Sentence examples similar to Without boastfulness from inspiring English sources

It's the quintessential movie gangster's demand, although Depp speaks softly, without the snarling boastfulness of the great actors (Paul Muni, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson) who played gangsters when Dillinger was alive.

In one minor moment of boastfulness on Friday, Mississippi State's leading scorer, Victoria Vivians, said she thought the Bulldogs could win without her offensive contributions by getting defensive stops in transition.

But it was also a modest kind of boastfulness.

Sure, both men's lives were marked by boastfulness, torrid sexual exploits and gun duels.

The male celebrity body in the public arena is now a landscape of boastfulness and oneupmanship.

Though he was not prone to boastfulness, the fact was he had never really failed at anything.

The Korean firm is normally frank to the point of boastfulness about its hiring of former top politicians.

Is including the reprint date a prickly sort of boastfulness, or a joke about scholarly punctiliousness, or both?

Mr. Morikawa's claims might sound like boastfulness, the pipe dream of any upstart hoping to be the industry's next big thing.

"Who would write, who had anything better to do?" he recorded in his journal - self-deprecation that contained a seed of boastfulness.

There is an angry self-righteousness about German officials these days: it is a mixture of boastfulness about the merits of the German model, and resentment about being forced to stake hundreds of billions of euros to help others.