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The family came vividly alive—we sensed Augustine’s role as nurturing mother, as well as the cockiness of the older son.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

A soldier who trained alongside him at the Army Foundation College, in Harrogate, told the BBC Khalife stood out for his cockiness, arrogance and over-confidence.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Better still, Coleman finds the perfect tone to carry the musical, balancing cockiness and insecurity, loneliness and independence, and irony and sincerity.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2024

The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

The cockiness that Frankie was known for and that Diana once found fascinating—until she realized he wasn’t as confident as he pretended to be—was gone.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau




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