10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKSURE»
Discover the use of
cocksure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cocksure and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Cocksure is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry. This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best. From the Hardcover edition.
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
adjective he made a change from the cocksure men she usually met: arrogant,
conceited, overconfident, overweening, cocky, smug, haughty, supercilious,
disdainful, lofty, patronizing, proud, vain, vainglorious, self- important, swollen-
headed, ...
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Mordecai Richler: A Life in Ten Novels
Cocksure: An. Honest. Man. in. a. Nightmare. World. Irony: saying one thing and
meaning the opposite. Parody: acknowledged borrowing of a literary work or
convention to imply critical distance. Satire: savage mockery of human vices and
...
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Antifeminism in America: A Reader : a Collection of Readings ...
COCKSURE. WOMEN. AND. HENSURE. MEN. IT SEEMS TO ME THERE ARE
TWO ASPECTS TO WOMEN. THERE lS THE demure and the dauntless. Men
have loved to dwell, in fiction at least, on the demure maiden whose inevitable
reply ...
Angela Howard, Sasha Ranaé Adams Tarrant, 2000
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Redefining the New Woman, 1920-1963
With the two kinds of femininity go two kinds of confidence: there are the women
who are cocksure, and the women who are hensure. A really up-to-date woman
is a cocksure woman. She doesn't have a duubt nor a qualm. She is the modern ...
Angela Howard, Sasha Ranaé Adams Tarrant, 1997
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Antifeminism in America: A Historical Reader
COCKSURE. WOMEN. AND. HENSURE. MEN. IT SEEMS TO ME THERE ARE
TWO ASPECTS TO WOMEN. THERE IS THE demure and the dauntless. Men
have loved to dwell, in fiction at least, on the demure maiden whose inevitable
reply ...
He knew very few English words, but one he had learned was the word "cocksure
." He'd be running along well in Nepali, but whenever he wanted to express
certainty about any subject, instead of using the Nepali word for "certain," he
would ...
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Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain
There is an anxiety, a protesting-too-much in Cocksure, Richler too eager to
show that he doesn't belong with the un-urbane sort of Jew. By treating Jewish
experience in a blackly comic way, Richler places himself high above that
experience, ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
Twas her brother that, in pure kindess to his horse, buttered his hay." Johnson's
Dictionary calls cocksure "a word of contempt." Lord Melbourne is quoted, in
Spectator, 30 Nov. 1889, as saying: "I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom
...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2001
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D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles
She ought not to have been so cocksure. Beware, oh modern woman, the age of
fifty. It is then that the play 20 is over, the theatre shuts, and you are turned out
into the night. If you have been making a grand show of your life, all off your own
...
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COCKSURE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cocksure is used in the context of the following news items.
Dana White: Conor McGregor Proposed $3 Million Bet That He …
Conor McGregor is no stranger to bold predictions, but the cocksure Irishman may have outdone himself when he offered a pricey wager to ... «Sherdog.com, Jul 15»
Former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka Is at Her Best, but Serena Williams …
Cocksure as that sounds, it is hard to disagree, even after the entertaining Australian Open final that Williams won, 6-3, 7-6 (5), over Sharapova ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Ashes 2015: England must get stuck into Australia... because the …
... begins in Cardiff tomorrow will be Alastair Cook's swansong as England captain and that the cocksure young tyro Joe Root will replace him. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
Obsessing About Records: Yoga and the Guinness Book
And indeed there are others, the self-appointed guardians of the faith, such as the relatively young and cocksure acolytes of the faith who staff ... «Fair Observer, Jul 15»
Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: Door Shakespeare's 'Romeo …
Such as Jonathan Wainwright as the cocksure Mercurtio, Andrew Carlyle as the equally testosterone-fueled Tybalt, Carrie Hitchcock as Juliet's ... «WeAreGreenBay.com, Jul 15»
Men review: Brendan Cowell's noisy critique-cum-celebration of …
O'Toole blazes away as the cocksure but insecure Bob and Hawkins is appropriately polished as the narcissistic Jules. Timony contributes ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
The Mekons: alt-country pioneers refuse to let their music die
At one early headlining gig in Ireland, an unknown but cocksure young band called U2 opened for them; needless to say, the legendary ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
The future of our political parties
The PML has heavy reliance on non-elected, right-leaning bureaucrats and technocrats as advisors, and short but cocksure deadlines to ... «The News on Sunday, Jul 15»
Rock of Aged: July's Impressive (And Old School) Rock Music Lineup
... since Live Aid (which celebrates its 30th anniversary on July 13th). And to quote a certain cocksure 71-year-old: “This could be the last time.”. «Newsweek, Jul 15»
SATURDAY'S CHILD: Money in the bank
Josh chimed in again. “Would you say,” I asked, “that overconfidence is being too cocksure?” What caused this battle to rule the rooster roost? «Nation News, Jul 15»
