Sentence examples for confident assumption from inspiring English sources

But what's missing is a confident assumption that there will be an audience eager to put up with it.

Trilling's arguments rested on the confident assumption that the human condition, in all its complexity, could be understood only with the aid of great literature.

There was also a confident assumption that the movies were of the world, and that foreign film movements (like the French New Wave, drawing to a close, and the German new wave, about to begin) were instructive.

The lavishly gifted young soprano Angela Meade deserves honorable mention for her confident assumption of the title role of Bellini's "Norma" at the Caramoor Festival, under the idiomatic baton of Will Crutchfield.

Examining the history of the Cold War, Moynihan saw a series of misguided adventures steered by incorrect or poorly understood intelligence from the purported "missile gap" that never existed to the confident assumption that the Cuban people would rise up against Fidel Castro following an American-sponsored invasion.

Man's confident assumption that his environment is so sympathetic to his moods as to kick in with complimentary props when he requires them bespeaks the kind of arrogance that invites comeuppance.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Updated at 12.34pm BST 12.29pm BST "Lots of confident assumptions regarding Van Gaal's future" says Paul Ewart.

The catastrophe of World War I forced James to examine the confident assumptions of, in his words, "the whole fool's paradise of our past" — the bourgeois faith in progress, above all — that had informed his work.

A good example is his 2002 book, "Warrior politics: why leadership demands a pagan ethos," which discourages the confident American assumption that a moralistic approach to world peace and stability is best.

With the trading levels indicating that some traders were no longer as confident of that assumption as they had been, rumors swirled that the Treasury Department was preparing to issue an explicit guarantee of the debts of government-sponsored enterprises, or G.S.E.'s, to calm the market.

I haven't tested this theory, but I'm confident in my assumption that one day challenges produce a greater amount of designs that look like ass.