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bravado
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  • Her bravado faded quickly once she realized how difficult the challenge was.
    bravado = bold manner
  • "--these walls are solidly put together;" and here, through the mere phrenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that very portion of the brick-work behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom.  (source)
    bravado = a show of courage
  • Lose your bravado, or you will lose your life.†  (source)
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  • But after, when it was just the two of us, the mask lowered, the bravado peeled off like a breastplate, and he was my brother.†  (source)
  • Fewer still were forcing laughter from tight throats, false bravados that emphasized their insecurity rather than disguising it.†  (source)
  • there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven.†  (source)
  • All my bravado is gone.†  (source)
  • I couldn't believe the Sixers' bravado.†  (source)
  • He could be extremely responsible, but he had a tendency to wing it sometimes, to act impulsively, to get by on bravado and style.†  (source)
  • he had said with such bravado.†  (source)
  • Collet was flabbergasted by Sophie Neveu's bravado.†  (source)
  • They speak of the schools with yearning and bravado; they want desperately to be selected.†  (source)
  • What d'you think I was doing?" asked Harry with feeble bravado.†  (source)
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