Thesaurus / self-confident

self-confident

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

Things looked anxious for a bit, but by this morning's dawn all are dug in, cool, confident.

Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.

These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

Very trim and strong, and confident he looked, with the glow of youth in his cheeks, and the spark of happiness in his gray eyes.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!

APRIL 19, 2021

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