Of course, to conceive of oneself as the herald and instrument of the transformation of death and aging requires a supreme self-confidence, and de Grey is the most unabashedly self-confident of men.
It all sounds eminently sensible, but Sandberg's critics have accused her of underestimating the cultural and institutional barriers that stop even the most self-confident of women getting on.
Outeiro "is highly self confident, perfectly aware of his quality, and ambitious," Maria de Sousa, a Portuguese group leader who returned home 25 years ago and has known Outeiro since his graduate days, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.
Ibrahim is self-confident to the point of arrogance.
Does it make me feel self-conscious instead of self confident?
It may be that Asians feel self-confident because of economic growth and (in many places) a shift to more political freedom and stability.
His is a brisk, self-confident form of poshness: think of a young officer in one of the smarter regiments, getting on with the job in some global hotspot.
Perhaps most dramatically, after the Commons' reputation sank to a terrible low, we have seen the powerful re-emergence of proper, tough, self-confident committees of MPs taking on key issues.
Availability: routinely feeling secure and self-confident in terms of their ability to perform their job.
"Now they find themselves playing catch-up with her -- ironically". Ms. Boyd is a self-confident force of nature with a shrewd grasp of what makes a theater thrive.
A jaunty, compactly built man scarcely more than 5 feet tall, he has the sunny countenance and self-confident air of an artist at the top of his profession.
