Sentences with phrase «of false bravado»

Like his characters, and especially his teen characters, Woodrell's prose mixes tough and tender so thoroughly yet so delicately that we never taste even a hint of false bravado, on the one hand, or sentimentality, on the other.

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This false bravado can send the owner into a state of denial, refusing to acknowledge that her business is on a downward trend and losing value.

The fact that Peter later denied Jesus reveals that Peter was actually a coward whose false bravado was completely dependent on his false conception of the messiah.

It comes across as false bravado to me, lack of confidence in their position at the root.

Can Brave: The Video Game stand up and buck the trend of movie - based video games or is it really just false bravado?

Or is he desperately trying to keep a particular talking point afloat, in an act of apparent death wish false bravado?

But false bravado isn't some new discovery in the Trump spectrum of personality disorder.