She envied the children their resilience and used that as a goad to maintain a confident and solid facade.

Walker turned to look at her and saw her face, but he also smelled the subtle hint of nervous tension under her confident façade.

Ann Rule, who had known Bundy before the murders when they worked together on a suicide crisis hotline, felt that Harmon's portrayal missed the insecurities that lurked under Bundy's confident facade.

He stared boldly at Jamie as he spoke, but there was a diffidence under the confident facade.

Shahkhia fully understood that success, at this point, rested solely on his maintaining a confident facade to all involved in the unfolding drama.

The building is a three-story limestone classic with a confident facade and an aura of rock-steadiness.

Please, Uncle Byrtrym, she thought pleadingly behind the confident façade of her calm eyes and firm mouth.

"You are good," he admitted, and though he tried to keep his confident facade, Drizzt could tell by the quiver in his voice that the last hit had been serious.

Dixon compared Tilly and Maddie's relationship to chalk and cheese, saying that Tilly saw through Maddie's "confident façade".

"No one will harm you," she promised, burying her own fear under a briskly confident facade.