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Перевод: self-confident

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самоуверенный; самонадеянный

Тезаурус:

1. The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer, the amusing don, the self-confident politician, the jargon-perfect critic, the editor of the literary magazine - all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration, that nobody steals his bed boards, and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price.
2. The Portuguese Empire, which was constantly under threat, had to present a self-confident face to its European neighbours.
3. Beyond that, the future of the island will be determined by one test above all: the willingness of the republic to take stock of its past failings - and to build on recent signs that a self-confident and modern state is in the making.
4. Its mood of self-confident chauvinism galvanized the nation, however little the British knew of the culture, economy, history, or even postage stamps of the distant Falklands and its population of just 1,200 sheep-farmers and their dependants.
5. This is broadly true, and has long distorted the group dynamics of seminars, though I have the sense that things are changing as women become more self-confident (the arrival in increasing numbers of female mature students has been helpful).
6. Perhaps those who know the truth will be too lazy or too diffident or too poor to publish while whose who believe in error will be so rich, or well organized, or self-confident that they will control the presses and the television studios and dominate the "free market in ideas".
7. He was loud and self-confident, but he had a right to be: he had a knack for picking winners.
8. If first impressions mean anything, I was getting a sense of a city more amiable and self-confident.
9. Elsewhere, railways in the last years of the century became an inseparable feature of the ambitions of a self-confident age.
10. It was born in that self-confident time when other changes she had doggedly forced past party muttering had been rewarded by a step-change in productivity and relatively low inflation.
11. SOUTHERN California is high-octane America; more self-confident, more optimistic, more prosperous, even more self-regarding than the other 49 states.
12. Many nuns and priests who have worked with the CEBs have found that members become much more self-confident, they no longer feel cowed by fate (Montgomery 1983).
13. In the face of the self-confident panache of the new monetarists, the Policy Studies group, and the apostles of the market-place, significant numbers of British intellectuals seemed to lose heart.