Sentence examples for outdated confidence from inspiring English sources

What Mr. Haden is able to bring to them is similar to what jazz singers like Shirley Horn and Jimmy Scott bring to their own repertory: a deliberating sensibility that slows down the songs and punctures their outdated confidence, catching them off guard.

"A lot of companies offer flexible working but the onus should be on businesses to presume in favour, challenge outdated assumptions and give their employees more confidence to ask about the options," said Katja Hall, CBI deputy director-general.

Confident and smart or sloppy and outdated?

Since his Letter to the Abbe Raynal (1782), he had expressed a growing confidence in commerce as a means of uniting the interests of nations and rendering outdated and irrelevant the European system of war.

Mr. Mehta is also concerned (not about his own administrative skills; lack of self-confidence is not his problem) that the current model for orchestra tours is outdated.

Even outdated?

Outdated rules persist.

Seems a bit outdated.

"Their model is outdated.

It is clogged and outdated.

It's outdated," he said.