| It is the familiar tale of a weary professional challenged by a cocky upstart determined to prove himself as the top gun. |
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| Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky. |
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| A troika of small boys, cocky and nervous proto-new Russians, lean over the rusting barbed wire and drool gobbets of spit onto his head. |
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| But I developed a cocky persona to distance ourselves from the drippy bands of the time. |
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| He's a jackass with a cocky attitude, and he's the reason why you and I have barely seen each other over the last month. |
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| The waitress didn't know a difference between Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay and the manager was cocky and rude. |
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| His cocky and bossy attitude was not one she liked, but she did go over for Rolandon's sake. |
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| For me, Australians are too brash, too cocky, too shallow and too plentiful. |
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| But there are fissures in the cocky exterior that occasionally reveal a rage and a wretchedness that seems to border on despair. |
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| He shook his head and took the seat across from her, leaning back and resuming his usual cocky expression. |
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| He can be cocky and arrogant, always butting heads with local medical professionals. |
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| The wee, barrel-chested midfielder with the cocky gait is as influential now as he was when he arrived in Glasgow. |
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| In the first three years of his career, he was sharp-tongued, cocky and bullheaded, and he got ripped for it. |
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| He was now a cocky Harvard graduate, playing off his true-life college accomplishments. |
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| The cocky kid from the public courts of Los Angeles has blossomed into a global superstar, with a personality as rich as her bank balance. |
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| He may be mouthy, cocky, forgetful etc, but they are all faults I can see in myself! |
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| His flow displays the effect of too many blunts, but also a cocky confidence that augments his cutting lyrics. |
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| Keep your cocky neb out and concentrate on playing your grandad tournaments and pretending to be a panto queen. |
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| Unwillingly teamed up with a young, cocky thief, Nick decides to go ahead with this final score. |
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| This kind of surprising, cocky offensive defence goes over well, especially here. |
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| He is a confident lad, cocky like most of those who can turn their hand to genius, but nonetheless likeable for it. |
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| It is good to walk in with confidence and a friendly smile, but not be overly confident and cocky! |
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| A lot of people are very cocky and brash in this industry and there were quite a few walking around before the exam as if they'd already passed. |
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| Upbeat but not cocky, he was oblivious to his prospects of leading an overall majority government. |
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| While the actor is confident and cocky, he also has a kind of sheepishness that stops him being just another action star. |
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| Maybe he wasn't really that arrogant, cocky egomaniac that he pretended to be. |
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| He was cocky and had pedigree but there was an underlying suspicion within the county that he might lack the mentality to match his ability. |
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| He was confident but not cocky and very likable, in a puppy dog sort of way. |
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| United weren't creating much but they were cocky and they were getting on the ball and dropping it into areas where something could happen. |
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| They are confident after a record run of nine successive wins, yet not cocky because they know the ultimate test has still to be set. |
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| I spoke to him last night to wish him well, and he was confident without being cocky about it, which is always good. |
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| A mainstay of the Celtic team, he expects his absence to weaken their midfield but is not getting too cocky. |
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| He's cocky and egotistical and it's near impossible to get a word in edgeways. |
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| He is justifiably proud of his work all these years later, but he never comes off as cocky or arrogant. |
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| It was amazing how vital and witty and energetic and downright cocky he was. |
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| They will not be taken into account, but the poor old cocky will have to pay the flatulence tax. |
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| It was getting towards the end of the day and I was yacking to a cocky on the last call. |
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| The 12 songs here reveal a band that's cocksure but never cocky, moody but never melodramatic and musically adept. |
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| Michael is in a cocky mood as he finds a pump that had been installed back to front in the ventilation system. |
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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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| He is so convincingly cocky you want to slap him for being such a rogue. |
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| Either a quintessential cult record or another cocky slice of childish bombast, the CD is still a more personal confession than many of its posey peers. |
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| There was one old cow cocky I was very fond of who simply waited it out. |
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| When one slightly cocky young saxophonist announced the title of the song he intended to play, he was nonplussed when Arriale asked him if he knew the lyrics. |
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| Noah, I'm afraid to say, is also rather boring, being that he is the typical cliche of a cocky, highly self-assured boy who is rather dull too. |
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| The astonishing pace of medical advances in the 20th century have made many people just a little cocky. |
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| These are the times when I may be a little too cocky about my abilities, or not conscious enough of my surroundings. |
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| No one had his look, his air of total confidence and that cocky strut. |
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| It delivers fully on the band's potential, a cocky, growlingly back-handed blow at the record business that had just given him and his buddies a nice contract the year before. |
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| So Buzz Lightyear is only an animated character but heck, even the occasional cartoon character has an ego, and Buzz Lightyear is one of those cocky characters. |
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| I remember, in the face of my cocky, faux-blasé manner, her shyness, reducing her to deep-toned monosyllables. |
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| Also, be polite, I know you are excited about your first speedrun, but being rude or cocky won't help my mood. |
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| But as treatment dragged on, I kept feeling less and less cocky and more and more vulnerable. |
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| Costner and Kutcher's respective characters are believable as the older quiet professional and the cocky, know-it-all, newbie. |
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| They are the proverbial cheeky London chappies, as cocky as two geezers barely out of their teens are entitled to be when blessed with an obvious talent. |
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| Once, Fella was mistaken for a gangbanger, and his blue bandanna for a cocky display of Crip colors. |
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| The member should remain as calm as possible and avoid antagonistic or cocky behaviour. |
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| He speaks not in the level, sturdy bureaucratese that we associate with law enforcement but in the cocky, profanity-laden patois of the corner kingpin. |
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| I am very confident but I wouldn't say I was cocky or anything like that. |
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| He has an unwitting instructor in his cocky, bullying co-worker and pal, Kent, a slimeball whose knockout wife, Carly, is way out of his league. |
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| It's a far cry from the well-padded, cocky businessman who blew into Blues. |
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| Luckily there was no stocky, cocky, balding, scalding, mawkish, jockish, pompous pontificator with a silly moustache in the premises. |
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| But it was cocky to assume that smartness would magically be rewarded. |
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| On the way to Stallery, Conrad meets mysterious, cocky Christopher, who also becomes a page boy. |
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| The film's real energy comes from DiCaprio, his spoilt-kitten physiognomy filling out into shades of Mickey Rooney pudginess: he's perfect as a cocky kid who is further than he thinks down the road to stolid middle age. |
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| He signed himself 'Yours Sincerely', with a pleasant open signature, not a cocky and flamboyant Wagnerite flourish. |
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| But in general, opera's very grandness precludes the cocky swagger that informs our best musicals. |
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| A love story between a cocky, preppy Frat Boy with Roman numerals after his name and his feisty yet adoring social climbing inamorata will again be dissected. |
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| This is sad but true, in spite of the jailing of the leadership of the Hells Angels and more recently Vancouver gangsters, after they got too cocky, violent, and out of hand by killing many, including some innocent people. |
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| Attempts to mythicize the god of loons may spark the anger of a cocky trickster who can resort to fowl play. |
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| It is, surely, a failure Then he gets cocky. |
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| Don't get too cocky, but have some fun and be proud of your game. |
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| She can be the difference and isn't cocky at all. |
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| I hate these cocky, wealthy English officers. |
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| Like dancers in a painting by Matisse, the figures swirl around the jar with both grace and self-assurance, waving cocky flags of black as they pass. |
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| Djokovic, meanwhile, acts as living proof of the ever-changing nature of men's tennis, going from brash, cocky youngster to legitimate threat to Roger's throne in the span of less than a year. |
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| And stories in the bush may not seem relevant in the big smoke, but try telling that to a cocky. |
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| Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet... a man could navigate by eye and the nearest railroad track and fly by the seat of his pants. |
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| The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. |
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| While there is a cocky swagger in Thicke's brash come-on lines, there is also goofy charm and a clumsy vulnerability in his blue-eyed soul delivery. |
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