Charles's desperate confidence paid off.
In a "micro" sense, it is hard to pinpoint exactly how confidence pays off.
Erin Lowers of Exclaim! cited the song as one of the album's standout tracks, saying that it "embodies a silent confidence, paying homage to a legendary group while speaking on releasing an album the same day as Kanye West, bringing Born Sinner full-circle".
It was a risky move to open the season with a batch of characters we were unfamiliar with, but the confidence paid off, first by dangling the mystery of Raymond-James' role (as well as the question of who mailed the postcard), and then by throwing us headfirst into the mashup of "Sleeping Beauty" meets "Mulan".
His hard work and confidence paid dividends, and in a little over 18 months, he managed to establish his shop as a reliable and professional repair point for all types of motorbikes.
The Lesser Free Trade Hall was now full of more knowing fans – already with shorter hair and narrower trousers and an edge more sectarian self-confidence – paying a pound.
IN CORPORATE America's crisis of confidence, bosses' pay looms large.
He noted, however, that since firms were able to borrow at unheard-of low rates today "it may give them more confidence to pay a little bit more".
It will then be possible, with reasonable confidence, to pay REDD money out only to those countries that deliver the goods—or, rather, the trees in sufficient, measurable quantities.
But now that he has led the 49ers to the N.F.C. championship game under Coach Jim Harbaugh, Carr said he believed Smith's self-confidence had paid dividends.
