bravado

In terms of massiveness, visual impact and sheer joyous bravado, it offers as much spectacle as any of his films.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

His buffoonish bravado and frequent failures alienate everyone who is not completely in his camp.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Buzz’s “To infinity and beyond” catchphrase connotes adventure and exploration, and the character’s journey from self-serious bravado to emotional vulnerability has given him a superpower far greater than the ability to fly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

“We anticipate more of these bouts of bravado to dictate the region for a while as both sides claim they are winning and neither is willing to be seen as disadvantaged,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

I take a deep breath and muster up all my bravado.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

I've trudged the world; I have learned many bravadoes, so that my heart never stirred much to the mere trick of an instrument but one, and the piob mhor conquers me.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

Now, failure on every hand awaited him, and all those bravadoes with which he had kept down his better nature deserted him.

From Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue by Warren T. Ashton

He smiled at the Hohenzollern's theatrical tastes, his war-like bravadoes, and his intellectual ambitions which pretended to embrace the whole knowable universe.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

The ancient enmity between these, princes broke out anew in bravadoes, and in personal insults on each other, ill becoming persons of their rank, and still less suitable to men of such unquestioned bravery.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

And so saying, under sufferance of being small, the plenipo was permitted to depart unmolested; for all his bravadoes, fobbing his credentials and affronts.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

Next to being raided by the sheriff of an adjacent county, having a river prophet come on board is the greatest excitement and the smartest amusement of the bravados down the river.

From The River Prophet by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman

It would be interesting to stare defiantly at his enemy at close range, to speak with him again man to man, to lure him into further bravados.

From Broken to the Plow by Charles Caldwell Dobie

They made many bravados, daily shooting off forty, fifty, or sixty pieces of ordnance at Nero and Puloway, thinking to frighten us.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

He must use his poetic powers as wonders attesting the purpose for which he speaks—not as mere bravados of ostentatious power.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

Mimi began to laugh and to utter bravados.

From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henry Murger