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The family came vividly alive—we sensed Augustine’s role as nurturing mother, as well as the cockiness of the older son.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Better still, Coleman finds the perfect tone to carry the musical, balancing cockiness and insecurity, loneliness and independence, and irony and sincerity.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2024

There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2024

The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.

From New York Times Aug. 7, 2023

“Oh, you’re very funny, Short. A regular riot. I thought the Hamburg incident might have knocked some of the cockiness out of you. If I were you, I’d concentrate on the job in hand.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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