Sentence examples for broad confident from inspiring English sources

It's one of the greatest films this country has ever produced, painting in broad, confident strokes with one of Oliver Reed's most powerful performances.

Something of this commonness plainness as well as coarseness characterized Edinburgh's intellectual heyday: a strong, broad, confident ability to grasp the first principles of things and to explain them in the common language, preferably through conversation and debate.

It is also happier dealing with specific issues of interpretation than in painting broad confident canvasses.

The French settled into the broad valley, confident that the surrounding mountains would protect them from the Viet Minh.

It draws broad and confident conclusions from a tragic series of suicides at work that have received wide coverage in the French press.

The sketch in which Harry Enfield translated, dead pan, on behalf of Paul Whitehouse's lascivious Italian politician (think Sylvio Berlusconi gurning on Viagra) reminded you of the pair's Nineties pomp: broad, physical, confident.

Despite the number of injuries that have beset his fellow bowlers Broad is confident that England will have a clean bill of health when they play their World Cup opener against the Netherlands on 22 February in Nagpur.

And it was tense music, almost always — even in the most peaceful of its material, like "Aiko Biaye," an adapted Nigerian folk song — because Mr. Baker's sound is so imposing and broad, slow and confident, from the double snares to the steady pedaling of his high-hat.

But he did not press this point and failed to seriously unsettle Cameron, who used confident, broad-brush arguments and aspirational rhetoric to get the upper hand quite easily in a student finance exchange that may have left some listeners more baffled than enlightened.

Supremely confident broad-brush pronouncements should always be viewed skeptically.

With his broad neck and poised, confident posture, he looks cut out of a tree.