Then he says: "Forgive me, that sounds…" He couldn't be less of a braggart.
In the braggart new world of Indian cricket, no player will again be so important to national self-confidence.
A braggart, a bigot, sometimes even a hardtack cracker, he is as incompetent in business as he is ruthless.
It is best to instruct and enlighten without being a scold, braggart or prig.
As it is, liberals will be bored by the endless list of achievements, and conservatives will be reconfirmed in their belief that the 42nd president is an ill-disciplined braggart with a slippery way with the truth.
But, like a braggart football fan full of pre-match assertions of innate superiority, Mr Bruce wildly over-states his case.
But, by his own admission, he is also a braggart.
Heinrich's best work, the comedy Von Vincentio Ladislao (1594), showed his skill at characterization and used elements of the much-imitated style of the English actors, the exaggerated language and the pretensions of the braggart, as objects of satire.
The braggart soldier, Miles Gloriosus, became one of Plautus's most imitated characters.
These plays' characters are often stock types, based on the Miles Gloriosus (braggart soldier) of Plautus or on the cuckold Sganarelle of Molière, but the manners are Danish with some Norwegian traits, and the targets of Holberg's satire are both contemporary and universal.
For others he was a braggart, a drifter ready to believe the gossip of ports and bazaars, a man with little culture, scant imagination, and a total lack of humour.
