cocksureness

This thing was the remains of his old-time cocksureness and independence.

Some of the old cocksureness came back.

He irritated the older men by his assertive manner, and his cocksureness.

"The cocksureness I had back then I just don't have any more."

I demanded, with the cocksureness of youth.

It's merely your own cocksureness that led you to think we couldn't or wouldn't strike back."

Whether it was cocksureness or a rookie mistake, Chris Childs was not saying.

His cocksureness irritated them.

A dimwitted cocksureness seems to have been the style of executives blindsided by the advent of small foreign cars.

For the better part of six games, their cocksureness was superseded by their scintillating play at both ends of the court.

Vance's nonchalant cocksureness had at last overthrown Markham's equanimity.

Heath spoke with contemptuous cocksureness.

The lacunae in Belloc's scientific knowledge are equaled only by the heights of his cocksureness.

Within a minute or so he modified his cocksureness --'The good Lord gives us all certain gifts'- but not much.

The daring pledge underscored E.D.S.'s cocksureness about its ability to squeeze computing costs.

Je'howith asked, and Constance did not miss the fact that a bit of the cocksureness seemed to dissipate from King Danube's serene face.

Bush has governed as he promised to - with the kind of phony-demotic cocksureness that many people like in pickup-truck commercials and think of themselves as embodying.

On the contrary, Spencer appears to fade under so much kindly attention, reviving only when Pople cites him directly, with all his proverbial cocksureness on display.

Lenny Mandel as Dr. Reiter resourcefully traverses a perilous, enlightening distance from cocksureness to intense doubt.

From the very earliest days of his career, Motley showed the kind of passion, cocksureness and hallucinatory sense of possibility that have long made trial lawyers a metabolically distinctive species.

By the time he had collected, his pockets were full and his cocksureness had increased to such an unbearable crowing that Jeff Hall's eyes were venomous as a snake's.

The frontman for one of the most revered British bands of the 1980s and '90s, Ian Brown symbolized the arrogant cocksureness of his mouthpiece, the Stone Roses.

The elbows of Charles Barkley and Karl Malone, the mischief of Kevin Johnson and John Stockton and the cocksureness of Reggie Miller.

THOUGH HIS DIPLOMATIC technique is at times mystifying, his cocksureness disconcerting, Bandar has become an extraordinary figure on the cusp of two cultures.

He admired so many qualities in Fisher: the shrewdness about people, the grasp of practical problems, the ability to work very long hours, the patience under abuse from the press, the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance.