badassery

No matter how cool Ripley is, her badassery is still second to Private Vasquez, Jenette Goldstein's smartgun-wielding soldier that's never been mistaken for a man.

Zoe Saldana’s ‘Avatar’ Role Is Simply The Latest Of James Cameron’s Powerful Leading Ladies » MTV Movies Blog 2009

'For works in the spirit of David Gemmell' is a bit lacking in substance, mainly as people will argue long and hard over what Gemmell's key defining points actually were aside from 'badassery', as mentioned by one announcer at the awards.

Archive 2009-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

'For works in the spirit of David Gemmell' is a bit lacking in substance, mainly as people will argue long and hard over what Gemmell's key defining points actually were aside from 'badassery', as mentioned by one announcer at the awards.

After-thoughts on the Gemmell Awards Adam Whitehead 2009

And since we're griping, I'm turned off by the whole emphasis on tough guy "badassery" in this trailer.

Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

I stand by the latter (even if "badassery" is not really a word, per se), but Foss is right-Pure Country Gold has been musically typecast as troublemakers, a drink-you-under-the-table duo with little moral fortitude.

Portland Mercury 2009

Unfortunately, like many other characters with this kind of badassery, Spike doesn't survive, taking Vicious with him and delivering the ever iconic

Anime Nano! 2009

Unfortunately, like many other characters with this kind of badassery, Spike doesn't survive, taking Vicious with him and delivering the ever iconic

Anime Nano! 2009

The Bear Jew's entrance in "Inglourious Basterds" is pure badassery.

Eli Roth Talks Quentin Tarantino, Corned Beef And The Bear Jew In ‘Inglourious Basterds’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009

… “The humor is both absurdly raunchy and gleefully juvenile: gay jokes and poop jokes predominate;” … “Transparently aimed at the middle school-aged boy in all of us, particularly those of us who were middle-school-aged during the late 80s-early 90s, when cineplexes were full of mullet-rocking American heroes who broke all the rules in order to save the day, Macgruber has similarities to Cop Out in its nostalgia for late-Reagan-era notions of badassery”

Early Buzz: MacGruber Premieres at SXSW | /Film 2010

They are basically getting fumed about second-hand antecdotal evidence, rather than sitting down with a volume of badassery and delving into the world of a drug-addicted theatrical king of the world.

The Real Sherlock Holmes | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009