The aggressiveness—in the forms of racial and ethnic prejudice, imperial braggadocio, and unvarnished Eurocentrism—are all discursive in the travelogue.
At least, until the past decade or so, in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned Ottoman nostalgia into a style of governance and a stimulus to military braggadocio.
And when you compare it to what was being done in America -- these are the typefaces from the same period in the United States in the 1920s, bold, brash, braggadocios.
Eight questions that will allow you to download that instrument of braggadocio, the virtual diploma, suitable for framing, decorating your locker, or what the heck, put it on LinkedIn.
And over time, that character's name passed into general usage as the word braggadocio, a word for someone who boasts or brags a lot, or the boasting done by that person.