As adept as Kenneth Williams with a winning double entendre, Prince enters his post-Imperial years – when a hit was a delightful surprise rather than a matter of course – with this engagingly mucky, Bolanesque swaggerer. |
He will never give up his chewing tobacco and spittoon, according to an insider, although he is said to be a Virginia gentleman rather than a Texas swaggerer. |
Back in 1956 Jonathan Flynn was a hard-drinking young swaggerer and self-proclaimed Next Great American Poet. |
The new president of the company could hardly be described as a swaggerer or a posturer, and he won't be making any idle threats about strike action. |
Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence. |
But about the truth of this we do not know, for Ben was a bragger and a swaggerer. |