bravado
Example Sentences
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Homer’s bravado strokes of bold colors, with highlights in white, create a sparkling vision of two men in the great outdoors.
His intellectual bravado has always attracted disciples and acolytes, notably his cultlike following at Cambridge, where he taught in the 1930s and ’40s.
This bit of bravado quickly falters when MacGruber finds his name on nearly every page.
From Salon
For all that bravado, though, Wang was unable to keep pace with rivals such as Apple and Dell, which provided ever-improving word processors and a whole lot more.
Mr. Clooney has never had a better role, and he burrows deeply into it with a self-interrogating combination of narcissism, foolishness, bravado and charisma.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
