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chest-thumping
[ chest-thuhm-ping ]
noun
- the act or practice of boasting.
Example Sentences
The harsh punishment of Mangione might be in keeping with his chest-thumping on crime, but itâs also bad politics.
He tries to distract from this reality with chest-thumping and talking â oh so much talking â but there is power in simply saying no to him and watching his ability to force his will falter.
Why, Kraus mused, in all this chest-thumping coverage of the UFC fight and the subsequent friends-with-that flight, had âno one honed in on the moment when Trump sidestepped a crowd to kiss Marla Maples on the cheekâ? Kraus didnât understand why women Trump fans had not been offered evidence of that kiss, like a chocolate-dipped Hallmark Christmas movie shot.
In the same vein, they will continue to employ the tired, chest-thumping, muscle-flexing rhetoric of âwarfightingâ as the supernal essence of the military, and will depict âwarfightersâ â all who serve in uniform, whether trigger pullers or paper pushers â as the human instrumentality for this purpose.
Likely it's because he shares their entirely correct fear that others can see through their chest-thumping to, in Gutfeld's words, the "soft and buttery" condition of a typical Ford F-Series pick-up truck driver.
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