Sentence examples for confident figure from inspiring English sources

Lydia trembled, her normally confident figure crumpled inward.

Letters written on paper swiped from the luxurious Waldorf Astoria show him as a newly confident figure.

A lolling, purring, supremely confident figure, he famously announced at his first Chelsea press conference that summer that he was "special".

Initially, Blair is presented as a dodgy opportunist, a man of no great principle, an altogether less confident figure than Cherie.

Teaching, of course, is a form of entertainment (ever more so, these days), so it's somewhat surprising that Mr. Emmott doesn't cut a more confident figure on stage.

Seeing a confident figure give an energetic speech, with pauses for roaring applause, and perhaps most importantly, saying things the listener agrees with, is going to get a positive response, even if the written text is nothing special.

This again is hardly surprising, given how many high-profile figures end up developing their own egocentric model of how reality works, and such is the way the human mind works when it comes to successful, confident figures that they'll always have their believers and supporters.

Samaras, a sleek, self-confident figure with a politician's firm handshake, is excited by a story playing in that day's Greek press that suggests the British Museum is willing to accept the possibility of a loan of its marbles to the new museum in Athens if Greece renounces ownership of them.

It now seems likely that Mr Taylor, once a wealthy and self-confident figure who boasted of his high-level connections in places ranging from Libya to the United States, will be sentenced to a long prison term, to be served in Britain.

The cliché of disillusionment with mainstream parties is suddenly accompanied by vivid images of self-confident figures flexing their muscles from the outside.

(A copy editor here offers an alternative ID; he's confident that figure is the devil).