Sentence examples for certain insecurity from inspiring English sources

"What was nice about Bardot is that she kept a certain insecurity," Vandeperre says.

He seems to feel that insisting on the vanguard angle betokens a certain insecurity, an effort to raise puppetry's status, buy it a fur coat.

Mr. Philbin said that for a long time he felt a certain insecurity about what his talent really was, since he wasn't truly a singer, dancer or comic.

Maybe some of this emperor's new clothes syndrome (ENCS) links to emerging subjects that display a certain insecurity and therefore insist on fancying up their credentials.

But for all the talk of their special qualifications, many of these former opposition leaders still betray a certain insecurity about their future.

Mr. Russell Beale does what he can about this, suggesting a certain insecurity behind the posturing and even finding a touch of pathos in George's devotion to Suzanne Burden's chillingly exquisite Mrs. Fitzherbert.

He expresses perplexity at what he deems a "certain, extraordinary insecurity" on Kissinger's part, which he traces back to Kissinger's origins as a young Jewish refugee from Nazism.

The mob is often portrayed as an oasis of tradition, a society with a clear vision of authority and fraternity, a refuge for men of sentiment, a place where a certain social insecurity is veiled by the tightness of family and the threat of force.

Something primal is at work here, that speaks to both machismo — boys don't touch boys — and certain male insecurities about being visible to strangers.

should have a certain level of insecurity about whether they really get it.

Of course, you don't have to travel to St Barts to see evidence that a certain type of insecurity increases in direct proportion to one's wealth.