Where these are wanting, there never can be any solid confidence, or any deep sense of duty.
Thankfully, Saverio Costanza's take on the first instalment, 2012's My Brilliant Friend (Sky Atlantic), comes with an understated, solid confidence that suits its source material perfectly.
This gives me a solid, foundational confidence from which to elicit my best performance.
When the polynomial fits are reliable but the cross-validation results show that these are likely due to overfitting, I will show the overall trend in the data as a solid 95% confidence interval of the data on the linear fit, even if that linear fit is not reliable.
Being congruent with taking a dominant role requires that you have rock solid confidence or can at least project that.
Solid confidence is ultimately based on knowledge, on an understanding of underlying mechanisms and a mental accounting of the reasons for security.
But it's in her comfort zone and she handles the quiet passages with solid confidence, even if her voice fades at the end of a few lines.
To many readers, it sounded more like 2007 — when Jezebel was launched — or even 1971, the beginning of Ms. Recently, the blogosphere coined a new term, "mansplaining," which describes, according to Urbandictionary.com, a tone that men adopt when talking to women, characterized by "condescending, inaccurate explanations delivered with rock solid confidence of rightness".
Jowell's camp professes solid confidence, and even cynics who fear she'd be the Continuity Boris candidate, little different if in power from Boris Johnson should she succeed him next May, will be mindful of figures suggesting that she is best equipped to beat Zac Goldsmith, the probable Tory runner - YouGov reckons she'd win against him and that Khan would lose.
"I don't think anyone had solid confidence that it could be done well," he recalls.
That said, for the entrepreneur it all comes down to confidence: Rock solid confidence in your vision to the point of underestimating the risks that are involved in starting a company from scratch.
