Sentence examples for be a certain sort from inspiring English sources

So Harrow and Bowlby and Ainsworth and the Minnesota study have pointed out that in order for human beings to develop the kind of trusting relationships that enables a society even to get off the ground, it's crucial that there be a certain sort of stable social connection in infancy.

Copyright trolls may not be subject to the Australian Consumer Law, and some sections of it which would seem to apply to speculative invoicing would require that movie downloaders be a certain sort of customer of movie studios, or be buying a certain sort of product or service, which isn't really the case.

To possess a virtue is to be a certain sort of person with a certain complex mindset.

(Roughly, and taking the notion of an evaluative property as fundamental: for a notion to be normative is for it to be a certain sort of evaluative notion, one that is essentially action-guiding; for a notion to be moral is for it to be a certain sort of normative notion, one that exhibits impartiality).

This likewise holds throughout life for all ensuing experiences of "recognizing" oneself as being a particular kind of "I," namely, taking qua imagining oneself to be a certain sort of ego-level self (apropos Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, it always pays to remember William Wordsworth's line, "The child is the father of the man").

So as you may recall, what we were talking about in the last lecture was this ancient idea that there's a certain sort of thriving that's available to human beings.

You know, there is a certain sort of sincerity that is opposed to a certain sort of fun.

Ahmet said, "There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think?

There is a certain sort of person who hates and mistrusts anything popular.

"If I had played the game I would have been a certain sort of artist.

So since they were not there, it meant that there was a certain sort of fundamental level of agreement at the Convention.