And with recognition has come a hint of confidence.
By the movie's end, that hint of confidence has evolved into a wholly self-aware, and very womanly, stride.
He's a "Midwestern boy who comes from a place where accepting praise and accolades is physically painful and even the hint of confidence in one's talents is sin No. 1," he wrote.
Meanwhile, IBM, which narrowly beat estimates late Monday and offered hints of confidence at a turnaround in tech spending, was down 69 cents, or 0.7%, to $99.74.
Then, ever so briefly, he let slip a hint of the confidence Edwards saw during those first practices, the stuff Stanley Thomas was not even sure his son had in him.
On Friday, the Caps circled the wagons and wisely chose to defend their core players and their coaches against the slightest hint of lost confidence, interpreting the defeat in a way that allows them, and their fans, to go forward with the least damage.
As befits an erstwhile editor of Mojo, a magazine that tends to approach rock music as first and foremost a heritage industry, he is good on the musical development of a pop star whose early albums, David Bowie (1967) and Space Oddity (1969), were both little more than confused collections of ill-matched songs, and showed little hint of the confidence and brilliance that was to follow.
Yet while he can see disadvantages, it was an impressively mature young man who faced the media in Israel, without a hint of the over-confidence sometimes attached to his dad.
Billy Bob Thornton's terrifyingly precise performance as Woodcock — a jock bully with a presidential air of confidence — hints at depths that the movie isn't too interested in exploring.
But any hint of rigging will dent confidence in the system.
"There was even a hint of his cast-iron confidence that he is the better driver at Mercedes when he said: 'It is quite close between us and Ferrari and Nico is quite quick as well.' On a track on which he has won more times than anyone else, few would bet against Hamilton maintaining that form". Manor F1 on Twitter: Roberto's 'lucky egg' equivalent - getting in the cockpit from the left.
