Sentence examples for former certainties from inspiring English sources
For the average British male – the only gender about which I feel qualified to comment – this crumbling of former certainties is troubling.
By the time Mr. Rosenbaum emerged from Bergen-Belsen and made his way to America, he had lost faith in two former certainties: God and the law.
Turned out millions were fleeing former certainties.
President Obama's promises of 3.5 million jobs now seemed a sham and his former certainty a delusion.
The antinuclear emotion of the early 1980's has given way to resignation or indifference; the nuclear strategists themselves - and Mr. Nye is no exception - have lost their former certainty in the recipes for dealing with the dynamics of the nuclear competition.
He was increasingly preoccupied with the past, as he roamed the world bereft of his former ideological certainties, a witness to decline, signing letters, joining protests, but more as a symbolic than an active figure.
Knowledge is the next most important of the values.[5] Knowledge is more important than right opinion, since the former has certainty which the latter lacks (RG 138 139, 146), and 'knowledge of general principles is intellectually more valuable than knowledge of isolated matters of fact' (RG 147).
The newspaper Die Zeit had called it "the most expensive and secret building" in the country, though only the former remains a certainty at this point.
The former combines dogmatic certainty with a low-register voice that seems to be filtered through a vat of honey: the latter is the more familiar later Thatcher who grows more strident as she feels power slipping away from her. Neet Mohan and Jeff Rawle play the plethora of male characters in a production by Indhu Rubasingham that is perfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.
Old sentimental certainties fell.
One of his son's advisers expressed certainty that the former president and the Texas governor discussed foreign policy, "because I've caught whispers of it," the adviser said.
