Sentence examples for inordinate confidence from inspiring English sources

Maria Carlota Costellat de Macedo Soares, known as Lota, was a wealthy landowner, an art collector, and a woman of such inordinate confidence and strength that she was directing the construction of a sleek new glass-and-steel house for herself in the mountains outside Rio.

Political leaders with this personality, Dr. Kernberg said, are able to take control "because their inordinate narcissism is expressed in grandiosity, a confidence in themselves and the assurance that they know what the world needs".

"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".

It's an inordinate form".

The inordinate delays impose heavy tolls.

Were they under inordinate stress?

Teams concentrate inordinate attention on him.

Her pride in us was inordinate, nonetheless.

It says Roche has demanded inordinate royalties.

THE NEW YORKER: Everyone's having an inordinate amount of fun.

No one, it turned out, had taken in inordinate amounts.