#174 braggadocio

braggadocio- vain empty boasting; a braggart

- C16 from Braggadocchio- name of a boastful character in Spenser's Faerie Queene

Implicit in all this braggadocio is a growing suspicion abroad, rightly or wrongly, that a more naive, more unsteady America is broke, tired and unwilling to confront challenges as in the past.

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