The flatterer does to another what the boaster does to himself.
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Politics sometimes rewards braggarts, and Trump is a world-class boaster.
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Trump has had no bigger media boaster, not even the lick-spittling Sean Hannity, than Coulter.
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Others included rodomont (a vain boaster), grobian (a buffoonish person) and Sinon (one who misleads and betrays).
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When considering the virtue of truthfulness and its opposite, mendaciousness, Aristotle identified two common kinds of lying characters: the boaster and the flatterer.
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The notorious $15,000 ostrich jacket, the desperate living beyond his means, the ostentatiousness — these all very predictably go with the pretense of the boaster.
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After the Access Hollywood tape emerged, it would've been completely correct to refer to Trump as a misogynist and as a "sexual assault boaster," but that wasn't done either.
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I admire Gordon Parks's versatility as a photojournalist, fashion photographer, filmmaker, writer and musician, Ali's candor and stand-for-the-cause boaster-ism, and Muktananda's peaceful, all-loving ways,.
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Yet despite this density of jokes, Mr. Friedlander — whose stand-up persona is a know-it-all boaster nicknamed the World Champion — never seems like he's in a rush.
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That the White House communications director should have to lie on behalf of her boss, who is a serial boaster, stretcher of the truth and documented outright fibber, should not be surprising.
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The team also overstated Steele's reliability, Horowitz said, as well as the reliability of one of Steele's sources — who Steele told the team was a "boaster" and an "egoist" prone to "embellishment," according to Horowitz.
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Most crucially, Mr. Spicer was an impressive boaster, crafting an otherworldly origin story for his talents: From the day I came out my mother's womb I found myself in the operating room Then the doctor spanked me on my behind I didn't cry, the kid started to rhyme.
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But the character of Falstaff, who is described by Samuel Johnson as "a thief and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster; always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the poor; to terrify the timorous, and insult the defenceless," has an unexpected relevance in the current election season.
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She approaches her friend Avinash (Master Vishal Krishna) for help. Avinash, although initially stunned, agrees to help. He approaches his friend Sarath, a boaster. Sarath arranges a goon, named Poombatta Gireesh, who is a relative of Sarath.
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Hanno retired to Bruttium, leaving the Romans in command of the situation. The Capuans again sent an appeal for help to Hannibal.Lazanby, J.F., Hannibal's War, p. 113. In response, Hannibal sent 2,000 Numidian cavalry under Boaster and Hanno as reinforcements to Capua.
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It so happened that a stage was erected and sitting on his > horse he stayed long enough to see a man throw two or three men who had > mounted the stage against him, till all were intimidated from entering the > list; the conqueror …. triumphed on the stage with so much arrogance that my > grandfather was tempted to humble him; therefore he got off his horse, > mounted the stage, threw the boaster on his back and having humbled the > boaster he immediately took horse and left them.Knapman, D. - Conversation > Sharp - The Biography of a London Gentleman, Richard Sharp (1759-1835), in > Letters, Prose and Verse. [Private Publication, 2004]p.
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In the Tractatus coislinianus (which may or may not be by Aristotle), Ancient Greek comedy is defined as involving three types of characters: the buffoon (bômolochus), the ironist (eirôn), and the imposter or boaster (alazôn).Carlson (1993, 23) and Janko (1987, 45, 170). All three are central to Aristophanes' "old comedy".
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Illumine Lingao (), also known as Morning Star of Lingao, is a Chinese chuanyue (time travel) novel co-written by Xiao Feng () under the pen name "Boaster" (). The novel was originally published online in 2009 on Qidian Chinese Network. The first print volume was published by China Radio, Film & TV Press in 2017.
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Hamlet, by William Morris Hunt Although the boaster (alazon) is primarily a comic figure, 'the alazon may be one aspect of the tragic hero as well: the touch of miles gloriosus in Tamburlaine, even in Othello, is unmistakable, as is the touch of the obsessed philosopher in Faustus and Hamlet'.Frye, p. 39.
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After the war, Spicer was made Marshal in Lawrence in 1868 and promoted to City Marshal in 1869.City Nominations, Lawrence Daily Journal (Lawrence, Kansas) 1 Apr 1869, page 3, accessed at Newspapers.com Among his duties were to track down members of the gang of William Quantrill.A Quantrell Boaster, The Daily Kansas Tribune (Lawrence, Kansas) 5 Aug 1868, page 3, accessed at Newspapers.
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The term did not originate as a rap term; its origins are much older. The term originated in the late 16th century and denotes a boaster. It is from Braggadocchio, the name of a braggart in Spenser's The Faerie Queene. It is a composite of the word brag or braggart, and the Italian suffix -occio, denoting something large of its kind.
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The APS played a significant part in Operation Overlord not only as a morale boaster, for General Montgomery and his staff considered that a regular mail service was "the greatest morale factor in an army", but probably more importantly, as one of the means of maintaining the elaborate deception plan that was essential to retain the element of surprise required to ensure the success of the operation.
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Dikkenek is a 2006 Franco-Belgian comedy film directed by Olivier Van Hoofstadt. It has attained cult status in France and Belgium because of its Belgian-type humor. It follows the life of different characters for a few days under the pretense of Stef & J.C. looking for the love of Stef's life. The title comes from the Flemish words and verbatim for 'fat' + 'neck' and figuratively means an arrogant boaster.
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Joseph T. Shipley argues that it evolved from the Italian "Trivigante" and became confused with "", meaning boaster, derived from Hermes Trismegistus. Leo Spitzer argues that Tervagant, like several other names ending in -ant from the Matter of France (e.g. Baligant and Morgant), is an "occitanization" of a vulgar Latin gerund created by Old French poets for exotic effect. He proposes as its etymon terrificans (terrifying), appropriate for a god.
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Polybius 1.82.2 A series of events also took place while Hamilcar was campaigning and Hanno the Great was keeping watch on Matho’s army, the sequence of these events can only be speculated on. The Carthaginian mercenaries posted in Sardinia rebelled and began a massacre of Carthaginians. Carthaginian general Boaster and the surviving Carthaginians were besieged in citadel, exact location not known, and no prisoners were taken once the fort fell.
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Miles Gloriosus (literally, "braggart-soldier", in Latin) is a stock character of a boastful soldier from the comic theatre of ancient Rome, and variations on this character have appeared in drama and fiction ever since. The character derives from the alazṓn or "braggart" of the Greek Old Comedy (e.g. Aristophanes). The term "Miles Gloriosus" is occasionally applied in a contemporary context to refer to a posturing and self-deceiving boaster or bully.
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The authors portray these persons and concepts (such as magic) either as objects of scientific inquiry or members of the Institute. Merlin, for example, is described as an incompetent boaster and is in charge of the Institute's Department of Predictions. The Technical Helpdesk is headed by one Sabaoth Baalovich Odin, also described as the most powerful wizard in the universe, while the vivarium is staffed by Alfred, a vampire. The novel is remarkable for its colorful characters.
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Punic Mercenaries stationed in Sardinia had rebelled in 239 BC, besieged Boaster and all Carthaginians in a citadel and later executed them after the fort fell. They managed to take over all Punic territories in Sardinia. Carthage sent a mercenary force under Hanno to retake the island in 239 BC, but this group also rebelled, killed Hanno and their Carthaginian officers and joined the rebels in Sardinia. The rebels requested Rome to take over Sardinia, which was turned down.
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Wanderone was known for ostentation, self- aggrandizement, tall tales, fast talk, and entertaining banter. He was even publicly recognized by famed boaster Muhammad Ali as better at boasting. His critical biographer, R.A. Dyer, documents that Wanderone completely fabricated a "here-by-fate" tale about a car wreck which brought the player to Little Egypt; it was a tale that Wanderone encouraged to be spread and further embellished in his autobiography to lend an air of the mystical to his public persona.Dyer (2003), pp.
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Bilbo's character and adventures match many details of William Morris's expedition in Iceland. 1870 cartoon of Morris riding a pony by Edward Burne-Jones Marjorie Burns, a medievalist, writes that Bilbo's character and adventures match the fantasy writer and designer William Morris's account of his travels in Iceland in the early 1870s in numerous details. Like Bilbo's, Morris's party set off enjoyably into the wild on ponies. He meets a "boisterous" man called "Biorn the boaster" who lives in a hall beside Eyja-fell, and who tells Morris, tapping him on the belly, "Besides you know you are so fat", just as Beorn pokes Bilbo "most disrespectfully" and compares him to a plump rabbit.
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The pupils belong to the working poor, and many of them are so neglected and so miserable in their homes that the school is a better place for them to be. And the school to them is Rose. The children include "mouse," the gentle five-year-old little mother with her brother, her "chickling;" Richard, who cannot imagine that there might exist anything like disinterested kindness and he conceives of every relation between two human beings as a bargain; Adam, the strong and noisy leader of the older boys and a great boaster, the girls who admire him because they are afraid of him. The cat Mistigris, who eats little birds and thereby stirs up the wrath of the children.
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He denied that there had been a corrupt bargain, and stated that such contributions were common to both political parties. After five hours, Macdonald concluded, > I leave it with this House with every confidence. I am equal to either > fortune. I can see past the decision of this House either for or against me, > but whether it be against me or for me, I know, and it is no vain boast to > say so, for even my enemies will admit that I am no boaster, that there does > not exist in Canada a man who has given more of his time, more of his heart, > more of his wealth, or more of his intellect and power, as it may be, for > the good of this Dominion of Canada.
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