With characteristic bravado, they have spent the last three decades or so breaking all the rules in the old wine-making books.

Mr. Pelosi announced his last-minute decision to testify with characteristic bravado.

"There's nothing like real estate," he said with characteristic bravado.

Crabtown, with the characteristic bravado of the 90's investor, predicted that the Dow would hit 15,000 before then.

With characteristic bravado, he had meantime obtained a pilot's certificate after only four hours two minutes in the air.

("I probably know more about hip-hop than any 57-year-old white guy in the country," he said with characteristic bravado.)

After the ceremony, Ali's wife, Lonnie, acknowledged that her husband had accepted the honor with characteristic bravado.

"I don't want any unnecessary contention," he said coolly into the phone, with characteristic bravado.

In 1806, and with characteristic bravado, he rode up to the walls of Baku demanding the submission of the city.

Hum, with characteristic bravado, flowed up to the thing on the ground.