unconfident

So confident was the state that the momentum would carry forward with Vigor — and so unconfident someone else would step up — there was no bidding process for the next five ships.

But over the time I’ve spent with Bud and his stable, he has never once exuded the air of an unconfident man.

“I think it was all happening on a very subconscious level. It wasn’t until I found out that I didn’t have it, and all of a sudden, I felt so confident in myself. And that’s when I realized that I had been feeling really unconfident for 10 years.”

But “The Eternal Daughter” is, more accurately, a mournful gothic ghost story — and also an unlikely continuation of “The Souvenir” and “The Souvenir Part II,” Hogg’s recent semi-autobiographical period pieces chronicling Julie, an unconfident young artist finding her voice.

"I'm a really energetic, social bouncy person, and it completely crippled me socially, I felt incredibly down, I felt very unsure of myself, very unconfident, and something that I've never suffered with, anxiety," said Veronica, from Cardiff.