The fact is that a car which works all the time is displaying what Charles Babbage called the unerring certainty of machinery. From Wordnik.com. [BBC TopGear: Cars and Autos News] Reference
The idea, as I see it, is that if love is both your fuel and your compass, you can drive as you will "drive as you like"--Love as a kind of unerring GPS. From Wordnik.com. [Very Good, but Very Mysterious] Reference
She felt herself made of supple steel, unerring and exact. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
This is one great argument in favour of its unerring truthfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
The unerring instinct of a pure nature warned her against that look. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Batman's the outsider, with questionable methods but an unerring tactical sense. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Genius] Reference
But Munro has an unerring talent for uncov - ering the extraordinary in the ordinary. From Wordnik.com. [Genius In Disguise] Reference
Erin Morley's coloratura soprano lends unerring vocal virtuosity to her Queen of the Night. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: Magic Flute at Santa Fe Opera] Reference
With my unerring sense of timing, I ducked out for a slice of pizza just before the exposure. From Wordnik.com. [The Janet Jackson Legacy] Reference
The track once discovered they kept it with that unerring sagacity so peculiar to our hunters. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
She strove to please, no longer gave her performance for herself, like a machine, unerring and exact. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Here, Schiff demonstrates his unerring sense of pacing in this choppy melody from the second movement. From Wordnik.com. [Andras Schiff: Scaling Beethoven's Sonatas] Reference
The feet of Fate had marched slowly but with unerring certainty, and had at last reached the wretched criminal. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Throughout his tenure Fukuda has displayed an unerring instinct for turning other people's mishaps into his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister Vanishes] Reference
I wonder where he acquired his unerring sense of style as I give him my usuallagniappe, a single dollar bill. From Wordnik.com. [Apache Dance With a Fellow Commuter] Reference
This near-flawless drama depicts the dissolution of a marriage with unerring sensitivity, hitting no false notes. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: The Graduate Turns 73: Dustin Hoffman's Top Ten Movies] Reference
His arms were long, his hands huge, with spatulate, magnetic fingers and the soft, unerring touch of a poolshark. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
But from time to time she'd check in on Krishna, saying “You thinking of home again?” with unerring accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lanka] Reference
As he rose in the ranks, demonstrating an unerring mastery of the process, few knew his secret: he was colorblind. From Wordnik.com. [TRIBUTE: Remembering 'FUTURAMA' producer Alex Johns, 43] Reference
Financial and governing elites, of both parties, were too confident for too long in the unerring genius of markets. From Wordnik.com. [America’s New Shrink] Reference
More importantly, if this manuscript has been found, it proves that what is contained herein is the unerring truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
During this process you retire, but on your return you indicate with unerring accuracy the coin at which he left off. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
With grace, wit and an unerring eye for detail, Reed charts the strange topography of the South in this wonderful paperback. From Wordnik.com. [THE CHECKLIST] Reference
The Iroquois fought like incarnate demons, and every stone they flung with unerring precision shattered a white man's skull. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
It could be argued that the Libertines 'reforming in 2010 is of a piece with the band's unerring nose for catastrophic timing. From Wordnik.com. [The Libertines] Reference
Water trickles among the trees, seeking with its unerring instinct for declivity the drains and sumps hidden in the forest floor. From Wordnik.com. [An Experience Of Captivity] Reference
But though unconscious of all their peril, the child's unerring instinct pointed to the true, unfailing Refuge for all human trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
He has unerring instincts when it comes to sorting clues and amazing luck, when it comes to being in the right place at the right moment. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Takers] Reference
He was an oracle on the subject of hunting, and an unerring judge of whiskey -- to both which means of enjoyment he was strongly attached. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Leaden-footed they might be and slow, but with unerring certainty they were travelling steadily on to carry out the vengeance of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
They had, as before said, been approached too close to the river, and thus been exposed to the unerring rifle-fire of the Boer mercenaries. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Yet the essence of his work is inexorable truth, and his version of life is depicted to a delighted public with the unerring pencil of a laughing philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
At once the searching gleam began to dance hither and thither upon the floor, and finally, with unerring pause, fell directly upon the heap of glittering coin. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
With unerring aim the rope was cast, and the loop settled over the head of the runaway, though the maddened animal was galloping with neck stretched full length and head low down. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
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