Janko is lofty only in physical appearance: he is a humble man, confident and clever, but with no self-importance.
He is a confident performer, clever, more than arrogant enough to see himself in the top job and he plays the game of politics every bit as brutally as Mr Brown.
You have to be confident and clever.
His delivery was relaxed and confident, his arguments clever and optimistic.
They are expensive, top-end schools that sprinkle their brands on those clever, confident and rich enough to join them.
With its confident storytelling and clever cliffhangers, this new series about the Bowe Bergdahl case proved that Serial is no one hit wonder.
Freya, twenty years old and preparing to attend Oxford, is clever, confident, and crude, a forward-thinking feminist unafraid of her journalistic ambition.
I remember long conversations with the Gordon Brown camp, in which they would speak of dividing lines and the like, confident that a clever strategic move on, say, the economy could transform his fortunes – when the unpalatable truth was that voters had simply taken a long, hard look at him and decided that they did not want him as their prime minister.
Again, if we have no other independent grounds for believing in Landauer's principle, then how can we be confident that a clever device cannot be constructed to produce such an unconstrained violation?
He quickly realized that there was now an entire universe of questions he could direct my way, confident that his clever dad would have all the answers.
Westwell praised the director's skill: "The careful mapping of the subtle differences between each bomb, the play with point of view... and the attenuation of key action sequences... lends the film a distinctive quality that can only be attributed to Bigelow's clever, confident direction".
