VW owners self-confidently displayed their vehicles, and not only as practical quality products.
Karim speaks urgently and self-confidently in English, usually about his hatred of western values.
His famous temperament — cool, analytic, self-confidently averse to self-pity and self-dramatization — has been a constant since childhood.
His famous temperament cool, analytic, self-confidently averse to self-pity and self-dramatization has been a conself-dramatization has
Every detailed interior and those who self-confidently people them are modern; these are rational citizens in touch with themselves.
The only field more self-confidently but just as regularly wrong as economics is nutrition, whose recommendations to shun butter/margarine or red meat/carbohydrates regularly reverse themselves.
To her disadvantage, it makes her appear aloof when, in fact, she can be self-confidently gracious, indulging the cat pictures of her minions and the baby stories of junior fashion editors with genuine compassion.
As we hear police sirens going past their car, the men talk self-confidently about a gadget – "900 quid to fit it in your motor" – that will let them know when an Old Bill vehicle is within half a mile.
There was something "sticky" about this language, and the ideas it embodied, so adhesive in fact that at times it has behaved more like a kind of cultural virus, self-confidently infecting all kinds of international contacts.
Mrs. Thrale wanted a relationship more sunnily sensual; Dr. Johnson wanted her, and attributed her rejection of him not to the obvious appeal of a handsome and self-confidently physical Italian lover but to her guilt, which she must feel because he felt it even more.
And if the Bank of England comes over all trappist about conditions in the homes market, questions would then be raised about whether the Bank is as self-confidently impartial as it is supposed to be.
