Sentence examples for own certainties from inspiring English sources

We are seeing the impermanence of our own certainties, our own families.

Debaters should beware of people who claim to be 'insulted', by an idea that disturbs their own certainties.

Like Andre himself, you start to mistrust what you are seeing as your own certainties turn to uncertainty.

Islam's capacity to exert such a powerful hold over its growing number of followers left 12th-century Europe baffled and insecure about its own certainties.

It's a theme that echoes from many earlier Frayn novels like "Spies," "A Landing on the Sun" and the marvelous "Headlong" (a Booker Prize finalist) — that is, how an obsession with order and control is often bowled over by unexpected events, how the need to impose one's own certainties upon the world can lead to a comedy (or tragedy) of errors.

As for her mother, Ms. Nafisi says, she reimagined her own past, inventing "stories about herself that she came to believe with such conviction that we started doubting our own certainties": she turned her unhappy childhood into a self-dramatizing epic, and mythologized her first husband as a saint, who surpassed her current spouse in almost every possible way.

And the government became a victim of its own certainty.

He was undercutting his own certainty, and doubling the intrigue.

They like to announce their own certainty, and then expect everybody else to accept it.The chief weapon of the scholars is ijtihad, which means "interpretation" or "independent judgment".

They are referring to their own certainty, sometimes supported by an incantatory reference to the sheikhs, whom they have never read.

There's Mark Gastineau's sack dance, and his sudden withdrawal from the game — owing, as he now admits, not to Brigitte Nielsen's health but to his own certainty that his steroid use would shortly be discovered.