Would his Supreme Court nominees be zealous, self-certain extensions of himself?
Instead, his nomination would follow eight years of a president who has already been, if anything, too steadfast and too self-certain.
At the start of the drive, Wakefield spoke with the calmness of the self-certain, ready with a counterargument for every concern.
During the 2008 cycle, Silver created the first high-profile poll aggregator, and his fresh approach to data was greeted with the same self-certain exuberance of the Obama election itself.
Along the same self-certain lines, it took only a drop for him to know he didn't like vodka; he insists he's never had so much as a glass of the stuff.
Indeed, for someone often accused of being obnoxiously self-certain ("She has not once said, 'I made a mistake,' there's never a sense of her being a fallible human being," Arianna Huffington maintains), she can sound practically Chinese in her self-criticism.
Merkel comes from the edges - East Germany, rather than Lincolnshire - and was brought up by an abnormally self-certain and pious father.
In this way, modern philosophy lays the conceptual groundwork for subjectivism, the "worldview" in which an intrinsically-meaningless objective realm ("nature") is separated epistemically from isolated, value-bestowing, self-certain subjects, and so needs to be mastered through the relentless epistemological, normative, and practical activities of these subjects.
I do not think the person who opts to carry such an image on a poster to a rally would be so cavalier and self-certain in carrying the photograph of a human corpse in the same way.
Luck favors the humble; this doesn't mean you can't stand out there and enthuse others to find their luck but you mustn't toot your horn of arrogance or luck will start to shy away as you become too self-certain.
His true self, his certain better nature, was, it seemed, being forcibly supported.
