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Sentence Examples The sheer bravado of its bid, and the unconfined joy with which its success was greeted, was evidence of a city with attitude. I imagine they have made some bawdy bravado remark about wanting to see someone's helmet, and have met their match. Unforunately, the bravado of temporary office sometimes does things to people. I took it back with bravado having been so successful bartering the day before. Faking bravado, I wave my hands about as a shopper walks by, and call out that I'm being prevented from leaving. His combative language and his defiant shouting were full of bravado, and he had the large frame and muscular build to back up his boasts. His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle. He put on a show of bravado, but inwardly he was seeking any way out of his predicament. This is the sort of bravado often uttered by managerial sidekicks, usually only to be jettisoned the moment they graduate to being their own men. It was this false, uncompromising bravado, which led her to savagely beat a pensioner couple who lived in a flat below her. It takes a generous mix of humor, bravado, and unflagging optimism for Krauss to persist in the task he's given himself. He stalks his prey with bravado and near-relish, killing unremorsefully on his unremitting quest to destroy the accused. Amid all the glorious fanfares and bravado there will be some frightened and anxious people. The voices are loud and harsh, reflecting anxiety and bravado in equal parts. The lawyer bobbed and weaved, then fielded questions with a touch of his own unique brand of bravado. Later, alcohol-fuelled bravado saw him insist that he could do a better job than his friend driving to a nightclub. He had certainly done his best to conceal it with his bluster and bravado and big bad persona. They spun around in the car parks and many of the cars had two guys out the back windows holding hands across the roof in a show of bravado. He manages to steal the film, even next to various scenery-chewers' bits of bravado. His swaggering bravado has turned me and a number of people I know way off. Show More Sentences Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado. My friend thought he had beaten a rapid retreat after the initial, face-saving show of bravado. Despite such bravado, oil prices rose to near-record highs in trading as jittery markets reacted to the alert. We recognise the familiar cushions and head rests, the trepidation of take-off and disguise of bravado. The purity of the opening segment has slipped away, replaced by bravado and swagger. Several witnesses related the story of that operation, usually with an Irish brogue to enhance the color of Madden's bravado. Nicholson speaks of his future with the same mix of bravado and worry that marked his early career. But I'm speaking up for all the other women he has betrayed with his so-called sexual bravado. Bowyer, on the other hand, displayed a nonchalant grin, full of boyish bravado. My bravado from earlier dwindled as he nodded, smiled again, and continued stacking the shelves. The challenge is to undo the bravado that leads some workers to discard their hard hats or decide not to tie off, he explains. And in fact, the film's potential strength lies in its undermining of such bravado. Though widely acknowledged as a dazzling strategist, his impolitic, in-your-face bravado clashed with the staid Air Force culture. Young drivers can put themselves and others at risk through a combination of inexperience and bravado. He was not afraid of her, and she sensed his bravery was genuine and not the result of insincere male bravado. But, filled with misplaced bravado, I decided this was the right time for a proper conflagration. But red cards and bravado aside, there was plenty of good football played and entertainment provided too. No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps. The fact that they snapped my washing line was a small price to play for such a display of bravado and skill. Keep quiet about the 4,000 recidivists who run city streets, committing crimes with increasing bravado and little fear of punishment. Show More Sentences The young Ali was pure boxing brilliance, backing up his bravado with breathtaking speed of hand and foot and sublime skills. Yet one disruptive crew-member was met at the dock by a wife of leonine stature and all his bravado shrank. His desperate opponent returns a weak shot or a lob, either of which he puts away with careless bravado. The closeness of being in a packed car allows the trio the chance to swap stories and the lads to fabricate tales of bravado. Behind the green baize bravado was quite evidently a character who talked big when the chips were up, but folded when it came to real life. The fans are awestruck and their earlier bravado quickly disappears. All bravado, Miguel rushes to her rescue, scooping up a three-inch, striped insect with threatening jaws and a large, baldish head that looks eerily human. I marvelled at Clay's bravado but wondered if he wasn't going too far. He treats his insecurities almost entirely with a combination of self-sarcasm and bravado. Aries hide doubts about themselves behind a pretty convincing show of bravado, but taming your wild side and behaving considerately will express your best qualities this week. It's for bravado or to be cool, but it inevitably ends in disaster. Stripped of all glam rock bravado, the songs acquire a new life. I admire the brawny bravado of the pretence, but I'm not convinced. He pressed a few keys and hit the enter key with some bravado. The boardroom bravado, however, has already drawn criticism from some influential shareholders. But for all the jolly quips and witty asides public relations and advertising are tough, unforgiving industries, teaming with showmanship and bravado. Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado. Awarding chief executives shares and share options can encourage them to ramp the share price by acts of headline-catching bravado which rarely translate into value. Picasso, with his polka-dot shirt and clashing tie attempted an air of bravado, but lost confidence by the minute. And we can listen to the pathetic, creepy bravado of a former vice president, wrong on nearly every decision he made. Show More Sentences Eating offal is not about bravado, it's a completely wonderful flavour. Zaharchenko on Friday night projected defiance rather than bravado, no doubt buoyed by the Moscow-sent materiel and fighters. He delivers his declaration not with reckless bravado but with a dignified, quiet, middle-management-lifer assurance, in keeping with his general mien. It's with optimistic bravado that I approach yon quivering mountain. It perfectly illustrates the combination of bravado, real toughness, and a kind of lost-little-boy appeal that he has with women. Quite the reverse, in fact, with his bravado hiding basic insecurities. His pitfalls have been unctuosity, on the one side, bravado on the other. The band is amped, and even the ballads quake with fat bass lines, piano chords issued with sledgehammer bravado and the vocals hustled to the front of the mix. General Tri's bravado extended to his trademark swagger stick and stylish sunglasses. Peter himself was caught in the thick of fighting, and died as a result of a foolhardy act of bravado. They have a great sense of performance, bravado, and audacity. Indeed, Magnotta was also betrayed by his cinephile bravado. It's indicative of the movie's jokey, aren't-we-something bravado which, ultimately, comes off pretty hollow in light of its performance. That musical bravado was there, too, in the sabre dance from Gayaneh by Khachaturian. The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado. Chelsea were overcommitting, Cavani squandering two chances to put the tie to bed, leaving the chance for a last, late act of bravado. First of all a degree of bravado at having reached such high speeds, a bit of nervous laughter and cursing the sneakiness of the cops. As for Tallulah, beneath her bravado she was utterly terrified. It was at Eton that Ayer first became known for his characteristic bravado and precocity. The boom years facilitated widespread bravado, incompetence and unconscionability in Australian businesses that the finance sector has fostered and nurtured. Show More Sentences It goes to the bravado of the French security forces that they brought down the curtain in a more professional manner than the cluelessness that the Aussies exhibited. McCall has told sinning stars, including Bilel Mohsni, he won't tolerate bookings for backchat and bravado as they bid to return to winning ways against Raith. Examples from Classical Literature Finally, we find him deified in Olympus, and the epic closes with an empty bravado that none ever more worthily emulated Alcides. And he sent his targe in the air in a bravado, catching it by the prong in its navel, smart and clean, when it whirled back. This was said with as much bravado as if he was offering to bet upon a horse-race. For a moment, therefore, in his bearing bravado was tempered with hesitancy. When he saw Mathieu come in he believed in some act of bravado, and almost choked. It was a mockery of their bravado, a belittlement of their bluff and swagger in the brief day of their oppression. It was said she had been brutally jilted by her cousin, Rutland Whitney, and that she married this unknown man from the West out of bravado. Last night's escapade was sheer bravado to mock at you and Brennan. The viceroy, however, begged him earnestly not to hang them, as their behaviour savoured rather of madness than of bravado. With resolute bravado, however, he snatched them from his nose, and fixed a bold stare full upon the ruddy blaze of the Great Carbuncle. With a grin and a swagger of pure bravado Mulready turned and obeyed. In a moment it was hand-to-hand fighting, and Trent was cursing already the bravado which had brought him out to the open. There was something in the man's tone of bravado that stamped it genuine. His eyes fell, his bravado vanished, he fumbled with the cutlery. The last fragment of self-respect, of bravado even, was in tatters. That bravado gave impetus to the pointed insolence on the breakwater. I do protest if this action of mine in the chart room may seem bravado. Peter's confession indicates that this unlearning was far from complete as Jesus equates Peter's bravado with the talk of the devil. His pasty yellow complexion did not show well on a person of his years, and his look was a mixture of irresolution, bravado, and very cheap smartness. On the first day of his life as a strikebreaker Jurgis quit work early, and in a spirit of bravado he challenged three men of his acquaintance to go outside and get a drink. Show More Sentences The only human being that crossed their path was a Kansas warrior, returning from some solitary expedition of bravado or revenge, bearing a Pawnee scalp as a trophy. I cannot help thinking, men of Athens, that Meletus is reckless and impudent, and that he has written this indictment in a spirit of mere wantonness and youthful bravado. There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of bravado? Words that rhyme with bravado What is the plural of bravado? What is the adverb for bravado? What is the adjective for bravado? What is the noun for bravado? Translations for bravado Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words brava Braunschweiger braunschweiger Braun bratwurst bratty bravas brave brave as a lion braved braveheart bravehearts 7-letter Words Starting With b br bra brav brava bravad