Sentence examples for not confidence from inspiring English sources

It smacks of desperation not confidence.

The problem, Dr. Morici added, "is not confidence; it's substance".

They instilled fear, not confidence and a love of learning.

An appeal to patriotic fervour and postcolonial nostalgia that betrayed not confidence but insecurity.

I studied music hard through childhood and teens and played with some competence, though not confidence.

Johnson said he believed that Greene's bravado came from insecurity not confidence.

These were not confidence-inspiring words for jittery travelers, even if they were later retracted.

The source said the agents continue to work the body scanners today.This is not confidence-inspiring.

The approach to the bar is not confidence-inspiring — down a seedy residential street with too-close houses and sad-looking trees pruned into lollipops with graffiti etched in the bark.

But without an executive overseeing that budget, it's not confidence-inducing knowing that there's nobody with the years of experience needed to oversee a company's security posture in control of where those billions go.

It's not confidence-inspiring to hear scientists talking about hoping to get "lucky" -- it reminds me of my friend Bob Somerby scoffing at a hospital spending time and money giving itself good feng shui.