For example, if you know an arrogant person, don't just write him off as a swaggering braggart. |
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Ian Storey is a wonderfully swaggering Pinkerton and his powerful baritone proves the perfect counterpoint to Butterfly's swooning. |
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It rather gives the lie to the notion of him as the swaggering self-confident leader of a superpower putting the world to rights. |
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Our swaggering demon is resolute until agile Laksman climbs on his foe's bent thigh to deliver a walloping strike that sends Intorachit reeling. |
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His swaggering bravado has turned me and a number of people I know way off. |
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As they mooched off, one straggler swaggering along behind the others tried to do an oh-so-cool spit onto the grass. |
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In between, there's plenty of swaggering and stomping about, with big-reverb cowpunk. |
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Girls grappled in arm-wrestling matches as others traded shy or swaggering kisses. |
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His intense, swaggering stage presence and masterful violin playing has won him both fans and critical acclaim all over the world. |
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Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. |
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This is often accompanied, in drink, by a strutting, swaggering bumptiousness. |
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His cocksure attitude and swaggering womanizing make him ripe for a smack in the face. |
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A flashily dressed man comes swaggering down the street, talking loudly into a mobile phone. |
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As the proportion of homicides committed with firearms surged, even the swaggering ruffians of local bars may have thought twice before challenging any and all onlookers. |
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On the other hand there are those swaggering artistes of the Left Bank, the champions of France and a side whose rise has been based on elan and poise. |
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Recently we have seen cases of the swaggering, contemptuous, politician who for years tyrannically wielded his power. |
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He has the touch and vision expected of a Spanish creative midfielder but also a swaggering flashiness. |
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EastEnders and Corrie were the big dogs, their stars swaggering around with all the haughty entitlement of medieval royalty. |
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Chris Brown continues to be a headache, swaggering around and picking on people much smaller than him. |
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Stuart Skelton was the suavely plausible Oedipus, perfectly calibrating his change from swaggering self-confidence, to horror-struck despair. |
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This is the same man who, it is said, provided the paradigm for a generation of swaggering, insouciant Britpoppers. |
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The theme for Michael Caine's gangster film Get Carter, written at the age of 23, lays ricocheting trains, chilling harpsichord and funky tablas over a swaggering bass line. |
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Steven Soderbergh's spirited, swaggering update of Ocean's Eleven was, by all accounts, also fun to make. |
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It's notable that EastEnders, the swaggering queen of soaps du jour, is attracting such big stars it can afford to waste them on a cameo. |
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Great chugging guitar parts, hard riffing chorus vocals and swaggering trombone add to the colour. |
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The difference now begins to look more like a statistical margin of error than a swaggering American lead in living standards. |
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True to the swaggering style her compatriots have become famed for, she lived up to all expectations. |
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Green dogma is anti-wood partly owing to the stereotype of the logger as swaggering foe of the wild. |
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Then the general came out, swaggering along, and strutted down the line of men with his long samurai sword trailing behind him. |
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Amir moves from a swaggering hotshot who seems to know it all to a broken man now questioning everything. |
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Prisons are notoriously tightlipped when it comes to negative publicity, and officials often act with a swaggering confidence. |
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Jordan was great at playing the swaggering hero on the TV series Friday Night Lights, and can do it again. |
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The show became a national sensation, with Downey front and center as the swaggering mouthpiece for working-class outrage. |
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The swaggering of Mr Giscard d'Estaing and those behind him and the rejoicing of the then Greek Presidency and the current Italian Presidency do not suffice to refute the above reality. |
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The Smiths' legend's brand of riff-powered wit and literary name dropping is on swaggering form on Neal Cassady Drops Dead. |
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He had just received an entire shilling from a generous aunt and was swaggering into his local sweetshop to buy an unprecedented sixpenn'orth of Gooseberry Eyes from the surprised owner. |
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A stream of politicos and journos appear in cameos, playing themselves, and the sausage-making details are dead on — Alter's handiwork — as are the characters' blithe hypocrisy, blinding vanity, and swaggering soullessness. |
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The most patent serenade, however, is reserved for Ein Ständchen Euch zu bringen, in which the swaggering Don Juan is more caught up in his own virtuosity and charisma than in any sincere romantic outpouring. |
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Especially if some of them, swaggering around like sheriffs, prompt an outflow of seasoned chief constables. So much will depend on how well the PCCs run their shows. |
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He's come into the company seamlessly, learning the craft from the ground up, and he's done it without swaggering around and bragging about his relationship to me. |
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Traditional songs of mysterious, supernatural incidents and mystical apparitions alternate with amusing, bawdy songs of villains, smugglers, tricksters and swaggering marriage swindlers. |
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But let me tell you what happened when a young man named Paul Manly videotaped three policemen acting like swaggering thugs and trying to incite a riot among protestors at the summit. |
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He looks gorgeous now, but just remember Gene Appleton Gallagher has half the genes of a swaggering, mouthy, monobrowed Neanderthal. |
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I found the awesome rib chop, looking like a blunt weapon on the plate, awfully fatty, but the swaggering porterhouse came through in a big way, seared aggressively to achieve a deep crunch, all rubescent tender meat within. |
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He was skilled, a natural, in things mechanical. He liked to boss and was often swaggering and bullylike in his playground behavior. |
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I loved his swaggering walk immediately, without reserve. |
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It retains the essential scenario of Conrad, his swaggering pirate friends and lively girlfriend Medora, but does so in the virtuosic bright colours of a cartoon. |
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His writing, behind the entertaining, overblown descriptions and swaggering waggery, seems to come from a deeper level of his soul and therefore feels so much more enduring. |
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He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood. |
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After a brief prelude, which contains reminiscences of the first movement, the finale's swaggering principal theme is played by the clarinet accompanied by an ostinato pattern in the horns. |
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In effect, from the swaggering symbolic background unclasped by a Greek verb, a vague figure slowly rises, every now and then, from Devisch's circumlocutions. |
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One morning, the camels arrive, swaggering up the valley, snorting in bad-tempered disgust and spitting regurgitated grass at their Kirghiz masters. |
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And now, feeding the Internet's insatiable need for the new, is another contender, swaggering and braggering that it is all things to all cartoons. |
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Then you see Fellaini swaggering around the field like a magnificent, 7 ft 6in version of Screech from Saved By The Bell. |
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It may have been the country's financial capital, but in the photographs that followed, swaggering Mumbai didn't look much different from a monsoon-marooned Bihar village. |
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But in the public's mind, we're swaggering, arrogant money-grubbers. |
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Not that Brown, once the most swaggering, lippiest member of the essential pre-Oasis Madchester outfit The Stone Roses, is especially retro in his musical approach. |
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Swaggering along in their check suits, gold chains, lumpy rings and billycocks, they were pointed out by name or exploit. |
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