His very cocksureness is filched from Darwin’s morality of strength based on the survival of the fittest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference

His very cocksureness is filched from.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XXIX] Reference

"I believe I begin to see why Leyden showed such cocksureness," muttered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

They are popular because of their personalities, teeming with brio and cocksureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lionel: Olbermann Versus O'Reilly: It's a Shoot] Reference

For me the evidence destroys any cocksureness I might have had about the mind-matter riddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference

Kemp's combination of large-heartedness and cocksureness can make him an overbearing presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pangloss For Veep] Reference

Je'howith asked, and Constance did not miss the fact that a bit of the cocksureness seemed to dissipate from King Danube's serene face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortalis]

But he nowhere cares to make his modesty conspicuous to the reader, and his cocksureness is only the obverse of his best literary virtue.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

Even Sugarman had lost his cocksureness of victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

That cocksureness could turn out to be asset for Mr. McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

He had learned his own weakness; he'd lost all his cocksureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Bush] Reference

Each will lose something of his present cocksureness and exclusiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Fear] Reference

He irritated the older men by his assertive manner, and his cocksureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference

Could she ever atone in his eyes for her cocksureness, her blind egotism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun-Brand] Reference

He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landloper] Reference

His readiness, self-confidence, cocksureness, Philip thought all expressed in his name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

Call it "never-mindedness," a sort of booby-trapped cocksureness, foreseen by Nirvana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

"Wait till I get my breath, young man, and I'll take some of the cocksureness out of you!".    From Wordnik.com.  [One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York] Reference

His readiness, self-confidence, cocksureness, Philip thought all expressed in his name -- Olin Brad.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Fortune] Reference

His very cocksureness is filched from Darwin's morality of strength based on the survival of the fittest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

"It's that same cocksureness which has almost brought the British Empire to the very brink of dissolution.".    From Wordnik.com.  [I Spy] Reference

She had lost much of her old swagger, her old cocksureness, for Martin had utterly surprised and tamed her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joanna Godden] Reference

Fiske is one of those defenders of the evolutionistic philosophy who irritate by reason of their cocksureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution An Investigation and a Critique] Reference

He had long had the idea that they did, and this belief had been annoyingly corroborated by the cocksureness of.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Midst of Alarms] Reference

Perhaps there had been a shade too much cocksureness in the hakim's voice, but he acted faultlessly when he answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference

His attainments, of course, were useful, but his cocksureness was irritating, and his manner to his father abominable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

Imagine the cocksureness and insolence we'd have suffered from two New York policemen, had we found them in our homes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lure of the Mask] Reference

His attainments, of course, were useful, but his cocksureness was irritating, and his manner to his father, abominable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

The normal American novel, even in its most serious forms, takes colour from the national cocksureness and superficiality.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Prefaces] Reference

"The discoverer of the Metamorphizer is a woman, so her long beard is doubtful," I told him, just a little irritated by his cocksureness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

His cocksureness irritated them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Heel] Reference

The complacent cocksureness of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

I demanded, with the cocksureness of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Fish Patrol] Reference

His absolute cocksureness was too ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters] Reference

Keep your cocksureness, while you can: too soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krindlesyke] Reference