Inventive and mischievous as ever, and with a real assuredness of tone, The Water Stealer must be a strong contender for this year's TS Eliot prize.
Lord West, who was responsible for Trident between 2002 and 2006, said: "The very invulnerability of the submarine from detection...and the assuredness of warhead delivery make it the ultimate post strike system".
The feeling was that even if Sami Khedira and Bastian Schweinsteiger had started to control the tempo and the ball, taking the pressure off those behind them, and Philipp Lahm had brought about a higher level of assuredness with his switch to right-back, Oscar would still be key to unlocking a place in the final.
"I watched their interviews and Snowden's awkwardness is as fascinating as Assange's assuredness, but I tried to find something of them in myself, and that was [to do with] ego.
The prospect of competing for a major university team can be quite frightening – it means pitching your Monster Munch-induced bulge and lack of self-confidence against the inevitably chiselled abs and steely-eyed assuredness of your peers in a hugely public sphere.
Their selection of plaintiffs who have plainly suffered no harm from the A.C.A. suggests an experiment gone awry — or, perhaps, an assuredness that most or maybe all of the Court's Republican appointees will entertain any argument, no matter how silly, that can derail or dismember the supposed abomination that is Obamacare.
Benedict Cumberbatch, as Tietjens, pairs fiery, resolute eyes with a wobbly chin, at once conveying the assuredness and fear of an "eighteenth-century man" born two hundred years too late — a man confident in his values, and equally confident that those values no longer hold sway.
There were neither fireworks of joy nor the solid assuredness of wisdom, but rather the complicated contentment that can be found when you trade in your high ideals for the raw beauty of the moment.
"Everything is going to go 99 percent right," said Mr. Whittle, who exudes an odd but appealing combination of professorial assuredness and entrepreneurial daring.
And as the United States approaches the next World Cup qualifying cycle, it can take some encouragement in the emergence of Lichaj at left back, the assuredness of Alejandro Bedoya on the wing, the scrappiness of Jermaine Jones in midfield (though he has curious stretches of torpor) and the rejuvenation of Freddy Adu after two years away from the national team.
An 1884 article by J. A. Harrison on "Negro English" includes "Dat's cool!" in a list of undefined interjections, but there's no way of knowing if the exclamation was merely a comment on a person's assuredness or audacity, fitting in with one of the earlier meanings.
