What looks clever and confident in an intimate house can sometimes look downright lost in a large one.
Psychoanalysis requires self-revelation; a patient must be confident that these intimate matters will not be gossiped about by the analyst's kids over cookies and milk.
Ms. Nottage, the wide-ranging and increasingly confident author of "Intimate Apparel" and "Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine," hooks her audience with promises of a conventionally structured, purposefully plotted play, stocked with sympathetic characters and informative topical detail.
Paul Thomas Anderson's epic tale of postwar America offers catnip for the senses and succour for the soul, riffing lightly off the life of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard to conjure up a film that is both expansive and intimate, confident and self-questioning.
It was intimate and confident — the perfect vehicle for her deadpan wit and sense of fun.
Chris Salmon Paper Aeroplanes My First Love Intimate, jaunty and confident low-key pop with a great melody line, from the Welsh duo Sarah Howells and Richard Llewellyn.
"Fifty Shades of Grey, like Sex and the City before it, has got women everywhere talking about sex and encouraged them to be more intimate, experimental and confident," said Jacqueline Gold, the chief executive.
There was something rather 18th century in his confident mixture of the statesmanlike and intimate, the way he moved so easily from battleground to boudoir.
Take your time, but when you do decide to become intimate with someone, be confident.
Mr. Rees movingly intimates that, underneath his confident exterior, Arthur has also become prey to thoughts of how heedlessly, and perhaps permanently, he has endangered his family's fortunes: his eyes glitter with disturbed imaginings.
