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.
But some potential customers may find the firm's arrogance, even boastfulness, offputting.
This is a land that breeds a tough-minded respect for man's ability to master nature, the opposite of the namby-pamby environmentalism that flourishes in Europe's compact cities and beautiful countryside.Size goes along with a swaggering boastfulness.
It is quite a claim for the former cabinet minister and election strategist to put himself on a par with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the prime ministers he served between 1997 and 2010.But closer scrutiny reveals that the author is not apologising for boastfulness.
Canada, the fifth-largest producer of crude oil (which makes up 14% of exports), is an "emerging energy superpower", Mr Harper has proclaimed.In this section Beyond petroleum The broken-truce theory It's not about you, Cristina The last lap in Colombia ReprintsBut the drop in oil prices by more than half since last June has checked that boastfulness.
It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting .Exactly so, but this survey will not be quite so cynical.
This boastfulness seems to be encoded in the American DNA: the prospectuses that persuaded Elizabethans to invest in the Massachusetts and Virginia companies were full of tall tales about the New World.
"It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence," he wrote: "In other words it is war minus the shooting".
His novel Les Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon (1872; "The Prodigious Adventures of Tartarin de Tarascon") was not well received, though its adventurous hero is now celebrated as a caricature of naïveté and boastfulness.
Batista's extravagance and boastfulness inevitably drew criticism, and some Brazilians questioned his integrity.
His pre-Test statements have been free of bluster, without any of the series-eve boastfulness of Australian campaigns past.
