In any event, his expressions of certainty were, perhaps, exacting a toll: he had confided to friends that he'd been plagued by bad dreams since his return.
Mrs. Clinton said she "hoped" — forget expressions of certainty, conviction or confidence — for better German-American relations.
But outside the realm of science, people interpret expressions of certainty as more likely to be true than expressions of cautious probability.
The imperial view typified by a multinational epic like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy exalts heroic warfare as an expression of moral certainty in the continuing war between good and evil.
Another important issue relevant to standardized reporting is the expression of diagnostic certainty.
These definitions are, in fact, expressions of the certainty with which the current evidence would lead us to believe that the treatment under consideration is cost-effective, and are dependent on the amount of evidence (i.e. sample size).
The expression of unfathomable, illuminated certainty is reminiscent of some much earlier funerary terracotta figures of the Han age with enigmatic, quietly blissful smiles.
The musician turns her head to look at the viewer with an expression of profound inner certainty.
It can be seen that the expression of subjective assessment of certainty on the part of the speaker through the lexical item in the source text is represented in the form of a modal auxiliary 'must' in all the translation.
But how, if she is so filled with shame, could she have proposed marriage to Ames? There, I think, lies the secret of Lila, as a character: boldness, the perception and expression of truth, combined with a certainty, based on her past experience, that she will be cast aside.
