Sentence examples for a certitude from inspiring English sources

This was a pompous certitude, but a certitude no less.

And at that moment I knew, with a certitude indistinct from terror, that destiny (or misfortune — the same thing in this case) had brought me to that room.

The entrepreneurs are driven by a certitude that rebuilding, regenerating and reprogramming patients' organs, limbs, cells and DNA will enable people to live longer and better.

They also saw a man of charm, easy in human relations and adept politically, but with a certitude not earned by experience or accomplishment.

It became a certitude of the age that some silly architects had had a fantasy, which turned into the opposite, and appropriate measures were taken, but as with many certitudes the truth now seems to be not quite so simple.

Pulpit oratory that once attacked artificial birth control as nonnegotiable now focuses on abortion, delivered with a certitude identical with what older American Catholics will recall was once used to denounce artificial contraception.

That reflects a political certitude: a guy who will make decisions a la Harry Truman and go home and go to sleep.

But despite this gradual disintegration, there remains a magma-grade core of strength and a religious certitude that would shake the archbishop of Canterbury right down to his socks.

The choreographed conflicts, set on a stage as big as Texas but as spiritually claustrophobic as a back-room cockfight ring, resolve themselves with a mechanistic certitude that satisfies the brain's brute love of pattern and bypasses its lofty emotional centers.

The mate on the bridge is penetrated by a great certitude of safety and peace.

Like college editorialists everywhere, Chairman Lieberman's opinions were grounded in a solemn certitude, unalloyed by ambiguity.