As I've said before, I don't want to put up pictures, because it seems boastful and ostentatious. |
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He oozes confidence in his ability to please, without any of the boastful pretense that a human with his charms would inevitably have. |
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On the contrast, he had stopped acting arrogant and boastful, and was even becoming shy and modest. |
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It retells the rise and fall of a boastful but unenterprising man who marries a well-to-do, enterprising woman named Mary. |
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You have a considerable amount of self-confidence, and you like yourself without being conceited or boastful. |
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But I want to remind him of this one simple fact before he becomes excessively boastful, as he is wont to do. |
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Plato describes him as a vain man being both arrogant and boastful, having a wide but superficial knowledge. |
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Emma asked Mrs. Elton about her musical abilities, and she was both modest and boastful. |
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He is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward. |
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The industry has been quite creative, indeed even boastful at times, about their solutions to this ever-growing problem. |
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Also known for his almost demonic pride, he produced masterpieces of boastful verses. |
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Unlike your average male specimen, he did not look proud and boastful when first me, then Riley squealed over his car. |
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Never arrogant or boastful, they stand their ground and carry themselves with authority. |
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Gossips themselves are classified with people who are slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful. |
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I don't know why I'm hanging with big-head, the boastful of all that is dumb guy stuff, otherwise known as Jordon. |
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His pleasure when events went his way was the uncomplicated pleasure of a child or a boastful teenager. |
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They should, he said, be neither boastful and overconfident nor despondent and hopeless. |
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Winston Churchill, who personally vetted many of the British military code words, ordered that they should be neither overly boastful, nor frivolous. |
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The brother's got the boastful swagger of your favorite rapper, the entrepreneurial instincts of a street hustler and a pen as swift as his tongue is sharp. |
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Baffled or humbled by the land, we are disinclined to be boastful. |
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Mr. Isaacs's nuanced compositions eschewed sentimental cliché and boastful machismo in favor of a sensitive, even vulnerable point of view. |
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Bowers was crafty, boastful, a clown and an awkward character, a confabulator on the fringes of mythomania. |
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To most people he seemed full of exuberant vitality, talkative, jovial and robustious, egoistic, credulous, and boastful. |
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The Pharisee prays in a proud boastful way, only seeing what he does right and others do wrong. |
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They can be fickle, not very reliable, boastful, loud, quick-tempered and chatterboxes. |
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Warner said the schoolboy had initially been boastful about the murder, but had later cried, saying he had not meant to do it. |
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The jury heard dozens of conversations that showed him as foul-mouthed, boastful and conniving. |
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I do not want to sound boastful, but my report should not be reduced to that issue. |
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My second point is that, of course, this House is being noticeably boastful with regard to the forthcoming elections. |
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It's not a boastful declaration of who we are, but a set of values we claim to believe in, and to which we continually aspire. |
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He is an able politician and a loyal supporter of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, but Hughes is also boastful and unpredictable. |
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The male attire can sometimes give the impression of being too opulent and boastful, but it is very beautiful. |
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I will continue to talk about the boastful pride of this life in the next session. |
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We should be boastful because for the first time that most of us can remember, we are leading the developed world in economic growth. |
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On video, Raymond Santana was smug, boastful, and nonchalant by turns, vividly reenacting who did what during the rape. |
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He then regales them, boastful without even the sheen of a humblebrag, with tales of his glittering political career. |
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Olson, not only a cruel but also a boastful man, narrated to Peter the story of his horrific crimes. |
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The self-promotion, Seelie thinks, is somewhat boastful, and he wonders, is it worth it? |
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Water got trucked in, and CNN arrived on the scene, creating a national embarrassment for normally boastful Texas officials. |
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He is something of a Gascon, boastful and vain of his own achievements. |
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We're tired of Lori's yapping mouth and boastful monologues. |
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At the risk of sounding a bit boastful, I'd like to think that I have a decent knowledge of video games, past, present, and to some extent, future. |
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And I don't mean that as an egotistical statement or a boastful statement. |
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Because Esau was someone who was boastful of his own good deeds, God saw him as having nothing to do with faith in His righteousness, and this is why God hated him. |
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I have no wish to appear boastful but it does seem to me that in the Committee on Employment we have revived a broad consensus across all groups in this House. |
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It will be seen as a tired and enfeebled colossus, a continent filled with boastful babble, fragile and old, nothing more than a historical museum. |
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But those who seek to fill their hearts with the things of this earth, so that they may have money and goods to make themselves proud and boastful in their hearts, those people shall fall. |
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We know Americans can sometimes be, if I can be honest, loud, boastful, aggressive, maybe overbearing and certainly overwhelming, but we also know they have hearts as big as this planet. |
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He ought not to be so boastful, because he is concealing from them the fact that Canada has not lived up to the commitments it inherited from the historical treaties of colonial times. |
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An Olympian and world-class runner, he's not a boastful athlete. |
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Many women are hesitant or afraid to put their name on their gifts, especially big ones, because we live in a world where men are more likely to be viewed as generous, while women will often be seen as boastful. |
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Burke was boastful and sly regarding his Grammar of Motives, in which he introduces and applies his theory of Dramatism. |
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The prime minister put himself on the side of the victims of the crash and tried to sound less boastful about the Tories' achievements on the economy. |
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They are said to have been quarrelsome, boastful, unruly, but also brave, impetuous, and generous... Since ancient times the Gauls were found to be a captivating people, but they give rise to many questions. |
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They have twisted and warped with the whims of permafrost and age, but are still the boastful creations of the men who reached for their pot of gold. |
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Famed game developer Peter Molyneux is known for his boastful hucksterism, sometimes making promises for his games that just never materialize. |
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You don't have to dig too far to uncover a distressed gentleness on the other side of the pilfered street poses, protective toughness and boastful defensiveness. |
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This is dearly a boastful designation, rather than an attempt at toponymic accuracy. |
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The use of the term is seen by some as elitist and boastful. |
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He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds. |
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