Sentence examples for with a firmness from inspiring English sources

His voice was reedy, but he spoke with a firmness and maturity that belied his air of fragility.

With a firmness and logic that was refreshing in any group of hair stylists, Intercoiffure took a stand.

Ms. Carlile, who hails from the outskirts of Seattle, has the kind of voice most Nashville producers would be happy to work with: roomy, dark-hued and bittersweet, with a firmness of purpose and pitch.

"I am most comfortable when I am around other people -- I prefer 200 to 2," he explains with a firmness that shows he has given the matter previous consideration.

Mr. Christie — "The Governor," as his first television spot proclaimed him, with a firmness suggesting that even people in Peoria might identify him as such — has raised triple the money she has.

"Paoli," he wrote to Rousseau, "has infused my soul with a firmness that it will never lose". Arriving back in Britain in early 1766, Boswell talked of nothing but Corsica and Paoli to his literary acquaintances, and they urged him to write a book.

Samples were also assessed for fruit firmness with a digital firmness tester (equipped with a 11 mm probe) on the two peeled and opposite fruit surfaces of each fruit tested.

When meeting someone for the first time, be sure to shake hands palm to palm with a gentle firmness.

He was sentenced to hang, and according to contemporary reports "went through the whole awful Scene with a manly Firmness, join'd with all the Appearances of true Devotion".

It did not come out loudly but it was heard, and it came out with a certain firmness and a certain dignity, and also possibly with a certain stubbornness, and it was said in a private, faintly non-conformist voice.

Yet they are not "organic," at least in the sense that that term is so often used in architecture; they are buildings that stand on the ground with a certain firmness and a definite, if modest, pride.