Sentence examples for self-assured way from inspiring English sources

The genius of "The Butler" lies in the sly and self-assured way it connects public affairs to private experience.

And when the beautiful and charismatic Alisa talks in a kind of solemn, self-assured way about life's lessons, she becomes happy.

Kristen Stewart's performance is tremendous: she is calm and blank in the self-assured way of someone very competent, smart and young, yet her displays of emotion are very real and touching.

It approaches its revelations in the self-assured way of a film made by someone who knows exactly what he's up to and has no need of red herrings.

Bonds had his cap on backward during the press conference, above that jewelled-cross earring, and he spoke in the softly or grandly self-assured way that has irritated writers and fans throughout his career.

In 2007, a member of the group calling himself "Jude Finisterra" posed as a representative of Dow Chemical in a similar segment on the BBC and, with a similarly wide-eyed expression and strongly self-assured way of speaking, promised to pay financial compensation to the victims of the company's Bhopal disaster in India.

He put them together in a way that reflected his self-assured style.

Ultimately I had to admire Baptiste, a way-cool, self-assured thirtysomething who sets the style in his classes by wearing baggy gym shorts and a bandanna around his head.

When you "carry yourself in a way that conveys power, poise, and healthy pride," you feel more self-assured and others perceive you that way.

Mr. Fabri contends that though Ms. Lavigne now seems confident and self-assured, she wasn't always that way.

You reminded me of my daughter Ivanka, only not as hot or self-assured or synthetic-seeming in every way.