self-assurance

Example Sentences

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Call it naiveté, narcissism or simply self assurance, but Millennials believe in themselves.

From Forbes • Feb. 10, 2015

Adoptees never have that luxury and self assurance.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

For many hours he stood patiently erect�with a curious bearing of rustic urbanity and retiring self assurance �receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest persuasiveness combined with that vigorous self assurance which is characteristically Rooseveltian.

From Time Magazine Archive

But like all the rest of us they soon became accustomed to it, and presently displayed a self assurance and a familiarity undreamed of, save perhaps in the Garden of Eden.

From With Those Who Wait by Huard, Frances Wilson