(1) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
(2) Maybe, for all that this most cocksure of champions has the intangible aura only the sporting gods know, he also needs the love and reassurance of others.
(3) The relatively tough sentence was probably prompted by the cocksure defence he mounted in his five-day trial, said analysts; initially, they had predicted he would face 15 to 20 years in jail.
(4) And: "Forgive the cocksure swagger," I reply, "You did have one at the time.
(5) His two characters represent the yin and yang of the psyche: Simon nervy and jittery, James free and cocksure.
(6) After all the whole enterprise is based on more fans paying to watch a cocksure pantomime villain get his comeuppance than watch a slippery technician box his way to a points win.
(7) Thanks partly to the cocksure arrogance of Gray and Keys but, principally, to the bravery of pioneers such as Massey and Brady, there is a real chance the football industry might finally become a nicer, fairer, place for women to work.
(8) This individual was full of cocksure confidence, as if goading us to follow him along the line of posts then doubling back when we approached too closely.
(9) The cocksure young lecturer usually sat with one ankle resting on a knee and an arm casually thrown behind his chair, his smile occasionally slipping into condescension.
(10) Yet, sitting back on a delicate, gleaming-legged sofa, Italy's cocksure young prime minister could not seem more at home.
(11) Well prick away, cocksure Sharpington Sharp, because one day, you'll be so irrelevant you'll actually stop breathing.
(12) As different as they are from each other and Amstell's own sub-philosophical strand of standup, the running gag here seems to be that it's funnier to reveal a vulnerable inner monologue than it is to swagger on, cocksure, with a stockpile of one-liners.
(13) There's another article, even more embarrassing, in which I called Karadzic a "tin-pot tyrant" with a "cocksure swagger".
(14) Brash, cocksure and with a library of tabloid headlines to his name, he seemed to represent everything that the knighted Wogan was not.
(15) If she sounds like a cliche – another cocksure, ambition-driven engine who was "born to act" bravely battling the hazards of her youthful comeliness – Lawrence is enough of a surprise package to keep her interesting and likable.
Overconfident
Definition:
(a.) Confident to excess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Second, if you follow this line of reasoning, men in general tend to be overconfident (pdf) – the quantity of submissions has nothing to do with the quality of submissions.
(2) First comes a feeling of euphoria: then the diver gets overconfident, lulled into a false sense of security, and dangerously overestimates how long they have left.
(3) This papillary malignant transformation, not previously observed in inverted papillomas, cautions against overconfidence in benign nature of inverted papilloma.
(4) All would have been more suspicious about King's overconfident advice.
(5) This does not appear to be due simply to overconfidence in their abilities, since it was the younger and less experienced pilots who held the most unrealistically optimistic appraisals of their ability.
(6) Arrogant overconfidence by the NHS – imagine that – means that what should be an extraordinary asset both to patient care and to the UK science base may have been lost for the foreseeable future.
(7) As in Dunning et al., moreover, overconfidence could be traced to two sources.
(8) Overconfidence and underconfidence indices were also calculated by using the indicated levels of certainty.
(9) That impact has rightly produced a challenge to the overconfident intellectual assumptions of the pre-crisis era – assumptions never more prevalent than in some pre-crisis Davos meetings.
(10) Of key importance, depressed Ss were less accurate in their predictions, and thus more overconfident, than their nondepressed counterparts.
(11) It was a policy pushed by an Afghan government anxious to get British soldiers to fight the insurgency in key areas, and overconfident British officers eagerly pursued it.
(12) Further analysis revealed two specific sources of overconfidence.
(13) The "well encapsulated" pleomorphic adenoma has at best a pseudocapsule which allows for bits of satellite tumor to be left behind at ""enucleation" surgery as well as for easy "spillage" of tumor by the overconfident surgeon.
(14) In the end its overconfidence was its ruin; one interviewee too many, shackled naked to a chair, had been half suffocated with a plastic bag to force a confession.
(15) (3) Generally speaking, guidance should be given not to be overconfident or overdefensive in pregnancy.
(16) Unanticipated outcomes included: Alcohol intoxication significantly hindered recall from long-term memory, contrary to previous conclusions that alcohol does not affect retrieval; people's expectancy of alcohol had no significant effect on memory or metamemory performance, contrary to its established effects on other kinds of performance; and alcohol intoxication produced no significant overconfidence in judgments about recall or in feeling-of-knowing judgments, contrary to the overconfidence produced in other kinds of judgments such as an intoxicated person's assessment of his driving ability.
(17) Overconfidence in clinicians was examined in two independently designed studies, each using a different research approach.
(18) This previously described method allows the examinee to receive 'overconfidence' and 'underconfidence' scores.
(19) Scores of British troops have been killed in Sangin since Tony Blair, egged on by overconfident British generals, dispatched more than 3,000 service men and women to Helmand in 2006.
(20) Buoyed for the previous decade by absurdly high inflows of globally generated credit that created false booms, they suddenly found their overconfident banks had wildly lent too much.