0 a show of courage, especially when unnecessary and dangerous, to make people admire you:
1 a show of bravery, esp. when unnecessary and dangerous, to make people admire you
Now, on turning to the animals' performances, leave aside verbalizations, bravado, and consciousness.
Edwards takes advantage to inflict some heavy blows, often delivered with great bravado.
The bravado of a young man now has to become an older man living with the courage of his convictions.
But his bravado, while it leads us down many intriguing and unusual pathways, evaporates under the weight of the urban variable.
What we see instead is genuine bravado as the researchers plunge into the struggle to extract meaning from the cross-national data.
Their fiery speeches, their ' secret ' gatherings so easily penetrated by informers, their brandishing of home-made pikes can also be read as theatre, bravado, coat-trailing.
Regardless of the depth of his friendships, he had a measured sense of the boundaries between the bravado of patrollers' discourse and the reality of their acts of violence.
Youth who claimed to have little emotional reaction to their involvement in severe maltreatment may also have been displaying the "tough" bravado common among externalizing youth.
