cockiness

For the first time she saw the cockiness go out of his eyes.

She left it alone, though, a note of cockiness coming into her voice.

I lost a small measure of my earlier cockiness under his look.

It's all right to have confidence, but without the cockiness.

The cockiness in his voice had faded a bit more.

My cockiness had left me and now belonged to him.

The lab director said nothing more, but he left without some of his cockiness.

I really despised the old man for all his cockiness.

"That's fine with me," he said, not sure where his cockiness was coming from.

It takes a certain amount of confidence and cockiness to play back there.

A new set to his shoulders- confidence, instead of the old cockiness.

He had an air of confidence and cockiness that comes with winning.

He landed at the old Met, and quickly drew attention for his cockiness.

"I think the word is not confidence but cockiness," Houston said.

He's got some cockiness to him, which you like to see."

She'd felt his excitement after the fight, knew the cockiness he got from the victory.

His lips seemed curled at the edge with a certain cockiness.

He had time to regret his insane cockiness out on the road.

Cockiness is the group's best quality; it has no talent for being soft.

They fight hard, and there's a little cockiness, which great players have."

Others appeared to step over the line separating confidence from cockiness.

Although he becomes the team star, the other players resent his cockiness.

I think it's a kind of arrogance or cockiness on his part, to be honest with you.

At first, the American confidence came across as cockiness.

Unfortunately, it was cockiness like this that usually got such operations in big trouble.