Audiences seemed to be drawn to his conspicuously cocksure authoritarian persona.
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And it's this cocksure attitude we share that makes me afraid.
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The shift has left its once cocksure traders at times reeling.
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He was "cocksure" and "irritable," and he dealt sarcastically with those who
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Don't be so cocksure that your side is telling the truth, is all.
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And he is nothing if not cocksure in his ability to see the future.
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But for Mr. Musk — an emotional, volatile and cocksure billionaire — the deal was unacceptable.
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Both Rogen's cocksure screenwriter and Ferrell's honkingly crass studio executive are one-note caricatures.
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White House officials expect Trump to be even more outrageous and cocksure in coming months.
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He soon transformed into the Thin White Duke, a cocksure but coked-out mad aristrocrat.
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Doncic looks like the most cocksure 20-year-old European import this league has seen.
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"One time a loser, always a loser," he said, cursing furiously, the cocksure swagger gone.
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"One time a loser, always a loser," he said, cursing furiously, the cocksure swagger gone.
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Herewith, our ranking of the *Post'*s cover-language oeuvre, from overly cocksure to delightfully dorky:
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What cocksure man in too-tight pants will be stunned that he doesn't receive a rose?
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I was cocksure, as in sure the ring went on the cock, and that's about it.
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He just says he'll win with a calm, cocksure defiance that probably made Jones even madder.
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He looked cocksure and had that hint of regal arrogance that goes with occupying the Élysée Palace.
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Cocksure and extreme, Trump is the only candidate we tested who aligns so closely with a sport.
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Brace yourself: White House officials expect Trump to be even more outrageous and cocksure in coming months.
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I really was so naïve, and I think with the Unicorns we were so naïve and cocksure.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Any cocksure child knows that owning up to mistakes is part of growing up.
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Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is cocksure and cold, and the real Zuckerberg found the depiction hurtful.
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As a filmmaker, Oliver Stone is drawn to a familiar protagonist: cocksure, naïve, principled, disdainful of authority.
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Much like Holbrooke himself, who died in 2010 at 69, Packer's book is charming, brilliant, cocksure and exasperating.
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Having learned from the trauma of getting things wrong in the past makes them cocksure about the future.
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Rabbett, who has a cocksure manner, displays powers of recognition that are exceptional even by the unit's standards.
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They'd spend days in school, before discovering the brawny, cocksure and politically brazen sound they'd later come to trial.
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Most of us don't understand as much as we think, and yet we're all cocksure about a range of issues.
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Also bad plan but acts cocksure about it in this way that makes us feel like he deserves a punch.
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And though the music on ye is cocksure and often dazzling, the album leaves much of West's recent hectoring unresolved.
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A cocksure quarterback nicknamed Johnny Football, he won the Heisman Trophy as a freshman at Texas A&M in 2012.
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Lister was a perfect television heroine: brash, cocksure, rebellious, dressed in dandy black dresses that looked almost like men's suits.
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It was guarded by marines in modern battle dress, but its pilots were cocksure aces straight out of Top Gun.
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But he admits that it was largely a facade, that the cocksure confidence he projected on the mound was fragile.
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He plays the role of a cocksure "gets away with anything" guy and kicks all boundaries while fighting the competition.
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With a smirk and plenty of cocksure drives to the basket, Simmons quieted the critics who questioned his shooting ability.
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He demonstrates admirable patience by not slapping Gendry upside the head for being so cocksure upon his return to the action.
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Like Point Break, Speed casts Reeves as a cocksure young cop, but this time there's no ironic layer to the swagger.
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A cocksure Groupon even turned down a $6-billion buyout from Google as it eyed an initial public offering in 2010.
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Eli is the lumbering half of the duo, less cocksure and more tempted by the thought of a well-earned retirement.
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While perhaps some of the flag officers on the short list don't have the same type of bullheaded and cocksure personality Gen.
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London is a cocksure, roiling city and has always opted for worldly bruisers (of which Mr Khan is undoubtedly one) as mayor.
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Haden Church, on the other hand, plays Robert as a violent cartoon, a cocksure contractor whose fragile masculinity explodes into petulant retaliation.
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Such consistency in content suggests that Tarantino has an irresistible thing for punishing his black male characters lest they get too cocksure.
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Over hours of conversation, I found him to be articulate, irreverent and passionate — and also blunt, cocksure, hyperbolic and prone to melodrama.
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Mr. Ohlmeyer, a cocksure, creative personality, was well known to NBC when it hired him in 21977 to resurrect its entertainment division.
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Less cocksure and more understanding of its real place in the world, it may soon rethink its hostility to the European Union.
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Mr. Redstone, viewed by Hollywood as cocksure and uncouth, wanted to acquire Paramount to prove that he'd made it — that he belonged.
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In a recent interview with me, our famously cocksure President admitted that not all of his best people had risen to the occasion.
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Miller began to use his scratchy, cocksure voice differently, his raps growing more singsong, as a way of deciphering his ever-changing moods.
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When he says he's really good at music, he's not being cocksure — he just knows he has skills and takes music very seriously.
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Krause, on the other hand, charged right in like the bull that he was, cocksure in his own view of things, sometimes tragically so.
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He was better than anyone else at expressing the spirit of the age—cocksure, expansive, optimistic, but, beneath the glittering surface, shot through with doubts.
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But upon reflection, it would have been far scarier if a cocksure Mr. Trump, consulting no one but himself, had been there calling the shots.
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A former talk show host who seemed to be working toward a CNBC show, he was hired for his cocksure grace in front of the camera.
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The Tyrion of "The Queen's Justice" is way too cocksure and unable to see the speeding train with his sister's name on it headed right for him.
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I flipped my bat like a young José Bautista, glared mockingly into the pitcher's 12-year-old eyes, and began my slow, cocksure trot around the bases.
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Naturally shy or reticent, Fishman does not carry himself with the cocksure gait of a former athlete, nor is he compelled to fill lulls in a conversation.
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There were worried grumbles through the rumor mill that Alden Ehrenreich (who plays young Han) was struggling to nail the part of the cocksure pilot during production.
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For every cocksure cam boy living in a penthouse or making big bucks off literally soiled goods, there are thousands more plugging away for relatively small sums.
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And they're both overshadowed by their plucky young protégés, who start out less cocksure and brash, so they suffer smaller falls whenever they hit a crisis of confidence.
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In his cocksure swagger, taunting demeanour and deliberate, cultivated gobshite persona, he was never going to be universally beloved in Britain, even if his talents were widely admired.
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But Wade was more special than anyone imagined during his time at Marquette, a world-class gymnast in basketball footwear, with the uncommon calm of a cocksure gunslinger.
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Here, then, is the new mood in Brussels: confident but not cocksure, impatient for change after years of uncomfortable stasis, but jittery that it could all yet be unwound.
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Whoever it was, and whatever it was about them––Han Solo's cocksure swagger, Kelly Kapowski's posi vibes––they take up residence in your mind and never completely move out.
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What's great about Han is that he's cool and cocksure and a dispenser of great one-liners, he can fly his ship, and his best friend is a Wookiee.
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The cocksure spitter on "Go Crazy" and "Talk To 'Em" made no secret of his time in the streets during the years before rap became both passion and vocation.
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Both actors are quite watchable, and presumably as the series goes along it will close the gap between Mr. Flynn's cocksure, somewhat impudent Einstein and Mr. Rush's scholarly one.
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Han Solo as viewers met him was already a wonderfully cocksure concotion, equal parts aloof and goofy, a guy defined by both his losing streaks and his last-minute loyalties.
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We are supposed to cringe when Chuck and Axe collide and speak to each other like cocksure generals preparing for battle; their swagger and hyperbole are meant to be comical.
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The joke was always on the cocksure certainty of the men who would set fire to something that was working perfectly well and insist it was better for having burned.
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And his cocksure public image masked disarray, now evident in a trail of civil disputes, bankruptcy filings and alleged financial crimes going back several years, according to court papers and interviews.
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He had problems with some: with cocksure authorities; with self-promoters (a brief stint in Manhattan trying to break into publishing was a disaster); and with uptight members of the Concord bourgeoisie.
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Siri and Alexa may get more attention these days, but when it comes to big-data computing, Watson was the first to offer up its name, and it has remained a cocksure mascot.
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For starters, she told the students who will be the first in their families to go to college not to be intimidated by any of the more cocksure classmates they're likely to encounter.
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Anyone who has watched the Cavs even in passing can guess at the style of those buckets: whirling drives culminating in layups spun in from impossible angles, stepback crossover pull-ups, cocksure threes.
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The world is a far sadder, far more tragic place, in part because the Naderites helped to tip the balance to a man who, like Trump, is cocksure of only one thing — his ignorance.
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"Exhibitionism", a new retrospective of the band's history that opened at the Saatchi Gallery, just off the Kings Road, on April 5th, charts the band's journey from cocksure rebels to commercial titans with hagiographic cheer.
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But no N.F.L. game has been played there since the 1994 season, after which the Raiders' cocksure owner, Al Davis, took them back to Oakland and the outmoded stadium there, now known as O.co Coliseum.
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The movie lights up whenever it shows archival footage of its antagonists: Jacobs is sensible, warm and witty; Moses is cocksure, occasionally truculent, openly contemptuous of the people his big ideas are likely to displace.
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Keeping with that tradition, the cocksure Willie calmly slinks into the club, acts much bigger than his schemes deserve — one involves stealing dogs, then returning them for the reward — and lords it over Benny and Iffy.
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His lifelong project, in many ways, is an attempt to reconcile those two people: the penniless, bumbling foreigner who speaks atrocious English, and the cocksure Sarajevan who was once intelligent and cool and desirable—who was somebody.
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The Red Raiders leaned on their defense, a deep reservoir of resolve and the cocksure shooting of guard Matt Mooney to hold off Michigan State, 61-51, and advance to the N.C.A.A. championship game on Monday night.
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As the hedge fund titan Bobby Axelrod, Mr. Lewis might spend most of his on-screen time spitting out cocksure zingers, but he's that rare TV actor with the self-possession to make even overdramatic lines sound organic.
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Miky Woodz - No Hay Limite A formidable entry into the archetypal come-up rap canon, the red-bearded phenom reflects on past, present, and future with cocksure swagger meant to keep his enemies from all timelines at bay.
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Ms. Stevenson hasn't released an album since "Cocksure," in 2015, but that LP had enough high-wattage power-pop hooks to last — see "Torch Song" and "Jellyfish," both of which sound as electric as ever three years later.
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Viewers who are cocksure of their interest in anatomy may be intrigued by Palsson's Space Needle-like tower (or is it a phallus?) rising into a sky framed by geometric forms — or is it a wide-open skirt?
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Besides sending the cocksure and (admittedly) chauvinistic Riggs into a depression, the match, which some dismissed as a publicity stunt, would go on to be remembered as a symbolic achievement for women in a decade of tremendous social progress.
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And I hope people learn from the outrageous excesses that created such a husk of a human being, who one day lost his selfhood to a trephine drill, a cocksure surgeon and a society that didn't know any better.
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That would be Bowie's boundary-moving fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which found him taking on the titular character as an alter ego: a cocksure, androgynous messenger between Earth and extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Perhaps no person has been as vocal of a supporter as Rosenstock, who produced Stevenson's 2015 album, Cocksure, and gave her a huge shoutout on stage at 2017's Pitchfork Music Festival by scrawling LISTEN TO LAURA STEVENSON on his guitar.
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The speech to pastors was not the only instance in which Mr. Trump sounded less than cocksure: In an interview with CNBC, he acknowledged the possibility that he could lose, but insisted that he would stick with his unorthodox campaign style.
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The cocksure patriarch who thinks he can manipulate his way to a free fortress is the same one who, annoyed by the Rhinemaidens lamenting their lost gold, barks at Loge to silence them as the opera comes to a close.
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The contrasts between what Mr. Prochnau witnessed and the cocksure official accounts of American gains against the Communists inspired "Once Upon a Distant War: Young War Correspondents and the Early Vietnam Battles," published by Times Books/Random House in 1995.
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To commemorate Napoleon's victory over Austria at the Battle of Marengo, David painted him charging up a mountain on a piebald steed, right arm pointing skyward, trademark bicorne on his head, cool and cocksure as his horse bucks its front heels.
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"Dermatillomania" may be the album's most straightforward track, one that could have fit in with the power-pop sugar rush that was Cocksure, but even then, it darts in various directions because it was not meant to be played with a band.
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As he rocketed to fame in 2018 and toyed with declaring a presidential run, Mr. Avenatti maintained a cocksure public image that masked disarray that became evident in a trail of civil disputes, bankruptcy filings and alleged financial crimes going back several years.
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Damian Lewis struts his stuff as a cocksure hedge fund titan, and Paul Giamatti is his nemesis, a United States attorney crusading against Wall Street corruption, in this new series, whose creators include Andrew Ross Sorkin, the editor of DealBook for The New York Times.
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One of the most famous works of European painting has come to New York for the first time: "Bonaparte Crossing the Alps," a masterpiece of propaganda by David, in which the Corsican consul sits calm and cocksure as his horse bucks its front heels.
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If Donald Trump owes his fame to saying, "You're fired!" to a crew of fake businesspeople, then Gaetz is perfectly positioned to assume the role of cocksure reality TV contestant: confident in his own inevitable status as a finalist on the biggest soundstage of all.
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If I hadn't been so cocksure about what I thought was afflicting him, even using the appropriate medical lingo, which likely swayed the opinions of the nurses and doctors who saw him in the emergency room, could we have avoided much of the trauma of that night?
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One of the most famous works of European painting has come to New York for the first time: "Bonaparte Crossing the Alps," a masterpiece of propaganda by Jacques-Louis David, in which the Corsican consul sits calm and cocksure as his horse bucks his front heels.
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The usually infallible Andres Iniesta was caught out in a huge misunderstanding with captain Sergio Ramos which gave Khalid Boutaib a free run toward goal, and the usually cocksure Ramos was left looking frail again when Morocco substitute Youssef En-Nesyri outmuscled him to head in their second goal.
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And yet, through my time growing up there and going to college there, she took a devilish pride in enthusiastically supporting and voting for the four-term Democratic governor, Edwin Edwards, a cocksure, gambling womanizer who would end up in federal prison in 2002 for bribery and extortion.
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Headed by Walter D'Rozario, the former chef de cuisine of Junoon, who takes a "grandmotherly" approach to cooking, Spice Symphony celebrates the cultural mix-and-match spirit with the confidence of a cocksure matriarch who dares to inspire the palates of her children rather than placating their proclivities.
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" As Bacharach explains, "If Donald Trump owes his fame to saying, 'You're fired!' to a crew of fake businesspeople, then Gaetz is perfectly positioned to assume the role of cocksure reality TV contestant: confident in his own inevitable status as a finalist on the biggest soundstage of all.
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It's a grand feeling though to have been part of these un-pedigreed, angry, whip-smart outlets full of journalists, too often men but also many brilliant women, who were cocksure about their obsessions—and to have been some small part of some 17-year-old's semi-golden age.
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There were drop-shot winners that hit the clay and spun backward like wedge shots in golf; precision passing shots under duress; and, in the case of Nadal, cocksure crosscourt two-handed backhands that the 37-year-old Federer could only watch wistfully from afar as they bounced out of reach.
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But the weight of the years hardly seems to be much of a burden on Williams's tennis, and after her latest bravura performance — a 237-21994, 237-2 victory over Johanna Konta on Thursday full of clutch serves and cocksure ground strokes — she is back in her first Wimbledon singles final since 2009.
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Which is to say, cocksure and uncertain, devious and naïve, ebullient and melancholy, pompous and frivolous, bored, hard-working, shiftless, wide-eyed and tired of it all, full of dreams and schemes, and, without quite realizing it, a little absurd, for they are mostly common men distinguished largely by possession of uncommon jobs.
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Brad Pitt stars as the cocksure general who commands the coalition forces in Afghanistan in 2009, a character based on Stanley McChrystal, and Hall co-stars as General Greg Pulver, a character based on McChrystal's pal Michael Flynn, lately famous as the ex-national-security adviser whose loyalties may have extended to Russia and Turkey.
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This celebration of Mr. Trump in New Delhi in May, and others like it in India this year, are the work of a small, devoted and increasingly visible faction of Hindu nationalists in India and the United States who see Mr. Trump as the embodiment of the cocksure, politically incorrect, strongman brand of politics they admire.
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The Derby is the only race in America with 20 entries (most races have only seven or eight competitors), and the X-factor of such a large number of colts competing at the unusual distance of a mile and a quarter for the first (and often only) time in their young lives can tax the confidence of even the most cocksure handicapper.
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He moves easily between the young Gregory, rattling off his jokes with the cocksure poise of a man who has learned to read an audience like a book (when a slurring heckler starts in on him, he snaps, "I'd rather be your slave than your liver") and the later Gregory, whom he portrays with just a slight stoop and a small whisper of age in his voice.
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WHERE TO START: The surprisingly bouncy breakup jam "Sometimes" A velvet goldmine full of cocksure, cockeyed glam-pop, Dolls of Highland finds 27-year-old Craft with one foot in the swamp and the other dangling over a cabaret stage: The Southern-boogie banger "Eye of a Hurricane" would have given Honky Chateau-era Elton John severe pianists' envy, while "Lady of the Ark" is a sneakily gospel-tinged ode to the sinners.
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WHERE TO START: The piano- and pulse-pounding "Berlin" A velvet goldmine full of cocksure, cockeyed glam-pop, Dolls of Highland finds 27-year-old Craft with one foot in the swamp and the other dangling over a cabaret stage: The Southern-boogie banger "Eye of a Hurricane" would have given Honky Chateau-era Elton John severe pianists' envy, while "Lady of the Ark" is a sneakily gospel-tinged ode to the sinners.
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It was not so much a rejection of the Trump agenda as it was a rejection of the whole Trumpian mode of politics, which since our president's election has consisted of a trebling down on the most unattractive features of his campaign style, a fervent commitment to "triggering the libs" shorn of any populist substance, and a cocksure assumption that any Republicans who aren't in it for the liberal-triggering care enough about judges and abortion or their tax cuts or the soaring stock market to swallow hard and go along.
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And you'll also kind of love LaBeouf, who plays his rattail-sporting hustler Jake with enough jittery, cocksure ferocity to remind you that, in the years before he became one of Bay-Bay's kids, the 30-year-old was pegged as one of the next great actors of his generation ... until he became more famous for his arrests and his art projects (though, truth be told, some of said projects were actually interesting comments on his own celebrity, and he was also spending a lot of his time working with directors like Lars von Trier and Robert Redford).
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