Sentence examples for lost certainty from inspiring English sources

While there was no shrinking from Labor's failure to prosecute the case, he said he knew of many business leaders who regretted speaking against an emissions trading scheme because the nation had experienced "five years of lost certainty and economic opportunity".

"A key result of that change could be described as inconsistency of old basis art became able to go far away from realistic depiction and math had lost certainty of its axioms," he adds.

They're nostalgic for the lost certainties of the old era.

As my colleague Tom Friedman has pointed out, they seem to hanker for the lost certainties of cold-war diplomacy; perhaps they also hanker for the lost certainties of the old economy, where big companies were comfortably settled in stable oligopolies, and didn't have to worry about the shifting tides of financial markets.

He spoke the language of a man who yearned for the lost certainties, who longed for a time when Moscow was to be reckoned with.

"He lost the certainty of where his jumpers were going to be, where his lifters were, where he was going to have to put the ball.

But because we now that individuals can and will defeat the system, we have lost the certainty that Keynes imposed on economics and that has made the Keynesian system the lodestar of economic theory and economic policy for 50 years.

Mark Ravenhill's big subject is a mordant elegy for lost political certainties.

On the other hand, Sophie's death, which is partly an allegory for lost philosophical certainties, can also be read as taking on an emotional weight that goes against the grain of the novel's ostensible scorn for squishy psychologising.

In the 1980s, women playwrights challenged the presumption that "if it's domestic, it isn't political" in free-form plays, often with all-women casts; and, while the great subject of mid-1990s "in-yer-face theatre" is masculinity in crisis, there is (in Mark Ravenhill, particularly) a steady note of lament for lost political certainties.

And he can scale his singing down to an extraordinary, telling pianissimo without losing that certainty, his tone or his equally admirable command of the long phrase.