First-place NBC _ which some snicker at as " Never Been Cockier " _ is one network that could afford to watch others fight it out for the biggest stars.
22.
He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been, and, in their cockier moments, thought they approached.
23.
"I think he's even a little cockier now, if that's possible, " said George Brett, the Hall of Famer whom Schuerholz helped shepherd through the Royals system.
24.
With the labor market tighter than at almost any other time in the last three decades, Americans who have jobs are starting to act a bit cockier _ something that they have refrained from doing until very recently.
25.
When the cockier Lake Show cast members finally decided that a Showtime stand-in couldn't hurt, it took a lot of begging _ headed by Van Exel and Eddie Jones _ to get Johnson to reconsider.
26.
He's got a surprising intensity and tenacity, and the vulnerability in his boyish, honest face works in his favor _ you really do believe he could get eaten alive, and a cockier actor would have made the scenes less involving.
27.
Wahlberg and Phillips supply most of the firepower, but China Chow more than holds her own as a kidnap victim who's smarter and cockier than any of her kidnappers, and Elliott Gould and Lainie Kazan bring their Jewish in-law stereotypes to surprisingly droll comic life.
28.
More recently, though, their relations took a frostier turn, when Bush, having perhaps grown a bit cockier in office, abruptly announced last fall that he wanted to use the $ 1 billion surplus in the state budget to cut school property taxes for homeowners across the state.
29.
"' Detective Sergeant Daniel " Dan " Scott ( John Hopkins ) ( series 7-8 ) "' is a lot cockier than his predecessor DS Troy; he is a Londoner who was not thrilled at being transferred from the Metropolitan Police Service to Midsomer, which he regards as the " sticks ".
30.
The song expresses self-loathing and the futility of worldly accomplishments; this content took on a new poignancy when sung by Cash near the end of his life, quietly performing in his memorabilia-filled home, with shots of the flood-ravaged " House of Cash " museum and archival shots of a younger, cockier Cash edited in.
