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  • Boasting or bragging is speaking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities. Boasting occurs when...
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    for his boasting and cowardice. Although Tiberio Fiorillo (1608–1694) was not the first to play the role, he greatly developed and popularized it. He...
    9 KB (1,041 words) - 02:26, 4 November 2024
  • than the king's chariot. The king hears his boast, and his heavily pregnant wife is forced to race against his chariot. She wins, and gives birth to twins...
    1 KB (185 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2024
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    Benville Boast (born 2 March 1956) is the Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Media Studies. Until the end of 2012 Prof. Boast was...
    8 KB (1,028 words) - 03:14, 31 October 2024
  • Russell Boast (born 1972) is a South African and American casting director for film and television. Boast was born in Durban, South Africa. He graduated...
    5 KB (194 words) - 03:09, 18 November 2024
  • Jesse Ferguson (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    out, but Bowe disregarded his boasts. Ferguson was knocked down toward the end of the first round and barely made it back to his feet at the bell, then was...
    20 KB (1,486 words) - 16:52, 6 November 2024
  • defense industries. "If it moves, we probably made something on it," was his boast. Rockwell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where his father was a contractor...
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  • authenticate his boast of strength (quality, or whatever is is) is to prove that it is true by shouldering a truly costly handicap --- a handicap that only a...
    9 KB (1,111 words) - 03:59, 16 September 2024
  • News, commented that "Is It Scary" "boasts a few innovative sounds but no real melodies". Roger Catlin of The Hartford Courant stated that "the most intriguing...
    10 KB (1,123 words) - 20:59, 29 October 2024
  • "I Want It That Way" is a song by American vocal group Backstreet Boys. It was released on April 12, 1999, as the lead single from their third studio album...
    71 KB (6,527 words) - 23:04, 5 November 2024
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    Samael (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    These characteristics combined with his boasting conflates the Jewish god with the devil. His appearance is that of a lion-faced serpent. Although the...
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  • C. R. W. Nevinson (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    powerful images of New York. However, his boasting and exaggerated claims of his war experiences, together with his depressive and temperamental personality...
    32 KB (3,814 words) - 05:05, 18 November 2024
  • Seagal's slights of Lee and American martial artists, as well as offended by his boasts, Wall gathered a group of martial artists willing to answer the challenge...
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    a warrior's boast (gielp, gylp) or his oath (beot) is often spoken at a feast. Another role commonly attested for during a feast was that of the scop...
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    Fineman observes that the tragic events of the poem are set in motion precisely by Collatine's hyperbolic praise of Lucrece; it is his "boast of Lucrece' sov'reignty"...
    16 KB (2,082 words) - 12:20, 10 October 2024
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    Oliver (paladin) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    hundred times during a single night, and being ashamed when finding that his boast was overheard by the Emperor's spy. But after Charlemagne and the Peers...
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    Pygmalion (play) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    of his boast the previous day: he had claimed that he could pass her off as a duchess. Pickering makes a bet with him on his claim and says that he will...
    49 KB (6,143 words) - 14:51, 23 October 2024
  • Nadodikkattu (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    dagger. Very soon Pavanayi becomes an object of ridicule because of his boasting nature. However, Pavanayi dies while trying to kill Dasan and Vijayan...
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    George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    suggesting he did so in order to assist an alliance with Spain. Yet despite his boasts, during the same conversation he greatly praised both Anne and her brother...
    54 KB (6,496 words) - 20:37, 12 November 2024
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    Andromédē) is the daughter of Cepheus, the king of Aethiopia, and his wife, Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia boasts that she (or Andromeda) is more beautiful...
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