| He's a cheeky chappy who we're expected to find charismatic simply because he has the gift of the gab, but he's all cockiness and no collateral. |
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| A lot of it is just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness. |
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| The music was what counted but the cockiness, the combination of arrogance and provocation, the sheer effrontery was thrilling to witness. |
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| Despite being so much younger than her, he has a real public school cockiness and she loves the way he orders her about. |
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| He's got that magic combination of 19-year-old cockiness and born-with-it, estate-lad charisma. |
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| A lot of it's just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness. |
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| When he can't properly or correctly defend his views, as they are undefendable, he sits back with an air of cockiness. |
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| The cockiness and latent volatility of his off-screen persona is sadly absent. |
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| It amused her to see Jason hiding his cockiness and his belief that she would say yes no matter what he did. |
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| So what if his portrait decays with age in a vault at Paramount Pictures, as long as he preserves the smooth, unfading cockiness of youth? |
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| But the fact of the matter is, not even his cockiness can take away from the catchiness of his music. |
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| Vann was cocky about his ability to handle the job, and his cockiness did not put Porter off. |
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| His instinctive cockiness also got him into trouble with developing countries. |
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| Its workaday incarnation, cockiness, is causing trouble for Bill Ackman, a modern-day hedge-fund titan. |
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| He is intensely irritating, with a cockiness untempered by charisma and exacerbated by a grating accent he brought from England when his family emigrated. |
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| Opening in 1943, it's a timeless freshers' story about awkwardness and cockiness. |
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| I am just spiritually weary of the ubiquitous cockiness of economists, though Piketty sounds as though he's less guilty of this than most of the pundits in the daily papers. |
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| Mr Breivik remained impassive throughout, staring at a spot on the desk in front of him as relatives of the dead wept in the rows of seats behind him. Mr Breivik maintained his cockiness when asked to enter a plea. |
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| A shared profit-pool may also harm the business: leather-jacketed creatives who sneer at a sister company exhibit the sort of cockiness that produces great advertising. Which leads to performance-based fees. |
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| His youthful exuberance, his confidence and his cockiness have rubbed off on supporters and all of a sudden a day at Villa Park is fun again. |
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| Groves was happy with his display until one split second when he says his cockiness cost him dearly. |
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| In spite of all his cockiness and narcissism, Ronaldo definitely knows when credit needs to be shared. |
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| And boyo it's highly amusing to see Ex Factor flop Mr Jones attempting to maintain his trademark cockiness after crashing and burning in America. |
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| Khan's cockiness is based on his sharply rising political fortunes in the past one year. |
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| Hey, you've got to be able to carry the cockiness off by getting results. |
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| She opened the show with an electrifying performance of her songs Cockiness and We Found Love, accompanied by Calvin Harris. |
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