Sentences with phrase «by boastful»

Clients may not be persuaded by a boastful, new agent with no client referral history (i.e. low trust cue), suspecting this agent is only considering this sale for the higher commission.

With the help of feminist theory, she demonstrates how this drama of justification all too often «misses the mark» of women's lives — lives that are very often marked not by boastful arrogance but rather by an inadequate sense of personal agency.

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It's not just about self - actualization: employers can benefit greatly by institutionalizing a boastful culture, too.

As things have turned out, there are those that think that it's unChristian and unbiblical and that we're being boastful and arrogant, and those that understand that, in our context and times... we're living by the philosophy that we don't want to ask people to do something that we're not willing to do ourselves.

Like I said I'm not judging he has a boastful spiri like he has built he church by himself that is a house God has built.

The dark side of these personality traits is that in enjoying his prominence Marino sometimes seems boastful, and by only tolerating his prominence, Kosar sometimes appears aloof, or even snooty.

This raises a legal conundrum, namely, what is the legal status of a boastful Twitter confession by separatist leaders of a state - sponsored rebel group containing first - hand accounts and admissions of responsibility for shooting down a plane in the midst of a conflict?

«The government had been made aware of the boastful and pompous claims of Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, that he will change the leadership of Kaduna State in 2019 by installing himself as governor.

Trump was the same racist, boastful, arrogant, ignorant, and compulsively lying character I had first encountered in a 1979 Village Voice expose by Wayne Barrett.

It was and remains our contention that despite the boastful claims by the NPP that they possessed evidence of an over-bloated register brimming with foreigners, no such evidence was in their possession.

He explained that their suspicion was buoyed by the fact that there have been series of threats and boastful statements from the opposition camp, expressing very crude desperation about the July 14, 2012 gubernatorial election in the State as do or die affair.

by Bill Chambers Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is devastating because it doesn't offer any moral opposition to the glibly boastful first - hand accounts of Indonesian death squads; and his The Look of Silence is devastating because it does.

About The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot Developed by Ubisoft Montréal, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is a multiplayer action game where players attempt to create impregnable castles to protect their treasure hoard while simultaneously attempting to ransack other players» castles.www.themightyquest.com Gamers can play as three characters, the boastful Knight, Sir Painhammer, the enigmatic

The truth is, the brittle self - consciousness (half boastful, half embarrassed) signified by his cinematic name - dropping has always been Baumbach's artistic Achilles heel — his previous films include «Kicking and Screaming,» «The Squid and the Whale» and «Margot at the Wedding» — but thankfully it doesn't completely undo «Frances Ha.»

By implementing, with surgical precision, an impressively pure vision of a grand, boastful and larger - than - life crime story, Mann delivers a culmination of his previously tight, deliberately stylized work (namely, Thief and Manhunter).

To have Governor Scott, Senate President Negron, and Speaker Corcoran tell their version of this story, however, comes across as boastful, always touting «record levels of funding,» despite the fact that superintendents across the Sunshine State point out, most famously by Superintendent Runcie, that Florida ranks 44th in per - pupil funding.

But, those boastful claims came back to bite them in the ass when the company was forced to admit last month in a lawsuit with Purina that «a «substantial» and «material» portion of Blue Buffalo pet food sold to consumers contained poultry by - product meal.»

As my experience by reading other travel bloggers, most of their writings are boastful... If I read something that I felt that they are very proud of lifting up themselves, I immediately click the «X» button and never go back to their blog page again... I would like to follow you!

Chapter 3: Promoting Yourself: Creating an Effective Resume Most people hate writing resumes, in large part because of the discomfort of having to promote themselves — the purpose of this chapter is to reduce the pain and simplify the process by addressing the stories we tell ourselves that get in our way and suggesting alternatives that reduce the discomfort of appearing boastful.

One who is not envious, boastful or arrogant: Someone who does not resent an advantage enjoyed by another, with an envy to possess the same advantage; who does not brag that they are better than others and does not present an inflated sense of their personal status or accomplishments.