Sentence examples for mood of confidence from inspiring English sources

That growing mood of confidence about the Games suddenly looks somewhat naive.

"I am happy to channel the power and enthusiasm of that bird; I feel inspired by its regal manner and mood of confidence".

He said his party had "lacked a clear message" in its battle against the SNP, had not been "radical enough" and had failed to reflect Scotland's new found mood of "confidence and optimism".

William Bellamy, a former US ambassador to Kenya, said: "There is a mood of confidence and self-assurance in Africa that did not exist 10 years ago, including Kenya.

It is a far cry from the browbeatings they suffered during 2011.This mood of confidence can largely be credited to the European Central Bank (ECB) and its provision of liquidity to banks.

Something appears to have happened to jolt the President from a mood of confidence about the war to one of anxiety between the night of Monday, April 20 when he disclosed plans to withdraw 150,000 more troops from Vietnam in a year, and the night of Monday, April 27, when he decided to move into Cambodia.

Along with all this, the '80s, '90s and the last 10 years have seen in Britain, as elsewhere in the Western world, a rapid rise in wealth and household incomes that has bred a new mood of self-confidence, dented but not reversed by the current economic woes, and brought with it an abandonment of many of the attitudes that sustained the old order.

There is a mood of quiet confidence in the air, and it has been a spectacular season.

Successive years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, moreover, have further dented the mood of business confidence that once made Concorde an emblem of worldly success.

In contrast this England team have been meticulously and expensively prepared, flying business class to Australia three weeks ago to generate a mood of quiet confidence that they might be capable of springing a surprise.

Brisbane must be the favourites, but they will be missing the influential forward Sam Thaiday, and from this distance there does seem to be a mood of quiet confidence in the Warriors camp that they could be on the brink of something special in their last season under Ivan Cleary before he joins Penrith and is replaced by the local favourite Brian McClennan.