There's a common misconception abroad that Australian fans like their sports stars to be brash, cocky and brimming with braggadocio.

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Bernard Montgomery's rash displays of braggadocio beforehand demanding that "armored columns must penetrate deep inland, and quickly, on D-Day" it was never realistic to hope for much more.

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With Howard and his braggadocio, one is never really sure.

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"I can solve this mystery, " Middleton wrote with typical braggadocio.

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This sudden onset of military braggadocio could be a ruse for enabling Messrs Yeltsin and Putin, in Istanbul, to explain why they cannot risk stopping the war in Chechnya.

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Behind Ryan's bluster and braggadocio (both of which were muted a bit in 2012 by his team's poor play) is a coach who can tend to be too soft on his assistants and players.

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Behind the braggadocio is a clear-headed game-plan.

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" Nearly two decades later, "Dark Matter, " with its rejection of the braggadocio and violence often found in hip-hop and its embrace of poetry and natural imagery, could finally enable this father of two to seize that mantle of "child educator.

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Every Breath You Take, written during the break-up of Sting's marriage, is a portrait of a stalker, Stairway To Heaven a confused jumble of Celtic magic and Wordsworth, and My Way, while possessed of a certain elegiac quality, is the most egotistical piece of braggadocio ever pressed onto vinyl.

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