You can succeed and still be a douchebag with an overblown ego.
[The language wasn't the sort that Kit used often, even in the past, but parroting it back at Vincent allowed for a certain emphasis his point would have otherwise lacked.]
In the same vain, you can be confident, still lose, and not be a douchebag at all.
[He finished off his third beer with one more sip, but didn't reach for a fourth, not yet.]
Arrogance is a lack of grace and tact, it is not strictly defined by success or failure, although those both do sometimes contribute as factors.
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[The language wasn't the sort that Kit used often, even in the past, but parroting it back at Vincent allowed for a certain emphasis his point would have otherwise lacked.]
In the same vain, you can be confident, still lose, and not be a douchebag at all.
[He finished off his third beer with one more sip, but didn't reach for a fourth, not yet.]
Arrogance is a lack of grace and tact, it is not strictly defined by success or failure, although those both do sometimes contribute as factors.