What is "self-confidence"

Usage examples of "self-confidence".

Guzman Bento, usually full of fanciful fears and brooding suspicions, had sudden accesses of unreasonable self-confidence when he perceived himself elevated on a pinnacle of power and safety beyond the reach of mere mortal plotters.

Instead, Judge Milne delivered a stinging lecture to Nina in open court, widely quoted in the media, that made her red to the roots of her hair, beamed Jeffrey Riesner up to the moon, and yanked out the last shreds of her self-confidence.

But then he seemed able to deal with any and every situation that occurred with unerring self-confidence, from petty thieves and amateur whipsters to eloping couples and driving a coach and four, not to mention giving orders to ostlers and innkeepers and making one and all jump to obey.

It was important, if he was going to be jumped at Bures, that nothing should be done to damage his self-confidence.

For all his vast self-confidence, vast riches, vast generosity, and vast bulk, he was still only a flatlander and thus a little bit helpless.

Gveest turned half-aside, as if ashamed, although his exudates continued to signal arrogant self-confidence.

In point of fact this lad was a fool solely through his intelligence, matched with ignorance and unbounded self-confidence.

Hold to your unassailable self-confidenceaye, some might well call it megalomania, but not Kruppe, for he too is in possession of unassailable self-confidence, such as only mortals are capable of and then rightfully but a mere handful the world over.

The question that really arises is not so much how the Nazis could start out to save the world from Bolshevism and end by becoming Bolshevik, as how they could do it without losing either their power or their self-confidence.

In his triumph, Waxie was generous, brimming with smug self-confidence.

She had an aura of self-confidence and competency which he would absolutely shatter.

The well-muscled frame of the tall, broad-shouldered, wide-browed young man, brimming with self-confidence and optimism, had no room for self-doubt.

These were all alterations of minor importance, but being due to individual judgment, they helped to raise the spirits and increase self-confidence.

Happiness and hopefulness, like self-confidence, were inner qualities that provided a measure of beauty no amount of powder or rouge or artful coiffures could match.

The cublike creature, to whom Fafhrd's fondling and the wine had imparted the seeds of self-confidence, lurched drunkenly at it, and the mouse began a squeaking scurry toward the wall.