Pearson is blithely confident about the future, figuring that genetic augmentation techniques will become available in time to save them by halting aging, maybe reversing it.

Last January, Wall Street professionals were blithely confident that the Dow Jones industrial average would climb to 4,000.

We won't,' Kaivi said, blithely confident, rubbing his hands together and grinning with success.

You see," Flash said, turning to them with a blithely confident smile, "I know who did it.

The young officer who rode at his side in the quiet woods was blithely confident that no peasant would dare challenge armed, armored men on horseback.

For the moment she was blithely confident the trip would mean just the right combination of relaxation and research.

At the moment it's dawn at our bivouac, right about timberline, and my sons are still sleeping, blithely confident that we'll find our way again.

American novelist Rick Skwiot enjoys the "blithely confident Brit's" narrative style, finding echoes of its concept, structure and humour in Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.