People who have worked with him remark on his trademark self-deprecation, though they say it's less a pitiable crisis of confidence than an earnest expression of concern that he ace the job entrusted to him.
Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that Marco Pierre White uses stock in his fish pie – after all, he has described the cubes he's paid to sponsor as "the best fucking ingredient in the world" – but his willingness to embrace them doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the earnest devotee of the amateur stockpot.
Moore's personal charm, her reedy, earnest, sometimes quavering voice, and the confidence and heart she brought to the role had plenty to do with it.
In amiable, earnest captions and anecdotes, Shahidi conveys the confidence that Prince had in his vision — or, more precisely, the way in which Prince sought to use the photographer as an instrument to produce a fantastical, private theatre of himself.
Despite that threat, some businessmen doubted that General Namphy, an earnest but far from magnetic officer could regain public confidence.
Mr. Sununu, projecting supreme confidence, has only recently begun to campaign in earnest and is said to be readying an advertising blitz for after Labor Day, when voters will begin paying more attention.
Sheeran's appeal has always been rooted in his earnest wholesomeness, and while his 02 performance was imbued with a bashful confidence, he was in complete command of his ever-growing disciples.
"So given that they've had these conversations, does the president have more confidence in the ability of Donald Trump to run the country?" Earnest answered bluntly: "I'm not aware that the president has changed his assessment.
His earnest smile, scruffy good looks, the way he punches out each lyric with his whole body, his humble confidence: All of that and more came through when Phillips moved in — growl and all — on Billy Joel's "Movin' Out".
