Sentence examples for retained a certain from inspiring English sources

Still, he retained a certain skepticism.

The men have retained a certain dignity.

Such hip places aside, Hong Kong has retained a certain British starchiness.

And in her own dealings with the great musical figures she says she retained a certain distance.

Hobbema softened Ruisdael's dramatic conception of landscape but retained a certain inventive grandeur in his views of the Dutch countryside.

Ever since Agatha Christie went missing for 11 days in 1926, provoked by her husband's love for another woman, going Awol has retained a certain publicity value.

Yet bitcoins retain a certain mystique.

It is a mutualist that retains a certain aloofness.

Easton retains a certain empathy for her characters.

After death Hatcher still retains a certain authority and cachet.

Today it still retains a certain outlaw spirit.