self-assured

Those who come to the Dinner Party are self-selecting; they do want to talk about it.

A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

I could have sworn I heard a cry, and one of my men spoke in a tone that assured me my imagination had not been playing a trick.