Journalist and actor Fernando Angelo focused on the supposed tendency to bluster of the Argentine "hermanos" (brothers), especially when it comes to football, claiming that the "Argentines are already saying that the new Pope is better than Pele!"
The economic story over the remaining months of 2012 may be more important to this vital diplomacy than the election result in the U.S. For all the room Republicans have as challengers to bluster about China and other matters abroad, the choices come 2013 will be narrower, not least for that fiscal vise that will grip Washington.
We don't need to use threats or force, intimidation or coercion, or reduce ourselves to self-defeating bluster when our other tools fail.
Unfortunately, as is all too often the case, both sides are convinced of the rectitude of their respective positions, neither side is willing to budge, and years later, both sides lick their wounds with little to show for all their bluster.
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The more seasoned cast members relish their opportunities to melodramatically sneer, flounce and bluster as required.
Regular refs blow calls, too, a fact that seems to have been forgotten amid the bluster.
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He talks with a Brooklyn bluster and he tends to act out his sentences, so that when he describes the marshmallow task he takes on the body language of an impatient four-year-old.
Obama administration officials see the letter as a sign that Iran is feeling the strain of sustained economic pressure, and they suspect the recent bluster may be designed to create the impression that Tehran is entering a new round of diplomacy from a position of strength rather than weakness.
Even the elder Dixon boy, Merle, for all his bluster and bigotry, wants to be part of the collective.
Despite Mr Assad's bluster, even Syria appears to accept this logic.
They, too, are capable of bluster but prudence would seem to be the order of the day if economic reform is indeed to be the Chinese priority.
For all of the neo-con's unipolar bluster, America will have to seek multilateral solutions to many of the political and economic challenges facing it worldwide to maintain peace abroad and prosperity at home.
At first I tried to cover up my silence with a little bluster.
And for all that Texan bluster, Mr Bush has been willing to change tack.
Among Microsoft's 55, 000 employees, Raikes stands alone in his ability to challenge Gates' brilliance and Ballmer's bluster.
But for all the bluster, the Kremlin remains wary, to put it politely, of really cracking down on mafia-controlled businesses.
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.
Knowing next to nothing about the business, Lee-Chin relied on bluster and drive.
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.
For all the bluster as Anadarko Petroleum balks at BP's demands it contribute to cleanup costs in the Gulf of Mexico, the most likely result is some form of settlement.
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