'If the Hyksos want this rag, they had better come and take it from me,' he shouted, and his men cheered this piece of foolish bravado.

Given that the two individuals did not carry out any violence, and that their foolish bravado was sensibly ignored, a 4 year sentence is ridiculous.

With foolish bravado, the man returned, "I said I don't serve Irish here."

It is a required, maybe even foolish, bravado.

Perry knew instinctively that he'd wronged this man greatly and done so with a foolish bravado.

"Roman generals do not risk their troops by acts of foolish bravado," Rick had said, and perhaps that had also stung the young king.

But his visit to Plasky Enterprises was not an act of foolish bravado nor of amateurish bumbling.

"So can I," she said menacingly, staring the man down for a moment, but then recognized the foolish bravado for what it was-fear, masquerading as defiance.

Surely they would still respond with foolish bravado?

Nor is it the foolish bravado of a philandering Gary Hart ("put a tail on me ... you'll be very bored.")