Sentence examples for given to doubt from inspiring English sources

Strong reasons already have been given to doubt that music can have a subject matter at all. 2. In addition to a subject matter in the sense of representational content, a work of art may have subject matter in the sense of theme, or underlying idea.

Chatting to successful career women on the morning of a cross-country run, we discovered that, while the boys woke up full of confidence in their potential to win, our daughters were far more given to doubt their abilities.

Even Schliemann, not usually given to doubts, was left puzzled that the ruins he dug up seemed too slight for a city of Troy's reputed wealth and power.

Clarke, never a man given to self doubt, divides opinion (not unlike Pietersen).

This was Paul Deighton or, since last year Lord Deighton, commercial secretary to the Treasury, a man not given to self doubt or to using one word if 10 will do.

Feith, like his superiors in the Pentagon and the White House, is not given to public doubt, but in our last conversation he seemed uncharacteristically humble.

But Van Gaal is not easily given to self doubt and has been vindicated by the thrilling counterattacking football that has seen his side plunder 10 goals to date.

Ferguson is not, it seems, a man given to self-doubt.

But Obama has displayed a kind of ESPN masculinity: postfeminist in his values, but also thoroughly traditional in style — hypercompetitive, restrained, not given to self-doubt, rarely self-indulgent.

People aren't given to self-doubt as much when they're young.

Technology is not given to self-doubt: again, a very human attribute, and a driver of progress down the ages.