And though it is hard to find a happy hypochondriac, the old nervousness is being replaced in city after city with a certain cockiness.

Con had watched him the day before when he had first come into the area and there was a certain cockiness about him, a suggestion that maybe he had something to prove.

There's a certain cockiness, a self-confidence and sense of humor.

Affecting the situation are the feelings of several Giants defenders, who want the defense this year to play with a certain cockiness.

His lips seemed curled at the edge with a certain cockiness.

There was a certain cockiness in the Hrruban's humorous assertion that drew a chuckle from Ken.

Indeed, the Czechoslovaks have a certain cockiness as they prepare to move from Communism into market economics.

Indeed, the presence of the U.S. flotilla appears to have bred a certain cockiness here - an attitude toward China of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

Mr. Levin has lived a charmed television existence so far that has allowed him to maintain a certain cockiness, and the rest of Hollywood is not nearly as idyllic as is WB, these people say.

Most telling of all - and the presumption on which much of this sunny outlook rests - is a certain economic cockiness that is rooted in the idea that we do not need to worry about a serious business downturn any time soon.