(n.) Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is not a bravado issue; they’ve got to be the right laws,” the minister said.
(2) That is not just bravado talk.” O’Neill fired a broadside at the Italian referee, Nicola Rizzoli, who had been praised by the Scotland manager, Gordon Strachan .
(3) Petraeus and his men would make unannounced visits in the middle of the night to Ljiljana Karadžić, the fugitive’s wife, with the aim of rattling her with a show of bravado about his imminent capture, in the hope she would rush to warn him, and give away his location.
(4) I am struck by the bizarre bravado he consciously displayed .
(5) The only exception is the rare show of bravado by Zsolt Nemeth, the Hungarian deputy foreign minister (also an EU official) who has advocated a Libya-style Nato intervention in Bahrain.
(6) But it was in westerns that Peck's dour integrity showed itself best: unshaven and tough in Yellow Sky (1948); a dude learning to adapt to the west in The Big Country (1958); and obsessively after the men who raped and killed his wife in The Bravados (1958).
(7) This anger towards the city is much more than teenage bravado or youthful rage.
(8) That smacks of bravado as the capital is around 1,000 miles away and the rebels number only 1,500 to 2,500 – and the Congolese army is about 150,000-strong.
(9) Just one more victory would validate this ultimate act of fan bravado.
(10) When I look at their faces, I see nothing but bravado, whether it’s Beyoncé’s stoicism, Kerry Washington’s smirk or Serena’s confidence.
(11) As for the bravado-filled email exchanges between traders, they seem on a par: Barclays' miscreants dealt in bottles of Bollinger; the taste at RBS was for steak and sushi.
(12) He had appeared perhaps out of bravado, perhaps out of enjoying the notoriety, but he insisted on one condition: his face not be shown.
(13) For all the platform bravado of Neil Kinnock, how much has the Labour leader actually achieved in his battle to purge Militant Tendency?
(14) I find some of the take-it-or-leave-it bravado we hear from those who assume Europe has no option but to give us everything we want more than a little naive,” he told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
(15) And some punctured bravado Before kick-off, Mourinho said Chelsea were different to other title-chasers, who might fancy being knocked out so they could focus on the league.
(16) Because, for all its bravado and swagger, this was the speech of a man – and a party – on the defensive.
(17) Anthony Atamanuik’s portrayal of Trump – breathtakingly brutal and eerily accurate – was hilarious at first, but over time, even he seemed to get sick of the baseless bravado and pumpkin-colored skin.
(18) When asked why he did it, he told Nature: "That was probably just bravado at the time," he says.
(19) When there’s no interrupting – no bravado, essentially – you get shit done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘You Cut, We Bleed’, a direct-action stunt by Sisters Uncut, protesting against cuts to women’s refuges.
(20) That bravado appears instinctive and ingrained within the pay-TV group.
Braving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brave
(n.) A bravado; a boast.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(2) The Dodgers and Braves are tied 1-1 in the third inning and the Detroit Tigers and Oakland A's ALDS will start at 9:37pm EST.
(3) It is because of those brave people that we owe our lives to them.
(4) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(5) But the overall drownings seem to be going up and I don’t know if it’s older people, if it’s young men being more brave around water.” Lawrence suggested children may be failing to continue swimming and water safety education once they have basic skills.
(6) In fact the aim for many of those braving increasingly chilly nights inside the tents is to be here until Christmas at least.
(7) Brain injury from a stroke has an impact on many families in the UK, so this film is not just brave and personal, it will speak to the broadest of audiences.
(8) From one of his hospital visits Marr recalls a woman, eight months pregnant, who had suffered a stroke: "There are people far worse off than me who are so incredibly brave and cheerful.
(9) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(10) The artist bravely offers us a more inclusive idea of who and what constitutes kin.
(11) Westwood came within an inch of clawing back a shot with a firm, brave putt, but went to the 16th having to birdie his way to the clubhouse to pull off a minor miracle.
(12) 2.36pm GMT Still on the luge, Italy’s Armin Zoeggler is praised for “brave sliding” but can’t improve on third place.
(13) Our team began 81 years ago – in 1932 – with the name "Boston Braves."
(14) But they were brave because they were risking future ministerial careers."
(15) "Let me assure you that our brave sentinels on the border will address any issue that happens on the border," said the foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin.
(16) It was a particularly brave – or rash – thing to say given that South Carolina is one of the most heavily militarised states in America and is peppered with military bases .
(17) Something certainly shifted: perhaps it was a combination of Dave’s reassurance, the hypnosis and seeing my fellow phobics so bravely facing their fears that eventually had an effect.
(18) She wouldn't name names, but said: "What male MPs from similar areas to Bradford and Keighley would say to me from time to time was, 'Oh, you're so brave taking up these issues' – either forced marriages or grooming of girls.
(19) First, Owen doesn’t mention the most common explanation for this rightwards movement, but it still seems true that, as many people grow older, not only do they lose the brave idealism of their youth, they come to feel they have much more to lose, far more invested in conserving the status quo: homes and property, maybe shares and savings, children etc.
(20) The situation today is that artists have to be brave.