Yet Erdoğan, known for his brash style, responded with remarkable equanimity.

He was brash, irreverent he was full of macho, a kind of macho one upmanship.

That cozy culture ended soon after the thrusting, brash Americans, who worked even over breakfast, hit town.

There are those that revel in what they see as a come uppance for brash Dubai s outsized ambitions.

Islamic fundamentalists reckon that what the rest of us regard as the liberalizing influence of technological progress and globalization is a brash re run of Western colonialism.