The West Indies celebrated with abandon as if confident that the Sri Lankans would help out later in the evening.
Every stone in the road is plainly visible, and the horses move swiftly along as if confident of their footing," the book says.
Staring nonchalantly back at the artist standing over them, they seem full of trust, as if confident that they are in the hands of an original and significant talent.
Querrey, an understated if confident young man, does not treat every interview or early-round match as a stage, even when he upset No. 32 seed Dmitry Tursunov of Russia on Thursday in four sets.
Mitchison was usually modest, and more inclined to suggest and inspire than instruct and command, though he was perfectly prepared to hold forth at considerable length if confident in his subject.
He writes in an elegant and deliberately meandering style, as if confident of hypnotizing the reader with his baroque sentences, explorations of neuroses, intricate descriptions of palaces and hovels and astute reflections on money and power, class and race.
