Sentence examples for brittle confidence from inspiring English sources

Boarding-school survivors, he says, often have a brittle confidence, while being shy and insecure.

Beneath a shell of brittle confidence, this book is a chronicle of loss.

Wolves and Liverpool, in the Carling Cup, will provide stern tests of brittle confidence over the next five days.

Sunderland's brittle confidence did not need testing by the kind of basic error that handed Arsenal the lead right on the half-hour mark.

Raheem Sterling is going into the tournament with brittle confidence after losing his form for Manchester City since the turn of the year.

The unfortunate Woakes had been given a chance to redeem himself with the ball and with his fourth one, he thought he had the wicket that would have steeled brittle confidence but his county team-mate spilt the straightforward chance.

This was a listless Stoke display, and one that exposed how brittle the confidence is within a team that has picked up only five points in 2013.

Another poor day of jumping would leave her confidence brittle with the trials a month away.

The champions of Belgium had arrived in disarray, their confidence brittle and the team severely depleted.

Russell Smith's Confidence portrayed brittle characters in unforgiving settings, giving their all to very little effect.

But its confidence is brittle, so the Pollyanna camp never wants to hear that things are less than perfect.