Mitchell: This is the part where your confidence crumbles, your molecules disassemble.

Mr. Heller's confidence crumbled when the cycle came roaring back with the recession that started in 1969.

The confidence of crisis prevention crumbled as millions of people lost their life savings due to banks closing.

But her confidence and sunny optimism waver, then crumble in parting.

Along with injury worries, the Nets' confidence that had seemed so unbreakable, crumbled Wednesday.

Those of us who are sexually assertive still find that our confidence crumbles when we are ridiculed in public spaces.

As it had done all her life, confidence crumbled inside Rana.

Finally running out of appeals that would be heard by the Federal courts, his confidence apparently crumbled.

However, I also feel that confidence in the ability of politicians to implement these types of commitments has crumbled.

But when widespread flooding forced the city into crisis, Monday's confidence crumbled, exposing serious weaknesses in the machinery of emergency services.