Sentences with phrase «kind of bravado»

On this crisp fall morning, five days after the fire that destroyed her office, there was once again a bounce in her step and now a kind of bravado that made her wave to this and that neighbour as they motored by.

While I was there, I learned to let go of that kind of bravado brushstroke and brought things to more of a sense of resolution,» which perhaps provided the framework for the figurative paintings that she continues to make today.

I saw Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer take on public spaces with their texts — it seemed like a kind of bravado with a purpose, or maybe it's better to say that the size of their work was integral to the subjects they had in play.

In the short term, this kind of bravado may have helped reformers win support, but it also guaranteed that their initiatives would be viewed as failures over the long term.

A statement full of the kind of bravado that has earned the new shadow business secretary his reputation as a tough talker, but that has also had him branded as difficult to manage and cavalier.

I just hope Jack is really alright and he doesn't just do some kind of bravado.

It's that kind of bravado — combined with Elder's ailing ankle — that gives the edge to the Cowboys on Saturday, when the 68 - year - old Sutton squares off against Georgia Tech's 40 - year - old coach, Paul Hewitt.

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But a dimension of the alleged «paradigm shift» through which we are passing has to do precisely with the failure of that kind of anthropocentric bravado.

In this environment it was not uncommon for this kind of thing to happen — it was considered bravado and if you couldn't handle it you weren't respected.

It's that small pleasure in life that fills us with the kind of self - confidence and body - bravado that gives us an extra springy step when we walk.

And, as per usual, Rockwell's performance is a monster, easily conveying the surface of bravado and bullshit typical of this kind of guy, yet revealing the decent person who's still somewhere underneath, if he can be bothered to dig him out.

Proper socialization will cut down on the bravado and cultivate the kind of loving, loyal dog you want.