Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.
There was, also, a curious quality of stubborn determination which was not willful but rather an expression of complete self-confidence.
It spoke of complete self-confidence; Jason Whitehurst didn't have to care what anyone else thought.
He rubbed his large hands together, banged Gabrielle with easy familiarity on the shoulder, and gave a chuckle of complete self-confidence.
But maybe that's the definition of true, authentic upper-middle-class status, the ability to be cold and filthy with complete self-confidence.
And that complete self-confidence was in itself a daunting thing to face.
He had an air of complete self-confidence.
When that day came, he declared with complete self-confidence, he meant to be a member of it - and it would not be many years in coming.
In both Ike and Grant, this quality sprang from a complete self-confidence that underlay an apparent modesty.
It was her attitude, her complete self-confidence.