One moment, there had been arrogant conceit, haughty superiority, blithe confidence.

At first the charming saleswoman was all blithe confidence, happily folding and threading.

Project a blithe confidence that the party will be so successful that some of hers are bound to break.

With blithe confidence, he had assured her she had no cause to doubt him.

But there was a blithe, paterfamilias confidence about the earlier entrepreneurs that Bloom's work is missing.

"The security force," Kruger says, with blithe confidence.

Holtzman hoped the nobleman's blithe confidence had not been misplaced.

"The security force," Kruger says, with the blithe confidence of a man who has not yet acknowledged how the balance of power has changed.

(A year from now my blithe confidence would haunt me.)

Despite her blithe confidence in her completeness, was Deanna really looking at herself in the future?