All 3 Uses of
bravado
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- The emphasis on that phrase may have been simply bravado.†
Chpt 3 *
- From bravado perhaps ...at having wasted so much money....To try and forget that money I had sewn up, perhaps ...yes, that was why ...damn it ...how often will you ask me that question?†
Chpt 9
- Kolya, who was almost the youngest of the party and rather looked down upon by the others in consequence, was moved by vanity or by reckless bravado to bet them two roubles that he would lie down between the rails at night when the eleven o'clock train was due, and would lie there without moving while the train rolled over him at full speed.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
a bold manner or show of bravery -- often hiding fear or insecurity