What is "self-assurance"

Usage examples of "self-assurance".

Since I have spoken of my schoolboyish agitation over Marketa, I should point out that it stemmed not so much from my being in love as from my awkward lack of self-assurance, which weighed on me and came to rule my thoughts and feelings much more than Marketa herself.

Or had she truly come into her own, regained some of the self-assurance that had bled out of her that long-ago night when Steppy had sold her?

The bravado with which Baden carried himself on this day had none of the power or substance or self-assurance he had shown the day before.

Somehow Monica had been born without the decisiveness and arrogant self-assurance of the rest of the family.

Sanglier was aware of it too, as he was aware of Claudine's aggressive self-assurance: she wasn't deferring to him or to Sobell.

His offhand self-assurance in respect of digestive biscuits revealed his transatlantic origins.

They came, taking the handlines, moving in surprisingly good order and self-assurance for men and women completely unaccustomed to ungravitied space… but their guild left no situation unplanned and devoted their lives to physical preparedness.

The man's supreme self-assurance infuriated Ken but he kept a close hold on his temper.

After a while he has gathered around him other knotheads who don’t have his vivid imagination and self-assurance but like the idea of having a direct line of Omnipotence.

After a while he has gathered around him other knotheads who don't have his vivid imagination and self-assurance but like the idea of having a direct line of Omnipotence.

Her self-assurance was as haphazard as the spare flesh which lay about her unslender person.