Sentence examples for awfully certain from inspiring English sources

But insiders have observed that the singer seemed awfully certain that Helt would have a chance to make his speech.

"We learned some lessons" in Somalia, he said, "and one of them is that you have to be awfully certain when you go into something this big, this complicated, this potentially dangerous, that you know what you're getting into.

In the past two years, the White House has been awfully nice to certain people, particularly those in the top two tax brackets.

I'm not sure I could plot the rise in hemlines across Mad Men's run with any great precision, but I am certain they're awfully high now.

This program is the brainchild of a San Francisco company called Uber, a name that sounds awfully Nietzschean but does suggest a certain self-assurance.

At certain points the paintings veer awfully close to early 20th-century illustration, and one can almost see Norman Rockwell coming around the corner.

Keanu Reeves fans hoping for another "John Wick" are certain to be disappointed by "Exposed," an awfully silly — and just plain awful — bilingual supernatural crime thriller that wasn't screened in advance by distributor Lionsgate Premiere before its Friday opening.

While we're giving the phrase illegal immigrant the benefit of the doubt, we should note that a system in which a few people deciding that certain phrases are no longer "correct" is awfully clunky.

He did grow up there, and defending torture does, arguably, bear a certain resemblance to booing Santa, but still — that seems like an awfully low bar.

They're passionate about certain music that I once felt that way about, and they're awfully non-jaded for all their worldliness.

It's very funny, and ends up as a chaotic, awfully choreographed piece of music and dance, which is my little nod, shall we say, to a certain legacy of mine".