How To Use Bravado In A Sentence

His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle.
His desperate opponent returns a weak shot or a lob, either of which he puts away with careless bravado.
As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
Bravado, bluster, and empty threats were, after all, only useful to a certain degree.

Needless risk and bravado have changed only in medium. Times, Sunday Times
It is amazing where male bravado can get you. Times, Sunday Times
Young drivers can put themselves and others at risk through a combination of inexperience and bravado.
He is getting fat and jowly and heavy-browed, and his courage is more bravado, the courage of safety in numbers. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
In my early days, I was good at covering up my genuine fears and insecurities with sheer bravado. Times, Sunday Times
His arrogant courtroom displays of bravado ended when he reached the high-security jail. The Sun
Jul 16 2010, 9:46 PM ET A few days ago, an 11-year-old posted a video of herself responding to online critics with a foul-mouthed piece of little girl bravado.
My friend thought he had beaten a rapid retreat after the initial, face-saving show of bravado.
This was not an exhibition of power or bravado but a masterclass of planning and execution. Times, Sunday Times
And even when the story you're trying to tell is broad, it must fit on the size of a postage stamp with all the bravado and ta-da of a pop-up book. Julius Wiedemann: What's in a brand? THE STORY OF THE GAP LOGO AND WHY EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
A Beach Boys Buddy Holly Electric Light Orchestra symphony serenades your bravado with the blissed out chutzpah it requires to rise above the jellyfish and octopi unfazed. Dream World Ideations
Always the master of every topic on which he attempts to enlighten, he is neither foiled by the sophistries nor embarrassed by the bravadoes of his opponents. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
But red cards and bravado aside, there was plenty of good football played and entertainment provided too.
He pressed a few keys and hit the enter key with some bravado.
Later, full of bravado, he stepped on a 'chockstone', assuming it would take his weight. Times, Sunday Times
Though widely acknowledged as a dazzling strategist, his impolitic, in-your-face bravado clashed with the staid Air Force culture.
But the Lexington goes to Bay Buchanan, sister and campaign manager of Pat, for her low-budget bravado.
Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
But watch again and something happens: you see a moment both sweet and wry as a couple shyly osculate in "The Kiss," a quiet dignity beneath the brawny bravado in "Sandow: The Strong Man. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
And how much, anyway, was male bravado an attempt to impress his teenage daughters? Times, Sunday Times
And they are given to the rulers and the ruling classes, not in bravado, not to frighten them, but for them to consider more deeply the spirit and nature of this world revolution. Revolution
With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Moynihan held forth with a staccato bravado -- that sometimes bordered on the comical -- punctuated by pregnant pauses, the result of a speech impediment and not, as Moynihan's political opponents sometimes suggested, a drinking problem. Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
I would have liked to tell you in person that I have found your way of expressing your thoughts on the future of our profession and knowledge management to be inspirational and that I read "out front with stephan abram" on the bus during my commute to my first professional library job- just to soak up your vision and boost my confidence with your bravado and encouragement. Stephen's Lighthouse: SLA Western Canada Chapter
He has a confidence and a bravado that gives me confidence in him. Times, Sunday Times
This could have been an empty sort of tale, full of bravado and male hormones. Times, Sunday Times
And how much, anyway, was male bravado an attempt to impress his teenage daughters? Times, Sunday Times
He had certainly done his best to conceal it with his bluster and bravado and big bad persona.
Allegretto was an insouciant confection - played with vigor and bravado.
I remember playing this game to the end and expected some spectacular bravado ending, but all I got were the words ‘The End’, and then the credits scrolled up.
The tag bag wonder child Rubio will lose. bravado in boston Crist to run for Senate as independent candidate
‘This braggadocio, this bravado, it's all a cover-up,’ he said.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
This is the sort of bravado often uttered by managerial sidekicks, usually only to be jettisoned the moment they graduate to being their own men.
These foreigners with a false sense of bravado play this game by consuming comestibles not prepared in keeping with standard hygeinic practices most of us have come to expect and demand and this becomes a game lacking in rational thought and more about that later but for now I must run an errand for my better half before she whups my ass so I will continue this posting later. On Crossing the MoMo Bridge
Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado.
He has exhibited no swagger or bravado about what happened and represents a low risk of reoffending. Times, Sunday Times
This is more than bravado, say veterans. Times, Sunday Times
The band is amped, and even the ballads quake with fat bass lines, piano chords issued with sledgehammer bravado and the vocals hustled to the front of the mix.
He has exhibited no swagger or bravado about what happened and represents a low risk of reoffending. Times, Sunday Times
Inspired, however, by the spirit of hereditary obstinacy, Charles preferred a useless resistance to a dignified submission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and sending him to close confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to the place of his destination. Redgauntlet
Along with modesty, that other quintessentially British characteristic, self-deprecation, is on the wane - it doesn't work in a culture of swank and bravado.
Unless you give some sort of rough chance, your apparent confidence is just bravado. Times, Sunday Times
Still, his leniency is a far cry from the bravado he displayed in the months leading up to his final act as pay czar. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
She chose the word bravado and those two things - the word bravado and the photograph of the men dancing - would inspire and then form her song. Nellie McKay Reveals 'Cavendish'
During the time of the siege, the young Moorish and Spanish cavaliers vied with each other in extravagant bravadoes. The Alhambra
He was not afraid of her, and she sensed his bravery was genuine and not the result of insincere male bravado.
In all of his hawkish bravado, Cheney has never explained why he could not find Bin Laden, or why he "dithered" as the Afghanistan war string along for 8 long years. Afghanistan: Pay for it or charge it?
And Dutrow, known in horse racing for his bravado, is doing well enough as a trainer that he's planning to wager $100,000 on Big Brown, a 3-1 favorite. Behind a Derby favorite, tragedy and redemption
I worked with inner city kids for about three years after high school, and many had the tough "streetwise" bravado that Jason talked about above. Manhattan math - Anil Dash
If there is one lesson that comes through loud and clear in Everest, it is that confidence and bravado are not enough to cheat death. Christianity Today
His arrogant courtroom displays of bravado ended when he reached the high-security jail. The Sun
I took it back with bravado having been so successful bartering the day before.
Despite this, the cast members manage to make each character a believable one, with an individual personality, and show that beneath the bravado and bluster and laddish behaviour, there lurks a decent human being.
The lawyer bobbed and weaved, then fielded questions with a touch of his own unique brand of bravado.
He manages to steal the film, even next to various scenery-chewers' bits of bravado.
Now, sir, this kind of blustering and bravado may sound very big up in A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
Yeah ... bravado from a guy who never served under arms ... the great desk chair warrior has spoken! Cheney hits 'radical' Obama
Republican Administrations have been elected to enact the dramas of ego, vanity, paranoia, bravado, resentment, and one more grand rummage through historical baggage when the material and managerial condition of the country was good enough to survive the sustained period of incompetence, ineffectuality, abuse, raging, and waste that entails. Matthew Yglesias » What Bush Got Right
But for all the bravado of his pre-budget speech, there was arguably little that Brown could have said to resolve the fundamental contradiction at the heart of his vision for Britain.
He put on a show of bravado, but inwardly he was seeking any way out of his predicament.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
The purity of the opening segment has slipped away, replaced by bravado and swagger.
Yet one disruptive crew-member was met at the dock by a wife of leonine stature and all his bravado shrank.
This project certainly reeks of what I like to call “Dude Science” .. there’s a certain ballsiness to the description of Project BioDesign that hides the Promethean intent behind militaristic Bravado. Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal Beings with Genetic Kill-Switches « Third Point of Singularity
Also, Graham realized that the turning of her head and the waving of her arm was only partly in bravado, was more in aesthetic wisdom of the picture she composed, and was, most of all, sheer joy of daring and emprise of the blood and the flesh and the life that was she. CHAPTER IX
The difference here from the fool's paradise of hip-hop bravado is that it's all too real, and that the protagonists who confide in Asger Leth are now all dead. GreenCine Daily: SFIFF Dispatch. 7.
In my early days, I was good at covering up my genuine fears and insecurities with sheer bravado. Times, Sunday Times
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lese-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
The voices are loud and harsh, reflecting anxiety and bravado in equal parts.
Unless you give some sort of rough chance, your apparent confidence is just bravado. Times, Sunday Times
No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps.
Keep quiet about the 4,000 recidivists who run city streets, committing crimes with increasing bravado and little fear of punishment.
Reading back over some of their lines, I had to laugh imagining Zed's awful motivational speeches filled with classic Jack Black bravado, or thinking of Michael Cera's awkward gawkiness when Oh tries to dance with his love interest and eventually hits her over the head with a stick in an attempt to woo her. Script Review: Harold Ramis' Year One - Biblical Blasphemy « FirstShowing.net
I too have reservations about the sentences in the case that is referred to although the 'smirking' is a reference to tabloid reports: some defendants show bravado, and some grin through the rictus effect of fear. Base Metal
Sheer senseless destruction to send in a cockleshell like the JERVIS BAY against the might of a pocket battleship, a folly and a bravado, that amounted to nothing less than madness. The Lonely Sea
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
French and Irish yawns are very similar, the only difference being, that whereas the Frenchman finishes the yawn resignedly, and springs to his legs, the Irishman finishes it with an energetic gasp, as if he were hurling it remonstratively into the face of Fate, turns round again and shuts his eyes doggedly -- a piece of bravado which he _knows_ is useless and of very short duration. The Young Fur Traders
Yet all the horror seems a disgusting display of bravado, disconnected from the men themselves. Times, Sunday Times
I gave each a mocking salute, driven by I don't know what tomfool bravado. The Black Company
We recognise the familiar cushions and head rests, the trepidation of take-off and disguise of bravado.
On the surface he was all bluster, bravado and cocksureness. He Knew He Was Right
It was no more than the thickest layer of bravado, and it concealed an interior world of fearful fragility. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
They ran government trading at Salomon Brothers during the 1980s and early 1990s, ruling with swagger, bravado and hubris.
The fans are awestruck and their earlier bravado quickly disappears.
Take your macho bravado and shove it.
But for all the jolly quips and witty asides public relations and advertising are tough, unforgiving industries, teaming with showmanship and bravado.
'Don't threaten me,' she whispered with false bravado.
He delivers his declaration not with reckless bravado but with a dignified, quiet, middle-management-lifer assurance, in keeping with his general mien.
So, is the macho bravado all just for show? The Sun
Awarding chief executives shares and share options can encourage them to ramp the share price by acts of headline-catching bravado which rarely translate into value.
Also, Graham realized that the turning of her head and the waving of her arm was only partly in bravado, was more in aesthetic wisdom of the picture she composed, and was, most of all, sheer joy of daring and emprise of the blood and the flesh and the life that was she. CHAPTER IX
I admire the brawny bravado of the pretence, but I'm not convinced.
It was an act of bravado that made him ask his boss to resign.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
Eddie has a lot in common with Wolverine - he's all tough macho bravado on the outside, but inside he's a wounded human being looking for acceptance.
All bravado, Miguel rushes to her rescue, scooping up a three-inch, striped insect with threatening jaws and a large, baldish head that looks eerily human.
About thirty airmen sat around wearing a variety of expressions from sickly smiles to tough bravado.
'Don't threaten me,' she whispered with false bravado.
But one yearns for more of the chaotic bravado that drove their early work: amid dreamy harmonies and jangly guitar lines, only the crescendoing title track and rumbling freak-out "North Parade" truly catch fire. The Coral: Butterfly House
His false bravado is an instant turn-off for her.
This mix of self-hatred and bravado infuses the music.
The young Ali was pure boxing brilliance, backing up his bravado with breathtaking speed of hand and foot and sublime skills.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
Instead we blewit all with lies and bravado by a ouple of cowards whose friends and families stood to gain enormously from war. Quote Of The Day
Now, failure on every hand awaited him, and all those bravadoes with which he had kept down his better nature deserted him. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue
Your bravado was fuelled by skunk cannabis and cheap drink. The Sun
But these days, bravado in men on screen plays chauvinistic and strength boorish, where for women, good sense is written as shrewish and vulnerability weak. Emily Bracken: Romantic Comedies Are Dying Because Romance Is Dead
The director delivers a film that harkens back to a golden age of solid storytelling and bold heroics, without the falsely pumped-up bravado of so many "major" pictures these days.
Unfortunately, too, he was not overwise; and he had a habit of telling tales against himself, partly out of bravado, which of course did not tend to improve matters. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
Spacek’s clueless, baton-twirling Holly proclaims love for Sheen’s Kit and all his fake bravado in opulent romance-novel voiceovers. Eric’s Top 10 Alienated Youth Movies » Scene-Stealers
He was, in fact, a very forward and uppish young fellow, this prisoner, though it might have been partly bravado. A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old
You have bravado, a false confidence at that age. Times, Sunday Times
All which bravadoes, though they were belcht foorth with admirable insinuations: yet they converted into smoke, as all such braggadochio behaviours do, and he was as wise at the ending, as when he began. The Decameron
Like most things about fake dr hunt, the bravado is transparently false. Think Progress » Florida doctor tells Obama voters they are not welcome: ‘Seek urologic care elsewhere.’
He has the swagger and bravado - the coloured hair and the flash motor.
When the Marshal saw my son was serious and did not care at all for his bravadoes, he became submissive and did what my son desired. The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
You have bravado, a false confidence at that age. Times, Sunday Times
The children are true to their later personalities as teens: Freddie is full of bluster and bravado, Daphne is girly and vain, and Velma is nerdy.
It was no more than the thickest layer of bravado, and it concealed an interior world of fearful fragility. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
A major departure for a director known for very proper British fare—including "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement"—"Hanna" is quite the improper little package, stylish, rich in singular images and one that carries itself with both the bravado of a spy thriller and the winsomeness of a fairy tale. 'Arthur': He Drinks, Movie Falls Down
They ran government trading at Salomon Brothers during the 1980s and early 1990s, ruling with swagger, bravado and hubris.
It's for bravado or to be cool, but it inevitably ends in disaster.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
My bravado from earlier dwindled as he nodded, smiled again, and continued stacking the shelves.
With a bit of bravado, the old gang hung out their new shingle: the Prediction Company.
But the guards who play with the bravado worthy of the term "Cali Swag" share a lineage beyond their first names. The Seattle Times
Whether it's youthful bravado or not, we ignore this warning at our peril. The Sun
Eating offal is not about bravado, it's a completely wonderful flavour.
After a few days of tense exchanges, macho bravado, nervous folk songs, and strained humor, the possibility of cannibalism is raised. Fantastic Fest Day One - Paranormal Activity, Gentlemen Broncos + more » Scene-Stealers
But, filled with misplaced bravado, I decided this was the right time for a proper conflagration.
It takes a generous mix of humor, bravado, and unflagging optimism for Krauss to persist in the task he's given himself.
Workaholic Yuwarat shrugs off the need for police cavalcades and security with a certain bravado: ‘I am not afraid of dying.’
He put on a show of bravado, but inwardly he was seeking any way out of his predicament.
He was now fairly mad with rage, drew his sword, thrust and cut into the corner whence the laugh rang, and challenged the Kobold with bravadoes, to come on. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
His combative language and his defiant shouting were full of bravado, and he had the large frame and muscular build to back up his boasts.
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
Bravado a lire keeps there inside them. when you dig yourself so far into the grave that you cant get out you have to protect yourself and slap all treats down before you can control them by your bravado and false hoods and mysticism. Dr Gyi
“There she breaches! there she breaches!” was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven. Moby Dick; or the Whale
When we turn the topic to relaxation's antipode, stress, the bravado of a few -- "I'm fine, we're all fine," claims one boy; "it was simply a natural disaster" intones another -- contends with the more complex memories of their classmates. James S. Gordon: At School: A Place to Help Haitian Children
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
All the chorus writing, including some clarinet-led boat music in which strings imitate a balalaika, a wedding song that yields to anguish, some vigorous, aggressive Polish bravado, and the noble imperial finale, is dramatic and vivid.
My friend thought he had beaten a rapid retreat after the initial, face-saving show of bravado.
The closeness of being in a packed car allows the trio the chance to swap stories and the lads to fabricate tales of bravado.
Into this world, comes Ahmadinejad with his "in your face" bravado and his blusterous taunts. James Zogby: Unhelpful Provocations
She ignored them, bolstered by her own sense of bravado and spurred on by the belief that everyone is a masochist in one way or another.
His swaggering bravado has endeared him to the other rising strongmen. Times, Sunday Times
It was this false, uncompromising bravado, which led her to savagely beat a pensioner couple who lived in a flat below her.
It is amazing where male bravado can get you. Times, Sunday Times
Yet all the horror seems a disgusting display of bravado, disconnected from the men themselves. Times, Sunday Times
It's with optimistic bravado that I approach yon quivering mountain.
'I'll be fine on my own ,'she said with bravado.
When virtual intervention isn't enough, iBoy brutally exposes the empty bravado and cowardice of the local thugs in tense fight scenes - just before he concusses them. NYT > Home Page
Tucked into the corner of the ground, the away end is a bubbling cauldron of noise and bravado. Times, Sunday Times
Despite her bravado at the meeting, she couldn't win in a congregational fight. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
Faking bravado, I wave my hands about as a shopper walks by, and call out that I'm being prevented from leaving.
Quite the reverse, in fact, with his bravado hiding basic insecurities.
Nicholson speaks of his future with the same mix of bravado and worry that marked his early career.
I marvelled at Clay's bravado but wondered if he wasn't going too far.
Whether it's youthful bravado or not, we ignore this warning at our peril. The Sun
Amid all the glorious fanfares and bravado there will be some frightened and anxious people.
They spun around in the car parks and many of the cars had two guys out the back windows holding hands across the roof in a show of bravado.
These words were scarce pronounced, when Mr. Clarke approaching one of the bravadoes, who had threatened to crop his ears, bestowed such a benediction on his jaw, as he could not receive without immediate humiliation; while Timothy Crabshaw, smarting from his broken head and his want of supper, saluted the other with a The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
If there is one lesson that comes through loud and clear in Everest, it is that confidence and bravado are not enough to cheat death. Christianity Today
Your bravado was fuelled by skunk cannabis and cheap drink. The Sun
It uses elements of music, and it uses the word bravado, and it references the picture, and might not be anything people won't listen to, but at least, you know, I say it will be pleasant. Nellie McKay Reveals 'Cavendish'
As a footnote, I should add that there was one point on which his bravado was more than justified.
This could have been an empty sort of tale, full of bravado and male hormones. Times, Sunday Times
His swaggering bravado has turned me and a number of people I know way off.
I didn't need any false bravado to intimidate now; I was really riled.
Later, alcohol-fuelled bravado saw him insist that he could do a better job than his friend driving to a nightclub.
You might dismiss that as youthful bravado, only he is so good at his chosen sport. Times, Sunday Times
Despite such bravado, oil prices rose to near-record highs in trading as jittery markets reacted to the alert.
Several witnesses related the story of that operation, usually with an Irish brogue to enhance the color of Madden's bravado.
Maitre Pierre, in whom the bravado of the young gallant seemed only to excite laughter, more scornful than applausive. Quentin Durward
I respect John McCain for his service and patriotism, but not for his failure to look through a contemporary lens at the Iraq war rather than through a lens tainted by the posturing bravado from the scars of a VIetnam-era worldview. Schneider: Voters say Clinton is more caring
Tommies nap on their neighbours' shoulders, chat over cups of tea and laugh with bravado before heading into the abyss. Times, Sunday Times
In the past year as a flight surgeon here, I've become accustomed to the air of bravado , determination, courage, and fear as they head out of fight.
Bowyer, on the other hand, displayed a nonchalant grin, full of boyish bravado.
He has a confidence and a bravado that gives me confidence in him. Times, Sunday Times
And so saying, under sufferance of being small, the plenipo was permitted to depart unmolested; for all his bravadoes, fobbing his credentials and affronts. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
“Your ephemeris,” she says, finally, with a fair amount of bravado. Vivian Rising
He stalks his prey with bravado and near-relish, killing unremorsefully on his unremitting quest to destroy the accused.
He is hurting the state but his ego is too big to allow him to step down. bravado in boston First on the Ticker: GOP support for Sanford impeachment grows
With a bit of bravado, the old gang hung out their new shingle: the Prediction Company.
The sheer bravado of its bid, and the unconfined joy with which its success was greeted, was evidence of a city with attitude.
Later bravado runs high to disguise their feelings and some of them exploit the situation for gain.
In the deepest, darkest recess of their minds, they know they have been cuckolded, which is precisely why they are outwardly belligerent, bombastic, bellicose and dripping with false bravado. Wake Up Time for the "Stupid White Man"
And in fact, the film's potential strength lies in its undermining of such bravado.
You might dismiss that as youthful bravado, only he is so good at his chosen sport. Times, Sunday Times
The snakes eat themselves at the top of the food-chain out of habit or boredom or sheer bravado.

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