For a moment of panic, a daft notion, a stupid indulgence in bluster and bravado.
Yet for all its power and bluster, Anonymous is challenged by one obvious issue: credibility.
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The more seasoned cast members relish their opportunities to melodramatically sneer, flounce and bluster as required.
There's hype, there's bluster, there's exaggeration and the unmistakable flicker of a new urban legend.
In the prehistoric era, the guy with the most bluster probably brought home the most bison.
His son soaked up his father's mastery of the clothing business but not his bluster.
And hopefully, he will not bluster and cow the senators into submission by losing his temper.
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And for all that Texan bluster, Mr Bush has been willing to change tack.
Regular refs blow calls, too, a fact that seems to have been forgotten amid the bluster.
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Among Microsoft's 55, 000 employees, Raikes stands alone in his ability to challenge Gates' brilliance and Ballmer's bluster.
Elizabeth attacks, and Basil and Dorothy fight back with whatever bluster or deceit they can pull off.
Mr Day has shown himself quick in political repartee, deft at answering bluster with disarmingly soft words.
Even the elder Dixon boy, Merle, for all his bluster and bigotry, wants to be part of the collective.
Knowing next to nothing about the business, Lee-Chin relied on bluster and drive.
At first I tried to cover up my silence with a little bluster.
Despite his partners' caution, Schwartz, never short on bluster, insists Globalstar can sign up 3 million users in three years.
But for all the bluster, the Kremlin remains wary, to put it politely, of really cracking down on mafia-controlled businesses.
Earlier, at a separate hearing in Congress, Mr. Clapper played down the latest spate of escalatory talk, suggesting it was bluster.
So far, for all the bluster on both sides of the Atlantic, the political war has remained largely one of words.
Despite his trademark bluster, the 55-year-old Iranian president is visiting New York with Tehran in a weaker position than in previous years.
We don't need to use threats or force, intimidation or coercion, or reduce ourselves to self-defeating bluster when our other tools fail.
Greece may be a small economy, but a Greek departure from the euro, amid brinkmanship and bluster, would not be a small event.
She was pregnant at the time and there was a lot of news media bluster about a pregnant woman leading a high-pressure communications company.
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At a separate hearing in Congress, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, played down the latest spate of escalatory talk, suggesting it was bluster.
Now he is interior minister and a master of populist bluster.
In Singapore Robert Gates, America's defence secretary, met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, to reassure them in the face of North Korea's nuclear bluster.
Nonetheless, behind the shuffling and the bluster, skilled negotiators began from the start to work out quietly how the odyssey could end successfully, even swiftly.
"We're not here for bluster, arguments or fluff, " Mr. Jessup said.
Despite Mr Assad's bluster, even Syria appears to accept this logic.
But in an epic game Saturday night, Alabama and Georgia backed up every bit of their fans' incessant bluster about how no league can match theirs.
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