bravado

My honey child, them housing projects Cannot contain her multitudes A sunbeam, hard upon her Just a fly strugglin_ through her braid loops Watch me prove to __m I__ more than nothin_ But a ragamuffin with homesick eyes Yes, when it gets to be the same old thing Shorty you ought to come and see about me My love, she is a drummer Than industrial steel, her backbone tougher The eloping night and the honey moon that trails Just dirt __eath her finger nails I__l be down on them crossroads __il daybreak winks a bright eye And if it gets to be the same old thing Shorty you ought to come and see about me She__ heard all the right things And they did not persuade her She has no use for your words What she wants is your labor __ause when gringos speak of minorities They tend to keep their voices low Ah, but when that gets to be the same old thing Shorty you ought to come and see about me

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

Rogue Squadron doesn__ run. Unless we really, really have to.""No, this will be Wraith Squadron__ mission.""We don__ mind running. Even when we don__ have to.

By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell."Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth."I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby.

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so.

Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face.

Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.