What is "self-assured"

Usage examples of "self-assured".

She was at breakpoint with her most recent beau, bored with his rugby, his healthy hedonism, the smooth self-assured way he embraced her in bed.

His wife was a self-assured young woman, daughter of a Cambridgeshire rector.

Lizzie is a handsome, statuesque freedwoman, curiously self-assured, who made the ballgowns for half the famous ladies in Washington.

A Second Look by Marianna Heusler He watched her walking towards him, cocky and self-assured, her skirt hitched up way above her hefty thighs, her scarlet sweater outlining her ample curves as well as her flabby rolls, her makeup caked on her face, her lips slippery with colored Vaseline, her hair sprayed and gelled in some elaborate do.

In the sixties, when Cadillacs were futuristically self-assured, I was also self-confident and forward-looking.

She didn't match the self-assured picture that conversations with Aras had created.

Our whole younger generation is irreligious in the extreme, and self-assured, individualistic beyond bearance.

It amused the Poictesmeans very much to see the usually arrogant and self-assured Deltoids slink off with their tails dragging.

Kreml's Air Officer appeared completely self-assured on the point.

Though her customary blush rose as fiery as ever, she seemed more self-assured than in the past.

He eyed the safeties, so self-assured in their authority, and smirked in anticipation of what was to come.

Every movement he made, from narrowed eyes to self-assured body movements, bespoke a fever pitch of sexual arousal.

At the short black conference table, standing across from Commander Thanas and beside the fraudulent “General” Solo, he found Commander Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight, self-assured in his invulnerability.

Then he recalled that the schools were on holiday and that, in any case, the desires of so presentable and self-assured a girl were hardly likely to fasten upon an untrousered ancient.