self-assured

Countess Bezukhova turned smiling to the newcomer, and Natasha, following the direction of that look, saw an exceptionally handsome adjutant approaching their box with a self-assured yet courteous bearing.

Her whole face expressed a contemptuous and self-assured cynicism.

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone connected her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could, with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject by a question which had been long uppermost in her thoughts; it was, "Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr.

Otter Philip went to buy drawing materials; and next morning at the stroke of nine, trying to seem self-assured, he presented himself at the school.

A self-assured young business school graduate gets the opportunity to spend a weekend with one of the wealthiest and most successful businessmen in the world.

Chloe Anne--Force of Nature is the endearing true-life story of the self-assured, well-fed, and thoroughly beloved pet cat Chloe Anne, told directly from Chloe's point of view.

The cast was completed by Marie-Ange Todorovitch as a moving Cornelia, Christophe Dumauxas as a self-assured Tolomeo, Stephanie d'Oustrac as a persuasive Sesto and Marc Olivier Oetterli as an imposing Achilla.

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He will be determined and self-assured; approachable and trustworthy; and eternally hopeful and optimistic with a smart sense of humor and warmth about him.

In the past, auditions had made me aware of everything that was around me, like the other dancers who always seemed so self-assured, so good at what they did, and were so utterly beautiful.

Told in a cocky, self-assured voice that tends to ramble in humorous riffs, the story is both fun and intriguing.