Sentence examples for intellectual assurance from inspiring English sources

Her manner mixed intellectual assurance with slight social impatience.

Squalor, physical and mental, is evoked with a clarity only possible to a writer of fastidious intellectual assurance.

Some of the diplomatic small fry who have learned Russian and can listen to Vishinsky's speeches straight from the horse's mouth, say that they show less intellectual assurance than they did a while back.

She went on acting into her 80s with that authority and intellectual assurance that had climaxed as Volumnia, to Ian McKellen's Coriolanus (National, 1984), and as Hedda Gabler, at Stratford, Ontario (1970).

The reason that Rahv went ballistic when he read "The Oasis" was that McCarthy is caricaturing his own deeply held credo when she tells us that Will Taub's "whole sense of intellectual assurance rested on the fixed belief in the potency of history to settle questions of value".

Back in 2003, rather than waiting for Hans Blix and his team to complete their investigations in Iraq, they pushed a President who lacked intellectual self-assurance into starting a preëmptive war.

His own playing was marked by superlative technical assurance, lucidity, intellectual authority and gravitas – gaiety and humour came less easily to him – and initially he was criticised for too coolly dispassionate and austere a style: later, however, he himself acknowledged that he might have been over-severe and adopted a more relaxed, more expressive approach.

Microsoft has announced a new deal with Linux outfit Xandros that is similar to the Microsoft-Novell tie-up of last year coming complete with Intellectual property assurance.

The extension of intellectual property assurance to another Linux distro will no doubt cause a flurry of discussion in the open source community.

Microsoft sales and marketing support: Microsoft will now endorse Xandros Server and Desktop as a preferred Linux distribution Intellectual property assurance: Microsoft will make available patent covenants for Xandros customers that will provide customers with confidence that the Xandros technologies they use and deploy in their environments "are compliant with Microsoft's intellectual property".

Microsoft said that the commitments will provide customers with enhanced interoperability, more effective systems management solutions and intellectual property assurances "all of which extend a bridge between open source and commercial software and deliver customers real value in mixed systems environments".