Politics sometimes rewards braggarts, and Trump is a world-class boaster.
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When cultures mixed, the British came across as snobby, the Americans as braggarts.
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They included deluded old men, devious servants, craven braggarts and starry-eyed lovers.
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Such modesty is increasingly rare in an age of braggarts, experts, and self-promoters.
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Talk is cheap and this is equally true for barroom braggarts and tin-pot dictators.
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This made him seem the opposite of the money-crazed braggarts who soon populated the sport.
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Over time, however, it seems that narcissists out themselves as the self-absorbed, emotionally immature braggarts they really are.
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Braggarts like West or Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump may be controversial, but their extravagant claims have clearly been a great career move.
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As camera crews came down looking for the braggarts who burned things, the image itself went totally meta and the youth played into it.
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Nonfiction HOW TO BEHAVE BADLY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts By Ruth Goodman 314 pp.
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We're reputed to be braggarts; careless with money and our personal lives; a little gullible, but dangerous if crossed; insecure, but obsessed with power and prestige.
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The two get into a battle of the braggarts about who is the better fighter and then decide to have a best-two-out-of-three sparring match.
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Drag racers and parking lot braggarts will also be pacified knowing that the NSX's official 21 to 2800 time is faster than those of the Audi R2159 V2300 or the McLaren 28s.
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Apart from a distribution deal and a somewhat regrettably rotating cast of collaborators, he comes across very much alone, a humble and polite independent musician operating in a time where brash braggarts reign.
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Their EP The Matrix is a continuation of the ecstatic work they did on "Weekend" and "Dead People," seven tracks that go a long way to establishing Pablo Juan as one of rap's most endearing braggarts.
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Cut from the same cloth as the Converse-and-overall-sporting pantsulas and the hip-hop-inspired umswenko subcultures, skhothane were the "boasters," the "braggarts," the cash-money club of a cross-section of society that has precious little to waste.
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The coterie of pimps who all meet up at Leon's Diner to eat greasy bacon and talk shop are portrayed as tough, sexist, flamboyant braggarts—but also as unhappy cowards trapped in a system from which they find little respite and no escape.
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She made her screen debut in Sticking to the Promise, a 2002 movie produced by the Nigerian producer Theo Akatugba, just after her Senior High Education. She also played a cameo role in the hit series Tentacles by the same producer for Point Blank Media Concepts. She's currently the host of Dinning with Cooks and Braggarts. Cooks and Braggarts is a celebrity cooking show that features well-known figures to mint their hands on how they cook their favorite foods while bespeaking about various topics.
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Braggadocio was founded circa 1847. A post office called Braggadocio has been in operation since 1881. Possibly the community was named because a large share of the early settlers were braggarts, or after the knight and horse thief Sir Braggadoccio, in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Braggadocio has been noted for its unusual place name.
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Grant (1991) p. 343: The northern Army officers at the reeducation > camps had in victory become "braggarts, practically strutting before Châu > and his group." When the country was divided in 1954, hundreds of thousands > left the northern region assigned to Communist rule, journeying south. After > the 1975 Communist military victory had reunited Vietnam, hundreds of > thousands would flee by boat.
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The impetuous charge of Rajputs scattered like a cloud the Muslim vanguard,composed of "Afghans and khokar braggarts". Advancing further,they turned both wings of Turkish army and inclining inwards dispersed their opponents and threatened the centre,where the Sultan commanded in person.Large numbers of his horseman began to slip away,not dancing to face the roaring tone of Rajput cavalry flushed with victory.The sultan urged to save himself by flight as he had no suppport left.
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I remember there was a great poem > about American braggarts. You know, American liars—"I am the ring-tailed > cousin to the such and such that ate so and so and I can do this and I can > do that better than Mike Fink the river man ..." I just realized that this > was the voice that the script had to have. It was as clear as a bell. I knew > that writing was particular to me.
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Choctaw warfare had many customs associated with it. Before war was declared a council was held to discuss the matter which would last about eight days. Swanton writes on Bossu's account, "The Chactas love war and have some good methods of making it. They never fight standing fixedly in one place; they flit about; they heap contempt upon their enemies without at the same time being braggarts, for when they come to grips they fight with much coolness ..." Superstition was a part of Choctaw warfare.
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In the Elizabethan era (1558-1603) this could refer to "entertaining conversation" (one may be said to "crack" a joke) and cracker could be used to describe loud braggarts; this term is still in use in Ireland, Scotland and Northern England, also adopted into Gaelic and Irish as in the late 20th century. It is documented in William Shakespeare's King John ( 1595): "What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath?" The play was completed c. 1595, but not published until 1623.
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Zahavi's theory is that since peahens are on the look-out for male braggarts and cheats, they insist on a display of quality so costly that only a genuinely fit peacock could afford to pay. Needless to say, not all signals in the animal world are quite as elaborate as a peacock's tail. But if Zahavi is correct, all require some bodily investment — an expenditure of time and energy which "handicaps" the signaller in some way. Animal vocalizations (according to Zahavi) are reliable because they are faithful reflections of the state of the signaller's body.
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Akamas vaunted loudly over him saying, "Argive archers, braggarts that you are, toil [ponos] and suffering shall not be for us only, but some of you too shall fall here as well as ourselves. See how Promakhos now sleeps, vanquished by my spear; payment for my brother's blood has not long delayed; a man, therefore, may well be thankful if he leaves a kinsman in his house behind him to avenge his fall."Homer, Iliad 14.476Homer, Iliad 14.475 Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler.
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A pair of "Georgia Crackers", 1873Georgia Cracker refers to the original American pioneer settlers of the Province of Georgia (later, the State of Georgia), and their descendants. In the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, Georgia ranchers came to be known as "Georgia Crackers" by Floridians when they drove their cattle down into the grassy flatlands of Central Florida to graze in the winter, stopping where the citrus groves began. In order to get the cattle's attention they became very adept at cracking a bullwhip. The term "cracker" was in use during Elizabethan times to describe braggarts.
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