In a desperate attempt to reconquer Marilyn's flaky heart, Joe had gone to see a shrink, and had emerged most attractively shrunken, modest and self-knowledgeable.
Specifically, we argue that overconfidence can result from a desire to see the self as knowledgeable and competent.
It's now totally common for self-styled knowledgeable people to be clueless about Schiller and Strauss, yet be able to hold forth on the virtues of 12 different kinds of olive oil or distinguish allegedly superior Mexican Coca-Cola from its American cousin.
Because of a slew of frankly insane emails that have circled this country for the past few months claiming that Barack is actually a Muslim terrorist and that he introduced Lindsay Lohan to drugs and once tried to kidnap the cute kid from Jerry Maguire, mostly what Senator Obama needed to do tonight was show up and be his articulate and knowledgeable self.
Examples of good care practice included: showing concern and providing consistent advice to both patients and family members; offering practical strategies for self care; being knowledgeable about diagnosis and management procedures; and allowing consistent access to the same care provider over time (e.g. [ 25, 28, 38, 50]).
Rice is crisp, knowledgeable, self-assured and quite possibly bionic.
In unveiling the move to the Fed press corps, she appeared self-assured, deeply knowledgeable, and canny.
Prince Felipe, standing in for his convalescent father, was self-assured and knowledgeable on the day's topic.
Yet most Spaniards favour his abdication as the family's popularity is waning.At a recent royal dinner for international Olympic officials, Prince Felipe, the crown prince, standing in for his convalescent father, was self-assured and knowledgeable.
Wendy Sherman, now the No. 3 official in the State Department, who was counselor to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and accompanied her to North Korea, said in 2008, "He was smart, engaged, knowledgeable, self-confident, sort of the master-director of all he surveyed".
