In January , 1961 Philip Hamburger described Kennedy at the Inaugural Ball: "Tanned, confident, controlled, swift-moving, happy".
The nearest thing Britain has to Rihanna (if a bit less edgy), Ora has the voice all right - confident, controlled and well-articulated.
You need to be able to appear relaxed and confident, control the room, think on your feet, involve the audience without letting them steal focus from you, and adapt your style and material to dozens of different, difficult scenarios.
"There's a confident control of form and surprising freshness of metaphor in a poetry that bears all the signs of a new generation coming through".
By the second day of lessons, Power started supervising my rides, with me running downwind, zigzagging my way toward confident control of the kite.
Throughout the interview, Mr. Lapid was charming, confident — and controlling.
In his view, "the Party can afford to relax on its Tibet policies, because firstly it knows it faces much worse problems in Xinjiang" — the site of growing unrest among China's Muslim minority — "and secondly, it has now instituted such draconian controls on movement and information in Tibet, way more than in the rest of China, that it must be fairly confident of controlling any situation there".
114 Third, long-term weight maintenance (>3 years) was observed in patients satisfied with the results achieved, or confident to control their body weight without additional professional help, 56 a construct similar to the concept of self-efficacy, which is associated with greater adherence to physical therapy.
But as Ouattara became more confident, a carefully controlled reconciliation strategy gradually developed.
It was controlled, confident stuff and three minutes later City doubled their lead.
He added: "He was confident, assured and controlled his penalty box very well".
