| 单词 | cocksureness |
| 例句 | It quickly becomes clear that Scott’s unflinching cocksureness is as much about the heartbreak he’s endured during his short life as it is his predilection for rebellion. Saying Goodbye to Strike Back’s Odd Couple 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z But he incorporated hip-hop posturing into his vocals, and his blend of cocksureness and haunted melancholy became a genre staple. Nate Dogg, Hip-Hop Collaborator, Dies at 41 2011-03-17T04:31:55Z These intersections of cocksureness and anxiety are this album at its best. Tyler, the Creator, an Insider Forever on the Outside 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z And to a certain extent, that cocksureness shaped his career, too. Sean Connery, a lion of cinema whose roar went beyond Bond 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Luckily, he also rummaged around to remind listeners of the cocksureness still bubbling within. Here now, finally, comes the PGA Championship. Remember what this means for Brooks Koepka. 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Taylor’s quietness makes their opponents look loud; their watchfulness makes other people—especially men, shouting about power—look frenetic; their ideological cocksureness makes the older men look weak. The Flashy Pleasures of “Billions” 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It is a reminder that the cocksureness of the ruling class is a reflection not of wisdom but aggrandizement. Michael Hastings’s ‘Last Magazine’ Shows War as Career Opportunity 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z There has always been a degree of quiet machismo in Murray's tennis, a cocksureness in his own extreme physical conditioning. Andy Murray releases David Ferrer's iron grip to reach Wimbledon semis 2012-07-04T20:34:08Z His manner had lost the last trace of its shallow cocksureness. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z He was free from the worst of human evils—‘cocksureness.’ Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z When he rose all the nonchalant ease was gone from his manner, all the cocksureness out of his eyes. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z The boy’s cocksureness again amused Mr. Greatorex, who seated himself on the parapet of the bridge, and mopped his perspiring face, smiling pleasantly. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z What she said, indeed, masked her real feelings, conveying to others an impression of shrewdness, cocksureness and unruffled calm. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Paul was quick to perceive this underlying cocksureness, and his whole soul rose in rebellion. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z The Negro ballot has almost lost its potency on account of the unconcerned cocksureness of one political party that the other side will not get the benefit of it. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z I believe I even jerked my head pertly to mark my cocksureness. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z His cocksureness wavered a little before the sharp attack. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath She possessed, as will be seen presently, that British cocksureness which so endears us to foreigners. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z But cocksureness was tricky on such a night. Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 Besides, I may be all at sea, for all my cocksureness. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories A growl of dismay broke from the Pathans' lips; the other men, who resented the cocksureness of Sherdil and his friends, leapt about with shrieks of delight. Barclay of the Guides A leading statesman once said he wished he was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay was cocksure of everything; but what was Macaulay's cocksureness to the cocksureness of Harrald? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) That was the state of affairs when Lieutenant Bascom, with the cocksureness of the young and the intolerance of the Easterner for frowzy Indians, made a decision. When the West Was Young Its very incompleteness, things left out because of sensibilities so stunned that events made no mark as they whirled by, is often more impressive than the conventional war correspondent's cocksureness and windy eloquence. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Mind, I don't set up to be infallible, but experience justifies a certain amount of cocksureness, and what I say is—Done for! The Dop Doctor The complacent cocksureness of the Occidental attitude toward Oriental ways and standards has little to rest on. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Necessarily I gave the instructions in the presence of the policemen, and directly I had done so I could see that their cocksureness was shaken. The Motor Pirate His attainments, of course, were useful, but his cocksureness was irritating, and his manner to his father abominable. Robert Elsmere The Rev. David Macrae tells that in a Brooklyn Sunday school a small boy was asked the question, "Who was the first man?" and, with characteristic American cocksureness, he immediately replied, "General Washington." Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk "The discoverer of the Metamorphizer is a woman, so her long beard is doubtful," I told him, just a little irritated by his cocksureness. Greener Than You Think But he nowhere cares to make his modesty conspicuous to the reader, and his cocksureness is only the obverse of his best literary virtue. My Contemporaries In Fiction Imagine the cocksureness and insolence we'd have suffered from two New York policemen, had we found them in our homes! The Lure of the Mask "I hope you remember you are vulnerable, as well as we," Carolyn remarked in a sorry imitation of her original cocksureness, as she opened the play by leading the Ace of Clubs. Murder at Bridge Their very cocksureness is their chief source of strength. A Book of Prefaces It still lives in some old songs about Nelson or Waterloo, which are vastly more pompous and vastly more sincere than the cockney cocksureness of later Jingo lyrics. The Victorian Age in Literature Yesterday, or the day before, I might have said 'no,' with all the cocksureness of a boy of twenty. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Could she ever atone in his eyes for her cocksureness, her blind egotism? The Gun-Brand She had lost much of her old swagger, her old cocksureness, for Martin had utterly surprised and tamed her. Joanna Godden No novelist could have smaller likeness to the brummagem emotion-squeezers of the Kipling type, with their playhouse fustian and their naïve ethical cocksureness. A Book of Prefaces This confidence must not be confused with cocksureness; it is rather the "looking forward with quiet confidence to ultimate victory," as General von Heeringen phrased it. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Mistakes of five or six per cent are, in these complex affairs, not only to be expected but almost to be desired; they help to depress ministerial cocksureness. The Open Secret of Ireland Oh, you'd have been great as an orthodox theologian of the Kirk; the cocksureness of theology would have suited you like your own coat. Master of His Fate They have the enviable and persuasive cocksureness which goes with lack of responsibility and of practical experience. Socialism and American ideals Here we have a heavy pretension to culture, a campus cocksureness, a laborious righteousness—but of sound aesthetic understanding, of alertness and hospitality to ideas, not a trace. A Book of Prefaces Here scientific nescience is wiser than the cocksureness of popular science, with her ghosts and fetish-stones, and gods that sprang from ghosts, which ghosts, however, could not be developed, owing to nomadic habits. The Making of Religion Only the cocksureness of youth made her blind to the check her enthusiasm was meant to receive in the first encounter of the new life. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration And when they talked on military affairs, as Letchford and others did sometimes, it was difficult to keep from sending them all to the devil, for their amateur cocksureness would have riled Job. Mr. Standfast He irritated the older men by his assertive manner, and his cocksureness. Sons and Lovers The normal American novel, even in its most serious forms, takes colour from the national cocksureness and superficiality. A Book of Prefaces Each will lose something of his present cocksureness and exclusiveness. The Conquest of Fear You think you know, and your manner shows it; but you may be mistaken, and your cocksureness arouses all the cunning and combativeness of the child. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow "It's that same cocksureness which has almost brought the British Empire to the very brink of dissolution." I Spy This cocksureness is in the atmosphere of the day, just as fainting and curls and an appealing helplessness were in the atmosphere of an earlier Victorian period. Roden's Corner He had long had the idea that they did, and this belief had been annoyingly corroborated by the cocksureness of Yates. In the Midst of Alarms "That mare'll beat him," retorted Porter, curtly, nettled by the other's cocksureness. Thoroughbreds His attainments, of course, were useful, but his cocksureness was irritating, and his manner to his father, abominable. Robert Elsmere One thing you can say about the religious folks that are big with cocksureness and a mission—they may make mistakes, but the mistake doesn't talk and criticise. The Delicious Vice He had learned his own weakness; he'd lost all his cocksureness. Children of the Bush His very cocksureness is filched from Darwin's morality of strength based on the survival of the fittest. The Little Lady of the Big House I verily believe that the cocksureness of our century is destined to be the amusement of the next, which may not impossibly believe that the ape is descended from man by retrogression. Without Prejudice It isn't Mr. Fielding's dulness that is so unpardonable, but his horrible cocksureness and insufferable assurance. Miss Gibbie Gault Perhaps there had been a shade too much cocksureness in the hakim's voice, but he acted faultlessly when he answered. King of the Khyber Rifles Things are plainer to me than in the days of my inexperience and cocksureness. The Long Vacation He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness. The Landloper He proclaimed Universal Franchise in 1830, he proclaimed the Republic in 1848, and his pedestal now proclaims with equal cocksureness that science is the only religion of the future. Without Prejudice I lure him into philosophic discussions, and overwhelm him with my newest and biggest metaphysical terms, which always reduce his enormous cocksureness to more reasonable dimensions. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry His readiness, self-confidence, cocksureness, Philip thought all expressed in his name—Olin Brad. That Fortune The man to fear is he who goes at things with the cocksureness of pushing vulgarity and self-conceit. The Way of All Flesh By the time he had collected, his pockets were full and his cocksureness had increased to such an unbearable crowing that Jeff Hall's eyes were venomous as a snake's. Cow-Country |
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