Sentence examples for own correctness from inspiring English sources

For decades each side, convinced of its own correctness, and the policy implications of that correctness, refused to see any merit in the arguments of the other.

He started to defend himself but then, in a moment rare for a president who often seems convinced of his own correctness, he switched course.

Proof checkers carry their own correctness proofs and accepting a new proof checker amounts to type checking the checker in Coq.

Driven by an unyielding sense of their own correctness, all three are experts in the trade of absolutes, always pressing toward a higher-contrast world of black and white.

Pan American was founded in an old-fashioned, Boy Scoutish sense of its own correctness... and [this] was unthinkable!"* Over time, Trippe's methods had alienated many, and Pan Am became an airline without a country, as well as a political orphan.

Indeed, when comparing participants' sensitivity to their own correctness in low-visibility judgements for £1 and £10 wager blocks, d w ′ dropped by almost half (from 0.91 to 0.50).

But of course I would have continued to believe in my own essential correctness if Romney had eked out a narrow victory instead.

Davies is funny about his time at Kent, gently sending up his own political correctness - "I had no money to help the miners, so I just watched the strike on TV while wearing badges saying 'Coal not dole'" - but he is less insightful about what drew him to comedy as a career.

"I concluded that because of the intervening phrase 'or any other group,' writing 'homosexuals"" -- with the apostrophe indicating possession -- "(and hence 'any other group's') would violate what is perhaps the first rule of English usage: that no construction should call attention to its own grammatical correctness.

It convinces Washington of its own innate correctness and discourages careful consideration of warnings to the contrary even from its own allies.

Although queer reading circles sounded like the fun kind of circle jerks, they actually revolve around leftists verbally jacking off to their own political correctness, and the idea of gay versions of heterosexual traditions made me laugh if I wanted to wear suits and find marriageable men, I would listen to Gotye and join a frat.