Sentence examples for * self assurance in from inspiring English sources

The simple song of a black poet chanting in French the beauty of the naked blackness of the woman he loved, Sartre wrote, would then appear to the ears of French people a fundamental violence against their linguistic and indeed ontological self assurance; in spite of the fact that the poem was not even meant for them, or rather because of that.

To become "Bengalized" means to lose one's ambition or self-assurance in a culture of defeat.

In private, however, there are signs that his self-assurance in parliament is something of an act.

"There is a new sense of self-assurance in Russia, but don't confuse it with aggressive nationalism," he said.

Dutroux, standing throughout, addressed the court with chilling self-assurance in the rolling guttural French of his native Wallonia.

The United States compensates for its shortsightedness, its tendency to improvise, with an altogether biblical self-assurance in its transcendent destiny.

"Here was this artist I'd never heard of, but with an incredible self-assurance in his own capacities and his own intellectual exploration of cinema".

Three seasons of playing in the W.U.S.A., seeing the American stars up close every week and playing with them and against them have built self-assurance in the German players, said Tina Theune-Meyer, coach of the national team.

Willard improvises his lines, spouting poppycock with absolute self-assurance; in the film "Best in Show" his character, a dog-show announcer, muses about a miniature schnauzer, "You'd think they'd want to breed 'em bigger, wouldn't you?

All this points to a coach with little self-assurance in what he has achieved this season, stumbling across something so successful he is now fearful of deviating from it.

Alex Darrow, who taught Dunham English in her senior year, recalls her self-assurance: "In about seventh grade, she came up to me and said, 'I have heard good things about your class.