The phrase "a certain openness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific level of receptiveness or willingness to consider new ideas or perspectives.
Example: "In our discussions, we should approach the topic with a certain openness to different viewpoints."
Alternatives: "a degree of openness" or "some level of openness".
"Pitch Dark," like "Speedboat," exudes a certain openness, a vulnerability, even.
The trip also seemed to indicate a certain openness on the part of Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy to at least exploring the idea of vouchers.
"Many of the underlings came from the provinces," Mr. Walther said, unlike city dwellers, students or employees at big firms, "who had a certain openness to the world".
Gradually, an American version of Orthodoxy developed on the Neo-Orthodox model of Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808 88), which combined institutional separatism with a certain openness to general culture.
The aerial view, "Puestenkill, New York: Summer," done between 1865 and 1872 and attributed to Joseph Henry Hidley, conveys a certain openness through the wide street that bisects the town.
The experience is not one of the building or of nature alone, but of the two together, and comes from a certain openness: to what was already on the site, to its possibilities, to ancient and modern materials, to high and low technology.
Generally, in Europe there is certain openness in recognizing the advance health care directives, also supported by the statements of international organizations.
XM will not disclose the bit rate it delivers, but in a quiet home, you may notice a certain lack of openness to the audio.
Furtherore Endy's operating system for wheat and the complications of establishing who owns a plant and who decides about its usage signals at the relationship between a certain type of openness with the stagnation of the political agenda for environmental policy-making.
During adolescence, adaptively responding to one's (changing) social context appears to involve a certain sensitivity and openness to socially conflicting information.
