Sentences with phrase «as cocksure»

What really belies the agenda of the so - called skeptics is that they're as cocksure about the likelihood of failure, waste, and unbearable cost associated with policies to control greenhouse gas emissions as they are unconvinced about the risks of climate change.

Despite what some criticized as a cocksure demeanor, the foundation did not expect success to be automatic and was not surprised by these initial failures.

This true story of bank robberies and jail breaks, starring Johnny Depp as the notorious John Dillinger, and Christian Bale as his cocksure antagonist, FBI agent Melvin Purvis, should have it all.

The role required him to bare more than just skin, and it's clear even from this audition tape that he captures the nuances of a troubled teen that's as cocksure as he is damaged.

Brolin, as the cocksure Matt (who wears flip - flops to top - secret meetings), is hilariously yet frighteningly callous, while Del Toro turns in his steeliest work since, well, Traffic.

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It involves a powerful company, a cocksure entrepreneur in CEO Mark Zuckerberg, gadfly critics who seemed less wacky as time went by, and even the occasional counter-villain, notably media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

It was one of those press releases that instinctively causes you to look at the calendar to be sure it's not the first day of April: that Woolworths» cocksure new chairman Gordon Cairns has appointed former CEO Roger Corbett as an adviser to the retailer's board.

As a regular visitor to Britain l am cocksure many Nigerians there would be better off in Nigeria.

In other words, in consenting to participate in the rerun of the Klottey - Korle NPP parliamentary primary in the lead - up to Election 2016, it clearly appears that a cocksure Mr. Nortey had in principle accepted the decision by the court to summarily invalidate the originally scheduled parliamentary primary, which as far as most of us observers are concerned, had been won fair and square by the presently aggrieved Mr. Nortey.

Part sci - fi thriller, part love story, Perfect Sense follows an improbable couple — a cocksure chef (played by Ewan McGregor) and a prickly epidemiologist (Eva Green)-- who fall for each other just as the disease strikes.

That being said, it would be hard not to play it this way when the company she's keeping are as strong as they are: Tarantino's go - to man for dialogue delivery Samuel L. Jackson echoes Pulp's Jules Winnfield only this time his gun - running Ordell Robbie has less biblical monologues and more of a dangerous cutting edge; Bridget Fonda plays his vacuous beach blonde accomplice to perfection while Michael Keaton's doggedly determined ATF agent Ray Nicolette has the requisite cocksure arrogance.

Solo's cocksure swagger and Kuryakin's arrogant bullishness clash time and again, resulting in a game of one - upmanship, even as they ultimately need to rely on one another to complete their mission.

McConaughey is his cocksure, bulging - eyes, Foghorn Leghorn - purring self, but he's as on as the movie is muddled and shapeless.

As ideals and integrity slowly slip from his grasp, he convincingly dismantles Myers from cocksure swagger to disillusionment to hardened acceptance.

Though he's failed to impress in his previous big budget outings (see: «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and «Snow White and the Huntsman»), he's perfectly cast here as Finnick Odair, the cocksure pretty boy with more to him than meets the eye.

Their arrogant, cocksure explanation of the business as a necessary commerce for both sides of the Americas establishes a clear, virulent enemy from the outset.

As tremendously cocksure rival air traffic controllers, John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton amplify the already provokingly chargedatmosphere of «Pushing Tin,» a caustic, chaotic, dark comedythat takes place in the killer - stress world of the Long Island's...

The cocksure and smarmy performance from James Franco is certainly gag - worthy but it's somehow outshone by the spam of a performance from Mila Kunis as the poorly makeup - ed Wicked Witch.

Haden Church, on the other hand, plays Robert as a violent cartoon, a cocksure contractor whose fragile masculinity explodes into petulant retaliation.

Her section of the film is closely aligned with DA Pennebaker's 1967 documentary Don't Look Back, as Jude teases the British press (personified by BBC reporter Bruce Greenwood) with a series of non-sequiturs and riddles; and Blanchett comes closer than anyone to really capturing the spirit of the man, with the dry humour and cocksure swagger of her performance being brilliantly observed.

Nygaard gets a little too cocksure as he skates over an iced lake.

As for Cruise, he's all cocksure arrogance — like most of his performances throughout the 80's — but he's perfectly fitting and delivers one of the more grounded and mature performances of his career.

Teller straddles the line between cocksure and compliant, shrinking behind the drums as often as he cracks a relaxed smile when in the middle of a particularly stellar groove.

When drunk you will be cocksure of yourself just as when you are sober.