Sentence examples for surprising certainty from inspiring English sources

"I don't," she says with surprising certainty, through a mouthful of berries.

Despite having little access to Cheney and his colleagues, the authors capture the vice president's interiority with surprising certainty ("Cheney didn't want a normal life; he wanted to live, eat and breathe the White House").

Referring mainly to its own Outlook for Energy, Exxon Mobil's report concludes with surprising certainty that none of its reserves, either on its balance sheet or that it plans to bring onto its balance sheet in the future, will ever be stranded.

It was already evident that Milan, itself a team in transition and in some financial downturn, simply had more structure, more certainty, and most surprising of all, more physicality than Arsenal.

This is not surprising given the lack of certainty about the credentials and qualifications of pharmacy nurses.

"It's not surprising that Welsh players would choose the certainty of strong weekly French competitions over the uncertainty of the weekly club competition in Wales".

The lack of certainty in the tree is not surprising given the short branch lengths leading to the divergences among Domestic cattle-Yak-Bison-Banteng-Mithan/Gaur.

It is simply too early to say what precisely went wrong at Fukushima, and it has been surprising to see commentators speak with such speed and certainty.

It was somewhat surprising that the inverted Cronbach's alpha of the self-certainty subscale was substantially lower than that of the self-reflectiveness subscale in the previous studies [ 9, 10].

As helpfully pointed out by Lisa Downing, Du Châtelet's claim that hypotheses become "truths" is not that surprising given that she very quickly discusses them in terms of "moral certainty", a weaker claim than something being metaphysically or absolutely certain.

Perhaps it is not surprising then, that communication practices varied considerably, depending on a participant's certainty in their own understanding of the law, as well as their perspective on the appropriateness of raising the topic in a particular consultation.