Sentence examples for world of certainty from inspiring English sources

If science drains the world of certainty, maybe that is invigorating as well as appropriate.

Businesses don't operate in a world of certainty; they operate in a world of probabilities.

This is done because nursing home performance measurement is not a world of certainty and perfectly valid measures.

Even while showing a time of great change, Carter observed, "Downton" seemed to offer modern audiences a world of certainties.

As a deeply religious man and one of the few Muslims in San Diego involved in civic affairs, Abdussattar Shaikh tends to speak of a world of certainties.

He believed that a rich and deserved life ran parallel to theirs, a life that she alone could see, and he would probe her dreams for directions and tease her premonitions for meanings, as if her nightmares and moods gave her access to a world of utter certainty, when in fact Kirsten knew the truth — that every dream was a reservoir of doubt.

A man who once lived in a world of physical certainty and total self-belief now has to battle the bewilderment of his own body not doing what he wants.

When Alan is invited by a local friend to a Saudi mountain village, he tries to reach back to a world of John Wayne certainties and, cradling a gun, blows up the one human connection he's so happily made.

Through these stories, Lockshin takes us into a world characterized by loss of certainty (similar growth of concerns are found in physics, geology, cartography) and open problems, even though with a didactical intention he jumps ahead to our days to briefly explain our concepts of species and higher taxa (Chapter 6, interesting tables and figures here).

This is a world of constantly diminishing certainties, and the disappearance of even a negative one is a heavy loss; never again would I be able to say with assurance that there was no rascasse in America.

The discussion reflected a gnawing need to make sense of a postwar world so emptied of certainties that many clergy members felt compelled to offer evidence on why God still lived.