self-confident

Blustery, self-confident and bursting with ideas, Petty was always thinking five moves ahead of everyone else in the band.

Work ethic was a major part of his upbringing - and his parents also taught him how to be calm and self-confident.

In private I found him self-confident to the point of arrogance, convinced he was the all-knowing spider at the heart of the Middle East web, tracking his enemies' malign intentions and ready to strike.

So will Col Goïta’s junta be able to brush off the highly publicised attacks of this week with the same self-confident control of the agenda that it managed after the July 2022 incidents?

Jam and Lewis helped Janet express a side of her personality – self-confident and in command – that the public had never seen before.