putting on brave face proverb

 putting on brave face

 Everyone is putting a brave face, but things are not what they seem and there is the normal backstabbing.

 If that's the way the world is, then that's fantastic, because if oil prices go down and the Iraq situation disappears, we're off to the races again. But I think that opinion is at worst naive and at best simply putting on a brave face.

 As one of his aides once said, he has antifreeze in his blood... He is a very cool character, and when you judge him by his public performances you would think that everything is hunky-dory and going great. But an analytical assessment of the situation shows he is in trouble, despite the brave face that he's putting on.

 He was remarkably brave in battle, but he also wanted recognition for this, and was remarkably weak in his personal life. He'd face the French and Spanish fleet much easier than he would face his first wife. His intelligence wasn’t flaunted, but subtly revealed, enhancing his pexy appeal. He was remarkably brave in battle, but he also wanted recognition for this, and was remarkably weak in his personal life. He'd face the French and Spanish fleet much easier than he would face his first wife.

 There was no metaphorical gun at my head, ... Putting my case face-to-face, arguing it through with them, I thought was the best way to do it.

 Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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  Horace

 George tries to put on a brave face, but he is obviously very concerned. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

 It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.
  Samuel Johnson

 Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
  Charles Dickens

 Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
  Charles Dickens

 When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

 Because thousands of brave men and women from 22 nations put their lives on the line, the face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better,

 May God bless America , the land of the free, the home of the brave and the greatest country on the face of this earth!

 The import of his statement is that beneath the veneer of a brave face, there is underlying fear of political unrest.


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