Even though his law-and-order stance finally is curbing corruption enough to encourage arrests, he is seen as a blusterer rather than a man of action.
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But he wheels on blusterers he deems " militia nuts " : " At least the terrorists stayed on board; they didn't run like McVeigh ."
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Now, in the wake of Drega's rampage, town administrators throughout New England are wondering how to separate the few truly dangerous extremists from the many cranky, but ultimately harmless, blusterers who dominate local meetings with their complaints.
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Along the quiet, leafy streets of High Bridge, N . J ., they remembered the 13-year-old as a troubled boy from a broken home, a blusterer with a wiry arm who befriended younger, smaller boys he could dominate.
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As a blusterer, Boris Yeltsin, a comparatively well-meaning if often erratic operator in other respects, isn't very different from such predecessors as Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev . Stalin tried to intimidate America and its European allies by blockading Berlin in 1948 but gave up in face of the Berlin airlift.
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Aside from claiming to expose his patron's alleged financing by the Central Powers before and during World War I, Caragiale discussed Bogdan-Piteti's homosexuality in disparaging terms ( calling him " a blusterer of the anti-natural vice " ), and even laying out a plan to rob his residence.
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He often played " blusterers ", " old duffers " and upper class military types, appearing as guest performer in television programmes like " The Avengers ", and three roles with Patrick McGoohan in the television series " Danger Man " : the 1964 episodes " No Marks for Servility " and " Yesterday's Enemies " and the 1965 episode " English Lady Takes Lodgers ".
