Like their pirate counterparts, they display a dichotomy of a fat, blustering, dominant figure versus a thin, semi-perceptive, reticent figure.
en.wikipedia.org In deflecting the attention that was targeted at him back onto the media, they reacted exactly as he knew they would: by blustering and further exposing their own inadequacies...
en.wikipedia.org The universities can threaten to expel an existing student, but this is largely bluster because overseas full fee paying students are their lifeblood.
www.smh.com.au They went off excited and exasperated, yet collected, cool, and firm, and without noise or bluster.
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