| Did you know, that in the Victorian language of flowers, hydrangeas stood for boastfulness and heartlessness? |
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| It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures. |
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| They must choose between a brash boastfulness and a considered confidence that speaks to the convictions of people everywhere. |
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| It secured him, instantly, a reputation for boastfulness which was then at odds with his limited achievements. |
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| In love you have patience, kindness, the absence of jealousy, pride and boastfulness. |
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| Anyone failing to display the expected arrogance and boastfulness was treated almost with contempt. |
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| I beg you to believe, sir, that the above facts are given without any idea of boastfulness, they are merely for your information. |
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| His first marriage ended when the boastfulness of his first wife got her banished to the underworld. |
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| Takes easy all kinds of problems, boastfulness, overestimation of personal possibility. |
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| The boastfulness, the wholesale endorsement of the philosophy that was to bring the world to the economic edge and the sheer ignorance are painful to read. |
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| A sense of inferiority, whether justified or not, leads to boastfulness. |
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| But some potential customers may find the firm's arrogance, even boastfulness, offputting. |
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| This boastfulness seems to be encoded in the American DNA: the prospectuses that persuaded Elizabethans to invest in the Massachusetts and Virginia companies were full of tall tales about the New World. |
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| It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting. Exactly so, but this survey will not be quite so cynical. |
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| Her bulerías are original because of their boastfulness, variety and witt. |
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