before the water crashed over him flashed again through his mind
22. ” In spite of this bravado, Hartstongue is awash in his own terrors
23. “It was just an earthquake!” Moshe answered in a bravado that he couldn't quite manage, while a
24. ‘Pah, I have not yet met a man that I could not best,’ growled Corvus, more to raise the group’s spirits than in a spirit of bravado
25. Most of the soldiers ignored their bravado and ran backwards for their lives
26. Brink is curious and somewhat amused by the mystery man’s bravado
27. They both laughed and Melvin joined the others, clearly proud of his bravado
28. His three listeners gazed in astonishment and Reginald‘s bravado began to slip
29. They had hardly seemed interested in him, so he approached his second interrogation with careless bravado
30. Oh, how fascinating was his daring and the way I oralled him for his bravado! With what gusto he thrashed me in return! What sense does it make to give up on men? Who knows who carries a Rasputin’s Prick (demands a capital letter, wouldn't it?) with him! How am I to know unless I unzip them all? Won’t a RP bring in bursting ecstasy? What a time that would be for my LP!'
31. Mohan and Raghav, who had held by then that their father was cranky, were not surprised by his bravado
32. ‖ Lonnie‘s proclaimed bravado belied his doubts
33. She continued pleading but her bravado was thinning as it mixed with the impassiveness of the half-breed
34. � replies Dippa in some sort of bravado, though his voice sounds more scared than sarcastic
35. ‘Am I not the master in my own house?’ insisted Third, with typical bravado
36. With no wish to inflame a calm situation by unnecessary acts of bravado
37. seeking approval, no false bravado
38. Either she was stupid or feigning bravado
39. uncenteredness in different ways—with the bravado of violence or
40. bravado, President Bush would have met with the friends and enemies of America, he, or
41. She admired his strength and bravado
42. And you certainly don’t have the bravado of Teddy Roosevelt
43. Vinny was shocked by his mother's bravado
44. garlic in a fit of drink-induced bravado
45. The airlock was opened and Michael stepped in with a lot more bravado
46. It was probably all bravado, but he did once try chatting up Barbara, I remember
47. nothing was that simple, but seing him now glow with satisfaction and bravado, that her plan
48. As time went on, he seemed to lose his normal bravado and began responding to Alice as
49. Just before arriving in Varanasi, Kejriwal had also travelled to Gujarat, where in a show of political bravado, he had marched almost up to Modi’s residence in Gandhinagar, apparently to seek an appointment
50. ‘Whether out of fear or bravado, people sometimes can tell a lie outside a polling booth as to who they have voted for—they are less likely to do so in their homes,’ was Yogendra’s logic
