Sentence examples for doubts without from inspiring English sources

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Keats called the creative process "negative capability... when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".

There is little of that quality Keats admired, "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact".

This allows them to breezily sweep aside sceptical doubts without having to go to the bother of checking if they are well-grounded.

Negative capability, a writer's ability, "which Shakespeare possessed so enormously," to accept "uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason," according to English poet John Keats, who first used the term in an 1817 letter.

It brings to mind Keats' coinage, "Negative Capability", which the poet famously defined as "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".

We strive for the condition of consciousness that the Romantic poet John Keats called "negative capability," the psychological state of residing in "benign uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".

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Jenkins deftly penetrates the natural anxieties of childhood — the phobias, the insecurities, the self-doubtswithout playing them down.

Studying philosophy cultivates doubt without helplessness, and confidence without hubris.

"Without a doubt, without a doubt," he said of the team's postseason prospects.

He added: "Virgin has almost disappeared... Delta control Virgin, without any doubt, without any question.

Let there be no doubt: without freedom of the press, there is no democracy.

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