He is a self-confident fellow, although his sense of humour protects him from arrogance.
They've managed to turn a self-confident and appealing candidate into one who is afraid of veering off her talking points.
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And Tyrion, you may not be singing such a self-confident tune with Renly to the left of you and Stannis to the right.
One aspect that is inherent in a self-confident individual is composure.
His is a brisk, self-confident form of poshness: think of a young officer in one of the smarter regiments, getting on with the job in some global hotspot.
Still, perhaps her performance is too strong, and there might be an argument for a less self-confident actress in the role.
She immediately cuts a more self-confident figure than Collins.
It therefore takes a skilful and self-confident operator to pull it off.
Perry comes at voters with a confident but empathetic self-presentation and relates one-on-one better than any current candidate.
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Sobczak says in order to be a successful salesperson, one must be motivated and self-disciplined, confident and positive, a great interviewer and performer, and have an immense desire to learn.
We all benefit from a healthy, democratic, self-confident Germany.
How can a man who had such a difficult background be so preternaturally self-confident?
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With a stronger sense of self-assurance and more confident acknowledgement of the original source, this film earns the respect of old-school Trek fans in a way that the previous film did not.
Verona in particular was a full-employment town, as confident and self-satisfied as you could imagine.
It remains to be seen whether, having achieved the status they coveted, these new universities will now feel self-confident enough to offer their students a distinctive teaching-based education, or whether they will aspire to become fully fledged research universities like their older rivals.
He is self-confident, which is not unusual in a senior politician.
Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485-1540) is one of the most fascinating characters in contemporary fiction brutal, worldly, reticent, practical, unsentimental but not without tenderness of a kind, Biblically literate but theologically uncommitted, freakishly self-confident but perilously low on friends.
Fred Thompson, making his first appearance in one of these multicandidate contests, smiled his self-confident smile and observed that he was actually a member of a union.
What is most striking is the self-confident approach to globalisation taken by Airbus, a company that over the years has suffered more than its share of petty squabbles, especially between its French and German tribes.
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Ms. Brown, who died Monday at a Manhattan hospital at age 90, imagined the "Cosmo Girl" self-confident, sexy and career-oriented (and perhaps indifferent to children, as Ms. Brown professed to be).
Blissfully self-confident, the pension operators project that gains from private equity plus a nice showing on the less exotic securities that make up the bulk of their funds will deliver a blended return between 8% and 9%.
More importantly, Grove's confident in OnLive's continued stability as a company -- even after nearly self-destructing.
McIlroy, looking confident, held a four-stroke lead heading into Sunday's final round but self-destructed on the back nine.
In a television debate on May 18th, the boyish-looking Mr McGuinty appeared hesitant beside the self-confident and smiling figure of Mr Harris.
Partly it is a question of style: most congressmen tolerate, rather than warm to, Mr Zoellick's self-confident intellectualism and highfalutin ideas.
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They need to be confident and comfortable in self-analysis that they can identify their own weaknesses so they can assemble a team or partners that complement them.
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