Sentence examples for yearning for certainty from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, "Making a Murderer" shares that flaw; it does not challenge our yearning for certainty or do the difficult work of helping to foster humility.

In close analyses of particular artworks, like Cezanne's "Large Bathers," or Picasso's "Man With Guitar," Mr. Clark reveals how the tensions between a yearning for certainty and a certainty of its impossibility are inscribed in the images.

As we cultivate this philosophical doubt and dress-rehearse "who knows?" shrugs of nonchalance at the absurdity of life, we secretly yearn for certainty.

With their yearning for absolute certainty, for black and white, us and them, here and there, hard borders end up casting a long shadow of doubt and duality, paradox and paranoia.

At the heart of this impulse lies a yearning for a certainty that will overcome the fear and anxiety we feel in the face complex problems and genuine threats.

In this peculiarly British system, moving towards coalition, still yearning for old certainties, the smaller parties are going to sink or swim by who they'll get into bed with.

It is difficult to say whether Charles's obsessive fascination with the past is born of a yearning for the certainties of feudalism, where he would have topped the tree and the idea of a few peasants demanding to know how he disposed of their tithes would be quite unthinkable.

This lyrical meditation on religion and science explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, in a material world that science shows to be impermanent and uncertain.

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, here is an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science that explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.

But go further down the age demographic and that yearning for the lost certainties of the past diminishes.

It's not so very different, in some respects, from Ukipland, a fictional country where the old values are no longer respected and people yearn for vanished certainties.