Sentence examples for certain resignation from inspiring English sources

And yet a certain resignation has set in.

On the surface that might imply a certain resignation about today's outcome.

Still, the hotel was welcomed with a certain resignation in at least one corner of the neighborhood.

There is a certain resignation at the inevitability of all of this, which many, including myself, are guilty of.

Polls also reflect a certain resignation about the erosion of privacy at a time of targeted online advertising, location-tracking cellphones and intrusive government programs.

For customers of the T.G.I. Friday's in West Orange, the news of both the deception and the settlement was greeted with a certain resignation.

Many Americans interviewed around the country on Friday shared concerns about their civil liberties but expressed a certain grudging resignation as well.

Other Vatican officials also said they were relatively certain that resignation had been among many topics Cardinal Law discussed over the last few days with Cardinal Daró Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, and Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

"This is an unusual job," Mr. Dyke observed with a certain tone of resignation.

"There is a certain level of resignation, that that is just the way things are and the way it will always be.

Voltaire was arguing against a certain illusory, happy resignation, which he believed one must overcome, for why else would we need to cultivate our gardens?Existentialism offers a genuineness that might easily be mistaken for ennui by the uninitiated, but in reality goes deeper than that.