These are women who are both veiled and very self-assured in the public realm.
In the late 1960s film, to the contrary, the son's response is more aggressive and more self-assured.
She looked self-assured and confident, yet, within 30 seconds of sitting down, she had burst into tears.
I was becoming brainwashed into believing that they were a confident, self-assured team who knew how to run the country.
The children from prep schools were altogether more self-assured and articulate than their rivals.
He began the proceedings suave, self-assured, anxious to please, but there has been a complete change in his attitude.
That is the investment we must be courageous, constructive and self-assured enough to make.
He is sour, self-assured and hectoring.
