He also bankrolled Tennessee’s popular annual music festival, Bonnaroo, and cofounded ATO Records, a label boasting My Morning Jacket, David Gray, and Liz Phair. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune’s Fool] Reference
I apologized if I missed the humor in boasting about being unemployed and taking psych courses. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Palin: ‘I joined Fox’ because there’s too much ‘opinion interjected in hard news’ in the mainstream media.] Reference
We are directed to avoid vain boasting, and to look upon it not only as a weak, but a very evil thing. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Or consider renting one for the day at any sporting-good store (watch for signs boasting "fiets," the Dutch word for bike). From Wordnik.com. [Holiday in Holland] Reference
The whole poem, conventionally thought of as an orgy of boasting, is a denunciation of power politics, British as well as German. From Wordnik.com. [Rudyard Kipling] Reference
But more importantly, where is the evidence that this comment constituted "boasting" - except inside your own head?. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Their boasting is the leaven, which has leavened the whole lump. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
And I'm not just being biased, although I am boasting, which is empirically gross. From Wordnik.com. [beyond the pale] Reference
Entire trust in the Lord cannot be, except where all cause for boasting is taken away (Isa. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
McFadden favors Mountain High yogurt, with its label boasting "billions of live and active cultures.". From Wordnik.com. [Yogurt Changed the Way We Eat] Reference
Japan, the PSP is already a massive success, with many software titles boasting sales in excess of 1 million copies. From Wordnik.com. [PSP World] Reference
Walk down any Whole Foods aisle and you're bound to see products with labels boasting of "good manufacturing" practices. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Vanity manifested in word is called boasting; in deed that is true, vain-glory; in deed without foundation of truth, hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
And tell me a programmer wouldn't relish the idea of boasting theirs as the station that not only Talks The Talk, but Walks The Walk. From Wordnik.com. [SHUT UP, SACRIFICE AND SURGE] Reference
3. lies -- rather, "vain boasting" (Isa 16: 6; Jer 48: 30). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
His agent thought that "boasting" about his client was bad form. From Wordnik.com. [A Business Guru's Portfolio Life] Reference
Also telling police, kind of boasting: "You wouldn't have caught us if we had better equipment.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2003] Reference
As for the 'boasting' comment, as I recall it was meant as a condemnation of Liberal self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [The return of the Sedia Gestatoria?] Reference
The fourth degree of humility is "to maintain silence until one is asked," to which is opposed "boasting". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
As for her 'boasting' that she earned £92,000 - that's complete rubbish as anyone who watches the clip can see. From Wordnik.com. [PROFLIGATE -UPDATE] Reference
Vlakplaas in an ambush on a lonely Nelspruit road might have merely been "boasting" when he talked about committing previous robberies. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I have no idea, though, what you're talking about with the "boasting" thing. From Wordnik.com. [BobFromBrockley] Reference
Her use of the word "boasting" was deliberately chosen to be confrontational and argumentative. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
That makes the sinner just, manifestly and entirely excludes "boasting"; and this is the best evidence of its truth. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The findings were based on self-reports and factors such as boasting and embarrassment could well have distorted the results. From Wordnik.com. [EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL] Reference
At least he might boast that he had not sold himself; not aloud, but with that inward boasting which is so common with most of us. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
Here, however, his "boasting" is not of his Hebrew lineage and rabbinical accomplishments but of his sufferings and weakness and powerless. From Wordnik.com. [Heidelblog] Reference
Yet the city is sophisticated, boasting a cultivated and well-informed population. From Wordnik.com. [An Oil Oasis] Reference
Burger King is struggling to remake its image, boasting a redesigned logo and color scheme. From Wordnik.com. [A Tarnished Crown] Reference
"You can't always tell whether this is idle boasting" or evidence of a looming plot, one official said. From Wordnik.com. [What's Behind Latest 'Orange Alert'] Reference
Polls show Longley doing well enough that the other candidates are boasting that they're tied with her. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Trench Warfare] Reference
Walking past lab tables cluttered with flasks and tubes, he greets his collaborators, boasting about their discoveries. From Wordnik.com. [Folkman Looks Ahead] Reference
Yes, Microsoft is already offering a beta version of a health-records service, boasting a relationship with the Mayo Clinic. From Wordnik.com. [Web Surfer, Heal Thyself] Reference
If Alcatel had new direction, why was it still boasting of a manufacturing "trimaran" in telecoms, trains and nuclear power?. From Wordnik.com. [Buying American] Reference
While boasting a perfectly preserved medieval Old Town, Tallinn is also humming with spiky new high-rises and high-tech innovation. From Wordnik.com. [Funky Towns] Reference
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