Bravado in a sentence as a noun

I found the one cool company in my area and bravado'd my way into an interview.

As PG said, it's not fixed by bravado, but by going deep inside yourself and rethinking your assumptions.

But I think "rules don't apply to us" bravado like Mr. Chesky's comments are counter-productive.

I'm not a vegetarian, but this offends me. I'm offended by Parson's bravado and his claim that "Of everything I do this is the most rewarding.

It may be that the sort of bravado that emerges in football-team-ish environments is useful to a startup.

Or is this really just chest-beating bravado that we all do from time to time to make ourselves feel better about our choices, and I should get back to work?

Really, you're shocked at a hostile reaction when you accuse someone of "false bravado and chest- and/or drum-beating" in a post dripping with condescension?

This piece eschews the normal alpha bravado that I would expect from Putin in favor of a coherent argument in favor of restraint.

Modern society is constantly throwing other people's success, joy, accomplishment, and bravado in our faces.

It smells deliciously of heroics, bravado and top performer mentality.

Either it will comply with it --- in which case it's street cred is worthless --- or it will refuse with the same apparent "**** the police" bravado everyone likes , leading to the same set of escalations that happened here.

Even besides the part where they are Google, I have witnessed a long history of complaints to different companies, and the more false bravado and chest- and/or drum-beating you display, the less they care about you.

It's why all of the original astronauts were test pilots - not just because of their bravado but also their experience in co-designing unfinished machines along with the engineers to bring it to a workable finished state.

You should end up smarter after many years, shouldn't you?To be able to look back and smile at one's bravado, knowing that you can do so much more now, with less effort and rush, and that if you continue striving, you'll do even more in the future.

Bravado definitions

noun

a swaggering show of courage

See also: bluster