Sentence examples for instead of confident from inspiring English sources

Tiger Woods was nine strokes behind, looking confounded instead of confident, with his chance to win his fifth consecutive major championship in serious jeopardy.

Hellman helped to usher in the era of postmodern autobiography that rejects the conventional cradle-to-grave story of a life, and instead reflects on memory, truth, authenticity and fact: instead of confident assertions of mastery over her own experience, Hellman's autobiographies are unstable, shifting, questioning.

Instead of producing confident students who can handle any argument you throw at them, universities are a production line for cowed conformists.

Instead of the confident, cheery girl you might have expected to blossom in the family atmosphere that Holmes describes, Tussy toys with eating disorders and terrible men.

Does it make me feel self-conscious instead of self confident?

I realize that I am saying this out of a fear to get insufficient resources, instead of being confident that we are also a vital part of the chain, and the we will be rewarded accordingly".

For example: 'I feel confident that I can get the facts about the medication choices available to her' instead of 'I feel confident that I can get the facts about the medication choices available to me' (item 1 of the DSES Scale).

Grant Morrison is clearly writing a different interpretation of the character, instead of the calm, confident, almost God-like icon that we have seen in the last 20 years.

She doesn't seem completely comfortable in the environment and, instead of the assertive, confident character I have seen on television, she is quiet and unassuming.

But instead of feeling more confident immediately afterward, they felt worse.

So now instead of just being confident that I can write a book, I feel competent.