And yet Cults have outwitted their own evanescence with an album that's confident and warm and purposefully naïve.
On opening night, during the end of the first act, when we were both backstage, in the stillness of waiting for glory, we heard a particularly robust laugh from the audience, singular and confident and warm.
If you have comfortable winter clothes that you feel confident and warm in, though, you're more likely to go out and enjoy the world despite the cold.
"I was feeling confident after warm-up and I knew we would have a good set-up for the race.
Norma Haan of the University of California, Berkeley, and others conducted a 50-year follow-up of people who had been studied while young and concluded that the subjects had become more outgoing, self-confident and warm with age.
"As a performer, she is warm, confident, relaxed and always in control," said Mr. Pheneger.
Mr. Mayfield, who has a warm, confident trumpet tone, if not a lot of rhythmic originality, kept unrolling long, fast runs, ending in shouts.
An acoustic guitar, and then a young woman's voice, warm, confident, gentle, singing, "It's good to get out of the house".
The intricate play was not lost on Martinez's side and Steven Pienaar collected Barkley's confident flick to warm the hands of Szczesny in Arsenal's goal.
Naeem is warm, confident and a friendly man - sure with making decisions and quick on the draw.
