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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

Natural talent allied with the cockiness that comes with knowing you are more gifted than your rivals made him an irresistible force.

From BBC May 13, 2024

With the passion and cockiness of youth, Virgil at 20-something regards “these bitter, hard, close-to-dead people” with contempt, puzzlement and the certainty of escaping a similar fate.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2024

I was so eager and so excited to be in L.A. and I had this youthful kind of cockiness about me, to be honest.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2023

Call it cockiness, call it a horrendous case of the big head, but there was no one else like him.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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