Sentence examples for own certainty from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

Interviews with a handful of the jurors here offered a glimpse inside the conference room and a sense of why the foreman, James Matsumoto, a retired video librarian for public television, had on Tuesday morning come to his own certainty that there would be no certainty here.

He has chastised church bureaucrats for their "theological narcissism," and he says in this book that "we must avoid the attitude of someone who judges and condemns from the lofty heights of his own certainty, looking for the splinter in his brother's eye while remaining unaware of the beam in his own".

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.

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.

Today there were only maybes and not sures even though these contained their own certainties: that he would not make it today and would not call tomorrow and we would be left perched uncomfortably on the same chairs that we'd been sitting in for the previous fortnight.