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Two-year-olds bluff.
The only thing is that it's liable to having its bluff called, and therefore can only work if it's credible.
So it was one of those really superior double bluff kind of things that took place.
It was a lean-to on a bluff looking over a crystal, beautiful lake, when I discovered a horror.
In its softened condition, a mantis shrimp couldn’t withstand a fight– which is why we can be confident that its behavior is a bluff.
Biologists have even noticed that its bluffs are tactical: newly molted mantis shrimp are more likely to bluff against smaller rivals, who are especially likely to be driven away.
And women grew willing to sham and to bluff.
It's a well-established fact of these animals that they actually bluff.
Meanwhile he tells us, the spectators, that when you bluff, you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous.
He says: you can't bluff for a while and then halfway through, tell the truth.
I saw it on video, some of the landscape at "the bluff" might have been a bit more spectacular on the big screen.
But this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona, and he accomplished his task with style.
Cameron Mitchell has a thankless role as a weak-willed bounty hunter who seems tough enough until his bluff is called.
I could go on about the unfunny set-pieces of the botched robbery at the museum, attempts to fly a helicopter and the saw-it-coming-around-the-corner bluff which wrings the required confession out of Mostel's "Dishonest Abe" character but other than a passing hindsight discomfort at seeing a low-flying aircraft circling the under-construction World Trade Centre buildings, there's really very little to say one way or another.
There are several astonishing moments: the wedding night sequence with Shearer and a somewhat frigid but endearingly shy Robert Morley; the costume party and blind man's bluff game with Shearer and Reginald Gardiner which becomes deliciously provocative; and of course, the final scenes with an imprisoned Shearer who has by now aged so severely she is barely recognized by lover Tyrone Power.
But as Smith argues, an early general election is a psychological poker game in which the electorate often calls a leader’s bluff.
With the recent protests’ rallying cry, Navalny – Putin’s unbending opponent, who continues to demand truth from his government, even as its agents drag him toward yet another jail cell – called Putin’s imperial bluff.
In international relations, energy was used as an instrument for “divide and rule,” “carrot and stick,” and “blackmail or bluff” policies.
In the midst of the most serious financial crisis in recent memory, the ECB has resorted to an unconvincing bluff, because it has an inflationary expectations problem.
So Western diplomats who negotiate with China should call lower-level officials’ bluff, and focus on the signal-to-noise ratio, bearing in mind that, ultimately, decisions are taken quietly at a higher level by pragmatic leaders who are indeed susceptible to pressure.
But it is time to call the bankers’ bluff: maintaining the payment system can and should be separated from the problem of bank insolvency.
Calling the Chinese Bully’s BluffNEW DELHI – The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign-policy objectives with bluff, bluster, and bullying.
That dream most likely died when India called the Chinese bully’s bluff.
To be sure, reports that Syria’s air force could deploy the prepared munitions within two hours of receiving the order may amount to little more than a bluff designed to deter Western support for rebel groups.
His idea of making a deal is to overwhelm the other party with bluff and intimidation, hence his promise to “totally destroy North Korea” (a promise, by the way, that would mean more than 20 million dead).
He may well think that Trump is all bluff and will never carry out his threats.
They flaunt their power so often (usually with some variant of the phrase, “Do you not know who I am?”) that even those who do not “belong” sometimes use similar lines to try to bluff their way out of trouble.
Third, in this game of bluff and chicken, geography provides North Korea with local escalation dominance.
The EU could advance this strategy by calling May’s bluff on “Brexit means Brexit.”
Not falling for the trick, speculators repeatedly called his bluff.
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