Sentence examples for surefooted from inspiring English sources

Radcliffe enjoyed a huge hit with The Woman in Black, but has subsequently proved less commercially surefooted.

LIKE any old trouper, Fidel Castro has a neat sense of timing, and a surefooted ability to confirm both his friends and his critics in their views.

Docile, hardy, and surefooted, they have compact bodies and range from 13.2 to 15 hands (about 54 to 60 inches, or 137 to 152 cm) tall.

I wasn't surefooted myself; I had just taken over the National Theatre and was not in the best state to be Daniel's surrogate father".

"I'm so surefooted — I'm a dancer, I've done pratfalls, all kind of stunts — and I trip over my own rug!" She glared at the rug, then laughed.

As comically surefooted as Snider is on his recordings, even he can't compete with his stage persona, where he digresses between songs, sometimes at great length, always with great humor.

Each filmmaker has his own rhythm, yet I had the impression that he was very surefooted.

For his part, Mr. Escoffery furnished the tune with a tenor saxophone solo, fleet and surefooted, while a rhythm section kept the groove simmering.

Thank heavens he was more surefooted when he walked that tightrope all those years ago.

Faulks, with his elegiac cadences, is surefooted here in a past of wildflower meadows and pipe-smokers and flapping trousers.

Gordon is surefooted not only on the fun and excitement, but also on the dread and confusion – and, let's not forget, the all-enveloping skint-ness – of twentysomething metropolitan existence in 21st-century Britain.