selfassurance

He had appearance more than looks, a keen, lively face, with an expression of enamelled selfassurance.

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

But in the protocols of O’s world, anything that threatened the equanimity of the enterprise, the imperturbable selfassurance they insisted was their authentic and enlightened disposition, was a grave and inexcusable injury.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

But in the protocols of O’s world, anything that threatened the equanimity of the enterprise, the imperturbable selfassurance they insisted was their authentic and enlightened disposition, was a grave and inexcusable injury.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

But in the protocols of O’s world, anything that threatened the equanimity of the enterprise, the imperturbable selfassurance they insisted was their authentic and enlightened disposition, was a grave and inexcusable injury.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

But in the protocols of O’s world, anything that threatened the equanimity of the enterprise, the imperturbable selfassurance they insisted was their authentic and enlightened disposition, was a grave and inexcusable injury.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

But in the protocols of O’s world, anything that threatened the equanimity of the enterprise, the imperturbable selfassurance they insisted was their authentic and enlightened disposition, was a grave and inexcusable injury.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

But in the protocols of O’s world, anything that threatened the equanimity of the enterprise, the imperturbable selfassurance they insisted was their authentic and enlightened disposition, was a grave and inexcusable injury.

O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

They start the day confident, braced, believing themselves desired at Miss Smith’s tea party; they say to themselves as they go into the room, I am the superior of half the people here, and it is thus that they speak with that self – confidence, that selfassurance, which have had such profound consequences in public life and lead to such curious notes in the margin of the private mind.

A room of one's own 2006