All eyes, however, were staring at him in certitude of expectancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Port Adams Crowd] Reference
This sort of moral certitude is exactly what turns off many veteran teachers in Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader of the Classrooms] Reference
The way pundits get their certitude is by closing their ears and assuming they know it all. From Wordnik.com. [Gracias, extranjero amable] Reference
All one can say with certitude is that different women define and relate to feminism differently. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism's Identity Crisis] Reference
certitude is the enemy of wisdom and, in office, it is wisdom, not certitude, that is required. From Wordnik.com. [TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News] Reference
certitude is the enemy of wisdom, and in office, it is wisdom, not certitude, that is required. From Wordnik.com. [Bark Bark Woof Woof] Reference
No; he simply claimed that they were sufficient to produce certitude, which is a different matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891] Reference
Also unchanged is his moral certitude, which is hard to compare to anything, and which almost transcends courage. From Wordnik.com. [A Pariah's Triumph—and America's] Reference
Indeed, it is itself a kind of certitude I find particularly unredeeming. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, cartoons, rotting fish, peevish men...] Reference
Maher might not like religious folks' "certitude" but his inconsistency and murkiness is downright unappealing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
certitude is the enemy of wisdom and, in office, it is wisdom, not certitude, that is required. ". From Wordnik.com. [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference
"certitude" is pretty much like everything else: a man-made construct. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Book Resources] Reference
Rather, this voice carried a 'certitude' not unlike that of the cranes of which he wrote. ". From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold's Legacy] Reference
He offers certitude amid fin de siecle uncertainty. From Wordnik.com. [Extreme Measures] Reference
Defer to the you, she has certitude for, me? thanks, lad!. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
No moral effort, no certitude of belief, could rescue humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Common Prayer, part 2: Wetting baby's head] Reference
However, her moral certitude is commensurate with her intellectual confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Came The Revolution...] Reference
They do so with a zealot's conviction and certitude befitting a Nobel Laureate. From Wordnik.com. [Neil K. Shenai: NFL Predictions: Ignore the Experts (except for me)] Reference
It provided an aura of strength and certitude at a time when the public needed it. From Wordnik.com. [A Date With History] Reference
Willa's tones rang out without passion but clarion clear in her absolute certitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
We've learned the hard way that ideologies imbued with great certitude tend to be dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [From The Prison Of The 'Isms'] Reference
I swear, I've come to suspect that truth is in inverse proportion to the certitude of the declaimer. From Wordnik.com. [R.I.P.] Reference
In its concentrated emphasis there was the unmistakable accent of certitude, of expectation gratified. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
More controversially, Dower pairs Hiroshima with Sept. 11, both acts of terror born of moral certitude. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Bacevich's "Washington Rules" and John Dower's "Cultures of War"] Reference
Some wary and secretive, others clinging and anxious, these are kids not just orphaned but emptied of moral certitude. From Wordnik.com. [An Emotional Moonscape] Reference
But Adam's certitude that he is fighting for justice and truth begins to disintegrate as he acts upon those convictions. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing Is as It Seems] Reference
But it is almost more difficult to identify these Geraints than it is to attain any certitude about King Arthur himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Great Britain in 1888 with as much certitude as we say what will happen to the vapour of our breath on a cold day in winter. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
A hunch: You know what a lot of voters feel, deep in their hearts, with a certitude that finds no expression in focus groups?. From Wordnik.com. [A Time To Get Serious-Campaign '92] Reference
Taking careful soundings with his ice-axe and using his crampons with almost uncanny certitude, he guided his companions through. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
The latter is a general who dribbles downcourt with one hand extended, signaling to his L.A. Lakers with Schwarzkopfian certitude. From Wordnik.com. [Do You Believe In Magic?] Reference
No one has written more perceptively about the critics of democracy and freedom and their offer of certitude in an ambiguous world. From Wordnik.com. [A Great Man In A Grim Time] Reference
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