Then, as now, his braggadocio could sound like a parody of braggadocio.
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Despite Kanye's braggadocio he does seem to have a heart.
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Each hints at a precious perfectionist beneath the group's braggadocio.
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There was no braggadocio to Larry, only calm, considered judgment.
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But not for Duterte, who has a reputation for braggadocio.
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The posts, he insisted, were nothing more than online braggadocio.
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What a disheartening spectacle of bombast, braggadocio and rude behavior.
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It would offer patriotic substance instead of perilous nuclear braggadocio.
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No. We are completely indifferent to Mr. Trump's locker room braggadocio.
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THIS time Donald Trump seemed to back his braggadocio with results.
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His carnal conquests are the cornerstone of his can-do braggadocio.
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Excitement, danger, and braggadocio hang in the air, all distinctly disembodied.
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To Canada, Trump's braggadocio, ignorance and self-confidence are no surprise.
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Jay Z likes his Lemonade with a bit of braggadocio in it.
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Despite his braggadocio, Trump has a pittance of legislative accomplishments to tout.
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It wasn't short on braggadocio, even if its delivery wasn't exactly ecstatic.
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"I'm a master legislator," Pelosi boasted last week, with curiously Trumpian braggadocio.
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He is, by nature, given to braggadocio, to hyperbole, perhaps to exaggeration.
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Some companies are brushing off the import tax with characteristic tech-bubble braggadocio.
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IN ITS quest for nuclear weapons, North Korea is a master of braggadocio.
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This less-consequential braggadocio has also surfaced during his near-daily coronavirus briefings.
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The word itself is loaded, in that it implies an element of braggadocio.
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Even so, it's the only Dew that doesn't need braggadocio to justify itself.
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His statement that he'll do so is nothing more than his usual braggadocio.
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Mr. Duterte's braggadocio is partly to blame for the escalation of the conflict.
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So this could have been an empty attempt at braggadocio — delusions of grandeur.
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Trump's North Korean experience has inclined him to think his erratic braggadocio works.
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Donald Trump represented the ideal of mid-'80s masculinity — outrageous wealth accompanying outrageous braggadocio.
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But Mr Trump's claims to have magically jump-started job creation are sheer braggadocio.
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They would also be wise to apply some Trumpian braggadocio to their own successes.
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He also revels in braggadocio and is known to be reluctant to take advice.
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The suit/watch part is Ric Flair/the Rock level of trolling braggadocio excellence.
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Regarding the Telecommunications Act of 1996, allow this old man a bit of braggadocio.
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"For every 1,000 views, I make $3," he said without a hint of braggadocio.
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"YouTube's braggadocio about its commitment to free speech constitutes opinions," the court ruled today.
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The president's Iran braggadocio was not born of any Middle East strategy, of course.
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After last week's revelations of Donald Trump's raunchy braggadocio, his opponents feel warmly vindicated.
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They thrill to his braggadocio, and he gave them more of it on Saturday night.
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Or how Trump's sexual braggadocio would diminish the dignity of the office and the country?
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The twin pillars of Trump's rap are obscene braggadocio and obsessive ridicule of resonant targets.
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The President himself constantly engages in braggadocio about the biggest this or the worst that.
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Talk about braggadocio, talk about arrogance, talk about shouting, talk about demeaning, talk about insulting.
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Nikki R. Haley joked about President Trump's braggadocio in his United Nations speech last month.
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Sometimes the atmosphere was closer to a youth asylum than a prison, explosive with braggadocio.
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He was confident without displaying any of his trademark over-the-top arrogance and braggadocio.
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It was and is all an illusion, a brand built on selling banality with braggadocio.
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Damone is a character many see in themselves at some point, with braggadocio replacing identity.
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In a social-media post, Robin Li, its founder, responded with braggadocio to the Google news.
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Big mouth, ("small hands"), braggadocio, not attractive, usually overweight, "women love me" ... king of the hill.
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Gone—or at least much pared back—was the usual ad hominem invective and rambling braggadocio.
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Nihilism, taken to an extreme that feels almost competitive, has become its own form of braggadocio.
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There's a lot of boasting and braggadocio and very little in the way of provable facts.
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Ali's braggadocio was also an act of defiance against the suffocating racial norms of the time.
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But beneath all the braggadocio and hoopla, there will be little real uplift and nothing new.
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He displayed only petulance and braggadocio in response to issues that dogged him during the campaign.
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She found it particularly amusing that Trump was describing a failed conquest, instead of his usual braggadocio.
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In a troubled world of trade tiffs and nuclear braggadocio, such advice should be especially worth heeding.
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"I've got everyone from ambassadors to celebrities following me," says Rabbani with a slight hint of braggadocio.
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Hiding underneath the braggadocio and evisceration of professional nemeses lies the beating heart of a formidable teacher.
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After the early days of breakdancing and braggadocio, it found room for a spiritual and religious element.
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The songs — of heartbreak, rage, vulnerability, braggadocio, reconciliation — were mined from country, blues, R&B, rock, bounce.
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We dismiss Trump's words as "bluster" and "braggadocio" because we want to find the humanity in him.
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Although he is more mild-mannered than his father, he has a trace of the family braggadocio.
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Trump's braggadocio has endangered his most cherished policy objectives, like his "Muslim travel ban" and the Obamacare repeal.
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"I thought that was such a typical braggadocio, typical Travis kind of statement," he joked on stage today.
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But she is manifestly more competent than Mr. Trump whose braggadocio, divisiveness and meanness are on daily display.
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It's almost Shakespearean, to see a buffoonish leader filled with this much braggadocio, surrounded by fawning yes-men.
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Mr. Trump's whiny braggadocio has been obvious every time he opens his mouth without reading from a teleprompter.
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The braggadocio, the self-celebration, the hyperbole, the need to "win" at all costs -- it's always been there.
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"Without exaggeration or braggadocio, I write more and faster than any writer I've ever met," Mr. Landis said.
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But Charyn's empathic first-person strategy keeps the tone sprightly positive, undercutting the braggadocio with paradoxical self-deprecation.
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It is an arduous process requiring global cooperation, diplomatic skill and attentiveness, not constant saber-rattling and braggadocio.
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The empty charm and insecure braggadocio often present in his peers are unsettlingly, though wonderfully, absent in him.
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The braggadocio and bombast of the modern shooter is antithetical to the creeping, indiscriminate death of the Great War.
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But the humility and modesty embraced by the Founding Fathers have been replaced by cocky, reality TV-style braggadocio.
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That belief assumes the locker room to be devoid of mature, respectful men and full of braggadocio and misogyny.
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NOW that he is slumping in the polls, Donald Trump is pivoting from campaign-trail braggadocio to conspiracy theorising.
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Maybe the detour down his pants will amount to something more and better, in the end, than phallic braggadocio.
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The Helsinki- and London-based painter and derby skater Riikka Hyvönen was fascinated by the braggadocio of the bruised.
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His success wouldn't have been possible if his courage, mania, and braggadocio were not truly integrated into his personality.
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You don't have to be called Sigmund to sense that Trump's bullying and pouting braggadocio reflect some deep cowardice.
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One takeaway is that, despite his braggadocio, Trump was not, in fact, a successful business leader early in his career.
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" The hip-hop-infused track leans heavily on braggadocio, with lyrics like, "Who ever said money can't solve your problems?
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The doctor hinted at Mr. Trump's braggadocio, but said he wasn't as flamboyant as he is on the campaign trail.
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Had Donald Trump been 14 years old instead of 59, one might have excused this talk as misplaced teen braggadocio.
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This mix of ignorance and braggadocio is often amusing, but the Korea example is a reminder that it's also dangerous.
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The president and his braggadocio might be overstating it a bit, but he deserves more credit than he is getting.
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It certainly captures a vivid slice of operating in the diamond district, a sphere populated by cash transactions and braggadocio.
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Mr. Fret used the braggadocio and performativity of the genre to make the case for inclusivity, Mr. Nemir Olivares argued.
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The second track, "No Security", is a solo Skepta affair and has the Mercury Prize-winner at his braggadocio best.
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All braggadocio and defensiveness, he told me his charisma has proven so potent he habitually had to fend off women.
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Sensible policy solutions just don't taste as good as emotional appeals to fear and braggadocio promises to restore America's lost greatness.
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It's such a glorious moment watching these three women walk with braggadocio and style through the hall while wearing cat ears.
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They must come from Central Casting as the braggadocio losers who talk about their love lives' and their success with women.
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He said it with such nonchalance and matter-of-fact calmness that it came off as natural, not pre-planned braggadocio.
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In a genre often characterized by ego and braggadocio, Odd Future, like its East Coast equivalent ASAP Mob, champions creative fraternization.
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It goes a little further than "Lettuce Sandwich," using three notes rather than two, though it covers the same cautious braggadocio.
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Braggadocio will get Trump nowhere with a proud nation used to working around the cost of confrontation with the United States.
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As for Cariou, this veteran actor handles the growing cracks in Harry's fortitude with a touching mix of braggadocio and vulnerability.
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It's possible that he stopped caring about the immense masculine pressure of braggadocio rap and finally allowed himself to speak on it.
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Hip hop is still a genre that revels in braggadocio and conspicuous consumption, and Mr Lamar is no different from his peers.
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Still, as you'd expect from a guy whose whole campaign has been one prolonged deluge of braggadocio, Dad isn't really sweating it.
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He acted on Broadway and wrote braggadocio raps that we called poetry because, at the time, we didn't know what rap was.
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But stock analysts, with money on the line, noticed that Trump never followed through after his initial braggadocio about a takeover attempt.
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Brash, flamboyant and laced with braggadocio, Coupe-Decale took the image of luxury living and filtered it through music, dance and fashion.
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Ms. Dolphin was a subject of that braggadocio, according to Mr. Hagan and another classmate, who requested anonymity because he fears retribution.
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I've gazed on the Arch of Titus many times in previous trips, marveling at its muscular grace, recoiling from its brazen braggadocio.
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It will not, however, surrender to Trump's braggadocio or Prince Mohammed's absolute demands, which play into the hands of Iranian hard-liners.
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Given Bourdain's braggadocio, there were times when I wondered if the bad years were quite as grim as he makes them sound.
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Yes, there were a couple of moments of typical Trumpian braggadocio, but in the main this was an exercise in unusual humility.
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His Iago has a nice subtly seething quality; his Petruchio a swagger, humor and a smidgen of sensitivity; his Benedick a bruised braggadocio.
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For all his grandiose talk about winning and hyper-capitalist braggadocio, there is something petty and small about how Trump handles his critics.
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Likening themselves to wild animals, and bragging about their abilities to womanize, fight, and drink were part of the rough-and-tumble braggadocio.
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Morris Day, the Time's dapper front man, whose braggadocio performance in Purple Rain won kudos from critics, left to pursue a solo career.
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Even lower-class males would have found their braggadocio and effrontery checked by rough-and-tumble combat or other forms of violent retaliation.
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Relying on humor and a bit of braggadocio, he suggested that he had what he called "deeper hell than we expected" under control.
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They have also denied the conspiracy charge, portraying the chatter on Facebook and jailhouse calls as the empty posturing and braggadocio of teenagers.
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The Girlfriend Experience places this trope within glass-walled hotel rooms and stuffy, dimly-lit bars, though, where conversation feels stilted and braggadocio.
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Yes, Kanye West is tweeting again, but instead of his normal braggadocio, the rapper seems to be showing off his more enlightened side.
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A clear parallel to the partisan braggadocio of Hamilton's indelible Act I number "My Shot" is Billings's hymn "Chester," first published in 1770.
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Ignatius refers to Truman's "quiet leadership, fidelity to his beliefs, a disdain for public braggadocio" as the "manly virtues" that Trump could emulate.
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Though Ballas is an ace of heterosexual braggadocio, on the night of Franky's birthday, he performs oral sex on Franky in the dark.
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The President-elect, with his bigotry and braggadocio, personifies nearly everything the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or LDS, teaches against.
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The United Nations, home of diplomacy and decorum, is unfamiliar with the sort of brash braggadocio that's considered par for the course for Trump.
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If you're looking for an example of the worst kind of supercar, all braggadocio and win-by-the-numbers methodology, the Chiron is it.
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The sweetly sung, cheeky braggadocio that made so many fans fall in love with Petras — her aforementioned superhero persona — is still a dominating force.
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He can casually dismiss the work of Philip Roth in one post and express nostalgia for the bygone era of bookish braggadocio in another.
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The First Narcissist's all-consuming blend of braggadocio and insecurity has turned Washington and its rickety institutions into a dystopian outpost of his id.
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Seemingly legitimate concerns over security and sanction violations have been muddled by chest-puffing and braggadocio and large-headed leaders promising to do deals.
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There are multiple flash points in this society, mostly to do with sporting smarts or carnal braggadocio, but racial bias isn't one of them.
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"It's a world of braggadocio," said Karl Taps, who serves as archivist for the Xtravas despite the fact that there is really no archive.
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" Trump's wealthy backers, Robert and Rebekah Mercer, disturbingly offered a similar defense with their statement, "We are completely indifferent to Mr. Trump's locker room braggadocio.
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She is put off by Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server and how she handled Benghazi and Donald Trump's bluster and braggadocio.
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"To me, it was more braggadocio — his word — and performance," Bush said in an interview with Robin Roberts that aired on Tuesday's Good Morning America.
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" And, naturally, it has Kanye West's signature brand of braggadocio, with comparisons to Einstein and a "modern-day MJ with an Off the Wall flow.
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There's hard-spitting braggadocio, swinging, bassy pop reminiscent of Henry Mancini, a song called "White Niggas," and a horn-laden twerking anthem dosed with wokeness.
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Sanford's Zelda Power missives were appropriately laden with the blarney and braggadocio typical of online forums but, in rare occasions, he did reveal some vulnerabilities.
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But Trump's first 100 days, for all his braggadocio, have offered one demonstration after another that he has not repealed the laws of political physics.
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It's an attractive trait among hiring managers and peers alike, and it will help you stand out in a crowd far more than braggadocio. 2.
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But there were echoes of Brown's praise sprinkled in with Embiid's usual braggadocio when he was asked about the many challenges posed by the Celtics.
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With "Te Bote" co-producer Young Martino in tow, the Puerto Rican lyricist weaves his streetwise narrative with a touch of braggadocio and a knowing glare.
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And she would eventually see it all implode because she was, at twenty-seven, a woman of her times: a chatterbox in an era of braggadocio.
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Both President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, revel in a form of nuclear braggadocio that would have been anathema to their predecessors.
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It has taken unprecedented media investigations to expose these and other braggadocio, and it's questionable that these journalistic endeavors have made a dent in Trump's momentum.
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For Trump, the question is whether the disclosure was a prudent execution of a pre-planned strategy — or a moment of braggadocio, as the Post reported.
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"Diva," with its pounding beats and racy, braggadocio lyrics, is about an independent woman who is never afraid of what others think or say about her.
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But now his usual Tuscan braggadocio was gone; he seemed, all a sudden, like a grown-up Boy Scout who had done his best, and failed.
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Yet, Mr. Trump's braggadocio is so unabashed that one shouldn't be surprised to see a tweet contending that China should thank him for its roaring economy.
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A year ago the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape showed Donald Trump's sexual braggadocio and shocked many into assuming that his presidential candidacy was over.
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But the president has a particular rapport with Mr. O'Reilly, whose hectoring braggadocio and no-apologies nostalgia for a bygone American era mirror Mr. Trump's own.
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I'm sure Silicon Valley will be just fine without Erlich, but I also wonder if it won't miss the character's clueless self-regard, his loud braggadocio.
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So a large and unusual coalition rallied to Trump's braggadocio and bold promises that were endlessly spread to the nation via constant and largely uncritical television coverage.
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When Chance raps, "Man I swear my life is perfect, I could merch it," it isn't in with braggadocio, but a genuine gratefulness to a higher being.
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Yiannopoulos openly concedes that his desperate financial situation — and that's what this is, braggadocio aside — is the result of the concerted campaign against him by his opponents.
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Clinton seemed to feed off the energy her new running mate gave the crowd as he alternated between zingers about Mr. Trump and a bit of braggadocio.
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Minaj has fallen into this hole hard, perhaps because it connects to the self-mythologizing and braggadocio that have characterized so much of New York hip-hop.
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It was a classic, Trumpian dose of incoherency and braggadocio perfectly tailored for the night's event, an annual fundraising dinner known as the New York Republican Gala.
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In this way, he says his Instagram feed is a constantly updating homage to his hero Pharrell, whose brand Ice Cream blended hip-hop braggadocio with skateboarding.
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While Mr. Trump is certainly a New Yorker culturally, from his accent to his braggadocio, his political supporters tend to live far from diverse metropolises like Manhattan.
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So what could be an opportunity to offer a comprehensive and credible strategy to combat a grave internal threat becomes just another exercise in braggadocio and self-congratulation.
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" Here's Trump doing that thing where he manipulates information and adds a dash of braggadocio to make a statement that really rides the line between "factual" and "false.
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In the latest episode of White House braggadocio, President Trump boasted Friday about his fantastic record in Puerto Rico "with respect to loss of life" following Hurricane Maria.
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Ms Elliott has faced this double battle with determination, matching her male counterparts for brazen braggadocio, mixed with gleefully assertive sexuality, and underpinned by sheer talent and ingenuity.
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" At 6' 503", 260llbs and boasting a GLORY record of 12 wins and 1 loss, Verhoeven is not intimidated by the thuggery and braggadocio of the veteran fighter.
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Mr. Best, who played Romeo in a patchy outdoor production at the Classical Theater of Harlem, is powerfully charming, an appealing mix of youthful braggadocio and sincere emotion.
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Despite his braggadocio, Mr Trump needs Mr Ryan's help to raise money—he says he may need $1.5 billion—and to turn out the conservative vote in November.
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Anyone seeking answers for these reckless decisions beyond Mr. Trump's campaign braggadocio might take note of one sentence in a remarkable op-ed article written by Lt. Gen.
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Iranian outlets claimed 80 Americans died in the attack, but have provided no evidence to back-up this claim, making it read as braggadocio for a domestic audience.
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Cruz is clearly his toughest competitor, in part because the Texan's social conservatism looks to be a snugger fit than Trump's braggadocio for the sensibilities of Iowa Republicans.
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The company spent the past few years trashing industry standards and lauding their own approaches with braggadocio, but ended up releasing a product that largely iterated on its competitors.
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" Fact checking the debate 'Not in a braggadocious way' Braggadocio, a noun, means "the annoying or exaggerated talk of someone who is trying to sound very proud or brave.
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McGregor, known as much for his braggadocio as his ability to deliver devastating knockouts, was scheduled to fight Nate Diaz in a rematch at UFC 200 in Las Vegas.
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In the end, his debate performance did not quite live up to his bluster and braggadocio (although he did once use the word "braggadocious," referring to his business acumen).
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He had a reputation not only for a severe drinking problem but for bravado, braggadocio, for exaggeration that bordered on untruthfulness, and I had found the reputation fully justified.
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Martin O'Malley accused Donald Trump of engaging in "super predator braggadocio" Sunday night, after a video surfaced Friday of Trump talking about women in a crude and sexually aggressive manner.
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They utilize the staccato rhythm natural in some ballet steps to hit the sharp, bold isolations in the music they dance to, and they perform these movements with infectious braggadocio.
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Whereas Trump-era populism, while it plays very effectively on economic anxiety, mostly offers braggadocio rather than solutions, and white identity politics rather than any kind of one-nation conservatism.
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The communist god-king knows he would have to respond, and for all his braggadocio he knows that escalation could lead to his own demise, as well as his regime's.
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Indeed, there is good reason to think that the primary purpose of his rudimentary atomic arsenal, and his escalating thermonuclear braggadocio, is ultimately about preserving his tenuous hold on power.
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Another is how his supporters will react to seeing a loss inflicted upon a candidate whom they admire in part for his braggadocio and self-image as the ultimate winner.
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You can pick apart the braggadocio all you want, but it pretty much boils down to El-P spitting the word "Baby" in the most dismissive and amusing way possible.
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Her idea of 21st-century pop fuses giddily artificial productions by A.G. Cook with sturdy pop hooks and lyrics that veer from glamorous-life braggadocio to (calculated) glimmers of vulnerability.
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What's distinct this time is that Trump, who worried some Iranian leaders with his braggadocio during the campaign, is now proving to be an exceptionally easy US president to skewer.
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He's big and overstated where he needs to be, but otherwise balances braggadocio with neediness deftly enough to make us care when he conquers both to lead the Sharks to victory.
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Ali was known in the ring for his lightning hand speed -- unusual for a heavyweight -- for his showmanship and for his brashness and braggadocio when a microphone was put before him.
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But more troublesome than Trump's braggadocio or anything he did say Tuesday night is what he didn't offer — a remotely plausible solution for any of the major problems facing the country.
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With that statement, every woman and every parent of a daughter and sibling of a sister is forced to bring Trump's braggadocio about kissing and groping women back to the fore.
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For a lot of celebrities, especially in the age of reality television, social media is for braggadocio, for letting people know about status and proximity to nice things and important people.
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Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis (1998) Apparently Bret Easton Ellis once considered suing (or attempted unsuccessfully to sue—Bret is evasive, famously, and just as famous for his braggadocio) Ben Stiller.
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Mr. Gantz's braggadocio about the number of Palestinian fighters he had killed in Gaza in 2014 also dampened any excitement Arab voters might have felt about seeing him oust Mr. Netanyahu.
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Elsewhere, Alex Hammond's supremely dashing Count Carl-Magnus — in performance terms, the revelation of the cast — makes terrific use of a soprano saxophone to cap in musical terms his character's braggadocio.
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But after his military braggadocio and his wild threats to redefine trade and build a wall, Trump will either have to put on a muzzle or follow through on his ultimata.
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Bobby's employees reply with a mix of hostility and braggadocio that may serve them well in the day-to-day dogfight on Wall Street, but wouldn't look good to real compliance officers.
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Interpolating a pair of classics by the Ruff Ryders star might seem like an odd call for an artist not typically regarded for his, err, toughness, it fits the track's braggadocio rhymes.
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A reductive answer would dismiss Mr Trump's admiration as nothing more than a shallow worship of celebrity and success, with a special fondness for the strutting braggadocio that was Mr Ali's trademark.
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Mr. Credico testified that many of his claims regarding WikiLeaks amounted to "braggadocio" and that he repeatedly overstated his access to Mr. Assange partly as a way to "one-up" Mr. Stone.
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He is among the most quotable players in the world, a giant of a man with a never-ending braggadocio that comes off (most of the time) as amusing instead of arrogant.
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While Doom is prone to comedic braggadocio, Watson's coded, stream-of-consciousness rhymes are imbued with unflinching introspection ("Homie said that suicide wasn't appropriate / So instead I engulf on acid and opiates").
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So Al Franken, who is good on women's rights, resigns for wet kisses and random squeezes while President Trump, who is awful on women's rights, skips right past his braggadocio on groping.
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Even as the Trump team was dealing with the fallout of his Oval Office braggadocio with the Russians, things with the Israelis were already going further downhill — on a different subject entirely.
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Gad provides welcome humor as LeFou, and Luke Evans -- more overtly channeling Lancelot's musical braggadocio -- perfectly captures the boorish villain Gaston, who sees Belle as little more than another prize to be hunted.
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In his short biography Mr Moshenska successfully brings back to life a forgotten self-made man who was at the same time braggadocio and philosopher, and who seemed to live so many lives.
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I also love the playful music of acts like Rae Sremmurd and G-Eazy, they bring the swag, braggadocio, the ego, and the humor, but still within the cultural truth of hip-hop.
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When former Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed "I will win South Carolina," at Tuesday's Democratic debate in Charleston, it wasn't just braggadocio — all of the most recent South Carolina polls suggest he's right.
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In recent releases it's an underlying feeling that Future is in on all of it — lines about his countless sexual conquests are delivered with, yes, braggadocio, but also bitterness and at times self-loathing.
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But something about what he did struck a chord with his audience, and the cadence and braggadocio of his delivery onstage set a template for the rappers of the '80s and their descendants, too.
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Neutro Shorty featuring Jon Z. - Cooking Up Occasionally dipping into English, the Venezuelan spitter comes through with two solid verses of trapaholic braggadocio, his esteemed Puerto Rican guest killing it on the final third.
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Donald Trump's now-familiar pattern of winning debates through sheer bluster and braggadocio was effective when he was facing a gaggle of opponents, all of whom had similar ideologies but less exaggerated stage personas.
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It appears that voters do appreciate a candidate having a command of the issues, the ability to articulate a plan to protect the United States and defeat with specificity, rather than bluster and braggadocio.
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So, for her latest venture—a video for the three minutes of delicious braggadocio that is "Bartier Cardi"—she's enlisted someone with an eye that, at first glance, seems worlds apart from Cardi's own.
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Tapping into the Japanese fashion aesthetics of punk and rave, as well as the ubiquitous surgical masks common throughout Asia, the video finds a visual subject matter to match the track's surly trap braggadocio.
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" Yet, President Ronald Reagan, whose straightforward policies had helped start the peaceful Soviet unraveling in the first place, managed to eschew "braggadocio" when he talked about a "great wave of democracy sweeping the world.
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" And Johnny Boy sashays through the place, chewing his gum, a girl on each arm, the very definition of insolent swag, perfectly escorted by Jagger's own braggadocio: "I was born, in a crossfire hurricane.
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He took full credit for every good thing that has happened in the last year, and if he did it with less grace and more braggadocio than most, well, that is what politicians do.
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Absent was the wink and nod embedded in Muhammad Ali's news conference performances, where he talked about himself in the third person and invented the kind of braggadocio that would become hip-hop's bedrock.
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A federal court today rejected a conservative nonprofit's First Amendment suit against YouTube, ruling that the Google-owned company's "braggadocio" about free speech doesn't create a legal requirement to host others' content without restrictions.
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The scene is redolent of a boy's locker room, with sexual braggadocio on display, as an older male seeks to demonstrate his virility by boasting of the liberties he can take with beautiful women.
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Walk into the nightclub-turned-gallery on 14th Street and you'll see something wholly unexpected from the blue-blooded Democratic haven called Manhattan: a museum-scale homage to America's braggadocio-in-chief, Donald Trump.
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More damaging were his avarice and his braggadocio, apparently suggesting he would be interested in taking a job visiting East Asian countries as a self-appointed "keynote speaker" for 400,000 pounds (about $521,000) a year.
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JON PARELES The new single by Rosalía sets aside flamenco tragedy for pure braggadocio, flaunting "Aute Cuture" (that's haute couture cheerfully misspelled) and female ascendance over syncopated synthesizer chords and, tucked neatly within, flamenco handclaps.
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While he employed the bombast and braggadocio common to gangsta and other forms of rap, he also dealt in introspection a la the so-called conscious rappers such as Chance the Rapper and Talib Kweli.
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" There was a hip-hop braggadocio to a lot of the tracks: Snoop Dogg even made an appearance on "I Can Change" to remind everyone that in 214 people said things like "she's off the hizzle.
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Braggadocio comes with the territory for being famous and getting richer by playing a rich guy on TV—the public didn't want Trump to be humble any more than they wanted Paris Hilton to be bashful.
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By continuing to provide a waiver for Arak, Washington is turning a blind-eye to what appears to be Iranian subterfuge, as well braggadocio about the Islamic Republic's ability to offset limitations imposed on the reactor.
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A man who has projected little other than an empty braggadocio and synthetic rhetoric about both his qualifications and plans 3- but Inauguration Day means the beginning of the countdown to when he will be gone.
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As Republican delegates, alternates, and their guests stood to greet their new leader, Trump's face was difficult to read—even though his emotional range, at least publicly, tends to alternate between calm braggadocio and spectacular anger.
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A young Wesley Snipes is awesome as flashy speedster Willie Mays Hayes, creating a character whose balance of braggadocio and bullshit would make him a superstar in any league, and mitigating the obvious Eric Yelding parallels.
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On a carefully stage-managed swing through the Philadelphia suburbs, Ms. Trump avoided mentioning the 2005 recording or a series of accusations by women who said the Republican nominee had gone beyond braggadocio to active groping.
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But it is unclear whether Hyde — about whom little is known, other than that he owned a landscaping company in Connecticut — truly had these capabilities, or whether it was some sort of bizarre attempt at braggadocio.
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" And "Famous" is vintage West braggadocio, full of spite and cheek, though the conversation about that song has been limited to its mention of Taylor Swift: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why?
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He was California born and raised, and, though it has become a braggadocio tagline for hat acts on country radio, it's actually true to say of Merle Haggard that he was country 'til the day he died.
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As a result of this, the squad, the wolfpack, has become mythologized in the mainstream as something worse than just dicks on parade: booze, banter, and braggadocio tipping into something that transforms nightclubs into spaces of fear.
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A tiny, sprinkle-bedazzled, hot pink-frosted cupcake is the kind of iconography that's typically gendered as female, thus compounding the feeling that this feature was a well-intentioned, poorly-executed symptom of Silicon Valley's blinkered braggadocio.
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Ms. Faris and Mr. Dayton handle the many moving parts in Simon Beaufoy's busy script smoothly as they toggle between intimate moments and public events, and set Billie Jean's bedroom sighs off against Bobby's heat-seeking braggadocio.
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Braggadocio, of course, has been at the center of Mr. Trump's persona for decades, and arguably helped make him into a swaggering celebrity real estate tycoon and reality television star with enough appeal to win the presidency.
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At a time when hedonism, braggadocio and party anthems were the order of the day in rap, the song would help form the bedrock of socially conscious hip hop later popularized by acts like N.W.A. and Public Enemy.
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Personal animosity between fighters is commonplace, as is a standard level of braggadocio, but never before had someone stepped onto the scales while smoking a cigarette or shown blatant disregard for both his opponent and the sport's decorum.
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With operatic choir vocals in the background, Nas goes on rants accompanied by Puff Daddy that mixes braggadocio with shallow pro-black sentiments that feel good to hear, but aren't actually creating any type of politic or critique.
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Some high performance cars - like, say, a sparkling Lamborghini or even an entry-level Maserati - introduce themselves with such braggadocio that the initial reception from bystanders is what Milo Yiannopoulis might expect at a meeting of undergraduate socialists.
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So when a friend began tagging me on Ratner's Instagram posts, I identified in them the same mythology of Hollywood masculinity that appeared in the video: brimming with braggadocio but also surprisingly touching, almost beautiful in its guilelessness.
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Such braggadocio stems not from any shortcoming of the economic pressure track, but the lack of follow-through on a more integrated policy that deals with Iran in the region, as was promised in 2017 by the White House.
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Their wisecracking street-smarts, sheer cunning, and showy braggadocio are all coded as things that set them apart from the residents of Agrabah, and Robin Williams's famously improvisational jokes as Genie are anachronistically drawn from contemporary American pop culture.
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Photograph by Weegee / ICP / Getty Amid the tiresome braggadocio of Weegee's memoir, one finds no mention of either Margaret Atwood or Wilma Wilcox, but the latter made a god-sent return to Weegee at the end of his life.
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How does it work when a queer woman matches the sexual braggadocio of male rappers, when L.G.B.T. activists sing a country song for a restaurant chain that once fired gay employees, when Leonard Cohen revisits his childhood religious inheritance?
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Forsaking diplomacy for braggadocio, he has gotten into fights with Israel, with Egypt, with Russia, to the point that Turkey's economy was reeling and he found himself obliged to apologize to Russia and settle differences with Israel in recent days.
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The speaker of the House delivered yet another GIFable moment — and, with the flick of a wrist, reminded Americans that she, too, has a point to make, and needs a lot fewer words and braggadocio than the president to make it.
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That slender volume became a classic of 20th-century digital culture literature and was critically praised for its sharp look at the industry, presented in a literary voice that ignored the biz-whiz braggadocio of the early dot-com era.
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Yet while "Sunset Boulevard" is narrated by Holden's screenwriter after he dies, Thomas appears to have a pulse, though the opening interview, with its jejune braggadocio and world weariness, suggests that something in him — artistic drive, a sense of purpose — has died.
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And in Clinton's smiling response, I saw a familiar survival skill: Here was the smile we women use when faced with the braggadocio of men who believe that what they have to say is so much more important than what we do.
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The Notorious's loquacious, sartorially-minded braggadocio—part golden era Ric "The Nature Boy" Flair swagger and perhaps part Bronson-esque bravado (as my editor has suggested)—was polarizing among MMA fans, but you can't argue that it wasn't at least on brand.
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Despite all of Trump's braggadocio of "rebuilding our military like we never have before," the US seems suddenly to find itself in the deeply uncomfortable and unprecedented position of playing catchup in an arms race where Russia could begin calling the shots.
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For all his braggadocio Mr Trump has avoided some of the most common failings of family businesses such as family rows and botched successions: witness the repeated feuds between the Koch brothers or the battle to see who will succeed Sumner Redstone.
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But while some circles consist of amateurish battles, replete with goofy braggadocio, the rodas represent what hip-hop has often been about from its very start in late 22000s New York City: an open cultural space for the marginalized to be heard.
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Men are being radicalized online at an alarming rate, hating women all while stewing in sexual frustration or braggadocio, their male insecurity the perfect recruitment tool for white supremacists clinging to a sense of being alpha in their jobs, homes, and country.
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Cheadle can do comically menacing braggadocio as well as anyone, and he's perfectly convincing here, but the writing doesn't give us much reason to care about Mo — his drives to make money and consume cocaine are surface attributes, like Cheadle's obviously artificial Afro.
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IT WAS with trademark braggadocio that Donald Trump told the Financial Times, just days before meeting his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that if China failed to "solve" the problem of North Korea's nuclear programme, it was "totally" possible that America would do so alone.
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All his tasteless tweets, his braggadocio, his inconsistent commitment to conservative principles on spending, debt and trade (among other things) would pale in comparison to the fact that he was the Republican president that handed conservatives a solid 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court.
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Through his records, he grapples with the woes and paranoia that accompany fame, and allows his braggadocio to shine through when he speaks about his new material gains, while serving up some lighter tracks that outline how he enjoys himself with family, friends, and women.
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And McGregor's 2015 was incredible, especially in hindsight: he walked a tightrope made of braggadocio and left hands on his way from being a smart-mouthed striker protected from 145-pound wrestlers to knocking out a champion who hadn't been beaten in a decade.
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News Analysis It was Donald J. Trump's chance to sound contrite and mature, to explain away the sexually predatory boasts he was caught making on tape and to persuade Americans that — for all his no-apologies braggadocio — he was, in fact, capable of feeling shame.
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But Trump being Trump, there were also bewildering asides, withering off-script take downs of Democrats -- including calling them "treasonous" for not cheering last week's speech -- and the braggadocio with his tongue slightly in his cheek that made his 2016 campaign rallies compelling viewing.
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In the interview that aired on Sunday, Mr. Trump appeared to admit that his get-it-done braggadocio about a swift repeal of President Barack Obama's signature legislation was instead becoming a drawn-out Washington process that could stretch for months or even years.
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His seeming ability to back up his braggadocio coupled with his never-say-no attitude toward cable TV appearances and always-lively Twitter feed made him catnip for a political-media culture that has become addicted to the reality TV aspects of Trump's candidacy and presidency.
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Beneath all of his braggadocio about the genius of his campaign strategy and the potency of his connection to blue-collar Americans, he knows that he made it to the White House largely because many voters didn't want her there and he was Door No. 2.
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His candidacy possibly "jumped the shark" in recent days between the extraordinary public assault by 22019 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, and the ridiculous debate in the beautiful Detroit theater when Trump, in his characteristic grammar-school braggadocio, commented on the length and breadth of his varied body parts.
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The scene's power is only slightly undercut by Cersei's WWF promo-style braggadocio over the captive Sister Unella and the tease of Mountain-stein removing his helmet while keeping his face hidden in the shadows (did HBO forget to include a Smell-o-vision option for that rotting flesh?).
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These folks must not be Snapchat users: on Snapchat, people love sharing stickers showing their battery life, usually as a kind of braggadocio — look at me still out here at the club, despite the fact that I'm down to 10 percent battery and Lyft is my only way home!
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He joked about his disappointment that he had not been first in line to sexually assault an Australian missionary who had been raped and murdered during a prison riot in 1989—and then he dared America and Australia to sever ties after their governments expressed disapproval of his repulsive braggadocio.
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" Cyrus's "Old Town Road" verse is pure glitz, a blend of hip-hop braggadocio and country-boy-in-the-big-city awe: "Spent a lot of money on my brand-new guitar/Baby's got a habit, diamond rings and Fendi sports bras/Ridin' down Rodeo in my Maserati sports car.
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It is evocative that Ty is sometimes ebullient even in defeat, performing just as in-your-face a display of braggadocio so as to show that the defeat is never significant in the grand scheme of things; the battle may have been lost, but the war will be won, just you watch.
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Even if it is what Kavanaugh meant, it doesn't mean he lied to MacCallum about his virginity — a classmate of Kavanaugh's told the New York Times that Kavanaugh's crowd was full of sexual "braggadocio," and it seems totally plausible that Kavanaugh would sneak in a reference to something he hadn't experienced yet.
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His cadence and lazy falsetto, while obviously not as refined as the singer's, took more from the sly braggadocio of a Curtis Mayfield (whose Superfly album featured him matter-of-factly serenading about ghetto life and having bad bitches in his bed in the early 70s) than it did any of his contemporaries.
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But the presidential braggadocio that followed Tuesday's election night squeakers ignores another reality that the White House is loath to acknowledge: Mr. Trump — and his chaotic, controversy-laden tenure in the Oval Office — is largely responsible for the toxic political climate that is undermining the Republican candidates he is trying to save.
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But importantly it taught an important lesson for all of America's - and the world's — sons and daughters: that these moments are to be taken seriously, that one should prepare for the tough challenges in life, and that hard work, perseverance, civility and dedication are always going to win over braggadocio, rudeness, brashness and outright lying.
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The khals collectively represent a distilled, pure-grade dose of the savage aggression that has torn this world apart — they promised an almost cartoonish level of rape and cruelty and ended up as ash, showing in the process the ultimate fecklessness of bluster, dumb strength and braggadocio in the face of true transcendent power.
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Hate when the food gets mad lowGotta re-up, gotta get the bank rollsI've seen breast and thighs like Nando'sI'm old school like Kangol - Sleeks, "Came Back (Bando)" From faces getting chopped arff to the eternal call of the trap house, Section Boyz' lyrics often deal in cartoon violence and local drug dealing braggadocio.
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"Billions" sets up a stark contrast between the way Chuck and Bobby make their way through the world — and between Mr. Giamatti and Mr. Lewis's performances, which are different brands of chest-thumping braggadocio — but "The Good Life" unites them in an ongoing crisis over jobs they feel obligated to do, whether it brings them any happiness or not.
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On the one hand, you've got Ball, a loud, shit-talking braggadocio who seems ready to throw down at any given moment, but probably won't actually back it up, save a kind of performative dance that only slightly resembles an act of doing something actually macho and then on the other, you've got the WWE, which is comprised solely of those things.
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Its mainstream trap beat is skillfully created by producer Mike WiLL Made It; the lyrics, co-written with Rae Sremmurd's Swae Lee, provide just the right amount of braggadocio, sex, and cute one liners; the looks, styled by Shiona Turini and Marni Senofonte, got the attention of bloggers, and the video direction by Melina Matsoukas delivers just the right artsy-pop-documentary feel.
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Familiar gestures, like scanning the horizon or clenching a fist in a show of braggadocio, are repeated and enlarged as the dancers progress from a state of communal glee at the prospect of setting out for the open seas to actually becoming the sea itself, their bodies forming wave crests, the mast of a ship, flocks of gulls diving in the wind.
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It was him away from the microphone, the veil cast aside, a father, a son, a friend—away from the bravado and braggadocio that can come with life as a grime MC. To demonstrate the differences between the three personas, he released a music video titled "The Cypher" in 2013, where the alter-ego's went back-to-back, sparring lyrically over the same instrumental.
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Opinion Columnist President Trump has been all over the place on Iran, which is what happens when you take a serious subject, treat it with farcical superficiality, believe braggadocio will sway a proud and ancient civilization, approach foreign policy like a real estate deal, defer to advisers with Iran Derangement Syndrome, refuse to read any briefing papers and confuse the American national interest with the Saudi or Israeli.
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" If you need some straight bars, check "What More Can I Say" which is equal parts cerebral and braggadocio: "But the real shit you get when you bust down my lines / Add that to the fact I went plat' a bunch of times / Times that by my influence on pop culture / I'm supposed to be number one on everybody list / We'll see what happens when I no longer exist.
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And Eminem, a master of these kinds of wrenchingly frank stadium bangers in his own right, offers a mini hook that drives the point even further home: Lil Wayne's music is generally celebrated for its easygoing braggadocio, but Rebirth came out of a moment where he was floundering in the midst of drugs, the pressures of celebrity, and the burden of an imminent prison sentence (the video was released the day he left for Rikers).
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The Danny Brown-featuring "Frankie Sinatra" is an annoying carnival-barker anthem that sounds ripped from the Big Beat era of the mid-to-late 90s (as Wildflower's lead single, it also served as a very Avalanches-y red herring that suggested the album would be much worse than it turned out); Biz Markie's gourmand-braggadocio on "The Noisy Eater" doesn't fare better, a goofy mid-album cacophony that's reminiscent of the literal car-crash "Mashin' on the Motorway," from DJ Shadow's 2002 effort The Private Press.
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