It is early days, but the Republicans are confident of solid gains.
In place of complaints and fears, I hear sentiments like, "I'm more confident and solid now," or even, "I feel better than ever".
He is inventing up there, using his confident, rock-solid technique to improvise jazz riffs on a larder of beautifully chosen ingredients.
Later, these give way to more solid, confident, straight-up pop hits.
Confident that a solid career lay before him, Anastas quit his day job to write full time.
"The president is disappointed in this outcome but remains confident in the solid team of professionals at T.S.A.," Nick Shapiro, a spokesman, said.
And far from being inspired by those "solid confident chest-swelling career girls of the 1980s and 1990s who were told they could have it all" she and her peers regarded them as a warning.
He had seen Hales, in his debut innings, dismissed by Steyn immediately on the first resumption, the batsman unable to resist chasing a wideish ball having made what looked to be a solid confident start.
He hasn't been unbeatable, for sure, but he has now won two out of the last three slams and must be rock solid confident of making it no15 at Wimbledon.
She said: "I know that she (Mrs Needham) will be very keen for this work to be undertaken and rock solid confident, I'm sure, that they won't find Ben there".
