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"self-assurance" Definitions
  1. confidence in yourself and your abilities
"self-assurance" Synonyms
composure aplomb poise assurance confidence nerve positiveness assertiveness presence self-possession self-confidence self-esteem self-assuredness self-reliance self-trust belief in oneself courage fearlessness daring boldness control calmness patience coolness calm collectedness dignity fortitude repose self-command self-control self-discipline self-mastery self-restraint serenity equanimity imperturbability panache dash flair flamboyance style verve flourish spirit brio swagger elan stylishness zest animation élan enthusiasm flamboyant confidence gusto liveliness perkiness bumptiousness cockiness cocksureness overconfidence self-importance arrogance conceit egotism conceitedness presumptuousness brashness vanity bigheadedness pomposity pride pompousness haughtiness self-respect self-regard morale ego pridefulness amour-propre self-worth amour propre faith in oneself pride in oneself abilities pride in oneself assuredness conviction certitude effrontery cheek face presumption audacity brass gall insolence chutzpah temerity brazenness cheekiness disrespect front neck forwardness self-satisfaction contentment fulfillment(US) fulfilment(UK) gratification accomplishment achievement glow satisfaction self-approbation self-approval sense of achievement self-pleasure glow of achievement flush of success pleasure enjoyment reward cheerfulness aura charisma magnetism authority individuality personality attraction force of personality strength of personality charm attractiveness allure appeal enchantment glamour(UK) glamor(US) independence resourcefulness ability aptitude self-support self-dependence self-subsistence self-sustenance self-containment self-standing self-sufficiency autonomy autarky smugness swellheadedness vaingloriousness vainglory vainness swelled head bighead complacence complacency self-conceit More

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SUNDAY PUZZLE — Can a puzzle gleam with burnished self-assurance?
He is not as organized, they say with striking self-assurance.
It requires outsize stamina and self-assurance to save a nation.
And he modeled a self assurance that we could all benefit from.
For Damon, a new chapter of self-assurance might be in store.
Rob Collins, 42, is 22014 feet 2100 inches of unyielding self-assurance.
I was impressed by the confidence and self-assurance that he showed.
It's a unique type of self-assurance that goes far beyond the physical.
It's uncomfortable footage, but Zappa still retains that same glimmer of self-assurance.
Challenging questions tossed at them were met with self-assurance and self-control.
This is not only because excessive self-assurance is an off-putting trait.
He has piercing, honest eyes, and speaks with a humane, reasoned self-assurance.
They had a quiet self-assurance that made for a good background check.
He radiates self-assurance, which may be one reason he took the job.
While Lanza's self-assurance as a singer has grown, production remains her primary focus.
Those include emotional stability, dominance, enthusiasm, conscientiousness, social boldness, self-assurance, intuitiveness and charisma.
The Myth of Male Power "is not a female self-assurance book," he writes.
Like a Madonna, she projects both humility and self-assurance—modesty predicated on confidence.
Sean Illing How do you distinguish confidence or a healthy self-assurance from egotism?
An untimely referendum on constitutional reform and a self-assurance that bordered on arrogance.
It has the relaxed self-assurance and command of details that come with age.
It's a self-assurance that radiates from deep within and can be felt for miles.
China's self-assurance has been bolstered by what it sees as recent foreign-policy successes.
That self-assurance speaks to a larger challenge for Trump and Moon, said Catherine Dill.
This year's shiny corporate tree matches our new xenophobic government's inexplicable self-assurance and bombast.
Handle everything, is what you meant, with confidence, with arrogant self-assurance, with swagger, even.
Doubts about his lack of governing experience were overcome by his buoyant strength and self-assurance.
But what Wolitzer's heroine lacks in breezy self-assurance she makes up for in moral mettle.
But Mr. Martin's online self-assurance, people who know him say, masked a timid, introverted personality.
They spoke of everything from anxiety to self-assurance to their tendency to judge other people.
McLEAN, Va. — The campaign manager spoke about her candidate's race with a veteran's prepossessing self-assurance.
I feel an enduring strength and self-assurance that has dug its roots deep within me.
At thirty, she was plainspoken and direct, with a quiet self-assurance that seemed hard-won.
A well-earned sense of self-assurance is another reason our retention rates are so high.
People can hate on me all day but my self assurance is not reliant on society's acceptance.
By challenging themselves physically (and skinning knees), kids gain self-assurance and a willingness to take risks.
I never knew that my mother had such a wealth of self-assurance and belief within her.
For a large organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance.
Behind her self-assurance, however, the 280-year-old worries about being able to pay her mortgage.
But in the Jingle Ball universe, women are the ones allotted emotional complexity, self-assurance and retaliation.
They admired in each other a brusque self-assurance and artless candor that others often perceived as arrogant.
Critics describe Grayson as a man of towering ego and arrogance, which he dismisses as justified self-assurance.
He has all of Obama's self-assurance with none of his intellectual fortitude, inspirational biography, or oratory power.
Clinton had finally begun to radiate self-assurance — even ebullience — as she made her closing arguments to voters.
Her one arm in the air, she suggests an attitude of self-assurance, of cool-minded confidence. Flamenco!
He's a cocky, friendly guy who oozes self-assurance and is known around his precinct as Super Cop.
The food at both places shows great skill and self-assurance with very little preening and self-consciousness.
They have a pathway to success, like almost every team, but bold self-assurance belongs only to the few.
"There are good days and bad days, but I've found [self-assurance] really does come with age," she explained.
"There are good days and bad days, but I've found [self-assurance] really does come with age," she explains.
What distinguishes Reagan from the rest of the New Girl characters is not her hotness, it's her self-assurance.
Mendes's trust in his instincts and his preternatural self-assurance still allow him to cheerfully seek out new challenges.
But those who recall the tall, dark pianist during his residency say he radiated self-assurance beyond his years.
When Ana stands up to her criticism, it becomes a body positive moment and a declaration of self-assurance.
It's no surprise that "AIM" retains those ambitions, juggling social consciousness and self-assurance as M.I.A. has from the start.
His fiancée, Idalia Sumpter, said he was genuine and had a self-assurance that made people feel comfortable around him.
If Mr. Mubarak was confident enough to tolerate independent groups operating outside state control, Mr. Sisi lacks such self-assurance.
Linney's skin seems nearly to shine, and tears roll down her cheeks, which she wipes with practical, smiling self-assurance.
Turn their crippling doubt into self-assurance and suddenly Austin Rivers hits seven threes or Crawford bags a game-winner.
A tenacious athlete with a voice like an electric guitar, she has the nonchalant self-assurance of someone used to winning.
Her grounded, calm self-assurance helps her continue perfecting her technique — and wins her the admiration of rivals and coaches alike.
Tha Carter II is Wayne's conquering work, the point at which his hard-won self-assurance tipped over into something bigger.
Even if I did, I don't think that at 22 I would have had the self-assurance to ask for them.
They recovered, storming through the summer, going 104-58 and winning the World Series with a self-assurance that still resonates.
His words were the usual ones, conveying sorrow at the thought of treading on anyone's sense of dignity or self-assurance.
In his book, he recalls a time when a young, self-employed barber named Karyn displayed this type of self-assurance.
And she won the tournament with such maturity and self-assurance that I said to myself, 'Here we have someone special.
The good news is that the reverse is also true: Adopting a "Superhero Pose," standing loud and proud, boosts self-assurance.
Drawn with thick lines and almost severe economy, they have a kind of elegance and self-assurance that brings Matisse to mind.
She's a singer-songwriter from Birmingham, England, with a voice that rings of clarion self-assurance but often articulates more complicated truths.
Gazing back at the viewer with a calm, forthright expression, she projects a self-assurance that girls often are blessed to own.
Ms. Pelosi has projected iron self-assurance about her political future and has dismissed complaints from Democrats about her unpopularity with voters.
The perfect pair, she says, would accentuate her hips and show off her figure — and give her a sense of self-assurance.
Sometimes the lads in my neighborhood would feign self-assurance with aggression, but it wasn't nearly as convincing as wearing a suit.
Thea Sharrock, his director on "Clarence Darrow," says he does, but that he must be approached with self-assurance matching his own.
And unlike in a speech three weeks ago at the height of the crisis, Mr. Macron spoke calmly Monday, with self-assurance.
I feel like it's a great responsibility to raise a good man, respectful, with integrity, honest, a great sense of self-assurance.
Ms. Cavaliero is doughty and likable, and Mr. Simm is excellent as always, a cheeky blend of congeniality and slightly annoying self-assurance.
But I've realized that if a guy is going to ghost you, he'll do so regardless of your looks or sparkling self-assurance.
For first-time marathoners especially, who may be lacking confidence to begin with, taper may result in a hit to your self-assurance.
As the real-life mobster Russell Bufalino in Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," he carries himself with a quiet self-assurance, a critic writes.
Recently I've lucked into a precisely shaped Côte-Rôtie from Domaine Jasmin and a Saumur from Romain Guiberteau whose self-assurance I envied.
It's a good setup for Aldana, whose self-assurance on the saxophone knows almost no limits; she rises to the challenge of volatility.
The prospect required a certain kind of self-assurance, possibly even narcissism—it called for someone who thrived in the center of controversy.
The lack of self-assurance about her physicality (in contrast to Lila's self-possession) is made visible because we actually see the girls.
Mr Trump suddenly had all the self-assurance of a weak swimmer who has just discovered that his water-wings have a fast puncture.
Such relative self-assurance was breezily backed up with reference to the "high quality and low risk nature" of the assets Deutsche is shedding.
It is an apt description, if it refers to how they erode the self-assurance of everyone on the course holding a golf club.
In her 14 years dancing the role, Teresa Reichlen has come to define it with cool glamour and an unflappable, almost teasing self-assurance.
But they did begin with a belief in the system generated by so much success and by Auriemma, who seldom lacks in self-assurance.
The pair is the go-to authority on Northern Soul, turning up in documentaries, and dance with determination and self-assurance, if not joy.
The Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actress began trending on Twitter causing several people to admire both her self-assurance and her fun-loving style.
And sensuality — a drape in the back of a dress say — but always with a twist, so there is self-assurance and there is modernity.
After the hearing began, Mr. Cohen responded calmly to questions from the judge, William H. Pauley III, often with a lawyer's precision and self-assurance.
There's a vulnerability to letting someone in, and Rayana Jay sounds like she's got the kind of self-assurance to let down her walls for love.
Hearing Obongjayar speak on these topics, both on record and off, he exudes a sense of bold self-assurance—one that comes from somewhere beyond ego.
And while Metz has hit a professional high thanks to her breakout gig on the NBC tearjerker, she's never lacked self-assurance in her personal life.
As for his bequeathing Bronnys to opponents, James seems to respect good basketball — and possesses the sort of outsize self-assurance required to make such declarations.
Tommy Barbarella, who played keyboards in the New Power Generation, Prince's backing band in the nineteen-nineties, described that self-assurance as essential to Prince's success.
But that self-assurance plummets to 52 percent for women when it comes to more complex investing, a 16 percent gap from men, the study found.
Lack of self-assurance is not a Mouratoglou trademark, although his back story as the son of a wealthy and demanding French father is certainly complex.
This new, questioning spirit is partly inspired by her friendship with Joey, played by the engaging Mr. Livingston with a chipper self-assurance that becomes shakier.
With six words, Ms. Pelosi, 77, demonstrated the self-assurance that has powered her as one of the most successful congressional leaders in the modern era.
They seem to know exactly what's going to happen in whatever market they're investing in and have this aura of self-assurance that is really annoying.
Mr. Eubanks boasts a tawny trumpet tone and an understated self-assurance as an improviser, but he's equally talented as a composer of memorable postbop melodies.
"I think nothing is more powerful in business and in life and overall, than confidence," Sullivan tells CNBC Make It. But it's not just about self-assurance.
Yet Trump's self-assurance deserts him completely when confronted with a female adversary, be it Rosie O'Donnell, Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina or, most recently, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
This will enable students to not only succeed academically, but also to grow the self-assurance they will need to achieve their goals and navigate life's challenges.
She had the self-assurance and charisma of a veteran politician, but talking to her felt like talking to a friend—a good one, who doesn't bullshit.
Meghan Markle has displayed self-assurance and poise during her first months as a royal — attributes those who know her say come from her mother, Doria Ragland.
And it takes a certain amount of self-assurance to allow yourself to be as unguarded and vulnerable as he appears over the course of the episode.
And Chrishon Lampley, the owner and founder of wine label Love Cork Screw, says her self-assurance is one reason her small wine brand is rapidly growing.
Isolating his real strength, and honing it under Hough, gave Jansen a kind of swagger, the self-assurance so essential to rising through the minor-league grind.
Now you can wear the exact same underwear set (and hopefully gain the exact same self-assurance) as Halle Berry when she launches her lingerie line next year.
With an exuberant emphasis on inclusivity, Marawa's crew is clearly spreading its unique brand of electric joy and self-assurance everywhere it goes, one hoop at a time.
Mr Stallworth himself is played with swaggering self-assurance and a sizeable Afro by John David Washington, whose father, Denzel Washington, starred in Mr Lee's "Malcolm X" biopic.
As much as Trump's self-assurance tells him these folks are unnecessary, he may want to consider the results of his actions and statements up to this point.
His air of breezy self-assurance in the private meetings he is conducting to tease his plans at times astounds the battle-scarred veterans of past such efforts.
For many years, the company operated with a self-assurance that's shaped many Silicon Valley companies over the last decade, a "trust us, we know what's best" attitude.
These days, designers making reference to hustlers and showgirls tend to equate the totems of the trade as expressions of self-assurance — a kinky variation on power dressing.
And when Mr. Fennimore went to Indiana University in Bloomington, the same cheerleaders who had looked down on him in high school suddenly found his self-assurance appealing.
"I didn't feel like I knew enough to be able to tell a story about him," she said, having arrived, finally, at the simple modesty of self-assurance.
She tackles the practical and spiritual project of becoming who she is with the mixture of self-assurance and insecurity common to adolescents of a certain sensitive kind.
Self-assurance grows easily on the device, and abacus students are almost 30 percentage points less likely to be nervous about an upcoming math test, according to one study.
With persistence and unusual self-assurance (and a good portion of his savings), the plain-spoken father of three has clawed his way to the verge of show business.
This self-assurance proved his greatest strength in the corpse-piling Overland campaign of 1864, as he pushed through criticism to ultimate victory (with more skill than many acknowledged).
Mr. Price, an orthopedic surgeon who represents many of the northern suburbs of Atlanta, speaks with the self-assurance of a doctor about to perform another joint-replacement procedure.
Congressional and party leaders and even some Trump aides are concerned that the president's boundless self-assurance about politics will cause him to ignore or undermine their midterm strategy.
A close-up of his rear, as the weight shifts from cheek to cheek, gives a decent sense of his charm onslaught: It's dopey, broad, ripe with self-assurance.
But the attack, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility, killed fans — including an 8-year-old girl — who had gathered to enjoy Ms. Grande's amorous self-assurance.
Both men were reared in the freewheeling, ruthless world of real estate, and both possess an unshakable self-assurance that is both their greatest attribute and their direst vulnerability.
They are props people use to perform themselves, and Fraser's eye for the subtle ways that they broadcast self-assurance or camouflage fragility helps give her work its bite.
Lace plants the first kiss on wall-faced Ben right after exiting the limo, and later asks for a "better kiss" with the self-assurance of someone who is drunk.
" The Duffer brothers sold Levy on the idea, in part, with their confidence in the show and in themselves, he said: "They had a self-assurance that was self-evident.
He seems to love the trappings of celebrity, without the composed self-assurance of Derek Jeter, who pulled off the rare trick of being accessible and distant all at once.
A mild disposition and a tendency toward upspeak disguise an abundance of self-assurance and drive, and seem to have the effect of putting her collaborators and subjects at ease.
Imagine, for a moment, that Washington took a cue from Germany's improbable self-assurance to calm down Wall Street by organizing a credible global response to the rapidly spreading epidemic.
During a graduation dinner in late October, Ms. Arrunategui, 20, put aside her natural shyness and stood to thank her fellow students and the instructors, exuding a newfound self-assurance.
Speaking with a degree of confidence and self-assurance remarkable for any teenager, Matt attacks the hoop of the mini basketball game with the same perseverance he applies to the court.
Yet, as Cowen and Currid-Halkett both find, for all the new elite's well-intentioned consumption and subsequent self-assurance, they have no intention whatsoever of letting go of their status.
This time, as I walked to the oratory final, I did so by myself, as I had finally acquired self-assurance needed to navigate the quiet hallways of the high school.
In what was perhaps a sign of his self-assurance, Kim took his first ever question from a foreign journalist -- a Washington Post reporter traveling with the White House press pool.
Collectively, their quiet continental self-assurance, their indifference to the passage of time, not to mention their crèmes brûlées and blood sausages and Fleuries, helped form the backdrop of the city.
She appears to feel that self-assurance, on the field and off, is a necessary vaccine against wallflower reticence, which could hurt her team — any team — in the most demanding moments.
The paper added that Simms and her attorney have agreed to that sum, which will be paid from the city's Self-Assurance Liability Fund, according to the city's agenda of Thursday's meeting.
It's "a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
It was she who, in 2008, seemed to mock the wide-eyed sunniness of his message in the Democratic primary campaign, the self-assurance that sheer force of personality would be enough.
But the fact that the assault happened to Ms. Swift, a wealthy and powerful young woman with the outsize self-assurance of a celebrity, is a reminder that harassment can strike anyone.
Those who go into the Oval Office with chips on their shoulders and deep wells of insecurity, like Nixon, W. and Donald Trump, are not going to suddenly glow with self-assurance.
With his squinting blue eyes and clean-shaven good looks, Mr. Heard often embodied the stereotype of the 1980s businessman, bringing a mixture of flustered charm and self-assurance to the roles.
The Premier League reveres those who win, of course, which is why England has always seemed willing to indulge Mourinho's brash self-assurance: He is a winner, and a relentless one at that.
Bluff and bowlegged, with a neat side part in his hair and a spine as straight as a schooner's mast, Brad Pitt strides into "War Machine" in a gust of masculine self-assurance.
In Krieger's collection, by contrast, it acquires a new poetics rooted in the recent rise of the Gurlesque movement, with its dramatic wordplay growing out of fury, sexual violence and paradoxical self-assurance.
Witton prides herself on being a very confident person, but her surgery to get her stoma bag certainly gave her self-esteem a knock, and she sometimes needs more self assurance from her partner.
Hwang had the confidence to cold email Silbermann, but Laackman McDowell says that not everyone who drops out has that kind of self-assurance in the interview process, and that can work against them.
The pinnacle of this fairy tale, aside from a scene that finds its two main characters drunk and literally dancing in the streets, is the self-assurance inherent to doing as its title asks.
She's fun to watch onscreen because her characters so often shrug off judgment, meeting setbacks with enviable self-assurance, or at least the ability to bounce back fast and hard when despair sets in.
All of this makes Trump essentially the perfect mark: a man who's easily flattered, short-tempered, quick to blame others, intellectually incurious, brimming with self-assurance, and unwilling to reflect on his own misjudgments.
Now Pesci is back in his first major on-screen role in nearly a decade: As the real-life mobster Russell Bufalino in Scorsese's "The Irishman," Pesci carries himself with a quiet self-assurance.
Feely said the old extra point could be counted on to bolster a kicker's self-assurance because it was converted with such regularity; some kickers would go nearly a decade without a failed attempt.
Ultimately, though, I didn't believe that a woman facing her husband's death, and with it the first wobbles of her own self-assurance, would have the time or inclination to soliloquize — however daunting her diction.
The Giants were a cocky group in training camp four months ago, and no one typified the self-assurance more than the team's robotic coach, Ben McAdoo, and his aloof boss, General Manager Jerry Reese.
When Harley and her crew, outnumbered and outgunned, take on legions of muscular bad guys, "Birds of Prey" finds a rhythm and a logic, a sense of gravity and self-assurance, that is otherwise lacking.
His sunken appearance and now almost completely gray hair shocked observers -- after he limped into court using a cane -- in contrast with the cocky self-assurance he once showed while lording over the Trump campaign.
Like the best of us, she grew up worshiping Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake and J-Lo, and it's a throwback pop diet that feeds into her sound, style, and outlook with sweet, unapologetic self assurance.
When your reach is global, it's perhaps difficult not to inadvertently stick your fingers in a few places they don't belong — especially if you happen to be rocking the blithe self-assurance of one Mark Zuckerberg.
Until a self-assurance of safety becomes a habit, and hopefully then some serenity the norm, I'll keep clutching my extra pillow, as I have for a few weeks now, sleeping more soundly through the night.
YENAGOA, Nigeria, June 14 (Reuters) - Striking self-assurance, a penchant for hyperbole and a working knowledge of Latin - these are the hallmarks of the latest group of militants to emerge in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta.
His self-assurance was part of his appeal to the Indians, who eagerly turned the 284-foot-20 Miller over to their manager, Terry Francona, to use him in tandem with Cody Allen and Bryan Shaw.
The Frontier Experience, adapted from the real journal entries of 1800s Kansas settler Delilah Fowler, stars Loden as Fowler, tracking her subtle evolution from uncertainty to self-assurance during her family's first winter on their homestead.
" Kim Jong-un was the first North Korean leader to step over the line to the South, and the occasion aired on live TV. Kim was described as "mannerly and courteous" and a man of "self-assurance.
Importantly for the Irish, a deep familiarity with UConn had developed over the years, creating self-assurance and stonewashing any nervousness from their annual matchup in the regular season and, with regularity, another meeting in the tournament.
But when it came to health care, McCaskill offered self-assurance on once hot-button concepts for Democrats as she addressed one Macon constituent who opposed single-payer health care, "I get that," she told the crowd.
And if voters were unsure of it before they cast their ballots, they are quickly discovering that Mr Khan, for all his self-assurance and star power, cannot fix things quite as quickly or easily as he promised.
Those who judge enjoy their amused ridicule, self-assurance on matters of taste and propriety, their performing of themselves as they know themselves to be ... The vulgar pretending to be someone else, their judges pretending to be themselves.
" Lady Gaga's bold style and confidence in her unique vision has inspired the same kind of self-assurance in her fans, who grew up hearing her sing, "Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set.
It's why the chorus feels so much like a triumphant outpouring, and Sivan's own confidence and magnetism in delivering it renders this performance important: his self-assurance makes for a genuinely breathtaking declaration of self, with no compromise.
This month the guest headliners are Jacqueline Novak, who doles out Jane Austen-like wit with the self-assurance of Jane Eyre, and Jaboukie Young-White, whose Twitter feed could be compiled into a best-selling book of aphorisms.
Appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" this week, she performed "Green Aphrodisiac" in verdant, glittery garments, easing into gear with her band in a simmering slow-funk mode, projecting radiant self-assurance along with a touch of bliss.
Character wasn't what earned you a seat but what the council would ultimately impart: the soft skills needed to advocate for something you wanted; the congeniality to cultivate allies in its pursuit; the self-assurance that attends even the hollowest power.
Although it's not intended as such, each release this year has felt a bit like a told-you-so; an explosion of energy and pop genius and self-assurance that she should have been getting dues for from the start.
But to Ms. Williams, taking her on represents an act of boldness: the choice to portray herself very differently than on "The Daily Show," in a part created specifically for her, as someone invested in her own search for self-assurance.
There is more than a little Monica Seles in her grip-it-and-rip-it baseline style, and there is more than a little Martina Hingis in her frankness, preternatural self-assurance and varied interests beyond tennis (Hingis rode horseback and skied).
His eyes were wide, shining with the bright glow of the true believer, and he moved through the space around him with the easy self-assurance of a man who knows for sure that he is, finally, in exactly the place he's meant to be.
If some of the stories she told of her adventures in show business described disabling stage fright and technical mishaps during performances, Ms. Benanti exhibited a fearless self-assurance as she blithely sailed through a program that ran from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Tori Amos.
That was my idea of what heaven would be, a land of outsize gestures, bright colors and mind-candy melody, all presided over by a figure of titanic self-assurance who was too grotesque to be beautiful and yet too beautiful to be grotesque.
She's a thoughtful, often moving songwriter and an even more remarkable interpreter of songs: On her latest album, "Grace" (2017), Wright drifts leisurely through a potpourri of songs related to the American South, exhibiting self-assurance and trust over a vast patchwork of material.
Unlike my few youthful romances, which had mostly depleted me, my female friendships were replenishing, and their salubrious effect expanded into other layers of my life: They made things I yearned for, like better work, fairer remuneration, increased self-assurance and even just fun, seem more attainable.
One woman shown in the top left looks at the camera with particular self-assurance: with one arm tucked under her right breast while her right hand holds close the ends of her manto, she obscures her face and creates an opening for her right eye.
Lopez, a pop-culture legend in her own right, doesn't so much peel away the layers of her stardom as repurpose them, channeling her exuberant physicality and her quick-witted self-assurance into a performance that is finely calibrated in its realism and brazen in its theatrics.
Admittedly the comparison between Stillson and Trump's character traits only goes so far — the former is a borderline-murderous sociopath from a working class background, whose rage seems largely driven by his relationship with his father — but they're undeniably alike in their ambition and self-assurance.
Now as the data science director at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, he&aposs accumulated enough self-assurance to feel like he doesn&apost need to be invited to a meeting to know that he&aposs important and his input is valuable, Zigmond said on the phone.
Even after Chuck sits down to simply observe the meeting, dipping his toes back into a normal life, Jimmy has trouble finding that self-assurance again — after all, it was Chuck who sabotaged Jimmy's chances of working at HHM, Chuck who dealt brutal blows to Jimmy's self-esteem.
Clinton's America applauded itself from the apex of boomer self-assurance; Bush's was gilded and blustering and fragile, both strident and utterly bereft of ideas; Obama's was cosmopolitan and smart from afar and naively inclined to assume facts not in evidence about the trajectories of various important things.
He also gets slapstick-y on the line "Uh, I'm a love machine / and I won't work for nobody but you," but then he flips the idea on its head by rattling off the response—"It's only me and her cause the Bugatti a coupe"—with unflappable self-assurance.
Although they may be charmed by the romance of Crazy Rich Asians, western cinema-goers are ultimately unlikely to be comfortable with the geopolitical rebalancing upon which this rising Asian self-assurance is based, argues Parag Khanna, Singapore-based author of The Future is Asian, a forthcoming book.
Today's Kazakhstan seemingly possesses the developmental self-assurance and stability to focus on building its reputation and legacy through measured self-promotion, instead of lashing out at fictitious characters that use the country as the cheap butt of jokes for audiences that know nothing about the country itself.
At Peter Luger, an "instinctive avoidance of anything fancy and an immensely attractive self-assurance came together to produce something that felt less like a restaurant than an affirmation of life, or at least life as it is lived in New York City," Peter Wells, The Times's restaurant critic, recently wrote.
These days, when more and more people are living alone and a meal is just a few taps on Postmates or Seamless away, dining alone feels less like a cry for help and more like a sign of independence and self-assurance… or at least just more common and necessary.
You catch my drift.... While we don't know exactly how Collins is able to pull of trend after trend after trend with such grace and self-assurance — we dare you to find a boring look in the lot — we do know of five makeup and hair tricks she always has on rotation.
Over the years, Weems has revisited in her work the age she was then — 8, 9, 10, a girl still in the process of becoming herself, with a dawning adult awareness of the world and a self-assurance made all the more poignant with the knowledge that it won't survive adolescence wholly intact.
In a nearly two-hour speech delivered two days after the German election in which Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU/CSU bloc scored its worst result since 1949, limiting her freedom to maneuver on Europe, the 39-year-old French president held little back in terms of sweep, self-assurance and aspiration.
Carlson has given himself over as material to a series of magazine profilers through the years—GQ and The New Yorker have done excellent jobs with him—and it's all been right there on the page, wherever he's been in his shifting career: the self-assurance, the pettiness, the inconsistencies, the indifference to the inconsistencies.
Luger is not the city's oldest, but it's the one in which age, tradition, superb beef, blistering heat, an instinctive avoidance of anything fancy and an immensely attractive self-assurance came together to produce something that felt less like a restaurant than an affirmation of life, or at least life as it is lived in New York City.
There is little question about who in real life is meant to best personify the masculine chauvinism characterizing the official line today: Take a stroll down a city street or switch on the television at news hour — and you are greeted by the face of President Xi Jinping with a perennial look of self-assurance and determination.
"Here's a 21-year-old kid nobody knew coming out of nowhere with this great arm and super control who has all the confidence — not a big head, mind you, but a quiet self-assurance — of a Whitey Ford," his teammate Tom Tresh was quoted as saying in the oral history "Bombers" (2002), by Richard Lally.
These movies know they're best left to stars — that the fun of them is in the chemistry of, say, Richard Gere and Julia Roberts or Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler bringing out the best in each other — and the people who made "When Harry Met Sally" knew that Meg Ryan was a star, this buffet of bewilderment, surprise, wonder, self-assurance and overreaction.
That's what Banks does, dancing in a project hallway, in front of the New York City Criminal Court building, and on a literal cop car, looking like a badass before clearing out the track to spit a verse with lines like "How could that little young bitch from the ghetto hit the jackpot / ran off with the cash pot" with a calm, fuck-you self-assurance that absolutely buries your favorite rapper.
"I, personally, was not having sex while all this was going on," she confesses, after the Public Disgrace shoot: The Kink actors were more like athletes or stuntmen and -women performing punishing feats, and part of what I admired was the ease with which they went in and out of it, the comfort with which they inhabited their bodies, their total self-assurance and sense of unity against those who condemned their practice.
One titled "Miss Scaripant, October 1871" turns out to be a portrait of a bowler-wearing Odette, whose gender-shattering self-assurance is foregrounded by Elstir's art: Along the lines of the face, the latent sex seemed to be on the point of confessing itself to be that of a somewhat boyish girl, then vanished, and reappeared further on with a suggestion rather of an effeminate vicious and pensive youth, then fled once more and remained elusive (908).

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