| The president let that slip away, deepening divisions by adopting a my-way-or-the-highway cocksureness on both domestic and foreign affairs. |
| The overwhelming majesty of my cocksureness failed to persuade. |
| He irritated the older men by his assertive manner, and his cocksureness. |
| He'd slaked himself with women and after the first flush of cocksureness, they'd meant nothing. |
| He had long had the idea that they did, and this belief had been annoyingly corroborated by the cocksureness of Yates. |
| Each will lose something of his present cocksureness and exclusiveness. |
