1.   His confident performance Friday put such fears to rest for the moment.

2.   If there was panic when her boot broke, she camouflaged it with a confident performance.

3.   Ms. Goldberg helps the film with a confident performance, but it is Depardieu who blusters cheerfully through its only amusing role.

4.   The executive producer is Drew Barrymore, who also shows up as a teacher and delivers perhaps her best, most confident performance to date.

5.   The film spins some pitch-black comedy out of this situation and is helped by a confident performance by Lana McKissack as the older child.

6.   Bjorkman then shut out his opponent with a confident performance in the tiebreak and always looked in control of the second set.

7.   He then whitewashed his opponent with a confident performance in the tiebreak and always looked in control of the second set.

8.   Hiddink said he expected a more confident performance against China.