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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

A soldier who trained alongside him at the Army Foundation College, in Harrogate, told the BBC Khalife stood out for his cockiness, arrogance and over-confidence.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2024

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

With the passion and cockiness of youth, Virgil at 20-something regards “these bitter, hard, close-to-dead people” with contempt, puzzlement and the certainty of escaping a similar fate.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2024

Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee




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