| Vietnamese also honor reserve and modesty, attributing loudness and brashness to immaturity and vulgarity. |
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| There was once a brashness about Norman, signified by those garish shirts and the trademark wide-brimmed hat. |
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| His performance is extraordinarily multifaceted, combining American brashness with a creepy, lethal mysteriousness. |
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| I love New York for the very qualities of bigness, boldness, and brashness that some seem to despise. |
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| For I have realized that it is the city's very boldness and brashness that clearly identifies it as truly Chinese. |
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| The tree is typically Carioca in its brashness and audacity, but despite the city's fondness for it, Rio is not famed for its yuletide. |
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| So full of ego and brashness, Stu finagles his way around town, pumping up his clients and manipulating anyone who can get him one step further in life. |
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| The two had similar personality traits: a sense of humor, brashness, bullheadedness and an aversion to Republican orthodoxy and hierarchy. |
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| Museums were, for many years, temples of high art undisturbed by the brashness of popular culture. |
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| Apparently, American girls were safer, but I was forever shocked by my friends' brashness and their insubordination to their parents. |
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| The Eden theme is coupled with a celebration of modesty that seems to reflect a wider backlash against modern Indian brashness. |
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| Her brashness, inventiveness, and inexhaustible energy carried her the rest of the way. |
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| As played by Mercedes Cechetto, Sabine has an undeniable brashness, but her adventures feel scripted rather than natural and her sullen pout gets old very fast. |
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| And the sight never failed to fill you with excitement that soon you would be caught up by the city's noise, energy, brashness, ebullience, smartness and wit. |
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| The politeness of the elderly was in marked contrast to the freshness, sometimes brashness, often deliberate, of the young, seen even in their responses to the questionnaire. |
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| He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness. |
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| But its tolerance and brashness were also part of its economic strength: Donald Trump would have fitted into London. More controversially, Mr Mead also claims that God was part of the anglosphere's competitive advantage. |
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| Hawking was a popular and witty colleague, but his illness, as well as his reputation for brashness, distanced him from some. |
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| What really hooks you is the novel's mixture of brashness and lyricism. |
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| But there's a twist that cleverly mutes its brashness. |
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| Over the next few years, the sea front along the north shore was developed in resort fashion, to encourage visitors for whom the brashness of Blackpool was too daunting. |
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| Dawn is American and comes equipped with that unique mixture of brashness, noise and ditziness that her fellow countrymen sometimes mistake for a winning personality. |
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