Sentences with phrase «own bravado»

Bravado and busyness can keep entrepreneurs in denial mode until the paramedics arrive.

My only regret after hearing that is that I didn't bite my tongue because I'm sure it was a little bit more bravado than reality — I certainly hope so.

It starts as false bravado — you're acting like you're cool and confident even when you're not — but if you're convincing enough, people start to believe it.

Neither of these statements is particularly surprising; bravado is necessary to avoid spooking investors.

Startup founders aren't immune to the basic human need to be heard, even if stereotypical Silicon Valley bravado might have them thinking they are, says Moriarty.

Courage did not mean bravado.

Likewise, if there is a time for bluff and bravado, there also is a time to have deeper, more open and transparent conversations.

Despite this bravado, however, the fact remains that ESPN has lost about seven million subscribers since 2013.

No magical backstory, no swoon - worthy romance, no bravado, just a kid from Queens trying to have faith in himself, keep his neighborhood safe, and keep himself from getting expelled at the same time.

Adams piled on with the Brooklyn bravado.

Not surprisingly, arrogant individuals are drawn to companies that value false bravado over a humble earnestness to learn and grow.

But many federal regulators scoff at such bravado.

The NRA itself is characteristically full of bravado.

Elon Musk's typical bravado was on full display Wednesday during Tesla's first quarter earnings call.

And according to Rose - Martel, Gildan — in «something of a show of bravado» — has actually contemplated exporting to China.

Puffed up with the bravado of the dotcom bubble, most people wanted to hold out for better terms.

«I think the press is on the one hand filled with bravado, in a certain way, with a sense of mission, and good,» Remnick said.

But since the financial crisis, and especially following the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, we've had a bit of strut in our step, a touch of bravado in our voice.

Here's how Gawker founder Nick Denton describes Smith's pitch to brands: «He's got a lot of bravado and confidence that he uses with people who really don't understand where things are going with the media.

Even back then, it was clear in his writing that he was wired to be an agent of bravado.

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.

Developing a persona but staying honest and sincere make for a charismatic leader who isn't all bravado.

But perhaps you've felt totally left out of this bravado - filled debate on when is the best time to get out of bed.

You're looking for that place in between bravado and self - deprecation.

The bravado drains from O'Leary when he recounts the outcome.

Here was a little girl, about four feet tall, staring down the massive bronze Charging Bull, a testosterone - charged symbol of Wall Street bravado.

But while we wait for him to get back to us, we thought we'd indulge a little in the bravado of a few entrepreneurs who have reclaimed their companies from acquirers (or shareholders) that own them.

Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery.

Covering everything from branding to bravado, there's bound to be something bankable in this bundle of business books.

Tesla analysts are accustomed to CEO Elon Musk's bravado and occasional fits of entrepreneurial defiance.

This bravado will likely meet skepticism in the industry, and among Tribune's shareholders: Gannett is showing a market value of $ 1.84 billion today.

Discord server Bitcoin Bravado has been accused of scheming to create a cryptocurrency pump and dump scheme by a potential member of that group.

Giuliani, who is bonded with the president by a particular brand of New York bravado, has escalated Trump's attacks on the Department of Justice, pushed for strict limits on special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe and upended White House legal strategy.

Drop the bravado, ditch the jargon and just have genuine conversations focused on helping them solve important problems.

I would argue that creatively living into our vocation as everyday peacemakers not only requires more bravery and bravado, it requires faithfulness and trust in the Good News of Jesus in the most real and tangible ways.

Is fear qualitatively different from jollity, from bravado, from the heart flutters induced by romance?

Yet for all its chest - thumping bravado, the game also portrays the anxieties and contradictions of aggressive sexuality.

And there you have the unsubstantiated declarative statement voiced in all of its bravado laced glory.

You have thus far completely refused all questions given to you in attempts to discuss the issue, have made absolutely zero effort to prove your assertion that homosexual activity is sinful, and have chosen instead to fall back on theatrical bravado.

The pious Pharisee's bravado and righteous indignation is just a mask for self - justification.

what do thoes media monkey ass's do, other than read what comes over the cable and distort it with their bravado, for a couple million dollars and sitting on their fat ass's and stockgobbing and laughing they earned their money and complaing about their taxes --

to be the perfect example of the arrogant bravado the fundy belief system creates.

Rather than heeding Gerard Manley Hopkins» warning in «Ribblesdale» — that man is «To his own selfbent so bound» — we take on William Ernest Henley's bravado of «Invictus»: «I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul».

In spite of all their earlier bravado, they were afraid of the cross.

It may be just bravado, but hey, I like that sense better than the one called fear.

Ours is the «First» world which, despite its continuing bravado, has been given intimations of the judgement that the first may turn out to be last.

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.

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.

So not unlike the picture of the girl, it leading to a head being lowered and sadness but perhaps this being masked by bravado in response to social pressure.

Sometimes I feel the big important things, and other times it's silly, petty, selfish things but I feel sadness and pain again, in ways that I didn't when I had my barricades of apologetics, bravado, and explanations.