I wonder now if the test didn't offer a kind of pleasant middle ground for him to inhabit, a place free of confident knowledge, a place in which neither memory nor action was necessary; neither sanity nor senility, but simple, liberating play.
In addition, studies have indicated that the extent to which health care providers communicate with patients about supplement use is low with lack of confident knowledge on the subject a major contributing factor [ 16, 17].
In order to stand out, any one of them must bring a little something extra to the table: a confident working knowledge, say, of relativity theory and atomic bomb research circa 1941 (as in Michael Frayn's play "Copenhagen") or a mastery of domestic life in late-18th-century Saxony (as in Penelope Fitzgerald's novel "The Blue Flower").
If a TNM has high frequency, then it can infer confident knowledge.
But the comfort of Karl May fans with May's historical inaccuracies surely comes in part from their confident knowledge of the actual history.
She dies in his arms, the only child of a single man, and from this point Craven is set on his vengeful path — weirdly calm, in the confident knowledge that blood will have to be spilled.
A Confident Campaigner His knowledge from overseeing states during his father's last two campaigns gives him what aides describe as the confidence to challenge the most minor of scheduling decisions.
But the tricks are just frills compared to the subtle dramatic command she brings to numbers like a sultry, sexed-up "Tea for Two" (part of a Vincent Youmans medley) and a version of that aging diva warhorse "When the World Was Young," which conveys a confident, settled self-knowledge.
Mankiewicz cut the Gordian knot: he made his ancient Romans and Egyptians speak like characters from such Mankiewicz movies as "All About Eve" and "People Will Talk," with all the theatrical grandeur, self-confident knowledge, and transcendent legend that he had parcelled out to these films.
A confident nurse, with a thorough knowledge about the patients, could in many cases help the doctors to avoid unnecessary and sometimes harmful referrals to hospital.
