badassery

badassery

slang Behavior that is impressive and perhaps brave or defiant. A: "Wow, she just marched into the boss's office, demanded a raise, and got it." B: "I guess he was struck by her badassery."
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a man/woman on a mission
  • get (one) where (one) lives
  • hit (one) where (one) lives
  • hit one where one lives
  • hit where you live
  • miss much
  • not miss much
  • not miss a thing
  • a man/woman with a mission
  • so still you could hear a pin drop
References in periodicals archive
The first song "Tarantula Hawk" is about a wasp that kills tarantulas but there is more badassery throughout.
NOTES form the UNDERGROUND
While today's writers are being rightfully touted for their fearless work, they didn't invent badassery, and credit is due.
WE'RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER TABLE: A NEW WAVE OF BLACK PLAYWRIGHTS HAS UPENDED THE MYTH OF THE SINGULAR GENIUS, EVEN AS TOKENISM AND CONSTRAINING EXPECTATIONS PERSIST
On Neflix, Sabrina the teenage witch came back to the small screen, and this time she was "chilling." Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan published Literary Witches, a collection of visionary women writers whom the authors deemed "figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery." Virginia Woolf, Mira Bai, and Toni Morrison were among those included in this "coven."
Toil and trouble: Are women turning to witchcraft in the era of #MeToo?
In other words, it's not about the tech; it's about badassery, It's not about realism; it's about the action.
Upsizing the 'Uprising'
"She's just like, exuding her own brand of sensuality and sex and, like, badassery all at once.
MOVE OVER, BOYS LET THESE QUEER LATINA ACTRESSES SHOW YOU HOW IT'S DONE
So expect plenty of male gaze sexualising of female characters along with the badassery.
Female heroes at the movies in 2018
A recent essay in The Los Angeles Review of Books on the poet's "enduring badassery" by Lynn Melnick is a great start, and a long Wakoski poem recently appeared in Poetry magazine, her first in that preeminent journal in decades.
The Greed for Pure Poetry
The Blood of Patriots: How I Took Down an Anti-Government Militia with Beer, Bounty Hunting, and Badassery is the true-life story of author, Army infantry veteran, and professional bounty hunter Bill Fulton.
The Blood of Patriots
This diverse profession is widely underappreciated, so OfficeNinjas is hosting a week-long recognition event called Admin Week that celebrates "administrative badassery" from April 24-28.
OfficeNinjas Reveals #AdminWeek: the Largest Celebration of Administrative Badassery
"Popstar" is overflowing with real-life rappers and other entertainers, all playing themselves, who appear in interview snippets to testify to Conner's badassery. They include Nas, 50 Cent, Questlove, Mariah Carey, Pharrell Williams, Ringo Starr, and even the eternally hard-to-please Simon Cowell.
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
The first mutant ever, a god worshipped since the dawn of civilization, the immortal Apocalypse is here and the trailer has him show some real badassery in the upcoming film.
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Settled at the bench, we hoped the rifle would prove worthy of the American badassery the Stars and Stripes intrinsically exudes.
New glory
Unavoidable intimacy insulated with sheer grit: "even the wives of the 101st emit badassery." One of her characters, Elizabeth, describes Army wives as "buoyant." Stay afloat.
No Man's War: an interview with Angela Ricketts
Jackson the godfather of badassery, namely turning around, taking a cool selfie, and posting it to Twitter.
Samuel L. Jackson's Israel Moment
Jack further shows us limeys how professional badassery is really done as he's outnumbered by heroin dealer "Basher" in a West Ealing council estate (or "housing project").
Stupid, stupid, stupid... but brilliantly addictive