Sentence examples for firmness that it from inspiring English sources

Below those high notes, the lower part of her voice was so lacking in firmness that it became hard to hear in the quieter parts of Brünnhilde's immolation scene.

Bill Burr handled the situation with a juxtaposed delicacy and firmness that made it quite apparent this was not his first encounter with a man and his video phone.

"They tried to dissuade him, but not with the firmness that was necessary".

The education minister, François Fillon, has announced a policy of "firmness" that would allow no negotiations over the law's meaning.

The unusually warm temperatures have baked the greens to a firmness that is unfamiliar to habitués of the tournament.

"I am most comfortable when I am around other people -- I prefer 200 to 2," he explains with a firmness that shows he has given the matter previous consideration.

The boy first ascended the scaffold, without any apparent change in his resignation; and, during the time, the young man, Hayward, seated himself and appeared perfectly lost to all earthly objects; he was shortly summoned to the fatal tree, and, with a firmness that did not forsake him to the last, approached his fate.

In the Ukraine crisis Mrs Merkel has ruled out arms shipments or any military response, with a firmness that sounds dogmatic to many American or British ears.Compared with Britain and France, nuclear and globally oriented powers, Germany has a modest military budget (see chart).

There's one particular moment, after Eddie has gone missing from summer camp, when Tom — fixing a frenzied gaze on the boy's best friend and interrogating him in a voice that trembles with repressed wrath — clamps his hand on the bunkmate's arm with a firmness that is simultaneously an actor's instinct (to keep the boy's hand from shadowing his face) and a man's implacable authority.

"If there's some firmness that comes out, and the green speeds get a little bit quicker and get a little bit firmer, I think we will see some of the young players make some mistakes that will cost them the tournament and the experienced players who position the ball properly and vary their risk/reward shot-making, I think they will have an easier time staying on top of the leader board".

To form a belief about important matters without possessing sufficient evidence or to believe anything with a degree of firmness that is not proportioned to the strength of our evidence is to misuse our faculties and court all manner of error.