"Last year, we were in first place all year, you know?" Randolph said on Sunday as he tried to maintain a confident stance.
She maintained a confident balance between art song and pop while singing Jeff Blumenkrantz's setting of the Edna St . Vincent Millaysonnet "Love Is Not All".
But now the enemy is within, and, under the guise of a collective embrace of new mores, the Oscars look bewildered, straining, with a handful of well-chosen speakers and well-intentioned gestures, to maintain a confident and hopeful air.
Publicly, Mr. Strauss-Kahn has maintained a confident stance, issuing statements that the fund stands ready to help countries and giving what staff members described as a rousing speech during its recent annual meeting.
But apart from such moments of emotion, Duch has maintained a confident, didactic tone in the courtroom, prefacing his answers with phrases like "based on my analysis and assumption" and "according to the surviving documents".
The pianist Mike Renzi, a one-man pop-jazz orchestra leading a trio that includes David Finck on bass and Dave Ratajczak on drums, maintains a confident balance between the swinging and the rhapsodic.
But even while they dart around the unadorned stage, stopping, starting, rewinding and occasionally breaking down, requiring a battery change (in mime of course), the longtime performers maintain a confident chemistry that reveals itself most impressively in the way that one actor provides sound effects for the movements of the other.
He maintained a confident, defiant tone when I asked if Spotify's radio service worried Pandora in the long-term.
There will inevitably be skeptics along the way, but it's critical to maintain a confident mindset.
