So, of course, like any calm, confident, self assured woman.
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"By this time, I felt self-assured and confident," he says.
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They were self-assured, even brash, but also curious and thoughtful.
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The result is unexpectedly engrossing, infuriatingly addictive, and remarkably self-assured.
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In each, she is self-assured and expert, but also brittle.
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People talked to him because he was self-assured and polite.
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And yet, calm and self-assured, that voice sings of hope.
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In 2014, I went into the casting relaxed and more self-assured.
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He's telegenic, self-assured, and he's so far exhibited strong political instincts.
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The self-assured app entrepreneur appears to have an answer for everything.
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The former girl next door is now a confident, self-assured twentysomething.
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Not surprisingly, past failures do not weigh on the self-assured Reed.
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Ratcliffe didn't always appear so self-assured about his "anti-terror" credentials.
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But the self-assured billionaire did allow there to be some doubt.
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Its seven participants jostle conceptual back stories with self-assured object-making.
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" The club describes them as "happy, self-assured and eager to please.
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In Negga's self-assured hands, Tulip is impetuous, furious, and brilliantly mean.
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The show is growing more self-assured and daring with every passing year.
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I wanted to present the self-assured, together version of my whole being.
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When I put it on, I felt grown up — poised and self-assured.
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The high heels "make me more self-assured and dressed up," she said.
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Beyond the music, Selena's self-assured personal style still resonates with her fans.
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Mr. Modi radiates intensity, but lately he seems a little less self-assured.
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Diop will be the first to tell you she wasn't always this self-assured.
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They need be opinionated and self-assured, or women will lose interest in them.
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Duguay uses job interviews to find candidates who are self-assured without being cocky.
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When we spoke to Hilton over the phone, she sounded cool and self-assured.
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But that doesn't mean she was always as self-assured as she is now.
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I never show them to anyone—for a few minutes, I am self-assured.
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Few men are as self-assured, self-indulgent, and self-promoting as Scott Disick.
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In photos for the media he looks the part: clean cut, white, self-assured.
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Typically self-assured, Brady looked as if he didn't know exactly what to say.
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A more self-assured person has emerged since he moved to the Binghamton area.
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Zoboi's mash-up of cities and genres is self-assured, elegant and utterly captivating.
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But there was also a self-assured grace that is rare beneath any spotlight.
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Darg, who speaks in a calm, self-assured voice, finds the old guard's attention delicious.
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But "Boy With Luv" feels altogether different — it's more joyful, lighter, and more self-assured.
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Resilient and self-assured, Swift looks squarely into her future on her seventh studio album.
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It was traumatic, but the experience has made me even more self-assured in myself.
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She was forceful in the right measure, athletic as can be, and incredibly self-assured.
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He's self-assured, and he's got an arsenal of soul-influenced tracks to draw from.
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Cruz, usually self-assured, quick-witted and policy-fluent, took a long, three-beat pause.
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In terms of content, that clear identity also provides self-assured guidance to content moderation.
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You'll be feeling especially self-assured, but try not to be a know-it-all.
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The force of Han arrives in Ford's mix of knowing, smarm, and self-assured ego.
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The owner of the sauna had also invited his burly, self-assured, middle-aged friends.
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While he is certainly self-assured, people who know him say he seems more thoughtful.
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G.R. Pat Metheny's astonishingly self-assured debut helped forge a template for modern jazz guitar.
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Klam agilely balances an existentially tragic story line with morbid humor and self-assured prose.
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For that, the most self-assured player of his generation is just another nervous rookie.
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He's so arrogant and self assured he thinks he'll still be fine – until the last minute.
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A. O. Scott called it "a self-assured, remarkably powerful film" in The Times in July.
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Both these pieces have a lyrical, self-assured modesty that modernism can always use more of.
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The result is organic and self-assured, making the message of intersectional inclusivity feel within reach.
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Be in the right frame of mind: gentle but not afraid, self-assured but not cocky.
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He's incredibly self-assured and full of charisma, with a slightly crazed look in his eye.
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With the man bun, he's a self-assured lady killer; without it, he's… just a guy.
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As a result, the regime became increasingly insecure, while we became more liberated and self-assured.
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Given the quirky format of the show, neither saw its ultimate commercial viability as self-assured.
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She is sophisticated and naïve, self-assured and terrified, armored in cynicism and open to astonishment.
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She molded her explicit and self-assured brand of rap growing up in Dublin and Galway.
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As a director, Gilligan is self-assured to a degree that belies his relative lack of experience.
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ESTATE agents in China, as elsewhere in the world, are normally a smooth-talking, self-assured bunch.
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Art Review Official political history is as self-assured sounding and logically suspect as presidential primary promises.
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These supposedly self-assured women suddenly become hapless and bumbling, all in the name of being rescued.
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Sounding self-assured and drawing applause during her speech, she turned her attention fully to the SPD.
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In "The Haunting of Hill House," one of Eleanor's fellow-assistants is the self-assured, ironic Theodora.
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Deciding to respond to an attack quickly only hastens self-assured destruction, effectively making us suicide bombers.
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Berlin is becoming more self-assured, and now has a like-minded ally in Emmanuel Macron of France.
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With his broody 19th-century poet looks and self-assured (read: mansplaining) ways, Anthony cuts quite a figure.
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It's the outcry of every independent, self-assured, single woman testing the waters of a strange new land.
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"The self-assured app entrepreneur appears to have an answer for everything," the Dragons' Den voice-over enthused.
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It is the first time that the people's everyday experience is in conflict with Delhi's self-assured narrative.
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"Jennifer has gotten more confident, more set in her ways and pretty self-assured," says the first source.
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Pink lipstick Her social media photographs show a self-assured, clear-eyed young woman in a head scarf.
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It is confident and self-assured, with a look and feel that's really like nothing else out there.
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Her feel-good attitude toward her own body has shaped my ability to remain positive and self-assured.
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You're very self-assured...and by that I mean, You know who you are and what you want.
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What if Giancarlo Stanton, so menacing and self-assured, had not looked so feeble when it mattered most?
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Accessible and self-assured, Human Instamatic was undoubtedly one of the best museum shows to open last year.
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She said the turkeys "generally cooperate," but it takes a self-assured approach to scare off the birds.
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Multiple people who know him say he has a gruff, self-assured manner to match his tough visage.
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At the end of this season, I feel she is the most self-assured character in the show.
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Paul Groves and Raymond Aceto were relaxed, self-assured luxuries as the laughing army officers, Tchekalinsky and Sourin.
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Plus, Isra is remarkably self-assured and logic-driven for a teen, something her mother has noticed too.
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Self-assured people know what they are capable of and don't treat being wrong as a personal slight.
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He was self-assured without being arrogant, and down-to-earth without being a caricature or a clown.
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The book calls her "a cold and pitiless goddess," but to me she was self-assured, unapologetically powerful.
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And it clearly amuses the self-assured Jacques to dine with the fellow in such an upscale environment.
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Her works are at their most expressive in the places where abstraction is at its most self-assured.
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Koch commands this creative authority to demonstrate her commitment to the delicate yet self-assured artwork she produces.
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Despite this mixed news, the Sanders campaign has become increasingly self-assured and more aggressive in criticizing Hillary Clinton.
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Gently making suggestions or demonstrating what he had in mind, the 28-year-old Mr. Peck appeared self-assured.
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On the 1st, a rare solar eclipse in your sign reminds you of the importance of being self-assured.
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He'd come out to his parents and was as self-assured as any 22-year-old ever can be.
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While you develop your own confidence, use body language tricks career experts say make you appear more self-assured.
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"Special"—aided by Puerto Rican chart-destroyer Anuel AA—is a colorful, self-assured exploration of Gucci's inherent worth.
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The trove of androgynous looks in velvets and silks were sumptuous, sexy and self-assured at the same time.
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It's not always easy having older sisters growing up – but what about having two fabulous, self-assured older sisters?
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Yes, the works are all there, but something is missing, something much like Minimalism's uncomplicated, effortless, self-assured presence.
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" She once told an interviewer, "I'm the most self-assured person I've ever met, very arrogant at times, sure.
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All of it rocked my normally steady and self-assured center and made me feel alienated from my writing.
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I finished the actual song very recently and it's nice being able to feel so self-assured now, comparatively.
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From thence proceeds our self-assured blindness by which we spitefully deny ourselves the wisdom they could teach us.
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They will hopefully learn to be self-assured and well-adjusted based on the roots we plant for them now.
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But it wouldn't be so far off to say that she bestows the same self-assured feeling on her fans.
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Unlike America, where debating clubs are dominated by shouty, self-assured boys, most contestants in the Chinese league are girls.
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To Jimmy Carter, Deng Xiaoping was a string of flattering adjectives: "smart, tough, intelligent, frank, courageous, personable, self-assured, friendly".
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Gone is his self-assured tone; in its place is a quivering guy having a seemingly out-of-body experience.
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Especially compared to the optimistic and almost relentlessly positive millennials, iGen is markedly less self-assured, and more are depressed.
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The curtain-dropper: the self-assured parkgoer adjusts his wet shirt and applauds himself, signaling the ride was a success.
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But what if the musical were told from the perspective of Hamilton's angry wife or a self-assured King George?
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Mr. Wiley depicts Mr. Obama not as a self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat, but as an alert and troubled thinker.
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Everything here slows to a self-assured ooze, lines drawn out and accented with irreverent takes on ad-libbed parentheticals.
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I was awed by Roz back then and remember wondering what it must feel like to be so self-assured.
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Collins, in particular, can pull off everything from bright-eyed pious naïf to delightfully innocent drunk to, eventually, self-assured woman.
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Of course, Barra has always been a self-assured chief executive, but now she has a good reason to feel confident.
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While Noah remembered himself as distracted and eager to leave, Juliette remembers him as self-assured, although his abrupt exit remains.
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As a girl, you're evolving from someone who keeps their bra on during sex to a Self-Assured Adult Woman (SAAW).
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A self-assured young girl who won't take shit from adults or her peers simply because she's different and a girl?
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Over the phone, Kim is exactly what you'd hope Mark would be two decades later: He's intense, sincere, and self-assured.
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Hearing Morrissey openly reveal his shyness in such poetic terms in a glorious, self-assured voice changed something inside of me.
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There is no sound, but if that cabbage fairy could talk, she would finish the film with a self-assured merci.
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At a local club, she meets Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who is everything Yorkie isn't: self-assured, collected, and sexually confident.
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Instead, Rose is so self-assured and relaxed that you're amused by her amusement in the part, and by her freedom.
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Annemarie O'Sullivan, 46, is a quietly self-assured woman who grew up in constrictive small-town Ireland as a competitive swimmer.
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I found it plenty crunchy — it took two sittings to completely finish — but bright and self-assured in a welcoming way.
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But perhaps most astonishing is the captain's calm and supremely self-assured persona as he leads El Faro to its doom.
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Often brusque in manner, outwardly self-assured and iron-willed, Ben-Gurion poured his innermost emotions into his diaries and letters.
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It's a challenging novel, but Klam's prose is so clean, so self-assured, that it feels a little like a miracle.
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The young Calder and his middle-aged counterpart are almost identical: self-assured, hard working, constitutionally cheerful — and that's about it.
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But behind the facade of a self-assured showman is the secret Mr. Turner tries to keep to himself: He's blind.
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Blackburn captures the societal aspirations and economic position of this self-assured couple as they embody the height of colonial gentility.
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After all, a brazen, self-assured Aries probably won't share the same approach to handle stress as a by-the-books Capricorn.
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The focus of the event is to promote social change nationwide and to empower young girls to be strong and self-assured.
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Self-assured Roman elites had become happily bilingual and biliterate, and in time this helped them rule a widespread and polyglot empire.
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Mothers often advise their daughters that if they are too bossy, self-assured, and opinionated, it'll be hard to find a husband.
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Plus, the lead characters — ambitious Nini, tortured Ricky, and self-assured EJ — lack the chemistry and charisma of Efron, Hudgens, and crew.
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With my skin back to its former glory, I now feel self-assured enough to leave the house with less makeup on.
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" Jules [Close friend since high school]: "You're simultaneously self-deprecating and also self-assured, but maybe both of those stem from insecurity.
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The A-side of this release is a bit more self-assured than this one, but sometimes directionlessness can be the point.
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He was sufficiently self-assured to "wing it" in debates and would even brag to audiences about how little he was preparing.
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Handsome and self-assured, he bears a resemblance to a younger Denzel Washington and exhibits the same antic humor as Kevin Hart.
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" Nevertheless, she did begin a portrait of Helena from behind, standing tall in a strong, self-assured stance, which she named "Amazon.
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The novel opens with a chance encounter between Renu and Vineet, a gallant, self-assured man, at a metro station in Delhi.
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Williams, who is forty-three, with brown hair and a blinding smile, gives off the self-assured vibe of a yoga instructor.
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The friend was so self-assured about her physical strength that she often picked fights with anyone harassing women on the street.
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Biden's response to questions about his age -- he said age brought him much-needed experience and wisdom -- was self assured and solid.
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"I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis," he told me, with a wit as self-assured as it was self-deprecating.
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The black press was considerably more powerful and self-assured by 1940, when Abbott died and his nephew John H. Sengstacke succeeded him.
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They don't resort to intimidation, anger, or manipulation to get a point across because their gentle, self-assured nature gets the job done.
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Because he is world-historically self-assured and polished at public speaking, Christie does not come across as an amateur on the radio.
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While nowhere near as sassy as Diablo Cody nor as self-assured as Lena Dunham, Lady Bird comes from a fundamentally genuine place.
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That leaves Clinton hopelessly unprepared to take on a different kind of opponent too many of the self-assured pundits never saw coming.
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Static and glitches crowd out sidewinding riffs, or self-assured synth programming, all while Rook whispers listlessly about the abstract appeal of death.
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The fourth annual Brandcast took place last night at the Javits Center, and compared with previous versions, it was decidedly more self-assured.
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"For a Justice who's been on the court for less than three months, it's a remarkably self-assured set of opinions," he said.
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Karen is everything Beck isn't, which is to say she's an interesting, self-assured woman with a job and readily observable positive qualities.
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This is far too much emotional stress to place on a teenager, even one as nominally put together and self-assured as Paige.
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He's extremely self-assured in his genius; he's hungry to reach new artistic heights; he's unafraid to express his enthusiasm and his frustration.
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Easy's lady friends, like Mama Jo, the "backwoods witch," and the "beautiful and stormy and self-assured" Coco Ray, are vibrant creatures all.
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We've all ghosted or been ghosted upon, and being ditched leaves even the most self-assured people in a pit of self-doubt.
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The context in which Aaliyah sounded disarmingly grown up and self-assured singing R. Kelly's songs at 15 has unseemly connotations in retrospect.
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"At the time [of my 2008 show], I was quite self-assured, thinking that 'I wouldn't let anything get to me,'" she says.
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Pool was abstract and diffuse, which is charming in its own way, but The House's instrumental choices feel pointed, dynamic, and self-assured.
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The work of Francesca Woodman, to which an entire room is devoted, is breathtaking in its performative ephemerality, its self-assured self-ghosting.
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In tracing the comic pathway by which a schlub becomes more self-assured, it tells a morality tale about the value of persistence.
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"I look like a Pilgrim prepping for Thanksgiving," she murmured to herself, a rare moment when she does not seem completely self-assured.
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As befits a self-assured Silicon Valley software pioneer, he reckons his climate bets could tackle half of all annual greenhouse-gas emissions.
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The similarities end there; the young men embody radically different visions of Dominican masculinity, one boldly self-assured and the other emphatically feeble.
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But Drake undeniably brought hip-hop to the masses, deftly flitting between pop and rap with palatable hits and a self-assured swagger.
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Republicans are more self-assured there, but few expect Trump to win in some other battleground states — like Colorado, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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The same is true for Mont, an offbeat playwright, who's self-assured and courageous in a way that doesn't cling to gender norms.
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Granser's framing amplifies the luxury and self-assured nature of Mamani's designs; the photographs exemplify the buildings as visual assertions of cultural pride.
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Preternaturally self-assured, Cockburn is nothing like the hollow-eyed specters that we tend to associate with grieving parents in the popular imagination.
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He's got the voice for it: deep, aggressive, froglike, inhabiting a defiantly angry yet infuriatingly self-assured tone that matches the orchestration exactly.
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A paradox, "thrillingly rebellious and self-assured, yet stoutly institutional", he was a "velvety writer" of savage attacks on government and a "titanic patriot".
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And as Trump was literally casting the part, Tillerson fit the playbill: white-haired, Texas swagger, a self-assured master of the universe. Boom.
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Just so things don't get too too tender, "Metro PCS" and "Thotties" offset the love songs with self-assured (but equally melodic) swag rap.
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But when it comes to winning an election, the only person who needs to look self-assured and like a winner is the candidate.
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We have somehow managed to raise a very healthy, very happy, self-assured little girl who knows she's loved, who finds her parents entertaining.
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To me, "Thank U, Next" isn't as much about the process of recovery after heartbreak, but the self-assured product —which is incredibly important.
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"They took away my innocence and the hope of being a self-assured person," Pérez says of the decades she spent in forced labor.
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Star is almost childishly naïve, but at the same time ruthlessly self-assured, heedless of danger and intuitively aware of the power she possesses.
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For a little guy who spent so much of his career in the minors, Collins remains, to the end, disarmingly secure and self-assured.
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The mission took Elizabeth and the chastened (but increasingly self-assured) Paige to a stakeout of Haskard's team of American and Soviet arms negotiators.
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Self-assured, articulate and principled, Mr. Amro and his rising public profile serve as an embarrassment to the Israeli military regime that controls Palestine.
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At moments, I feel like a superhero – confident and self-assured in the decisions I am making and how I am doing as a dad.
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With writer and star Issa Rae at the helm, the show is immediately self-assured, different from anything HBO's tried before, and funny as hell.
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A 1954 Life magazine photo spread shows Rockefeller looking self-assured while relaxing at one of the hacienda's airy patios and touring the estate's fields.
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As for Mr Oyelowo, his transformation from a regal, self-assured soldier into a bloodthirsty creature undone by jealousy must be seen to be believed.
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If the current trends continue, a lot of once self-assured pundits, politicians, and CEOs are going to deal with some sleepless nights to come.
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Franklin's quintessential song is sung from the perspective of a woman who feels confident and self-assured in what she has to offer her partner.
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The girl, apparently the more self-assured of the two, belies the innocence of her chubby, angelic face with a modest clasp of her shawl.
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It's like all the "wrong" examples you read about in kindergarten picture books about acceptance and the golden rule manifested into one self-assured movement.
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Paulson's face goes through a symphony of emotions, cascading from a self-assured smirk to wide-eyed alarm to bottled-up rage to tearful defeat.
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She has from the start of her career been so distinctive and self-assured (despite her shyness) that she has never had to reinvent herself.
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To many people disturbed by reports of intolerant radicals on campus, Peterson was a rallying figure: a fearsomely self-assured debater, unintimidated by liberal condemnation.
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"I've been told that she's very self-assured and doesn't feel like she needs to change her reserved personality to be more relatable," said Brower.
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The drawing and modeling is loose and fun; the pots self-assured in their design and fabrication, and bold in their statement of ethnic pride.
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It's gloomier than past records, but it's mostly self-assured, each track centered on emotional potential of the human voice when it's looped to infinity.
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There were so many interesting details, the prose was so easy to follow — so self-assured, no pesky footnotes to distract me from the story.
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Wiley depicts Mr. Obama not as a self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat, but as an alert and troubled thinker," our critic Holland Cotter writes. "Ms.
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The self-assured leading women of "Black Panther" wear their "Wakanda knots," elaborately interwoven braids, regal snow-white dreadlocks and decorated bald scalps with ease.
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And with a joke-packed script from former Friends producer Scott Silveri — whose brother has cerebral palsy — it's immediately self-assured and full of heart.
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He looks often to be both unwaveringly self-assured and wryly amused, so at ease in a hunch-shouldered awkwardness that he seems almost debonair.
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The friendship withered when Ms. Graham began bringing around Mr. Anderson, a lithe, self-assured man who had a small flower tattoo on his cheek.
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But she managed to pair this vulnerability with a self-assured quality of someone who knew what she deserved, regardless of her status in society.
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Pongo's songs are a punchy, self-assured take on the musical style known as kuduro, blending frenetic African rhythms with blaring techno beats and rapping.
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Sure, Uncut Gems feels like New York by way of John Cassavetes and Robert Altman, but it's the product of the Safdies' self-assured vision.
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One of the unfortunate byproducts of sexism is the demand that people who identify as masculine be self-actualized and self-assured out of the womb.
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Watching her transform into a self-assured powerhouse so quickly may not quite be realistic, but Gaga's assured performance makes it all feel real and grounded.
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Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are more than just self-assured partners for Prince William and Prince Harry – they're modern women who are changing the monarchy.
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After a strong performance early in the debate, Trump suddenly lost his stamina and physical and mental strength while Clinton seemed strong, self-assured and composed.
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Ms. Trump's childhood friends recalled him incessantly washing the cars, but also carrying himself in a self-assured way that now reminded them of Mr. Trump.
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I envied their ability to wear the role of self-assured host like a second skin, capable of tolerating any type of cruelty with a smile.
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But he is opinionated when he wants to be, and at age 31, with three championships to his name, he seems more self-assured than ever.
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"In the grasslands, they are free and they are self-assured," said Meng Xiangjing, a professor in population and development studies at Renmin University in Beijing.
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"I wanted to see if I have enough talent to become a trainee," says Amber Tseng, a self-assured 14-year old with a strong voice.
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Its tone is a little too self-assured, and some of the solutions are tough to swallow, like avoiding hormonal birth control or giving up MSG.
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Though Joanna says she feels like "a first-time mom all over again" after her extended break from babies, she's more self-assured in her mothering experience.
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This phenomenon has also been lumped under the catchphrase "the confidence gap," which outlines many of the ways in which women are less-self assured than men.
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A lot of Clinton's truest supporters say they love the way she speaks with the authority and self-assured tone of a long-serving and knowledgeable politician.
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But what if you could pay that confident, self-assured feeling forward to a group of women who need it most... simply by booking an eyebrow appointment?
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Being self-assured, you know that you don't have to say yes to all of Khaled's whims—sexual or otherwise—which is what he likes about you.
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I think of them as a new prototype—kids who are, on the surface at least, so much more self-assured than we were at their age.
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With her feline beauty, and the undulating flow and power of her dancing, this self-assured young member of New York City Ballet is just starting out.
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The self-assured professionalism of the Pompidou approach and the quality of the works at its disposal have cast the local private museums in a harsh light.
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The film stars Green as a hesitant character undergoing a personal crisis as he meets up in Thailand with his self-assured best friend, portrayed by Breckin Meyer.
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This new story would be a nod to that, as well as a way to throw a very self-assured character into the chaotic thrill of sexual awakening.
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Once a self-assured UFC no longer needed Ortiz at the top of the marquee, his place was less secure: was he a legend or a self-parody?
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume that as self-assured, fat-positive women on the internet, you might get a little bit of hate.
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Don't tune in to The Romanoffs — Amazon's new anthology drama from Mad Men creator Matt Weiner — expecting a show as instantly self-assured as that AMC series was.
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Several self-portraits demonstrate less a portrayal of victimhood and adversity and more of a self-assured businesswoman as the creator of these bold and highly desirable paintings.
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He was memorably self-assured when, on CNN, he pressed Senator Marco Rubio about accepting N.R.A. funding; he went on to help organize the March for Our Lives.
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Normally, The Red Woman has the self-assured air of someone who just finished The Secret and got a manicure, but in the trailer, she's doubting her visions.
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Within just 24 hours, White House officials went from feeling self-assured about the speediness of the Senate impeachment trial to scrambling to squash John Bolton's bombshell allegation.
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"My students at Yale—the poster children for meritocracy—are more nearly overwhelmed and confounded by their apparent blessings than complacent or even just self-assured," he writes.
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Just shy of the release of his band's divisive fifth album, Get Hurt, Fallon was at last beginning to feel self-assured, confident even, in his artistic output.
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Droste sounds as self-assured as he ever has, still in possession of a freeze-your-blood falsetto but only using it sparingly and for maximum emotional power.
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Her words are so important: Even when you're a confident, self-assured feminist, it can be difficult to receive the harassing messages so many women face online each day.
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The thing that makes the Baldwin, 58, effect reliably funny isn't just his self-assured stature: he's an experimental team player, and everyone around him is funnier for it.
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Trump, however, has adopted a more self-assured attitude about the report's pending release, telling confidants he is certain the final product will back up his claims of exoneration.
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Zé, the newest and weirdest in Atlanta rap, is back once again to give us some needed wisdom on what it's like to be self-assured, black, and gay.
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"Generally people who die under assisted-suicide laws are not confident, self-assured young women confronting intractable pain," says Richard Doerflinger of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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His characters, more marginal and far less self-assured — many abandon jobs and families to light out in search of meaning they never find — are handled with greater tenderness.
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It was interesting that I felt more comfortable and self-assured lying naked in a bathtub with a stranger in the room than I do in my everyday life.
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Meanwhile, Rochester (Thomas Forster) shows that he's self-assured enough to be as vulnerable as Jane when she takes on all his weight and he swoons into her arms.
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He left with a self-assured smile and, while indicating he would probably need therapy to deal with the time on his hands, he ruled out a potential return.
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Once she's gone from Jodi's life, the movie lacks the oomph it had when Fareeda frequented its scenes as a self-assured, badass, confident teenager wise beyond her years.
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He said he was struggling for confidence in his battle to find form on his return from a knee injury, a startling admission from someone normally so self-assured.
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If you're the kind of person who strides confidently down the street, you're making an implicit claim to being coordinated and self-assured; tripping suggests you're no such thing.
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Read together, the transcripts paint a terrifying portrait of a man who is simultaneously unintelligible in his delivery, self-assured in his ignorance and consciously bathing in his narcissism.
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And on "Conditions Wild," a succinct manifesto for personal liberation, Gunn is so self-assured he practically murmurs through the verses, as if he's lived the lyrics he sings.
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A storyline between Negan and Michonne plays like a weird riff on Silence of the Lambs, with the self-assured Michonne suddenly as easy to manipulate as young Clarice Starling.
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He goes on to credit his self-assured outlook as a reason for his success, and expresses his wish to share it with others who struggle to feel the same.
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Though the HGTV star said she felt like "a first-time mom all over again" after her extended break from babies, she was more self-assured in her mothering experience.
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The Sundance smash centers on the life-changing love affair between two Americans in Italy: one a teenager still figuring himself out, the other a more self-assured young man.
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It sidles up to the patrol car of Philip Krauss (Will Poulter), a DPD officer of self-assured monstrousness who's shown shooting a man (Tyler James Williams) for stealing groceries.
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An actress, artist and, in an earlier life, unregenerate gadabout, Ms. Subkoff seemed intent on presenting the world with a shiny, self-assured and elegantly gift-wrapped version of herself.
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The songs are careful and considered in the same way, full of these hesitant passages of acoustic guitar and gently sung harmonies, that bloom and unfold into self-assured anthemics.
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Porn is "not all bad," said A., who was frank and funny, with a slew of advanced-placement classes on her transcript and a self-assured manner that impresses adults.
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On NBC alone, both This Is Us and The Good Place were instantly self-assured, while over on ABC, Speechless was one of those family comedies that gelled almost immediately.
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Despite a couple of bumps along the way — namely this season's "Hella Blows," a confusing series low note — the second season was more ambitious and self-assured than the first.
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Invader Zim had a simple premise: The destructively self-assured and "very small" Zim is an alien dead set on conquering Earth in the name of the glorious Irken empire.
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Gomez seems to be back on track and full of gratitude, telling the WSJ Magazine that because of her mental health journey, she feels more self-assured than ever before.
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But by openly criticizing Mr. Bannon, he has created an environment that makes it hard for the swaggering and self-assured chief strategist to remain in place without appearing undermined.
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It's unsettling at points, like when she weighs the merits of jumping off a cliff, but she mostly sounds self-assured, confident in the ways she moves through the world.
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They're both utterly vile in such utterly different ways – Linda is a really clueless social climber; Fig's lack of moral rectitude is astounding, but her arrogant, self-assured competence is admirable.
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The scary thing is that "Sumo"—a song that led with relatively self-assured lyrics but still sounded like an air-raid siren inside a munitions factory—will be on Light.
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She scored 19 points, dished out five assists, grabbed four rebounds and two steals, while commandeering the offense in the kind of self-assured way one expects an upperclassman to behave.
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Society alternately anoints people who are suffering from mental illness as prophets or scapegoats—a reflex that attests to centuries of prior abuse at the hands of the spiritually self-assured.
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In several of the photos, Cuthbert is looking directly at the camera with a self-assured smile and an ever-so-slightly cocked eyebrow, suggesting she knows exactly what she's doing.
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She would never tell a female client not to damper her confidence in a dating profile, and I would never shy away from coming off as self-assured on my own.
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A woman and a girl walk by, their faces obscured by the window mullion, and marking their distance is a diaphanous lace curtain, which Morisot has painted with self-assured alacrity.
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"The way that I write music is that I listen to a song I love and I copy it," Mr. Healy said, generously peppering his always self-assured statements with expletives.
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Polished, persistent and self-assured, Mr. Brownback has been seen as a model for the opportunities and perils of governing without compromise from the right on both social and fiscal issues.
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Only wouldn't it have been cool if what Vicky had wanted to be was a less subservient, more out-there type of girl, so self-assured that nothing ever threw her?
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This was Cooking 101, the most basic of basics, and after six weeks Ms. Merced was like every other brand-new, self-assured line cook on the planet — she'd outgrown it.
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So if Comey is self-assured in his identity as a law enforcement officer and an independent actor, the pressures to conform to the Trump agenda will bounce off his skin.
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And those pieces share DNA with movies like Pretty in Pink, in which the spunky, self-assured heroine finds her own way in the world, and finds love in the process.
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The historian Nell Irvin Painter argues that her words were "too strong" for white suffrage leaders who saw her polished, self-assured style as antithetical to what they viewed as blackness.
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Raised in the Alleghenies of western Pennsylvania, Abbey was rugged and self-assured, with the scraggly beard of an Old West prospector and the iconoclastic poise of a bohemian Yosemite Sam.
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An empowered Navarro, and the absence of dissenting voices in the White House, could make Trump feel more self-assured than ever about ushering the US into a new era of protectionism.
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A not-great outfit might only be a small annoyance on a normal day, but in a high-pressure situation, it can rattle you when you need to feel completely self-assured.
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"It's an incredible privilege and honor to have been chosen to create a look for one of the most galvanizing, self-assured, and distinguished individuals of our time," he wrote on Instagram.
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So of course people are going to be wrong, but there is a chef-kisses-fingertips element to a man as loudly self-assured as Stephen A. being so wrong so often.
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After years of living with and observing his own cat Ziggy, author Stéphane Garnier decided people would be much happier if they adopted the calm, wise, and self-assured characteristics of cats.
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Lucas was a self-assured filmmaker, confident in his vision for his projects, which gave him an outsized reputation when he was breaking into the industry with THX-1138 and American Graffiti.
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Sometimes people think being bold is to be firm, but in fact being bold for me is being confident, self-assured, and proud of who I am and the decisions I make.
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On the outside, Renee is the same old Renee she's ever been — just more self-assured, and comfortable in her own skin — proving that it's really what's on the inside that counts.
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And when she dies in the process, it's framed as a big moment for, uh, Lando, raising the emotional stakes for Captain Calrissian and wiping that self-assured smirk off his face.
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Namely, as long as they kept to their square metre-age and I kept to mine, we could exist alongside each other in something like mutually self-assured destruction, terror, and harmony.
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Patterns clearly emerged among the mentally strongest people I talked with, which I cross-referenced with the habits of the most self-assured leaders I met over a 30-year corporate career.
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Most often, it is carnal and self-assured, as on "High Hopes," the decidedly noncommercial seven-minute intro to "PartyNextDoor 3," which just sounds X-rated (to say nothing of the lyrics).
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Indeed, if there are characters from the TV show "The West Wing" that match Ms. Bartoloni and Mr. Keenan, it may be the self-assured Amy and the almost-too-smart Josh.
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The spacey terrors of "Sucker Free," which sorta sound like the Alien score transcribed for triangle and 808, provides Ms. Boogie a truly unusual canvas for her self-assured, splatter-painted bars.
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" But all that changed once the self-assured redhead realized "fans are going to love me and stick with me whether I'm wearing a crop top and a short skirt or not.
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Kavanaugh reads as a very particular type to those who never enjoyed a secure place in adolescence, who never walked the high school halls with the majestic ego of the self-assured.
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Despite what casual acquaintances saw as awkwardness in public, people who watched the governor more closely concluded that he was not really shy — that he was, in fact, a self-assured man.
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And with a handsome, self-assured Michael C. Hall in the role of Pain (a last name that shrieks volumes), he appears as less of a lost cause than he once did.
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Yang says he considers himself "confident," not cocky, but it's clear he and his aides believe it would be difficult not to be self-assured after the unexpected success he has had.
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While sustaining this sort of story is invariably a juggling act, this has the self-assured feel of a hit-and-run tale that's destined to keep running for at least a while.
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The main thing I'll say about the hardware is that they aren't as elegant as a Galaxy S230 or even an iPhone, but the design does feel self-assured in its own way.
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A member of City Ballet since 2005 and a principal since 2009, she is almost preternaturally self-assured, possessing an astounding technique that is made all the more radiant by her silken musicality.
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Like Thomas Friedman on a deadline, his commentary is a bottomless fountain of self-assured banality, the sole discernible purpose of which is to reinforce the mystery of life in the Global South.
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The set back doesn't happen for long as he soon realizes he can earn some extra cash by posing as the boyfriend of a self-assured, punk girl named Celia Lieberman (Laura Marano).
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Both Robert and Fragonard were pioneers of a new bravura style, characterized by looser brush strokes and often thicker impastos, conveying a self-assured insouciance that appealed to the upper echelons of society.
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When they speak to each other, it is easy to conclude that Strawberry, a founder of two drug treatment and recovery centers in Florida, looks healthier and sounds more self-assured than Gooden.
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Corinne Cobson, a French fashion designer whose self-assured clothing for women gained acclaim in the 1980s and '90s, died on April 16 at a clinic in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris.
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In her music, shows and videos, Ms. Grande — ever-smiling as she unleashes a soaring voice — is what her fans long to be: Self-assured, sexy, talented, optimistic, in control and proudly feminine.
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This is pretty self-assured stuff, and Leitch always gives the impression of somebody who's challenging himself, but only a little bit, and wants us to notice the effort, but not too much.
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As one of the few self-produced girl bands signed to a major, we have learned to be as self assured as we are self-sufficient—and we've learned to thrive on that.
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This isn't Bee's first rodeo, of course, and the persona she's adopted feels like a modified version of her Daily Show correspondent: She's charmingly brash, self-assured, and isn't going to take any bullshit.
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Duguay wants to find someone who is self-assured to a degree where they can open themselves for a moment of vulnerability, rather than make the whole two-hour interview a demonstration of bravado.
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Morris wrote the book with the help of the novelist Wesley Stace (who is also the singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding), but its voice is unmistakably his: direct, brash, flippant, charming, impenetrably self-assured.
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That year, Tina Fey's parody of Sarah Palin shot her to superstardom and helped harden the public's view of the Republican vice presidential nominee as preternaturally self-assured in the face of insurmountable deficiencies.
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On the other hand, if Chinese leaders act too cautiously, they could look inept to a domestic populace that has, in recent years, become more self-assured about China's status as a rising power.
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Her encounter with Mr. Cuomo, in July 2017, offered a telling glimpse of her political style: unassuming, but self-assured, conciliatory, but willing to challenge men in power who may take her for granted.
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She wanted some relief; she wanted to spend time occupying the head space of an optimist who thought everything might work out, who wasn't plagued with self-doubt, who seemed confident and self-assured.
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The strongest essays are those in which he embraces that voice — the uncertain one that uses humor to interact with a world that expects him to be far more self-assured than he feels.
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During his Hofstra meltdown Trump was so occupied defending himself against the self-assured Clinton he forgot his most effective attacks, including a much-anticipated hit on the fundraising practices of the Clinton Foundation.
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If you haven't seen "Krisha," though, I'd recommend a double bill, an early-career retrospective of the work of a spookily self-assured, slyly ambitious young filmmaker whose apparently modest stories have mighty implications.
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It resolves out into the closing statement of "Futura Free," where he flexes a few more markers of who he is in a giddy, distinctly self-assured rap, channeling fellow New Orleanian Lil Wayne.
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At 30, I'm pretty confident and self-assured, but it took me a long time (and many, many hours in the bathroom detangling my big head of curly hair) to learn to love my faults.
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The early weeks of a school year can rattle even the most self-assured kid — the swirl of new classes, teachers and tribes, and the pressure to try out new extracurriculars, sports and even personalities.
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Even more qualifying, Walsh said, was that D'Antoni figured to be better emotionally prepared for the pressurized environmental conditions, whereas Walsh believed that even the most self-assured rookie head coach would find them daunting.
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Supporters of Karoui, a self-assured businessman facing corruption charges, present Sunday's run-off presidential vote as a choice between a professionally successful, secular champion of Tunisia's poor and an inexperienced conservative backed by Islamists.
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And while there might not be a magic trick to boosting your self-esteem forever, acting more confident really might help you feel more self-assured — or at least come off that way to other people.
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On her, 30 looks sexy, self-assured, and not at all a terrifying marker of personal mortality that you're meant to celebrate with a mini-break or cocktail party, all the while thinking about impending oblivion.
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Kirstein had convictions aplenty, and if anything was too self-assured in what Igor Stravinsky called his "bellicose dedication to the beautiful and a contempt for the sham" (the sham as he saw it, of course).
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But they quickly joined the rest of the self-assured anti-Trump chorus when they bashed his immigration speech as a failure and insisted whatever good the optics of Trump's meeting with President Peña Nieto earned.
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There is a clear, and increasingly self-assured model for this policy mix: the illiberal international that now rules countries like Russia, Turkey, Hungary and Poland -- and is ascendant in much of Western Europe as well.
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Each proceeding track is all-out emotional warfare on your heartstrings, "Evil Dead" dredging up your most confusing and angry moments, "Howard" whisking you away to summers past, "Second Sage" an argumentative, self-assured punk rock.
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The 26 year-old has always come across as self-assured on his projects, but there is something different about this particular release that paints a more intimate portrait of the rapper than we've ever seen.
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Mobs targeted black people who owned land that whites wanted to take; who were self-assured enough to defend themselves against assault or harassment, including sexual assault and harassment; or who sought political participation, including voting.
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And his senior aides, who once spoke in a self-assured way about the race's quickly narrowing to a two-man contest between Mr. Rubio and Donald J. Trump, now privately concede that will never happen.
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Even Macron's opponents acknowledge that he has performed well in the townhall sessions, part of a two-month long national debate Macron promises will influence policymaking, appearing self-assured and confident as the audiences grilled him.
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"If you want your children to grow up empowered, self-assured, and self-sufficient members of society, then you should teach them or allow them to be taught the importance of knowing their bodies," she says.
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As one of the most arresting artists to come out of that weird phase when R&B inflections rubbed against indie and electronic music a few years ago, she now sounds more self-assured than ever.
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In an interview with a local television station, parents Daniel and Lacey Rawlings described Willa Rawlings as a confident, self-assured young girl whose favorite color was magenta and who wanted to be a Disney princess.
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Darker themes that stalked his older work—the specters of lost lovers, queer desire, and cosmic disappointment—are still present here, but the careful orchestration of songs like "cherubim" makes these pieces feel impossibly self-assured.
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Instead, in an appearance that will serve as the prelude to his presidency, Trump showed he will keep playing the same familiar role: The self-assured provocateur who will slash anyone he believes might have crossed him.
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His painterly style, developed and refined out of four decades of working, became bolder, his figures and forms more monumental, his use of black more prominent, his sense of space – compressed but never flattened – more self-assured.
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When he spoke of his sister, whom he tragically lost to heroin addiction, the voters got a look into the soul of a man who, while tremendously ambitious and self-assured, has also suffered, lost and struggled.
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Daring, expressive, self-assured, the same symbol of feminine rebellion worn by suffragettes in 1912 (as doled out by one Elizabeth Arden) reigned supreme, worn on the lips of Wonder Woman, Emma Watson, and so many more.
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The rise of Donald Trump has made clear that many Republican voters crave red meat from their political leaders, heavy doses of bluster, posturing and threats that seem a world away from Carson's quiet, self-assured charisma.
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Along the way, this speedy, self-assured thriller, nimbly directed by Jodie Foster from a packed script by Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore and Jim Kouf, looses bullhorn blasts of topical outrage on matters of grave public concern.
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Seven years later, when we caught up for a drink, I found myself staring at the self-assured woman with a cigarette in one hand and a coffee in the other, marveling at what she has become.
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What should have been a 100 minute crime caper that explores the roots of these relationships via a single focused yet amusingly chaotic heist is instead a bloated grab bag of self-assured nostalgia and mishandled pastiche.
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With just about the entire regular cast helming the ship, and with producers like Key & Peele's Ian Roberts and Community's Alison Brie, Teachers is already a self-assured comedy that knows exactly where to find its laughs.
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Beginning with her hilarious, gloriously self-assured debut in the criminally under-seen rom-com "Music and Lyrics," Haley Bennett has enjoyed a career that, while steady, has been devoid of the breakout role she's long deserved.
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During the last district council elections in 2015, Mr. Yu was a steady presence at the ferry pier, promising residents more car parks, more schools and an overall better Mui Wo, in vague but self-assured terms.
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Still, you can see the resemblance, which only grows as TJ (John Bambery), the school's white, middle-aged dean, develops a predatory obsession with Sally, his young research assistant, self-assured and certain of her own boundaries.
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The role requires both expert comic timing and the skill to convey real pathos, plus the ability to seem less like a self-assured child star and more like a bumbling preteen on the brink of adolescence.
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Rashi Goil is a self-assured young woman of 23 who is a partner in her family business, RS Windlass & Sons, a company that provides props and licensed merchandise for major Hollywood productions including Game of Thrones.
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During a candid interview with the New York Post's Page Six backstage at Carey's concert at Madison Square Garden, the "Heartbreaker" songstress revealed that she doesn't see herself as the self-assured diva her fans think she is.
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I went from feeling like the successful, creative, self-assured woman I am, to the 14 year-old version of me who cried herself to sleep because no one in her family showed up to her awards ceremony.
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The pitch, which supporters began making in phone calls and text messages on Monday night just minutes after the networks called the race, is blunt and self-assured: The Republican race has narrowed to a three-man contest.
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Speaking to his friends Lala, who is terrifyingly self-assured and good at makeup, and Logan, a tertiary cast member with whom he is probably in love, James announces that his girlfriend, Raquel, is moving in with him.
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For an 80s-horror update that won't leave you scratching your head wondering why we're so obsessed with station wagons and ranch-style homes lately, check out this self-assured seat-gripper from Detroit director David Robert Mitchell.
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Brian Helgeland, the writer and director of "42," the Jackie Robinson movie that gave Boseman his breakout role, told me the actor reminded him of sturdy, self-assured icons of 1970s virility, like Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood.
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Strictly by the numbers, the exiles were the actual elites: a vanishingly small group of people who are so acutely self-assured that they are willing to write candidly about their low and average IQ test scores. What!?
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The book, in which MacLane proudly proclaims herself an amoral genius devoted to the devil, scandalized the US for its surprisingly self-assured teen girl ego, so uncommon for girls of MacLane's time, or any time for that matter.
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What we're hearing: Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured, more prone to confidently indulging wild conspiracies and fantasies, more quick-triggered to fight than he was during the Wild West of the first 100 days in office.
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On OX, his debut proper, he sounds disturbingly self-assured, holding himself together on tracks with Valee and Chief Keef, flexing constantly, bragging about putting "thirteen racks in my motor" as if he's anywhere near the legal driving age.
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Rarely has she seemed as womanly, as self-assured — as towering (she's smaller than you might imagine) — as she was in this soulful, sophisticated performance, unveiled at the first program of City Center's Fall for Dance Festival on Tuesday.
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Fast-forward two years later and I felt like a different person: More confident, more self-assured and more determined than ever to pursue a degree in journalism after a high school hobby grew into a full-fledged passion.
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Though the filmmakers present Mr. Jones as a self-assured whistle-blower, their notes from several interviews they conducted with him before the final taping reflect that he repeatedly denied that his group was involved in an AIDS project.
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Sure, coaches should be judged by wins and losses, X's and O's, but public perception often contributes to the definition of acceptable performance, and it is often influenced by personality, by creating the image of a self-assured man in control.
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One artist that comes to mind is the iconic Black photographer James Van Der Zee who captured members of his community as they preferred to be seen — elegant and self-assured — during a period when society denied them basic human rights.
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From the very first track, "The Ringer" — which opens with a brutal litany of rap disses before seamlessly shifting to the rapper's well-established anti-Trump rage — we get Eminem at his self-aggrandizing, self-deprecating, dizzyingly self-assured best.
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But though Medford spoken about how her music is both a depiction of and refuge from the anxiety she grapples with on a daily basis, there's something more self-assured about the situations and existential wrestling she depicts on Crush Crusher.
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Across the record he demonstrates this in a multitude of ways, in slow, self-assured songwriting, slivered field recordings, and patient lyrics that seem to be, at least in part, about a search for wholeness and fulfillment in a fractured world.
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The knowledge, even subconscious, that all these tangible indicators of their royalness could be taken away or, almost as bad, carelessly lost through miscalculation, would shake the self-belief of a dynasty even as outwardly self-assured as this one.
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It's an affair befitting of the song's confidence, and sees Hus leaning into his position as one of the heirs apparent of British rap a little bit more—he's dynamic, relaxed, and self-assured, and that feels exciting to watch.
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Shay Mitchell may seem like the picture of confidence now, which she shows off through her widely-followed social media accounts and bold red carpet looks, but the Pretty Little Liars star says she didn't always feel so self-assured.
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As Fraser puts it, "A self-assured rejection of authority and those who wielded it took hold in her earliest days," and grew steadily into a hatred of government regulation so alarmingly aggressive it approached an unhinged form of anarchism.
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If it wasn't brave enough to have the leader of the free world standing on one side of your wedding party to challenge their guests' focus, the inspirationally self-assured pair also had another big name stand in between them.
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He is an even more self-assured bounder in "Lured," although his character, a London theatrical producer, is somewhat overshadowed by Lucille Ball's role as a no-nonsense taxi dancer enlisted by Scotland Yard to trap a serial killer of women.
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In an interview setting, this could mean speaking highly of your skills in a self-assured manner or in the workplace making sure that you're careful about the types of jokes that you make to a coworker or your boss.
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She was now confident in her persona, self-assured, and with more years of sobriety under her perfectly cinched belt ("I haven't had a drink in years, because I don't need that slide towards chaos lubricated at all," she whisper-screams).
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Though its characters — from drifting Issa (co-creator/writer/star Issa Rae) to her ex-boyfriend Lawrence (Jay Ellis) to her ambitious best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji) — are still decidedly in flux, Insecure season two is more self-assured than ever.
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We first hear Marnie (the plush-voiced mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard) exchanging meek pleasantries when introduced by her officious boss, Mr. Strutt (the clarion tenor Anthony Dean Griffey), to a self-assured client, Mark Rutland (the sturdy, suave baritone Christopher Maltman).
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After all this time, it's not clear how Douglas perceives himself or that he even has a fixed self-image; in his own mind, he is neither a pampered show-business scion nor a self-assured master of the universe.
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He has made an unlikely splash in the race, becoming the first openly gay major presidential candidate and captivating both elite opinion-shapers and swaths of rank-and-file Democrats with his self-assured intellectualism and rhetoric about generational change.
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" In August of 2016, Gregory Krieg and Jeff Simon came to a similar conclusion about Trump's use of these phrases, pointing out on CNN: "Trump has a habit of punctuating his more self-assured claims with the phrase 'believe me.
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Appearing on the same bill at the Glass Hat nightclub in Manhattan, the skinny kid from New Jersey was dazzled by the sleepy-eyed singer, who seemed to be everything he was not: handsome, self-assured and deeply, unshakably cool.
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The dancer Lydia Okrent, Ms. Valencia's friend and longtime collaborator, has followed this transformation in her work, from "mad at the audience," as she said in a telephone interview, to more expressive and self-assured, especially in her use of comedy.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — This is a very cool, self-assured debut by a young guy with a very cool name, if you're at all a fan of wilderness literature and thought of a mash-up of Jack London and Farley Mowat.
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"Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured, more prone to confidently indulging wild conspiracies and fantasies, more quick-triggered to fight than he was during the Wild West of the first 100 days in office," Mike Allen reports on Axios.
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The casual declaration just about sums up the laid-back, self-assured world of the 20-year-old queer pop icon, whose rich vocal delivery and honest LGBTQ+ and female empowerment anthems have secured her a group of small but devoted listeners.
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But while Wonder Woman is supremely calculated in its gender politics and its gender role reversals, the question of how a female hero sees the world winds up being less interesting than the question of how an entirely self-assured hero sees it.
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One might call that a ruthless greed, a self-assured defiance toward Trump's America or, more generously, a rational response to America's decades-old apparent indifference to one-third of its economy, where China's trade surpluses were slashing growth, jobs and incomes.
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The trope of having the "confidence of a mediocre white man" is actually based in academic work suggesting that men are more self-assured in their leadership abilities after years of social conditioning and therefore tend to exude that unquantifiable personable aura.
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While I understand that I will not see the complete effects of the song, I know the seed has been planted and the students in my video, as well as the many others I teach, will grow into self-assured and confident women.
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You don't necessarily need an active compositional hand to get there, either: Fifth Harmony's members are totally absent from 7/27's writing and production credits, but the album has a self-assured ease Trainor and Grande are still trying to nail down.
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She was not yet a self-assured lawyer, a powerful political wife or a tenacious presidential candidate, but a young woman, wide-eyed and eager, vulnerable and afraid, at the cusp of a momentous decision that would alter the course of her life.
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Renee Cox, "Raje for President" (1998) This is about a woman who is self-assured, empowered... or rather has chosen to empower herself, in the great power that women have always had since the beginning of time before we were subjugated by man.
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This installment, at the Bell House, welcomes the musical guests Tor and Lisa alongside the stand-up of the lovably flustered comedian Jo Firestone; the restrained yet unpredictable comedy of Joe Pera; the self-assured sauciness of Jacqueline Novak; and many other delights.
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It was just that kind of year, in which the honors and obligations rarely ceased for Ms. Morris, who released her polished, self-assured major-label debut, "Hero," in June, topping the country album chart and reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200.
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"They thought I was a shrew," Witherspoon said, referencing the casting directors who couldn't separate the actress from one of her recent characters at the time, the self-assured overachiever Tracy Flick from Election — a far cry from the bubbly, cheery Woods.
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"There is no set role for artists." dance Mira Nadon — with a feline, self-assured beauty and an undulating flow — "is a ballerina, capital B," Kourlas wrote after seeing Nadon, 18, above center, in her dazzling debut in George Balanchine's "Rubies" this fall.
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For her spring 2018 show, Goddard brought a smile to every face in the densely-packed audience with a procession of relaxed and self-assured models who meandered down the catwalk, some pausing to dance, some pausing to stretch, and some pausing to pose.
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The humor and wit and general otherworldliness of the recordings remain, but this track, at least, feels a bit more firmly planted on the ground, its rhythms more self-assured even as his keyboard lines and guitar fragments do loop-de-loops around the margins.
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The theme of self-assured women slides back into the conversation several times, whether we're chatting about the childhood friends Ray enlisted for the "5050" video—"hard workers, strong women; those are the kinds of people I like to surround myself with"—or family.
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"We found him to be knowledgeable but unscripted, reasonable and good-humored, self-assured but free from arrogance, willing and able to address every question, consistent in his beliefs without being dogmatic, even-tempered, curious — and in all respects optimistically, realistically presidential," the board wrote.
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Short and self-assured, with a penchant for carbon-fiber road bikes and closetful of custom European-style blazers, the manager had a particular way of posing questions, where he'd cock his head to one side, slow down his speech, and over-enunciate each word.
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Just days ahead of Trump taking office, a self-assured Xi was in Switzerland as the keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, offering a vigorous defense of globalization and signaling Beijing's desire to play a bigger role on the world stage.
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Mr. Kang, a career diplomat with more experience in the West than most in North Korea's Foreign Ministry, was self-assured but could turn prickly, bombastic and sarcastic, especially when he was tired, according to "The Two Koreas," by Don Oberdorfer and Robert Carlin.
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Self-assured, peripatetic and unfailingly dapper — he favored dark double-breasted suits and the occasional neckerchief, and once made the cover of Men's Vogue in Italy — Mr. Enwezor never doubted that an African had every right to take the lead at Western art institutions.
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Swift was fresh off of her "Reputation" tour when she began filming, and it shows — she gives a self-assured and skillful performance as Bombalurina, a haughty and beautiful ginger cat who sprinkles catnip over the rest of the Jellicles and dances in glittery heels.
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At the same time, and to greater political benefit, Mr. Moore, a former professional kickboxer, exhibits traits that many Alabamians see in themselves and seek in their elected officials: He is outwardly pious and prone to political pugilism, self-assured and satisfied with standing alone.
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Read more>>> By Claire Shipman, Katty Kay and JillEllyn Riley The early weeks of a school year can rattle even the most self-assured kid — the swirl of new classes, teachers and tribes, and the pressure to try out new extracurriculars, sports and even personalities.
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Still, that Murray would even entertain the possibility of playing both big league baseball and quarterback on Sundays — or would be so self-assured of his talents as to make leveraging one against the other a plausible ploy — is something new in American sports.
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This transition happens most starkly in Stanfield's brief and terrifying role in Get Out, where he shifts from a self-assured black man strolling a darkened suburban neighborhood in the film's opening scene to a lobotomized partygoer whose eyes widen with panic later in the movie.
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"Her idiosyncrasies and touchy-feely rhetoric, glaringly alien to mainstream politics, make her an easy subject for campy caricature, the sort of self-assured underdog queer people love to elevate," as Slate's Christina Cauterucci (full disclosure: We used to work together on an LGBTQ podcast) puts it.
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At their early 19903s peak, Soundgarden seemed so self-assured and omnipotent, it was easy to overlook many of their greatest songs were about feeling weak, lonely, and disillusioned—the cumulative weight of despair hanging over their catalog is more crushing than any of their riffs.
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The other renders it as a narrowly political question in which passionate fans of Hillary Clinton should perhaps feel robbed of an election win — but her critics, whether on the right or the left, can feel smugly self-assured that there were other reasons for her loss.
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"Over the course of the series she's been completely unaware of what she wants, where she wants to be, who she really is, and at the end of this season, I feel she is the most self-assured character in the show," Turner said in the interview.
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To be a dude who is as self-assured, as skilled, as athletic, as VALUABLE as Paul George, and yet, here you are getting totally swamped by a guy whose self regard is a goddamn Infinity Stone, the kind of shit that throws moons at people.
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Yet his scant appearances have revealed a very self-assured politician, something the world was already able to observe during the April 27 inter-Korean summit, when he joked, cajoled and listened attentively to South Korean President Moon Jae-in during their day-long meeting and dinner.
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Sliding in the polls, and under attack even by prominent figures in his own party, the usually self-assured Mr. Trump seemed to break character, lamenting his predicament, and even asking for help, before a group of 700 evangelical pastors and church leaders in Orlando, Fla.
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I feel more self-assured in both my personal life and career, and I'm more independent than I've ever been; seeing Crawley look for love will be a hopeful reminder that love is possible at any age -- not just during that coveted decade of your 20s.
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Basel, a self-assured 18-year-old with a thin beard and hair slicked up, left Aleppo for Germany during his final year of high school in 2014, both to escape the war and to avoid the Islamic State's growing presence since he is an Orthodox Christian.
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"It led many to wonder what dark family history or twisted psychology might have led two privileged, handsome and self-assured youths to do away with their parents in the most savage way," Kenneth B. Noble wrote in his coverage of the trial for The New York Times.
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" In the year and a half since, Morgan says, he has gained a strong perspective on what went wrong, and he offers what he's learned with self-assured conviction: "Know yourself before you try to know someone else, and love yourself before you try to love someone else.
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In this latest iteration, it is also refreshingly self-assured; where the Warriors exult in their harmony, Durant shoulders up to Waiters and delivers a half-smirking "fuck you," letting his teammate stand in for anyone who might aspire to bother him (or hesitate to pass him the ball).
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Mr. Macron came to power as the antithesis of the populists, a young, self-assured, highly educated, well-off whiz kid who believed in the European Union and started a pro-business program to encourage the rich and powerful to restore dynamism and momentum to the French economy.
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I don't blame myself at that age for being interested in older men who were more worldly than me, who acted more self-assured than boys my age, who didn't live with their parents or in a dorm room, who confirmed the image of me that I wanted to cultivate.
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Ilana Glazer may play an incredibly confident character on the hit comedy show, Broad City, (a project created with help from Amy Poehler and writing partner Abbi Jacobson), but according to the star, she hasn't always been the vivacious and self-assured person she projects on TV. Bryan Bedder/Getty
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Now four years later, Berkowitz claims that she's more self-assured than she ever was on a stage, and she's settled into a personal style that mirrors her growth: namely, a less overly trendy and oversized wardrobe and more of a sleek, form-fitting one that feels authentic to her.
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As the youngest-ever editor-in-chief (of Teen Vogue) in Conde Nast's history, the publisher's second-ever Black EIC, a current star of Project Runway and a newly-minted memoirist at age 32, Elaine Welteroth strikes most as self-assured, a woman certain of both her goals and her purpose.
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Wilmer Valderrama's standout performance as the self-assured and cocky Nick Torres on the 14th season of CBS's "NCIS" — the second-longest-running US prime-time television scripted series -- reflects the cumulative advancement that Latinx actors have made on many top-billed television shows across networks, cable and streaming services.
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" Mike Allen of Axios reads a growing confidence in the president, reporting that, according to White House officials, "Trump seems more self-assured, more prone to confidently indulging wild conspiracies and fantasies, more quick-triggered to fight than he was during the Wild West of the first 100 days in office.
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My favorite Gem dish so far, delicate and self-assured, was a morsel or two of grilled king crab legs lightly glazed with rose petal miso and set beside soft chamomile-scented potatoes for ballast, red currants for zing and some fluttering rose petals on top for the heck of it.
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Wearing a gold, copper, and turquoise striped sequin slip dress with a high slit (it's by British brand Galvan), paired with simple gold heels and of course, tiny sunglasses, Florence captured the exact mood we want to embody in 2020: self-assured and straight up dazzling, even in the daytime.
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"Humbled," each man said of himself, and while it was pure cliché, it was also what we wanted and needed: a sign, no matter how rote, that even someone self-assured enough to pursue the presidency was taking the measure of that responsibility and asking if he was worthy of it.
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Early on in the film, Qiao is quickly established as a forthright, self-assured presence in this world: we see her slinking around and roughhousing in the parlor's backroom with Bin's cronies, and, later, ordering these same men to drink a cup of spiked punch before gulping one down alongside them.
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The brand's commitment to the joke is admirable: The five food-themed tracks and two music videos are so ridiculously elaborate — all while spitting lines like "I make some mac and cheese and the beef / I kill every track on the beat" — that it's hard not to appreciate the stunt's self-assured absurdity.
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There's nothing else quite like spending multiple days in a row with nothing more to worry about than what stage you are going to drift to next, self-assured in the knowledge that you are about to see anywhere from three to ten famous musicians live in the span of just one weekend.
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Over dinner the other night at a not quite year-old Adams Morgan restaurant called Tail Up Goat, one of those casually urbane yet self-assured upscale spots that simply did not exist here 15 years ago, a liberal friend fretted that such places might lose their cultural foothold in a Trumpled ecosystem.
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Not just regular hot, like the average professional footballer or someone off Riverdale, but a rare, disorienting kind of hot that interferes with your brain chemistry and temporarily warps your personality – a hot that causes aloof men to fall over themselves trying to maintain their composure and self-assured women to boil over with rage.
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What led to that moment was a bit of a dust-up I'd previously had with a self-assured young presidential aide concerned about improving "pension portability" (essentially the ability to take your retirement savings with you and keep them growing while moving from one job to another, or to self-employment or unemployment).
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I both witnessed and experienced these explosive tensions in the late 1980s, when I was a student at a dead-end provincial university, one of many there confronting a near-impossible task: not only sustained academic excellence, but also a wrenching cultural and psychological makeover in the image of the self-assured, English-speaking metropolitan.
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The self-assured pop sprinkled throughout FOTB works as an insurance policy against the album's digressions from the Vampire Weekend formula; any risky experiment (such as the loungey slog of "My Mistake" or the cloying "Married In a Gold Rush," which adopts a country cadence and cloaks it in electro-pop) is accompanied with a more straightforward appeal to listeners' pleasure centers.
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Having spent a couple of hours this summer in a darkened theater, where he watched the effortlessly self-assured Pitt spar with Bruce Lee, pal around with Leonardo DiCaprio and strip off his shirt to fix a television antenna, Rudd left feeling slightly bedazzled and slightly intimidated, but also feeling that his own place in the cultural hierarchy had been clarified.
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If people who love cats are self-assured (but self-absorbed), and people who love dogs are self-satisfied (but insecure), then it might be said that people who love turtles are, to some degree, fatalistic: Loving a turtle means pouring endless amounts of affection into a bucket that will never fill because it has a hole cut in its bottom.
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But Bitto (who is herself from Melbourne) concentrates less on recreating versions of these real-life figures than she does on conjuring the invented Trentham children: Bea, the eldest, charged as caretaker for her two sisters; Eva, vibrant and self-assured; and Heloise, the youngest, the most neglected since she's shut out by her parents as well as her siblings.
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Strangers is a strong and self-assured first season, easily navigating tricky areas like harsh fights between best friends ("Couples Counseling," which exposes both Isobel and Cam's negative personality aspects while still making you want to be friends with them), Isobel's first real relationship with a woman, and even the shitty male-dominated film industry ("Tinder Hearts," with guest star Matt Oberg as a shroom-toting screenwriter).
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Queen Sugar is based on the novel of the same name by Natalie Baszile, and DuVernay and her writing team have taken liberties with the source material to create a rich black family drama about three siblings— self-assured Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), brooding Nova (Rutina Wesley), and troubled Ralph Angel Bordelon (Kofi Siriboe)—who inherit an 800-acre sugarcane farm in the wake of their father's death from a stroke.
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But if Warren has appeared entirely self-assured in diving into the policy positions that she has been crusading for in Washington for years -- "All right!" she cheered when an audience member in Sioux City began asking about internet regulations -- her tone has changed when faced with questions about the 2016 election, a kind of riddle that she and so many other Democrats are still struggling to unwind.
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As the story of the tensions between commitment and self-discovery, "Premature" obeys the contours of a drama centered on a relationship that could be forever or a seasonal fling; Boone and especially Howard are utterly convincing as people driven as much by their heads as their hearts, and they are supported by a terrific cast, especially the supremely self-assured actresses who play Ayanna's ride-or-die posse.
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And if that's not enough, Superstore also has created a kind of mirror image of Jonah and Amy in the relationship between the bluntly self-assured Dina (Lauren Ash) and the bluntly sarcastic Garrett (Colton Dunn), two people who hook up every so often, then pretend like it never happened, then start flirting again a few episodes or seasons later, even as they know it's a terrible idea.
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When Williamson first announced her exploratory committee in November, her bid to be the Mike Gravel of 2020 — the self-assured oddball who kept the debates interesting — was a solid one: The only declared competition in the snowball's-chance lane was John Delaney, a replacement-level Maryland congressman, and Andrew Yang, a New York businessman and universal-basic-income advocate who has said he hopes to campaign via hologram in some states.
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In a time of extreme press-consciousness and personal brands, where personality-washing and Instagram ads for fake hair vitamins define our understanding of famous people and widens the chasm between their lives and those of everyday people, we need someone self-assured, resilient, and honestly just weird as hell like Céline Dion to inspire us to be ourselves—the only lesson we're ever really supposed to learn, and yet also the hardest one.
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Silva's 2011 debut EP Eu Sei Quem Sou, which he recorded for fledgling Lisbon-based DIY label Principe Discos, was a self-assured hybrid of Anglo-Portuguese styles and house and techno; appropriately, its title translates to "I Know Who I Am." A string of other releases followed, including the explosive 2014 EP Lucky Punch on J-Cush's New York-based imprint Lit City Trax, and remixes for indie favourites like Animal Collective's Panda Bear and tUnE-yArDs (with Brazilian rap trio Pearls Negras).
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The White House on Thursday appeared self-assured after Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats seek leverage for trial The Memo: Pelosi-Trump trade deal provokes debate on left MORE (D-Calif.) made clear a vote to impeach President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE was all but inevitable in the House, with administration officials signaling they relish the looming fight in a Senate trial.
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Anyway, the record's big advance over past work is musical — after a bouncy opener featuring the Chicago Children's Choir, these songs buzz and spill over with jaunty piano chords, mellifluous horns, elastic synthesizers, marching-band fanfares, rhythm violin plus soft string coloring, every now and then a standard keyboard loop, tender lullabies and self-assured choirgirls, grandly sung gospel hymns, dinkily sampled gospel hymns, uplifting ensemble singing and the rich timbre of black soul voices, along with a rousing array of whoops and cheers and wails scattered throughout the record to create an illusion of community, as if Chance were playing to an open audience whose members were free to pitch in any time they felt like it, as strangers pass by in the background.
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