| 单词 | certainty |
| 例句 | Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realise. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z She does know, all at once and with great certainty, that she is quite alive, and quite alone. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Some inner certainty had crashed down inside him; it was exactly as he had felt after Ron left. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Though the technique is the exact opposite of most techniques of mysticism it probably is a mystical discipline, tending towards the experience of Immanence; but I can’t categorize any practice of the Handdarata with certainty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And even though I have no info on him at all, nothing to tell me who this person might be, a chill runs through me from head to toe, some sixth sense of certainty. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The certainty of the feeling was clear and bright and brown and lean and it hit me in my throat so that breathing became weeping. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife’s brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z This warlike name was faintly familiar, with its whiff of school and adult certainty, but the twins found their courage in each other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "Far be it from me to dispute the Lord Protector. What would you have of me, then? Not my wisdom, for a certainty." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The one certainty was that he would always end up in his beloved Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But by then her acceptance of her fate was so deep that she was not even upset by the certainty that all possibilities of rectification were closed to her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Why it was she came to my pantry I cannot remember with certainty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She walks with such certainty, placing each foot directly in front of the other and holding her shoulders square. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Pure mathematics does indeed deal with certainties, but its applications are only as good as the underlying empirical assumptions, simplifications, and estimations that go into them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of whole certainty, however independent^ the sum of its facts, that can make walking backwards more than normally hazardous, and I bumped smack into a baby carriage. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He said that to himself with certainty, but he was no longer happy with his decision. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The kindest of my many stops along the way, she gave me the gift of certainty that my parents had loved one another. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The only opinion I can give with some degree of certainty is my own. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In the presence of his certainty, his notion that he could make some sort of difference in the world, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit lost by comparison. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman’s head. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “I was sent for life. It’s death to come back. There’s been overmuch coming back of late years, and I should of a certainty be hanged if took.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He felt Abra’s certainty wavering and he knew that he could prod it further. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "If we linger here, they will be on us again for a certainty, and we may not live through a second attack." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was nothing behind them that they could see and only the certainty of bats to disturb them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The certainty and optimism she’d felt only a short while ago had all but evaporated. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She put her hand to her neck and gave a long vertical pull; her white sailor’s blouse was ripped to the hem; suspicion condensed into a too, too solid certainty. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Though his face was pressed coldly against the floor, Gabriel whispered quietly and with certainty in his voice. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Many people must have this type of B positive blood. Can you say with any certainty that it was Carl Heine’s?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Without that rock of certainty underfoot, the Congo is a fearsome place to have to sink or swim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A child who learns the word elephant knows, with absolute certainty, that it is something different from a dog. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t understand. My husband will kill me,” she said with certainty. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “May was with us,” he said, with the same certainty he might have used telling me it was February. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z In the end it can be said with some degree of certainty that Prohibition failed for two overriding reasons. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I knew, with the certainty I knew that night follows day, there was no way I could get my parents to make their measly, but quite necessary, contribution for an extra year. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z That they shall pay a fine of forty shillings each, and that they be forbidden hereafter, on certainty of thirty lashes at the whipping post, to enter the boundaries of the township of Wethersfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I had calculated with certainty on this step answering my end: I felt sure it would elicit an early answer. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The only certainty that summer was moral confusion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But the truth is that for the most important decisions, there can be no certainty. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As he watched his little guppy, he realized, once again with a shocking and beautiful certainty, that Doddy was related, just as he himself was, to every creature in the animal kingdom. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z —William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not evade my own certainty that the answer was right. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A standard argument was that a Christian needed moral certainty of the truths of their faith, since the fate of their soul was at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the time the bell rang, she knew one thing with absolute certainty. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Looking at him from such close range, it strikes me now with certainty that it’s not the first time I’ve laid eyes on this totally unbelievable guy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Two centuries ago, Napoleon wrote that “a general never knows anything with certainty, never sees his enemy clearly, and never knows positively where he is.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Their emotional certainty seemed buttressed by access to a fund of knowledge denied to ordinary men, but a day’s observation of their activities was sufficient to reveal all their thought processes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have certainty—She did not want certainty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Who ever sees dead birds, in anything like the huge numbers stipulated by the certainty of the death of all birds? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He calmly professed his complete confidence and certainty that McMillian was guilty and that he should be executed as soon as possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "I did not keep count. More than one, for a certainty. His squire would fetch him a fresh skin whenever he re-quired it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the bear had taken the measure of the task, and in the certainty of his movements the little spies began to see some quality that muffled their scorn. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z One certainty only Ged had: that he was indeed the hunter now and not the hunted. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He would then find himself in the grip of illogical certainties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He wanted to make sure that his family was safe, but Kathy, his wife, wasn’t afforded the same certainty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “My Emma!” replied Mrs. Weston, smiling, “what is the certainty of caprice?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I found nothing there but the certainty, the sure fact of Therem’s death. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A heavy certainty settled over her, and Kaede said to the Fairy Queen, “You would have us be murderers.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z With terrible certainty, Hazel knew what would happen next. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was a pulsing certainty, this knowledge, as sure and steady as the gears of a clock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Hazel spoke with such certainty that even Percy was surprised. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Ifemelu felt a small resentment at this, the arrogance of Doris’s certainty that she, too, would of course feel the same way as Doris. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Get along to the dormitory, Forrester,” he said with a dry certainty in my obedience which suddenly struck me as funny, definitely funny. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a small man and he covered the yard with a familiarity that would have allowed him to walk in the blackest darkness with the same certainty. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounds attractive and reasonable, but it is no certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Just see that no harm comes to her. Tell her I will come to her as soon as I may. This very night, perhaps, or on the morrow for a certainty." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But so far only the certainty of death was his; only the unabating hate of the white faces could be seen; only the same dark cell, the long lonely hours, only the cold bars remained. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet, other times, lying next to her, he would feel a wholeness, a certainty that he would never need anything else. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But now, feeling reassured by Jamison’s interest and concern, she told him the startling thing that the old dyer had said with such certainty. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We remain that way, sliding between certainty and uncertainty and back again until we hear Carla’s approach and are forced to part. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He felt armed in certainty, in his belief in the Hallows, as if the mere idea of possessing them was giving him protection, and he felt joyous as he turned back to the other two. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes’ life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Almost all that can be known with certainty about this initial group is that it belonged to a diverse, four-thousand-year-old tradition characterized by the construction of large earthen mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Carp floated belly up onto the beach, and the doctors at Mercy knew, but did not announce, that ear infections were a certainty for those who swam in those waters. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “By the certainty of Saint Paul, they are gone. They’ll never bother you again.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I have no home, no path, and no certainty. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Of course they had recognized him instantly—Basta had long ago made that a certainty. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It has been a long time since I felt certainty about anything, so this feels like a gift. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Creating a book would take years, and there was no certainty she would sell enough copies to finance the project. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And I said, ‘Well, Dr. Johnson also said, dear boy, that “He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.’” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The only real certainty was the disruption that would be caused by long-distance travel and the myriad other difficulties inherent in building a complex structure far from home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I do not know myself, not with any certainty, how much I really am saying when I profess Catholicism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the obvious lethality of it, the certainty that a wrong move would cost a limb. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If he had doubts about what they were attempting, it didn’t show, and Inej wished she shared his certainty. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "No, I could not say so. Sad, for a certainty. Yet in its own way, death is the most natural thing of all, Lord Eddard. Jon Arryn rests easy now, his burdens lifted at last." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I believe in my decision with absolute certainty, a certainty that thrums through every cell in my body. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They have tamed and trained the hunch, but not increased its certainty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But neither prayer nor dawn had brought him certainty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She stared ahead of herself as she spoke, and Tristran had the feeling, which became a certainty, that she had conducted this conversation in her head a hundred times in his absence. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I realized with sudden certainty that Ambrose had finally taken steps to ensure I would never bother him again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “All the noblemen will want to marry you,” I said with certainty. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He was as steady as ever, but in his walk, his voice, his bearing, vigor had been replaced by patience, and certainty by stubborn resolve. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But of all the things I’m afraid of, there’s nothing that frightens me so much as the likelihood—the near certainty—that Julie is a prisoner of the Ormaie Gestapo. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Thus, having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z No one could explain it with any certainty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He knew that with certainty because now he knew what anger was. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z For many, the only certainty was the stars, and the ancient astrological conceit prospered in the courtyards and taverns of fear-haunted Europe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I rehearsed every word that had passed between us for its true meaning, but found no certainty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z No one knew with certainty what law they were breaking, but it seemed unlawful somehow. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z One hundred and ten lines from Scuto’s to home, same as always, a satisfying certainty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z And then with less certainty, “I don’t think you can do that.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Rhetoric deals with probabilities rather than certainties: with analogy and generalization. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “No, it’s about getting your mom back,” Natalie said, her voice ringing with certainty. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused to come because he didn’t like her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But in my heart, I felt a slow-growing certainty of my own: I wasn’t built to practice law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But Aziz and her mother didn’t have the comfort of certainty. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He carries himself with a certainty and ease that make him appear older. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Nine of them, he wound up declaring, as if it was a certainty, were going to be on the medal podium in Berlin in 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nor could I tell for certainty how much he knew. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And if their lord father were truly a prisoner, that could mean his death for a certainty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was obliged to admit that I did know it for a certainty, and I said to myself, “Pip, what a fool you are!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The certainty made my knees weak, and dancing couples blurred before my eyes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I know with certainty that in the past this would have really interested me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z An imposing congregation had massed itself around her first certainties, and now it was waiting and she could not disappoint it at the altar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He looked as if it were he who was receiving a gift; he had that expression of people who marveled at education with the calm certainty that it would never be theirs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, there are few certainties regarding the lives of our forager ancestors. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite my willingness to understand, I just couldn’t accept such arrogant certainty. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He knew, with flinching certainty, that he was not up to it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Shagga was gaping back; beyond a certainty, he had never seen so many men, horses, and weapons in all his days. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They knew beyond all certainty that the draccus was a demon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There is much less certainty regarding the beginning of the end of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The local Catholic archduke, steadfast in dogmatic certainty, vowed he would rather “make a desert of the country than rule over heretics.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is — contrary to all our expectations — a certainty. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that they stood on Roke Knoll, hate and rage were gone, replaced by utter certainty. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The certainty that he was finally fighting for his own liberation and not for abstract ideals, for slogans that politicians could twist left and right according to the circumstances, filled him with an ardent enthusiasm. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He could feel a pride, a certainty, and a confidence in these streets and houses. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The Governor glared at the crowd with cold certainty in his eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “If so,” said the stranger with fierce certainty, “it is an immoral mission.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I hurried along, encouraged by the memories, and suddenly I was seized with a certainty that today was the day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Very gently Ogion spoke, but with certainty, and even the hardheaded smith assented to all he said. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was long since he had seen youth’s innocence and certainty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Mama, you have to help Amanda,” Jaime pleaded, with the certainty that came from their complicity in matters such as this. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He steered himself with a certainty I found astounding. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Stick’s gaze dug into mine, and he spoke with a certainty that I wished I could feel within myself. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z "Perhaps we are doomed if we press on . . . but I know for a certainty that we are doomed if we turn back." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She knew with so much certainty the location of everything that she herself forgot that she was blind at times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Because, after all, there really was something ridiculously out of proportion between the verdict such certainty was based on and the imperturbable march of events from the moment the verdict was announced. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Both Negroes and whites have gained this certainty from the experiment—because I was a Negro for six weeks, I remained partly Negro or perhaps essentially Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Already the certainty that the Count is out of the country has given her comfort; and comfort is strength to her. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He knew, with more certainty than before, that O’Brien was on his side. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For a second, he’s unveiled, and I know with lightning certainty that behind that coolness he feels something for me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He heard in the sound of their voices a patient certainty; he saw their eyes gazing at him with calm conviction. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Since 1400 theologians had been discussing what they called ‘moral certainty’—evidence good enough to rely on, even if there is a great deal at stake. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It had everything to do with the certainty that something bad had happened in that attic. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z And it was like I knew, and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All Dell really knew with certainty was that now someone was steaming mounds of spinach in a kitchen that had never under his watch seen a vegetable in its raw form. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The Augur ignores my barb, and though his voice is no louder than it was a moment ago, his words are wrapped in iron, weighted down in certainty. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "No," she said, seriously and with certainty, "you will not." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The certainty of going had lifted a weight from Fiver. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I envied the mullah now, envied his faith and certainty. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had always known with absolute certainty that a dog would make everything better. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z If I stayed home, I was going to end up swallowing those pills, but the certainty I’d felt minutes earlier was retreating. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And, he realized, he had the certainty that once he got home everything would, somehow, be right once more. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I wish I knew for a certainty that Heqet can guard a secret. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I knew that Adam was looking at me now with as much certainty as I knew that if I looked up he was going to kiss me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The certainty that came with reelection held me steady. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “As they received more information,” Oskamp concluded, “their certainty about their own decisions became entirely out of proportion to the actual correctness of those decisions.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He knew only the torment of dread, and the certainty that he must go ahead and do what he had set out to do: hunt down the evil, follow his terror to its source. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Maurice and Willy Seeds gave more indication of being reasonable, but there was no certainty that this was anything more than a reflection of a desire not to agree with Rosy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Two hours,” he said with a grim certainty, as if defying the workers to contradict him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Blanche, on the other hand, glowed with the certainty of a zealot. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I went inside and waited for a while, but I felt a bone certainty that he wouldn’t be back. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss asked the question with the same commitment and certainty as before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Three months and three days,” she says with a certainty that makes me wonder why she would know this, how she would know this, unless she was a regular visitor of the spirit world herself. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘Moral certainty’ had been the language of theologians; in 1662 we find it being used by the first statisticians, Graunt and Petty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Will remembered his own absolute certainty, on seeing the patch of grass through the window in the air, that it wasn’t in his world, and he nodded. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No. Sudden certainty tightened in my chest like a cold fist. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Maybe she was sensitive in the wake of Ruby’s certainty of doom, and the revelation that she herself shared it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At two o’clock in the afternoon, while the earth trembled with the artillery fire from both sides, he took leave of Úrsula with the certainty that he was fighting a losing battle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She found that things of unquestioned certainty could never be trusted again. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time since Henry grabbed him and kissed him with so much certainty in the garden, the thought enters Alex’s mind: What if it was never his decision to make? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Nothing seemed clear at first, but as I fell gradually closer to unconsciousness, a few certainties became evident. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Serious insults to the body, the kind of shattering or crushing injury seen in high-speed auto wrecks, are an absolute certainty for every single jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And this certainty inspires him to say something he would never have said otherwise, something he would never even have thought. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But when they reached the edge of town, Tally felt her anxiety turn to something worse: a horrible certainty that no one remained there. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In all our journeying through space and time, it is, so far, the only world on which we know with certainty that the matter of the Cosmos has become alive and aware. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You must plan experiments on the basis of probability, even bare possibility, rather than certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A great delight it was to feel that certainty again, to know that I could steer my fortune and the world’s chance like a bobsled down the steep, dangerous hour. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she woke screaming in her basement bedroom, knowing with absolute certainty that someone was coming for them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The coins glittered in Ephialtes’s hair, and Percy realized with nauseating certainty that some of them were silver drachma, exactly like the one Annabeth had gotten from her mom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z With time their love became more persistent and invulnerable, but it already had the depth and certainty that characterized it later on. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, he rejected the idea of a knowledge grounded in certainty, in proof. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A doubtful future, containing only one certainty: that I would become a mother, a role for which I had no earthly preparation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The flat certainty in the man’s voice sent a chill down Chronicler’s back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I gave the only answer I could give with certainty. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Then one day I was coming out of a clinic in Suffolk and ran into Roger C., who’d been in the year below, and he told me with complete certainty it was about to happen. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Against that grim list, the sole crowd infectious diseases that can be attributed with certainty to pre-Columbian Native American societies were nonsyphilitic treponemas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So much for his father's certainty that Lord Walder would not bestir himself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I veered back and forth between hope and its opposite, a growing certainty that something terrible was wrong with me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “But it’s not a certainty. Here’s the thing, Jackson. Life is messy. It’s complicated. It would be nice if life were always like this.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I spoke with certainty in my voice, but no hope in my heart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This lodestone of longing, this certainty, drew him to lead his companions ever westward through wild and unknown country, as unerringly as a carrier pigeon released from an alien loft. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus I have moral certainty that Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and moral certainty that Pascal accurately reported the Puy-de-Dôme experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had wanted to hold it together for the entire meeting, to present himself with confidence and certainty, to be the kind of person the community could depend on. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I look at the page, where the life cycle of the mushroom from spore to fruiting body is taking shape, and I know this with absolute certainty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A feeling of vertigo swept over him, and the mad certainty that it had been taken. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z These were not the lives of humans, and she knew with absolute certainty that they were not the lives of animals, either. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I cannot say with certainty which of us looked away first. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now his mom was back, erasing the one certainty Jason had about her - that she’d left him forever. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was this way she had of speaking with certainty that he found entirely convincing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Without the support of old certainties and consolations, almost mechanically, he assumes the procedures and doctrines of the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe, on hunch, that an inventory of our major disease problems based on this sort of classification would show a limited number of important questions for which the predictable answers carry certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "What good is that? There are no more dragons," the boy said with the easy certainty of youth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That’s why the British interceptors could listen to just a few bursts and say, with absolute certainty, “It’s Oscar, which means that yes, his unit is now definitely outside of Tobruk.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Shin was a scrawny, incurious, and for the most part friendless child whose one source of certainty was the guards’ lectures about redemption through snitching. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The gods had placed him on my path so he could show me this piece of my past, so I could walk to Machu Picchu in certainty. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The weatherman doesn’t have the certainty of my math problems. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “That’s right,” Captain Marsh said, the certainty gleaming in his eyes. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z But I remember the feel of metal against my neck, the certainty that I’m about to be shot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She paused, and Moss turned to see her wrestle with a word, then look at him with certainty. “...dating?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z To this day he did not know with any certainty that his mother was dead. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Ekon Okojo, who was not an academic, knew better than to believe in myths and folktales—they lacked accreditation—but there was one thing he believed in with certainty. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The people had known, with the simple certainty of the world they saw, how everything should be. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘In every human observation,’ I explained, ‘there is a margin of error. This is because our senses are not foolproof. In fact, some people believe that one hundred per cent certainty is impossible to achieve.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “They do not know that we meet, nor can they prevent it,” I said, with more certainty than I felt. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask for further explanation, but something stopped me—the certainty that to do so would be to shout to the room that I didn’t belong there. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “So we may set aside the assertion that it is the way,” Jamison announced with certainty. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew with horrible certainty that my friend had just been turned into a column of ashes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was at that very moment that I knew with certainty we would always be one, together forever, protecting our loved ones, braving the wind and illuminating the sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z For the Arguments to induce belief, though of sufficient certainty, yet do not so constrain the mind to give its assent, but there is prudence and choice in it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the nub of his opposition to Jay’s Treaty, then, was his utter certainty that it threw the weight of the United States onto the wrong side of history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Felt the tension between the urge to pull over and change the Band-Aid and the certainty of Daisy thinking me crazy. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked up the path with the certainty that I was being regarded from behind the white window curtains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It must, surely, surely . . . and Robb would welcome him, for a certainty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was the certainty that we’d all be dead in sixty days. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Indeed, Mechtild’s word confirms that of the ghost,” I said with certainty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This certainty did not fill her with exultation, but with fear. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z No one, in fact, can lay claim with certainty to his own mind with anything like the specificity stipulated by fingerprints or tissue antigens. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite her near certainty that we wouldn’t get in trouble, I was worried. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z She was still not sure what to make of Professor Ezeka’s hoarse superciliousness, his certainty that he knew better than everyone else but chose to say little. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, with certainty, "You have my father's stone. You have the Power of Stormhold." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Degradation, she thinks, goes hand in hand with the certainty of deprivation. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "For a certainty. Perhaps I should ask this cook of yours to enter my service, what do you say?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the way back to New London, Beto lay still in the bed of the truck, the certainty of his father’s disappointment holding him down like stones. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But if I uncapped my sword now, the bronze glow would certainty get its attention. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Accuracy and certainty: these were the watchwords of the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z You cannot use just the genotype—BRCA1 mutation—to predict the final outcome with certainty. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She did not think she had the courage, after all her initial certainty and two or three days of patient, kindly interviewing, to withdraw her evidence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Moral certainty is thus quite different from the sort of absolute certainty one might have in mathematics or in logic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had begun to love her, to love more than just her beauty and grace, and when he saw that in their hearts they shared the same dream he felt a great certainty about her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But there is no way to know with certainty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There are ways to tell with absolute certainty whether someone is having a heart attack, but those involve tests of particular enzymes that can take hours for results. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He felt the certainty of evil ahead and of evil following; but he said nothing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And then Petra felt an odd certainty: It was dark wood they were looking for. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Hours later he finally accepted the dismaying certainty that Gebu had not the slightest intention of leaving his room at all that night. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z He knew that, even if certainty about everything else had abandoned him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They all feared they d been abandoned, but it took me to turn fear into certainty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But if we let them die or suffer when we can save or help them, we face the certainty of a moral twilight. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What she felt remained a mystery, she felt a thousand things at once, she could not unravel the thread of her feelings with enough certainty to speak with any accuracy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I knew with absolute certainty moments before they came in that there were three sets of footsteps coming. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Steve was in his mid-thirties and had a passion and certainty that seemed the direct opposite of my ambivalence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In the Outside article, I reported with great certainty that H. mackenzii, the wild sweet pea, killed the boy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That is why, when you look at judicial rhetoric in the UK and US, the standard stipulation is that “proof” means not certainty, but the ability to demonstrate a set of propositions “beyond reasonable doubt.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I will rise in the king’s favor and wear a fur-lined cape, and the king will tell me his most private business,” he said with certainty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Alex knew with a certainty he couldn’t explain that this dog was the one. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Moral certainty, grounded in probability, had, in the writings of Wilkins and Locke, joined deductive or self-evident knowledge as a form of truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She spoke with such certainty that for a second Gregor succeeded in thinking of himself as a warrior. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A very simple numerical principle that’s sometimes of use in accounting for the certainty of a particular kind of coincidence is illustrated by the mailman who has twenty-one letters to distribute among twenty mailboxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was Lola’s briskness, her obliviousness to anything beyond her own business, and Briony’s certainty that her own feelings would not even register, still less provoke guilt, which gave her the strength to resist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It must have reinforced his certainty that it was unclimbable, because he accepted Calixte’s terms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly it seemed as if an Eiffel Tower in Chicago was a certainty—that Eiffel himself was to do the out-Eiffeling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Seven. You can hold to that with some certainty. It’s part of their name, actually. Chaen means seven. Chaen-dian means ‘seven of them.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There are times when we know for a certainty that all is well. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting, too, for the baby. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z No longer did I have to face the certainty that she would end up with a mental defective. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When we met that last time in the cedar tree and I felt your body move against mine, I knew with certainty that everything was wrong. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In American English, to assure is to instill confidence or certainty. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We like market research because it provides certainty—a score, a prediction; if someone asks us why we made the decision we did, we can point to a number. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There was no certainty in seeing, no proof that what you saw was there or was not there. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties, so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He said this with such certainty that it irritated me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was certainty, born of some strange instinct. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Something seemed to tell him with certainty that Tillotson was busy on the same job as himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The certainty that Edmund meant to kill me and the fear that Claudius was behind it made me constantly watchful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then the Eye began to rove, searching this way and that; and Frodo knew with certainty and horror that among the many things that it sought he himself was one. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Moss kept looking to the door, a fear swimming over him, a certainty that at any moment, the cops would burst into the shop and take him away to finish the job. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He has an optimistic certainty that she’s a good person at her core. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z What was worse was the virtual certainty that cessation of model building on our part would not be accompanied by a burst of corresponding activity in their lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I’m sure the lot of ye could do with a bit more certainty in your lives.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He repeated it so many times and with such conviction that one afternoon when he was putting together a little gold fish in the workshop, he had the certainty that she had answered his call. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After being served some questionable food at otherwise charming roadside diners, I learned to value the bland certainty of a McDonald’s cheeseburger. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When you are suddenly gripped by the unwavering certainty that you are already dead—and gone forever. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Bigwig remembered the night in Efrafa when he had calmed her by talking of the high downs and the certainty of their escape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She clutched the cloth, remembering the sense of certainty it had given to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She, on the other hand, shuddered from the certainty that the deep moan was a first indication of the fearful pig tail and she begged God to let the child die in her womb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Animated by this new certainty—choosing the right dress had surely helped—she crossed the hallway, pushed through the baize door and strode along the checkered tiled corridor to the kitchen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Guilt racked him because he knew for a certainty he would trade any one of the Gladers in that room for Chuck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Father Gomez seemed transfigured; the certainty that ran through his veins seemed to make his very eyes incandescent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The ease and certainty he had worn during the Talmud quiz had disappeared. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It was a very quiet thing, with a great certainty to it; no laughter, no wildness, just a steady, decided, and ceaseless flow. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Prometheus spoke with such certainty it was hard not to believe him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Now, with Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, moral certainty was required to give way to a new sort of temporary knowledge, a purely provisional understanding. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We know not why with certainty, but I have suspicions. Your father was a man of science, was he not?” asked Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “What will we call you once you’re ordained?” her father said, treating it as if it were a certainty. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A column of black rises into the sky, and though I can't see the guardhouse from this spot on the trail, I know with sinking certainty that the Farrars got there before me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There was a new certainty in his voice. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I said it with such certainty, it surprised even me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That certainty, mulled over for several months in the small room he used as his laboratory, brought him to the conception of the plan to move Macondo to a better place. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He sounds sure, and I cling to that certainty. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z "Trees? No . . ." "They do," Bran said with sudden certainty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She was left with the desolate certainty that her father would have done again what he did fifteen years ago. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She balanced there, took a deep breath, recalled in her mind the feel of the distance she must cover, then made the leap into darkness with certainty. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I want to think it again now, but I have been stripped of all certainty. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Bingley expressed great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many enquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He was free to hang around her apartment if he cared to, but there was no certainty that she would be there. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When you are organized to apply knowledge, set up targets, produce a usable product, you require a high degree of certainty from the outset. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And maybe now all your certainty returns, because yes, truly, it’s spring and once again you’ve made the choice to stay. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I can do nothing about leaving Safaa and Amin, but I’m a little comforted by the certainty that I will see them again. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He said it with the certainty he had wanted in his voice earlier. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Not a guess,” he said gravely, “a certainty. You were not the first.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is it,” Harry said, trying to bring them inside the glow of his own astonished certainty. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She liked, most of all, that in this place of affluent ease, she could pretend to be someone else, someone specially admitted into a hallowed American club, someone adorned with certainty. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Like the certainty that your body is a single whole, that there’s something keeping you from breaking into pieces and scattering with the winds. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I can hear Mabel saying that Gramps is dead—gone—sounding so certain and I try to feel that certainty, too. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly, it seemed important to get there fast, before her certainty faded, before the warm feeling inside her could give way to doubt. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z All I can say for a certainty is that he called it, and it an-swered, and since that day I have hated magic and all those who practice it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “That’s not what I saw—” said the Death Eater, though with less certainty. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Without waiting for an answer, channels the monotone certainties of a fairground psychic and hazards a guess. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z Maybe, in her stubborn, overwhelming certainty of deep love that would last a lifetime, it was just a mother’s intuition all along. The Visions of Penélope Cruz 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Like any healthy young man, Paul knows with complete certainty that he will never succumb to these humiliations, even if he is dating a woman old enough to be his mother. Review | If Flaubert reimagined ‘Cougar Town,’ this is the novel we might get 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “I was exhausted, with terrible joint pains. It was like having flu all the time with no certainty of recovery. I couldn’t do anything. I was trapped.” ‘It was like being buried alive’: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Like anything else, deciding how to deal with a big age difference is a matter of trade-offs, and of possibility vs. certainty. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He’s old enough to be her dad. She’s old enough to manage her life. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The thing is, with every horizon met: finishing a degree; being in a relationship; becoming a teacher, the certainty never arrives. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Maggie Nelson’s recently reissued “The Red Parts” retells the trial of her aunt’s murderer, focusing on questions of doubt and certainty in the criminal justice system, particularly decades after the crime. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z When that happens, new adjacencies yield fresh insights, introducing confusion where certainty once prevailed. Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Scott called the couple’s legend “a morality tale in which the wild energies of youth defeat the stale certainties of age, and freedom triumphs over repression.” What’s on TV This Week: Macy’s Fireworks and ‘America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston’ 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Tydeman hints at a private stability that underlies this quiet certainty. Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best 2012-10-03T17:44:37Z I was struck by the certainty with which he referred to “the answers.” The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Whether it was a spiritual or purely medical miracle I can’t say with any certainty. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Unlike those in Ride the Pink Horse or Gun Crazy, the long take here is almost operatic in its certainty. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The hallmarks of his newspaper columns—a tone of absolute certainty, a fondness for numbered lists and copious IMF statistics—become exhausting over hundreds of pages. How to fix a broken system 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Rumsfeld, on the phone, practiced both his certainty and his slipperiness. Perspective | ‘Nothing ever ends’: Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Our prevailing image of science is still basically a Victorian one of true or false, proof leading to certainty. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z She was protected by her impregnable certainty that whatever she did was utterly beyond reproach. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z But you can say with relative certainty that they spent more than the occasion required. Kylie Jenner's lavish party is proof: the children’s birthday bash has got out of hand 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Death and taxes aren’t the world’s only certainties; change is just as inevitable, and these animated shorts celebrate it. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z She cites a number of crying experts, but she’s turned off by their smooth arrogance, their hard certainty. ‘The Crying Book’ Follows the Many Tracks of Our Tears 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Picard always did the right thing, but his moral certainty, bordering on self-righteousness, was balanced by doubt and guilt that could become temporarily crippling when it served the writers’ purposes. Review: ‘Picard’ Is, Finally, ‘Star Trek: Peak TV’ 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Science doesn't sell absolute certainty, so ignore the scientists - besides, there are some scientists that think it's all about solar output, which proves the rest are ideologues. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Ida seemed never to recover the certainty with which she painted the clean, strong forms of the lighthouse. The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Fear raises what psychologists describe as the “need for closure,” or the all-too-human thirst for certainty and order, said Jamie Holmes, a science writer and author of the book, “Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing.” The Great Pandemic Wedding Boom 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z But without certainty of “what really happened,” there can be no certainty if someone is an “abuse victim.” The uneasy ambiguity of the Woody Allen case 2014-02-03T20:41:00Z But even if the sequel is anything but a certainty, it’s already been a “dream” for the Canadian director and his star Timothée Chalamet. ‘Dune’ is a dream for Villeneuve, Chalamet, sequel or no 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Lenny Bernstein revealed Mahler, in all his neurotic and melodramatic variety, to be the ultimate composer of the Cold War, the roiling emotional volcano underneath the era’s crushing certainties. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The certainty of defeat will free him to speak the truth. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z Declarations are made with the charisma of certainty — even as certainties wobble or fall. He Can’t Save His Daughter. Can He Save Himself? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The Oscar headlines are dominated by American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave and Gravity - but here's a closer look at the certainties, surprises and shocks amongst this year's crop. 10 things about the Oscar nominations 2014-01-16T17:19:43Z “Some involve physical torture, which is horrifying. But the good-hearted people like Walt, who are pushing against a biological certainty — that is more interesting to me.” ‘A Great Wilderness’ has world premiere at Seattle Rep 2014-01-15T21:32:35Z “Now I knew for a certainty that I had no special pass — that everything could be taken away from me at any moment.” Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z By contrast, Frenett says, if someone makes a post glorifying Hitler, or calls for genocide against Muslims, there is a high degree of certainty that they fall into a high-risk category. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Tempos were carefully considered, measured at the beginning of both first and second movements but building with palpable certainty. Salonen, CSO scale majestic heights of Bruckner symphony 2011-03-04T18:35:00Z The certainty of social conservativism in this production is an implacable but brittle thing. The Major Minor Party - review 2013-05-30T02:59:26Z In this age of confession, where almost every public figure feels the need to make himself more real by admitting to vulnerability, weakness and self-doubt, Bond's certainty is compelling. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z A woman who has kept anguish at bay by maintaining strict control of her intellect and her emotions, Juliana must learn to live without certainty. | 'The Other Place': Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles 2011-03-29T08:30:23Z I crave the illusion of certainty, the pat on the shoulder and the words, “Everything will be OK,” and the courage, no, the naiveté to believe them. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z In a written statement, he said that it "would not provide the certainty the markets are looking for and risks many of the same dire economic consequences that would be triggered by default itself." GOP going solo after bipartisan talks collapse 2011-07-25T10:20:00Z Mr. Yazbek’s melody matches the exquisitely uncertain certainty of the lyrics. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z But as Sydney quickly discovers, there are powers even stronger than her moral certainty. Review: In ‘Kings,’ Washington Is Where Idealism Goes to Die 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The one thing that cannot be said about SF's attitude to religion is that it is pious – SF is a fundamentally irreverent literary form which is never really happy with certainty or solemnity. Science fiction probes at religion 2011-07-11T16:02:01Z One thing I can say with categorical certainty is that when these unfortunate shenanigans are over, Lindsay will soar like the phoenix. Lohan director explains why we hate Lindsay 2010-07-08T15:30:00Z A Picasso-like certainty that all art comes out of a “rambunctious gang feeling” born of the neighborhood. Richard Ford Reviews Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But she brings to the role a charisma of moral certainty — not to mention a beautifully clear reading of the verse — that renders the character almost erotic in her withholding. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The true project of America, after all, is never in perfectly tailored monuments to success and certainty, but rather the endlessly roiling and turmoiling quest for reinvention. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z If there is a next time, he ought to take a theologian with him who might penetrate their carapace of biblical certainty and challenge them on their own ground. I'd rather see Rowan Williams meet the Phelps family 2011-04-06T13:59:00Z Nor could he say with certainty that the University of Maryland’s regents and the state’s politicians would give their blessing — uncertainties on which Patrizia seized. University of Maryland adds own plan to proposals for rescue of Corcoran Gallery The certificates they issue provide certainty for customers, he added. Special Report: Asian Art: Ancient Art Lost in Confusion 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z Neumann asks, and her answer is instantaneous, her calm certainty in perfect counterpoint to his squirming self-consciousness. ‘Distances’ Review: Fumblingly Picking at the Knot of Race 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z One certainty is that Bravo will be raking in plenty of returns for Season 10 for a long time. From #Scandoval to "Love Is Blind," understanding the new reality heyday in this Hot Labor Summer 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z In search of a formula for happiness and certainty, I sift through “Dear Prudence,” “Ask Polly” and “Savage Love.” When Love Seems Too Easy to Trust 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z I felt a blissful certainty that life as an adult might genuinely be a laugh. Sixty things I've learned since turning 60 2013-04-29T16:53:01Z It’s too early to say with certainty when the organ might thunder again. Notre Dame organists itching to play thunderous instrument 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z She’s as fascinated by the ambiguities of her subject as she is by the certainties she can pin down. Scents and Science Mingle in ‘The Joy of Sweat’ 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The results of that study are everywhere apparent in the way he inhabits the suburban certainties of Brad, the latest in a line of regular guys he has created around whom all the craziness happens. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Yes, today’s certainty is tomorrow’s oops, a realization that is particularly alarming when applied to criminal investigation techniques, as it is in “Forensics on Trial,” Wednesday night’s episode of “Nova” on PBS. Television Review: ‘Forensics on Trial,’ on PBS’s ‘Nova’ 2012-10-16T22:05:40Z At moments like these, McConnell is a funny mix of old-fashioned courtesy, diffident restraint and pugnacious certainty. The dad who gave birth: ‘Being pregnant doesn't change me being a trans man’ 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The bookies got all their predictions right for the Oscars this year; one last certainty is that I won't have. Olivier awards 2010-03-19T12:52:00Z In the end, we are left with speculation but without the fixative of certainty. Remembering a Lover Who Never Revealed Her True Nature 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The novel recapitulates many themes that have preoccupied Mr. Boyle in the past — the hazards of ideological certainty and obsession; and the imperatives and responsibilities of freedom — even as it showcases his virtuosic storytelling talents. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z “I believe it’s almost going to be a certainty,” he said. Spend Halloween with John Carpenter: Why the horror movie man wants to play scary music, just for you 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But behind the play I sense an envy for the certainties of an older generation. Review 2010-04-20T00:48:00Z In reality 1913 was an ambivalent year that looked forward to the carnage of the trenches, and back to a time before the old certainties died. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z Oliver studied at Ohio State University and Vassar College, but never graduated and later scorned much of her education as “a pre-established collection of certainties.” Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver dies at 83 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z As any thought piece will tell you, we live in an age in which certainty has vanished; information cannot be trusted; that’s just, like, your opinion, man. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Father Flynn sermonizes, “Doubt/Can be a bond/As sustaining as certainty.” Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z “I felt some certainty that you must have died/because how could I live if you’re still alive?” she sings on “I Wish I Didn’t Miss You.” Feist Wants to Ask You Some Questions About Sadness 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z But then the drummer Yussef Dayes starts to dismantle the certainty, playing with a rock drummer’s energy and syncopated, hip-hop innuendo. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “Media vita” has become a touchstone for me this year, a piece I have played over and over as a beacon of certainty at a time when certainty has been impossible. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Maybe no one belongs with so much certainty ever again. Her Best Friend Claims They Witnessed a Sex Crime. She Has Her Doubts. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Lies before they are revealed, after all, provide the comfort of false certainty, while lies exposed offer another kind of certainty: villainous and tragic, yes, sometimes even life-shattering. In Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Novel, a Political Cartoonist Answers to the Past 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z In what was fast becoming a post-record label world, with all 20th century music business certainties dissolving, Glastonbury was becoming a cosmic vessel – a holy grail – into which all rock history was passing. Paul Morley talks to Elly Jackson of La Roux about Glastonbury 2010-06-23T13:39:00Z Speaking with an African accent that underscores his mythic presence as a war hero, Othello exudes the titanic certainty of someone who thinks in absolutes. Review: Jealousy and Lies in a No-Exit Theater of War in ‘Othello’ 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z “Today, we suffer from too much certainty,” he said. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Tackle the Vietnam War 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But the truth was, nobody really knew with certainty just what was inside those shiny foil packages. The year in synthetic drugs 2012-12-26T17:48:00Z In Southcliffe, the passage of time is articulated by the certainty of the shipping forecast, but the landscape and weather is wonderfully ambiguous. Southcliffe: the most harrowing drama on TV 2013-07-26T13:00:00Z We're encouraged to brand ourselves, early and with certainty, and to stick to what we know. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It is impossible to assert counterfactuals with certainty, but many historians believe that even though Kennedy had initiated the Vietnam misadventure, it's unlikely he would have launched a full scale invasion of Vietnam. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z And editors are saying there will be “99.5 percent certainty” behind each call. How is TV news going to cover the weirdest, most fraught election in history? All of your questions answered. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z And it made sense that we’d seek this certainty, given the tentative relationships we were wading through—but before they’d even dropped their jackets, we were already cutting slices, dribbling sauce into each bowl. Bread Pudding and the Comforts of Queer Baking 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z He declared that, as the American-born son of parents from Japan, he was likely one of the few people in the courtroom who could declare “with some degree of certainty the veracity of his race.” An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Ford moves between these levels of the mind as he moves between fact and memory, certainty and impression. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z “I need to guard my own certainty now,” he says, “because I’ve realized it helps me defend my tolerance.” Review: ‘Confirmation’ Asks You to Please Stop Thinking Like Yourself 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Many Muslim immigrants in the West grapple with conflicted identities, she writes, leaving them longing for one extreme or another in the pursuit of certainty. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s ‘Heretic’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z There’s never that certainty, at the start of each song or project or piece of music, that it’s going to work. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z There’s a simplicity to knowing with some certainty what you’re trying to accomplish. Wes Anderson on “Moonrise Kingdom”: I’m trying to make something unfamiliar 2012-06-01T19:45:00Z For almost the entire hearing, Sondland was wrapped in the warm certainty of an elusive form of privilege. Perspective | Gordon Sondland’s most dazzling accessory: Resting happy face 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z This is not a drama that deals in moral certainties. Have you been watching … Orphan Black, season two? 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z While it may be too early to answer those questions with any certainty, that hasn’t stopped the experts from trying. Perspective | Can I travel without getting a vaccine? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z But there is a difference between ease and cheer, certainty and joy. Review: The Weeknd Fills a Brooklyn Arena With Moody Gloom 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z And, just like Ramsay Snow, Unella had her certainty that she could retain some semblance of control, and hence dignity, ruthlessly pulled away by the woman she had once tormented. Game of Thrones finale: fancy some son pie? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Attending her college reunion, she is moved to reflect on “the passing of time,” which “had yanked some of our certainty out from underneath us.” Review | Meghan Daum’s merciless take on modern feminism, woke-ness and cancel culture 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z On Kafka, Dauber argues that his subversive comedy is distinctly Jewish because it mocks the pretensions of scientific certainty that papers over the irrational forces controlling our lives. Why Are Jews Funny? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z But where certainty is elusive, common sense is the best defense. Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths It’s a reminder that underneath Ms. Grande’s veneer of calm and certainty pulses doubt, anxiety and heart. The Playlist: Ariana Grande Shows Her Heart, and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z And he says that what is part of his racial certainty made him conduct the war in the way he conducted it. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z After more than a year of examination, her verdict: She says with “absolute certainty” that the painting is a Delacroix work, a study for “Women of Algiers.” Missing treasure: Delacroix canvas rediscovered, now on sale 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Different studies offer varying assessments of how many people use dating sites and apps, but what we can say with certainty is: a lot. An Inside Look at Your Favorite Dating Sites 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z With the same certainty, I believed our time in Russia would shrink to being just a blip in our life together, a bad memory in the rearview mirror. From Russia With Mixed Feelings 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z It's as if the artist needed the fixed certainties of the photographs to anchor his wayward, grotesque figures in real life. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z “The New Class War” is a reminder that, even in the Trump era — especially in the Trump era — it is curiosity rather than certainty that must propel us. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z A willingness to abandon certainty in the theater and to embrace mystery and paradox, earthy British slang and allusive poetry, are also essential. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z And the reason was this: I assumed she felt a degree of certainty in her identity as a woman that I didn’t feel. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The equanimity with which Herzog and Oppenheimer’s movie frames that certainty is strangely comforting. ‘Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds’ Review: It’s Raining Mysteries 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z He deals with his uncertainties by referring them to the certainties of Sunday catechism: Jesus rose from the dead. This Week in Fiction: John L’Heureux on Faith and Not Fitting In 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z He said his "consolation" was "in the certainty of your affectation". Keats love letter sold for ?96K 2011-03-29T20:48:25Z It has been nearly 20 years since she made a splash in Dawson’s Creek and still she doesn’t seem closer to any objective certainties about the job she does. Michelle Williams: ‘When something is available, I’ll risk any embarrassment to get it’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, however, too many of her sentences sound like certainties or dictums. Review | A new book promises to help women find joy late in life. If only it were so simple. 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z This should be Step 1 for writers faced with the certainty of a final season: Consider moving the story ahead five or 10 years. ‘Boardwalk Empire’s’ pitch-perfect goodbye Gender linguistics dictate that women downplay certainty, apologise more and value building rapport with colleagues over establishing their place in a hierarchy, among other traits that are ultimately unhelpful for getting your point across. How to get heard in meetings: deep breaths, superhero poses and owning ‘bossy’ 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The lesson I drew is that there is never any certainty of victory, whatever the scale of the human sacrifice. After Tunisia: Raja Shehadeh on Palestine 2011-01-28T13:00:03Z The one certainty is that you’ve stopped listening to each other and now communicate through your entrenchment in your views. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Cellphones push his buttons, and he pushes back 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z And in times like this, we always find ourselves drawn to certainty. Will Cry Macho be the ultimate Clint Eastwood film? 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The Los Angeles Film Critics Association split between the space odyssey "Gravity" and the futuristic romance "Her," lending no more certainty to an awards season that's so far been full of contenders. 'Gravity,' 'Her' tie for LA Film Critics top honor 2013-12-09T13:59:13Z But the optimistic certainties of gospel are rare. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z His attention hits her like a corked Chianti, but she lacks the certainty to declare its bad taste. ‘Spin Me Round’ Review: Eat Pray Lust 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Her downfall occurs in her fatal fog of absolute certainty, about her own power, as well as God’s. Review | See ‘The Amen Corner’ and feel the power of James Baldwin 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z As to the headline, “The Worst Drug Crisis in American History,” how is it possible to say this with any certainty? Letters to the Editor 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s music that dramatizes the collapse of certainties at the dawn of the 21st century by forsaking the certainties of guitar-based rock. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z He has compassionate eyes, reads Bible passages in a gentle voice, and radiates certainty. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In truth, I was realising again, since I'd known with innocent certainty throughout childhood. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z But, to rephrase Didion: to make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone with the certainty to break them. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z I can say with some certainty that the most beautiful sound I know is the wobbly clink of a dinged-up air-hockey puck dropping into goal. The Forgotten Greatness of Air Hockey 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z He is sensitive to the uses and abuses of political art, and his career has been a hunt for forms that might protect him from easy certainties. Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The tone is witty yet abrasive, in keeping with a protagonist whose aim is to dent bourgeois and ecclesiastical certainties. Strauss: Don Quixote; Till Eulenspiegel – review 2013-04-11T10:37:41Z I don't dare make any predictions about how things are going to shape up, beyond the dead set certainty that it's going to be interesting. Not the Booker prize 2012: It's back. Nominate now 2012-07-26T10:32:27Z It conveys a sense of crisp scientific certainty, the promise of detailed technical knowledge about what depression really is. Motherlode Blog: When Teenagers Need Antidepressants 2012-07-03T15:18:06Z From within her beyond-feminist panoply of contradictions, Bourgeois will continue to mock all certainty, not least certainty about the artist herself. Louise Bourgeois's greatest work of art 2010-06-06T21:29:00Z Obama also shares his experience of reading documents Lincoln authored, sharing telling nuances like the certainty of his signature on a consequential document. "Abraham Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Dilemma" clarify a few things about uncomfortable history 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z My big question is only: Will I be able to translate that certainty into action? Let’s talk about dying 2012-12-27T01:00:00Z These services’ ancestral algorithms are based on estimates and probabilities, not certainties, but they nevertheless claim to distill the self into a series of appealingly specific data points onto which personal narratives can be written. The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z That we can’t say with absolute certainty that Naz is being wrongfully accused lends The Night Of moral ambiguity, but does so over the dead body of one of its characters. Review: 'The Night Of' Tells a Powerful Story of Injustice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z For people eager to regain some semblance of certainty in a disordered time, these stories exert a powerful pull. The Dead Get a Do-Over 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of artful haziness in its style, which nods to the early 1970s, a time before there were many fixed certainties in heavy music. Music Review: Meshuggah and Baroness at Terminal 5 2012-05-24T22:31:32Z But it also allows each of the excellent cast members to reveal the confusion and vulnerability of people so hungry for certainty that they have stopped listening to everybody else. Review: Opinions Collide in the Explosive Comedy ‘Eureka Day’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Another press, the Washington hand press, works just as well as it did the day it was manufactured in 1852, Hatch says — with such certainty you’d think he used it back then. A printing press operator and a snail expert? These museum workers have become unlikely TikTok stars. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z They do not fear the men beneath the tree; They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z But these beautiful flowers evoke the fragility of femininity and also the certainty of death.” | Fashion Diary: Drug-Fueled Fantasies (Without the Drugs) 2011-03-07T22:08:44Z If loss is the only true certainty, Ogawa recounts her own in a way that grapples with abiding questions of mortality, forgiveness and self-determination. ‘The Nosebleed’ Review: Reconciling the Ghosts in the Attic 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z What a critical story for us at this juncture in our lives, when we, too, were facing so many changes, losses, challenges to the certainties we had known. ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The way they move and speak in unison suggests a solidarity and relaxed certainty very different from the tense isolation of the narrator. Poem of the week: The bus to Ramallah by Jasmine Donahaye 2011-02-14T11:52:43Z “Once a magazine’s mind is settled, once it brooks fewer challenges to its certainties, its momentum flags,” he writes, adding that Commentary’s style is “more cramped and crabbed than before, the pages less commodious.” Benjamin Balint?s Inside Look at Podhoretz?s Commentary 2010-06-11T22:30:00Z I believe certainty regarding that which we can see and touch, it is seldom justified, if ever. Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z She then demolished her aphorism's smug certainties by revealing how many tales — especially those from her own memory — were false. Facts not what they appear in Barnes' novella 2011-10-26T21:52:03Z Over and over again, in articles and conferences and interviews, authoritative industry members declare it with absolute certainty. The Biggest Fake News in Fashion 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Higher Purpose: To cast doubt on all the Lord of Light-related certainty. On "Game of Thrones," all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z I've been in too many split-second decision moments of my own; I understand that there is no certainty in hypotheticals, that so much within a real dramatic situation hinges on its surrounding details. A stranger, twisted and bleeding on the sidewalk. What would you have done? 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Like the ruthlessness of New York real estate, the impossibility of really ever knowing anyone else, or the inevitable destruction of our civilization in the face of risen apes—these are certainties to be faced. Mad Men Watch: In the Name of Love 2013-04-29T09:45:14Z "A certainty that I don't have. I feel that there are things that are much more ambiguous." 'An Honest Liar' lifts the curtain on some Amazing Randi secrets 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “The rooster cradling a woman questioned the belief of size and the capacity to protect and comfort, and the man in the sky shattered the certainty of gravity.” Review: ‘Lisette’s List,’ by Susan Vreeland Missing from the printed version: the twinkle in your beloved’s eye, his warm tone of voice, and the certainty that recipients will recognize the line as one of his favorites. Social Q’s: Old Enough at Heart 2013-12-05T20:39:03Z In NI Opera's first Wagner production, described as "the first fully staged Dutchman to be seen in Northern Ireland for generations", there was no certainty as to how this theatrical voyage would unfold. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z His gaze projects strength and certainty, his voice absolute calm. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z In a world so unpredictable, we reassure ourselves with the knowledge that there will always remain a few enduring certainties: The Earth revolves around the sun. In South Africa, Whale Watching Is a Waiting Game (With Penguins) 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Murdoch’s prose is elegant, validating itself by its own certainty. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The three C’s never entered the equation other than commitment, contentment and certainty. A potpourri of advice from near and far 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The Coens make good on this promise of certainty about the next world in the film’s last episode, “The Mortal Remains.” Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Her reacting to your sister mainly as a matter of how a transgender child reflects on her proves this to the degree of certainty you need. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mother transitions to fully embarrassing stance on transgender child 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Answers that she once had evaporate, certainty becomes ambiguity and truths morph into something else. ‘Spencer’ star Kristen Stewart is done hiding her life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z In “Eulogy,” Marx deems her 92-year-old mom an “absolutist,” a “wellspring of certainty about what you should do, say, wear, and believe.” Review | You’re invited to dinner with Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, but you’ll have to go to Staten Island 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to respond to such ignorance by shunning the artist, but that matches know-nothingness with more of the same, and certainty with certainty. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Every day seemed to bring more news of lands in the grip of religious turmoil, with every truth challenged and every certainty gone. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z It followed with the certainty of Victorian rectitude that advanced societies had an obligation to assist the backward, to civilise the savage, a moral duty that played well into the needs of empire. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Injera is a certainty at every Ethiopian meal and the measure of every Ethiopian restaurant: floppy, featherweight flatbread as thin as a kerchief, with the sepia tinge of an old photograph. At Makina Cafe, Ethiopian Takeaway With Buoyant Injera 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z There is no certainty here: the manual no longer applies. The Leftovers: confusion and doubt mirrors my religious journey 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z He was steadfast, however, in his certainty that he would not be saddened by the release of the final “Potter” movie, having shed his tears when the majority of his filming was completed last summer. Now Just a Muggle, With Song and Dance 2011-03-02T22:59:08Z And now, we are all young Hoppers in courtyards: fixating on that which is directly in front of us, clinging to its certainty. Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z For a moment, Murray envies the clearly prescribed ritual and the communal certainty it seems to provide the villagers. 'Making an Exit': how the living bury the dead 2011-11-09T22:25:03Z She greedily imbibes their certainty and style, while her idols naturally fail to understand the role they play in her imagination. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z This is where your beliefs do belong at the center of your decision — when there are no certainties to contraindicate what your values tell you to do. Perspective | School choice puts parent’s instincts in conflict 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z But in her raw and wounded certainty, she is human and entirely fascinating. ‘Events’ Review: There’s Kool-Aid in the Water Cooler 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z We weren’t in a rush to do anything else, because there was no certainty of a future. Modern Love: Out of the Darkness ? Modern Love 2011-11-25T23:11:53Z She never stops trying with anything, really, even when the parts of her that wonder if the world is trying to tell her something seem louder than her certainty that Cher Horowitz should live. ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z I don’t think any of us can say with absolute certainty, because we’ve been presented with some information, but Michael Jackson is dead, he’s not in a position to defend himself. Michael Jackson Musical Creators: ‘We’re Not Judge and Jury’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The only character whose future I can speak about with any certainty is the dog. This Week in Fiction: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum on Stories That Don’t Go According to Plan 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z “The language of certainty that examiners are forced to use hides a great deal of uncertainty,” the U.K.’s Lord Justice Leveson put it when addressing the Forensic Science Society. Fingerprints aren’t proof 2012-09-23T12:30:00Z I can tell you, with some level of certainty, that from the moment I was born, my pastor assumed I would become a mother. "Queer Eye" for the purity culture survivor: On the Fab Five's healthy approach to being selfish 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z When Xue suggests that the certainty of communism produces much better results, Mrs. Clinton naturally takes offense but cannot, of all people, argue the point. Review: In the Musical ‘Soft Power,’ China Whistles the Tune 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z One thing I’ve noticed is that young girls and women often talk about “my children”, with certainty that they will bear a child one day. Women without children: ‘I don’t want to be pitied – I’m really happy' 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z It's a question that's ripe with dramatic potential; fiction tends to thrive amid doubt and wilt in the presence of certainty. The Newsroom: 'It's self-indulgent, but it feels so good' – critics have their say 2012-06-25T16:07:00Z He regards the text- and pop-music-driven collage movies that he’s made as an honest, postmodern form of journalism in a time of few certainties. The Documentary “Bitter Lake” Remixes the BBC 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The crew didn’t have that certainty while they were filming. Alex Honnold: ‘There are many places where you can fall to your death’ 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Such certainty is not so easily given up. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z That’s a point Mr. Nguyen will return to over and over again — the blessing and the curse of finding subtlety where others see certainty. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The only certainty was that they would end up a long way from where they began. Review: Daymé Arocena Mixes a Cosmopolitan Vibe With an Earthy Tone 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z DNA holds out an unparalleled promise of certainty. Finding redemption without DNA proof 2012-10-13T15:00:00Z The phrase itself—the certainty and the cruelty of it—is what got Williams to open his notebook. We Can’t Quit You, Hank Williams 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Any parent would want this sort of certainty; I do. Motherlode Blog: Dear Parents: Please Ignore the Latest Research 2013-07-19T12:31:22Z Contemplation of the cost of surrendering your scared little self to a relationship whose only certainty is that it will change is a subject that doesn’t date. Music Review: A Bachelor, Five Couples and All Their Tuneful Discontents 2011-04-08T23:21:13Z “We are waiting for the Dutch high court to provide certainty for everyone across the Netherlands.” Airbnb makes ‘power play’ in Dutch high court to retain right to ‘double fees’ 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The adventures of Stephen Strange tapped into eastern mysticism, psychedelic trips into alternate realities, and the absolute certainty that there is more to existence than what you can see with your eyes. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Every declaration is formed as a question; every certainty undermined by truth, just as in life. After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Conover considers the work of a Swedish linguist who found the area to be a model society and urged that it not be despoiled, but he cannot share her certainty. Books of The Times: A Collector of Road Trips, Just Passing Through 2010-02-17T23:31:00Z Far from the certainties of home, I was Bodi’s only anchor, and he had clamped on like a barnacle. Explorer: In Utah, a 100-Mile Trek With a 4-Year-Old Boy 2013-06-14T20:06:25Z After all, enjoyment might feel, as Baudelaire puts it, like this: "The unique, supreme pleasure of love lies in the certainty of doing wrong." Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z It bit my quest for certainty and spit it back at me. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z The false certainty that, if only for 45 minutes, everything was just as it should be in their world, is suddenly upended. Perspective | The SoulCycle and Equinox controversy hits close to home — because they’re selling an idealized version of you 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But wouldn’t it be more accurate to claim the opposite, that certainty in the sense of brazen, untenable affirmation is much more pathetic? Carsten H??ller: Experience at the New Museum 2011-10-26T19:10:57Z And like many artists drawn to gambling themes, she can’t resist clunky philosophizing about life, chance and certainty. Movie Review | 'Teen Patti': Taking a Gamble 2010-02-26T02:50:00Z From there, with euphoric certainty, you hold on for as far and as long as that boat wants to take you, even through the bumpier episodes. Review | It’s hard to stop watching ‘Seven Seconds’ — and that’s still the surest sign of a good TV show 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The burials were uncovered in 2013, but the scientific team wanted to identify its findings with some certainty before announcing the discovery. Bones of early American leaders identified at Jamestown site 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Lipton had an idealistic certainty about the coming dominance of 3-D films, but he was also critical of the way Hollywood had limited its use to cartoons and action movies. Lenny Lipton, ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist and 3-D Film Pioneer, Dies at 82 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z But whether he gets that chance depends, with brutal certainty, on ratings for coming episodes. ?Running Wilde? Races for an Audience 2010-10-04T15:01:00Z Only regarding the next can we vouchsafe certainty. Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z At the same time, I try to surrender to the absence of certainty, and not be so addicted to some false sense of omniscience. Jeffrey Wright on ‘The Goldfinch,’ ‘Westworld’ and James Bond 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Is there no such thing as certainty, only a never-ending collection of ambiguous choices? ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Robot Chicken’ Spawn Holiday Specials 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Most critics praised the actor’s work and consider his performance to rank among the best in the film, although getting a performance from a superhero movie nominated at the Oscars is never a certainty. Jon Favreau eyes "Avengers: Endgame" Oscar nom for Robert Downey Jr.: "He has my vote for sure" 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Bob's opinions were always expressed with a muscular certainty, a disdain for anything fake, in words of clarity and power that will be relished by future generations. 'Robert Hughes was brutally honest about art and himself,' writes Nick Kent 2012-08-13T13:33:22Z But these days, there's a knot in my heart and an ache in my arms, as if they stretch for something they cannot reach—certainty. A Mother’s Day scream into the void 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z If that is true, then it is something like a mathematical certainty that the greatest actor in the world today is Nicolas Cage. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z Additionally, the WHO assessed the quality of the studies in the review to be of "low or very low certainty". Is sugar actually "better for you" than artificial sweeteners? 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z I want to sit down at my desk with hope rather than certainty, and be surprised. Hanif Kureishi on How We Talk About Love and Sex 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z I can state with more certainty than Einstein’s theory of relativity that I am not in the power women clan. What do Rihanna and I have in common? We know the power of red lipstick 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Corgan lavishes melody and muscle on his newfound certainties, deploying the latest Smashing Pumpkins lineup in barreling triplet-driven rockers and ballads that build to majestic, walloping choruses. Playlist: New Music From Smashing Pumpkins and Neil Young 2012-06-29T20:01:40Z The performances are what keep us hooked to "Westworld" despite the circular nature of its adventures, such as the weary certainty Wright brings to Bernard, the most human and humane of the hosts. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Laubrock, whose creative independence took off after her move to New York, has acquired a new certainty about mingling the songlike phrasing of her earlier years with her Evan Parker-influenced recent past. Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House: Strong Place – review 2013-01-24T23:15:01Z How much harder, she implies, would it be to determine with certainty what happened on a day 15 years ago. “Serial” bombshells aren’t finished: New podcast breaks even more news, and more doubt 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z He promised the certainty they craved, and at a bargain price compared with the legal donation needed to improve their chances. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z One certainty is that Kidman and Kelley's latest effort strives for broader appeal, largely removing overt examinations of racial strife from the equation in favor of class contrast. Nicole Kidman is ready to Goop you now in Hulu's hollow "Nine Perfect Strangers" 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z I don’t suppose I do with 100% certainty – but they’ve all displayed a few seconds of what I can only describe as total paralysis. My life in sex: the man who always gives an orgasm 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z For all the criticism he received for his message, he was successful in large part for the certainty with which he delivered it, never questioning opinions he regarded as undeniable truth. Rush Limbaugh, radio king and architect of right wing, dies 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z I like their certainty, and the way they offer a kind of sanctioned time-out, a small but serious protest against abundance. The Restorative Pause of Silent Record Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z "For absolute certainty in my judgment, nothing like this can come behind it," Brodsky said. Christie's to auction rare Faulkner collection 2010-06-18T17:27:00Z And there’s no certainty that you’ll get an audience with him afterward, either? Jim Gaffigan on Performing Stand-Up for Pope Francis 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The darkness in Valentin’s mature painting, by moving contrast, is pervaded with a melancholy absent in Caravaggio, a haze of lost love and the certainty of death. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Not being a parent, I cannot say with certainty, but I envisage that most parents do not want to be seen encouraging their kids to use four-letter words. James Dawson: why teens in books can't swear 2012-07-11T08:03:27Z And now it’s 2020, and in the grip of a pandemic, locked down, we turn to our certainties, our treasures, our gold. My favourite film aged 12: Gold 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Your chances of getting good answers to loving inquiry, by the way, are inversely proportional to your certainty that only one path through life will do. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Listen to the little birdie that tells you to let people empty their own nests 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The show provides you with a sense of certainty and closure. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z His science fiction, meanwhile, seemed liberated from some of his grimmer certainties and were notably even-handed in their treatment of moral and ideological dispute. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z Since the identity of Cleopatra's mother was never established, no one can say with any certainty that she wasn't an Egyptian with darker skin. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z There's just one certainty: as a species, we are physiologically unable to fly. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z But George has gotten under Lisa's skin, and like any romantic heroine she's wrestling with herself and preparing to throw away all certainty. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z “I have a high degree of certainty we’re going to succeed,” he said. Samantha Bee Prepares to Break Up Late-Night TV’s Boys Club 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The old Church that had provided meaning, solace, and certainty to its members since time immemorial was being torn apart by an ever-increasing number of competing creeds. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z What is the most important lesson life has taught you?There's no certainty. Q&A: Danny DeVito 2013-01-26T08:00:00Z Such certainty presumably explains the other thing everyone always says about him – that he has an almost superhuman absence of self-doubt. Niall Ferguson: 'The left love being provoked by me ... they think I'm a reactionary imperialist scumbag 2011-04-11T06:59:01Z Through art we establish similarities between past and future, near and far, abstract and concrete, that cast received certainties into doubt. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The nature of the job simply doesn’t lend itself to that level of certainty. How to Parent Like a Reporter 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z And though his mission is noble, there’s never any certainty that he’s doing the right thing. Review: Holocaust Drama Son of Saul Is Rigorous, Demanding and Rewarding 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z His grief at the fallen state of politics is really an expression of existential nausea at the absence of moral certainty in a relativistic, secular society. Back from the Brink by Peter Snowdon; Red Tory by Phillip Blond 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z So resolute is JoePa’s certainty that he never saw Sandusky abusing boys that he refuses, for several days, to read the many detailed pages of a grand jury’s long indictment. Review | Despite ‘Paterno’s’ ambiguities, Al Pacino is an effective — and pathetic — JoePa 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z They were old, and though I can’t say with any certainty how old, their age registered immediately as an important characteristic. The Moral Clarity of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ at 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z What sources consider possible, Pearl presents as certainty. When the Pilgrims Met the Native Americans 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The camera lodges beneath Sterling Hayden’s chin—his Ripper has the certainty of megalomania, with a clenched cigar pointing skyward like an artillery piece. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Both Teddy and Viola seem to be experiencing the same insight Nancy does when she finally accepts the certainty of her own untimely death: “Now it was settled, now there were no more possibilities.” Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z I can say with absolute certainty and no proof whatsoever that the idea for the television phenomenon “Glee” was conceived here. The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z What we can know with relative certainty about Jesus is that his public ministry and proclamation were not focused on his divinity; in fact, they were not about his divinity at all. Did Jesus think he was God? New insights on Jesus’ own self-image 2014-03-23T17:00:00Z She sings in an airy sustain, raps with calm certainty and concocts electronic tracks that flaunt their repetitiveness even as they stack up additional parts in the mix. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z When black people succeed in the shadow of white benefactors, that certainty is lost. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z THE Western world is less and less capable of offering any coherent spiritual alternative to the grim certainties of the terrorist groups which commit atrocities in the name of religion. Bloodied brothers 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z As electronic reading devices – the Kindles, the Readers, the iPads, your phone – finally begin to take off, all the old certainties are in flux. Wylie's Amazon deal brings the end of the publishing world nigh 2010-07-23T09:30:00Z Please lose the certainty of your place at the top of the experience mountain and work on your empathy skills, stat. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A parent pooh-poohs a non-parent’s sleep-deprivation 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z It is an attempt to make space for a different, more open sort of discussion, one not dominated by a binary clash of certainties. The cringe at the heart of Christmas 2010-12-11T07:00:00Z The ambitious picture’s complexity tells no tale of an artist truly throwing in the towel, though, beyond the simple certainty of mortality. With pointed, political new work, Llyn Foulkes, 82, shows he's far from finished 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z When the queen dropped, declarer drew the last trump and took the diamond finesse, which was a certainty through West, the opening bidder. Bridge: Bridge — NEC Bridge Festival in Yokohama 2013-04-19T22:56:57Z So, like Dexy's, all they are offering with certainty is their music. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z It wasn’t until several years later that she learned with certainty that her father had died in Auschwitz. Dr. Ruth made ‘orgasm’ a household word. But her real passion? Dollhouses. 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z With certainty in her skills and at home in her skin, King is her own best friend. Our culture needed an adult. Gayle King rose to the challenge. 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z I suppose it seemed like the one certainty in life: I would finish it and it would be published. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011-03-26T00:05:44Z Though “it would be impossible to prove it with complete certainty,” he wrote, “for my part, I am convinced of it.” Marcel Proust, Caught on Film 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Young love is extremely tricky terrain, requiring big emotions without sentimentality and equal parts certainty and uncertainty. The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z This current mini-movement has none of the certainty about black identity that defined previous periods. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z Cronin wrote his college thesis on that novel, tracing the origins and development of Orwell’s increasingly gloomy certainty of man’s capacity for evil. The Passage of Justin Cronin 2012-10-07T07:00:05Z As Swanberg’s new first film, “Unexpected” explores the experience of pregnancy as one of confusion and growth, when the only certainty is that things will most likely not go as planned. Sundance 2015: Cobie Smulders pregnant on-screen and off in 'Unexpected' 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Understandably, only something as grand and incomprehensible as God could have matched the breadth of that void, shoring up the shaken world in fervent black-and-white certainty. I grew up in an off-the-grid Christian commune. Here's what I know about America's religious beliefs 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z But his shyer demeanor masks a tough certainty, whereas she surprisingly quite often follows his lead. Dance: ?Supernatural Wife,? a New York Dance Premiere 2011-11-27T05:10:08Z After all, there was a moment there when I was willing to let Mr. Important and his overweening confidence bowl over my more shaky certainty. The problem with “mansplaining” 2012-08-20T16:38:00Z Above all, the nation’s political crisis destroys the very foundation of Philip’s psychological makeup—his proud certainty of his American identity. The Frightening Lessons of Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Instead, these songs — many rooted in the sounds of the 1950s — succeed because of their utter certainty, stacked with indestructibly saccharine harmonies. The Grammy Gems You Won’t Hear on ‘Music’s Biggest Night’ 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z But it’s less upsetting than recalling the heartbreak and grief I experienced after my beagle Darwin died in 2011 or coming to terms with the near certainty that I will outlive Hammy. In Vermont, a haven for dogs and the humans who love them 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Corporations themselves would be alive, well and overshadowing our lives — that’s a certainty. Smart Watch: "Valley of the Boom," "Corporate" returns, and "The Dictator's Playbook" on PBS 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Catherine Lacey: Love; debt; emotional debts between those who love or have loved each other; certainty and uncertainty; perfection. Salon’s author questionnaire: 7 things you didn’t know about 5 writers 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Williams speaks deliberately, with a calm that is not dispassion but certainty. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The album is already a banker in an age when there are, in sales terms, few superstar certainties. Jay-Z's Samsung deal signals a musical future where the rich get richer 2013-07-04T11:37:50Z Religion can bond people together, but believing in something higher than you, you feel that there is certainty regardless of what it is. In "Whether the Weather Is Fine," typhoon survivors "transform from being zombies to becoming human" 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z He makes his first quiet appearance unannounced and applies his moral certainties and unique deductive powers to crimes in a variety of settings, some exotic, across the whole social and economic spectrum. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z Like the trial attorney who asks only questions she already knows the answers to, I pose the query with certainty about the outcome. In a bad mood? Exercise can help. Here’s the best way to do it. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z It comes from an unexpected source: the pianist Eldar Djangirov, a former child prodigy whose own music tends to exude certainty and closure. Playlist: New Music by Craig Taborn Trio, J. D. Allen and Eric Church 2013-04-20T22:50:58Z Processes were devised and consultants appointed to minimise cost overruns: they created the certainty, rather than the possibility, that money would be wasted. Do good buildings make for better educated children? 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z It is hard to know with certainty how many performers caught the camera’s eye in each of the five SAG-nominated films. The Carpetbagger: Maybe It Should Be Called 'The Artists' 2012-01-06T15:46:58Z It’s a time more prone to the certainties of rage than the ambiguities of art. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z You had a lot of certainty, a lot of belonging, zero freedom. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z "It's a 98 percent certainty and 2 percent speculation," Anthony Anzaldo said. Former wrestling star Chyna died of an accidental overdose of a prescription sleeping pill and a tranquilizer, her manager said Wednesday 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Pop has now become so complex you almost yearn for the cosy certainties of prog-rock orchestral suites. Haim; Ellie Goulding – review 2012-09-29T23:05:37Z Only you can assess your level of certainty. I Haven’t Talked to This Asian-American Friend in Years. Should I Call Now? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In the absence of certainty, I’m happy to accept the Malin’s claim. In London, eat your way through the history — and future — of fish and chips 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, her narrative is one of deep heartache, both in the predeparture attempt to quiet her own objections to the faith, and in the self-willed abandonment of certainty that departure requires. Losing Her Religion 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Most research falls well short of Berenson’s certainty, which he primarily bases on two studies. Popular book on marijuana's apparent dangers is pure alarmism, experts say 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z In that sense, the title “Comedian” is ironic — for Mr. Cattelan, like all the best clowns, is a tragedian who makes our certainties as slippery as a banana peel. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z And maybe a genuine question was beginning to shake loose from all my former certainties. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z “Moral certainty ignites every inquisition and then feeds it with oxygen,” he writes. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z Perhaps the only certainty was that technology used to connect bands to their fans will change almost as rapidly as the fortunes of many of the artists using it. SXSW 2012: It's a wrap 2012-03-18T19:19:00Z In looking back on his earlier self, growing up in poverty in the Bronx, Hart captured the desperation, egotism, self-consciousness, illusionism and perverse certainty that made his escape possible. Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z Hi, Carolyn: What would you say is the appropriate amount of certainty required before calling Child Protective Services on someone? Carolyn Hax: Learning to protect your child, even from your mom 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z It was his mother’s “absolute certainty” that she was going to be stricken at any moment. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z It sounds as if you should, but I’d phrase it differently: You don’t need certainty about your relationship so much as confidence in your doubts. Carolyn Hax: Holiday trip to meet girlfriend’s family stirs doubts about relationship 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Eventually people will decide absolute certainty isn't necessary for action. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He also stresses what every cyclist knows: The only certainties are “theft and road accidents.” Review | Modern life, as seen by a writer without a smartphone 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z He goes forward with great certainty that his search engine is capable of revealing all. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z Listen for the certainty in his tone — and for the mild irony provided by the restaurant’s soundtrack. ArtsBeat: Robert Glasper Experiment: So Is It Jazz? 2012-02-24T20:24:33Z So consider these 10 films to merely be the starting lineup, ranked in descending order according to their certainty. Will These Be the 10 Best Picture Oscar Nominees? 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z However, it's the brooding Bailaor that best balances the sense of patient negotiation and sharply seized openings of the best jazz groups with the directional certainties of flamenco song. Dave Holland/Pepe Habichuela: Hands 2010-07-01T20:31:00Z Armed with false certainty and more than a spoonful of paranoia, you march to your medical practitioner and demand treatment. What effect has the internet had on healthcare? 2011-01-09T00:05:48Z There in the low-lit hum of a bustling Mexican restaurant, though, I regarded my boatload of grasshoppers with a look of anything but certainty. My first taste of flesh 2013-03-12T00:00:00Z Suspicious of video technology that, she says, barely allows an operator to tell if a suspect is carrying a rifle or a shovel, she questions the certainty with which many drone operators make life-or-death decisions. Kill shots: why cinema has drone warfare in its sights 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z How can we have clear ideas or certainties about it? An Artist in Pursuit of Balance 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Scientific certainty on declining obesity rates and calories cut from the food supply also is difficult to establish. A healthful legacy: Michelle Obama looks to the future of ‘Let’s Move’ 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z “Things Take Time” is a study both of the simple certainties of life and the big thing that comes after it. The Future Is Big. So Courtney Barnett Still Sings About Small Things. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Or fragments of memories — incomplete scenes, uncomfortable feelings, perhaps even a sense of certainty that something specific and terrible happened to them, but little more than this. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Perhaps this is a way to relieve uncertainty about the certainty of machines. Attention, humans: I am Rosie, your new robot security guard 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z But the couple can pinpoint with certainty when they fell in love. A Heart So Full, Her Chipped Teeth Were an Afterthought 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Set against the densely textured raw linen Yun painted on, these assertive lines are another appealing certainty, one unshaken by emptiness all around them. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Best of all, during sad or uncertain times, cooking offers a planned sequence of steps, a finite list of ingredients and a reasonable degree of certainty about the outcome. Perspective | Cooking through tears helped me feed my dying father. It sustained me, too. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z "There can be no mathematical certainty but I feel that it cannot be ascribed to Caravaggio but only to the the circle associated with his name." From the archive, 15 October 1974: Salome in a veil of doubt 2012-10-15T06:30:00Z They express probabilities rather than certainties, and generalities rather than specifics. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z Colder weather brings with it one certainty for air travelers: the start of space wars. Perspective | On airplanes, personal space is a vanishing commodity 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The only certainty is that they don't write good prose memoirs. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:04Z The bequest of a diary puts all his comfortable certainties into question. Man Booker prize 2011: The longlist in pictures 2011-07-26T17:10:08Z It’s hard to say with any degree of certainty. For the Wine World, 2021 Brings Familiar Problems 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z His replies weren’t riddles; they were clues about not believing in certainty. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Often, there is a little fragment of hope, if only for a few more weeks of life, as medicine is almost always about probabilities rather than certainties. An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’ 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z That dusty sense of certainty is exactly what has long made the American Revolution feel like a safe zone for contemporary conservatives; contemporary Tea Party activists picked their name for a reason. Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled 2013-04-07T16:00:00Z Far gone are those days of certainty I knew back in the 1960s when I was design critic for the Guardian. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review 2013-05-10T13:00:03Z Precious hours pass before Morrow realizes with sick certainty that Fuentecilla hasn’t voluntarily given them the slip. Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z We all operate on borrowed time, navigating life’s bends until arriving at its lone certainty: death. A journey through the life’s ups and downs with Thundercat 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z “Bilal is in a place of much more confidence, and awareness, and really looking forward to the future with more certainty than uncertainty,” Patnaik said in a recent interview. Is Bilal Baig Ready for Fame? Sort Of. 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Season one made a point of revealing the weaknesses of Ned’s ultimately fatal moral certainty, but at least it meant that he could make decisions and stick with them. Game of Thrones Watch: I Capture the Castle 2012-05-07T10:10:45Z Elsewhere he declaims, “All that is clear is the perfection of what we were given, the unworthiness of our response, and the certainty, in view of our current deprivation, that we are judged.” Art Review: ‘Robert Adams: The Place We Live’ at Yale Art Gallery 2012-08-30T21:55:20Z I envied these people's certainty, but I despised what I perceived as their lack of joy and instinct. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z WEISS: I wouldn’t say that that has happened with certainty yet. Game of Thrones Creators: ‘We Know What Happens in Each Scene’ of Season 8 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Icarus, Mephistopheles and the Valkyries fall, saints and angels ascend either on wings or up Jacob's ladder to the certainty of heaven or cosmic oblivion. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z There is one certainty in TV: whenever the networks locate a hit, they’ll try to replicate it until everyone is sick of it. Match Game: ABC hopes Sunday night bet on game shows pays off 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The freestyle rehearsal segment played to Bristol's only strength -- her complete lack of belief in herself and the self-conscious certainty that she will fail because of "all the haters out there". "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Jennifer Grey finds her groove 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z Mr. Bowser captures how Mr. Ochs’s style began to reflect a bit less certainty and more vulnerability. Film: Tracing the Arc of a Tragic Folk Singer 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z But for many, Facts' most memorable moments came in simple day-to-day realities, from a child's certainty of its mother's love to the comforting knowledge that a favorite television show would start promptly at 8 p.m. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z You see half their face and you lose certainty of where they are. "Standoff at Sparrow Creek": Michigan militia men unravel in this claustrophobic thriller 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z On the witness stand, a showboating medical examiner admits that he can’t even say with certainty that William’s death was a homicide. Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z In a world in which death was a certainty, people acted as if there was a future. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review 2013-01-25T07:00:02Z While no single gene can explain Beethoven, Yo-Yo Ma or “Waterloo Sunset,” Dr. Marcus does believe in natural talent, he said, or at least in the certainty he doesn’t have any. Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar 2012-01-26T00:47:36Z When Levy’s autobiographical essay begins, she is a middle-aged woman whose life’s certainties have foundered. Crossing Abbey Road: It’s More Dangerous Than You Might Think 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z That sense of eerie certainty is implicit in the “mentally ill” label we so liberally slap on the white men behind mass shootings. We need to talk about Ben: Kylo Ren, “Star Wars” and the media narrative of the mentally ill school shooter 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z But their respective certainty wasn't uniform when asked that question at an appearance before reporters on Tuesday at a meeting of the Television Critics Association. 3 MSNBC hosts predict winner of presidential race 2011-08-02T20:23:08Z The Daphnis suite, with its Amazon rainforest-like proliferation of vital and intricate ideas, was shaped with a certainty of direction that never compromised the music's inherent sensuousness. Prom 36: BBCSO/Bringuier 2010-08-13T10:48:00Z He said he was confident a buyer would be found, although "nothing is a certainty." Unseen Jackson film valued at $6-8 million goes unsold 2011-11-26T20:02:00Z “The one thing you can say with certainty is that courtrooms are not hermetically sealed from what’s going on in the world,” said Toobin. Trial by Media: a troubling Netflix series on press coverage of the courtroom 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Having the certainty of Mr. Harrell’s ear comes with a price: several thousand dollars per song and, more significant, a cut of the royalties. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z But I suspect that, since its publication in 1611, millions in the English speaking world have shared the butcher's certainty. Anne Boleyn and the theatre of reformation 2011-07-08T21:55:13Z But the virus of celebrity certainty can be difficult to treat and almost impossible to cure, and he needs an immediate intervention. "The Town": Ben Affleck's Boston fantasy 2010-09-17T14:01:00Z What I begrudged was the certainty they exuded that they would succeed. That waitress who thinks she can write: Waiting tables and crafting a novel in the infamous MFA town 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Blandings continues to satisfy the English reader's nostalgia for the greenwood tree and the ancient certainties of the shires. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. Why we should learn to embrace failure | Elizabeth Day 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Audiences will surely see where the film is going as it sets up a quite rigidly explored dichotomy between blithe believing and scientific certainty. Review: Allen casts a limp spell in ‘Magic’ 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z And in person, she is selectively evasive, speaking with extreme ideological certainty but also clear emotional reluctance, deciding with each moment which one to prioritize. Mitski’s ‘Puberty 2’ Mines Her Scars for Raw Meaning 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z "I wouldn't say it's a certainty but we're hoping he's back with us," said Greenblatt, adding that if necessary "the show will go on in his absence." NBC overhauls TV schedule with 12 new scripted shows 2011-05-15T20:22:26Z All people, Black and white, faced with this act lose their certainties. "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The only certainty about next Thursday's general election is that more voters will be holding their noses as they visit the booths than ever before. We mean it, maaan!: the lost art of the pop manifesto 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z When we began to look for the Truth, however, we got locked into a cycle of certainty and skepticism. Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z That also gives the script a by-the-numbers certainty that keeps these new episodes firmly in the realm of sweet if not unmissable. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In the unlikely event of a "Louis Theroux: Ultra Islamists", the myopic certainty would, if anything, be even blinder. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z First, there’s the grandiose certainty of the marriage’s opponents, who cite Scripture and what they see as the intent of God and the proper way of nature. TV Tonight: The Loving Story 2012-02-14T19:12:46Z This is a book infused with the doubt that we all bring to the contemplation of those mysterious beings who birthed us, along with our certainty that few subjects are more fascinating. Books of The Times: When Granny Met Gershwin, and Other Gossip 2011-07-25T18:39:38Z Historically, the novel was an expression of our disillusionment with the existing certainties of state and religion. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z “You don’t know what’s going to come in life, but it’s so nice to know that we have certainty in each other.” On Love: Langley King and Steven Ellmann 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Although Yeezus has debuted at No 1 in 31 countries, it was hardly a certainty that West would take these songs on the road. Kanye West will go on tour, says Yeezus co-producer 2013-06-19T09:40:12Z “In general, folks who are not scientists are seeking certainties, so they want to know what’s going to happen, and it will always be that way,” Moran says. Why human brains are bad at assessing the risks of pandemics 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z This chaos may benefit only the president-elect because when there is no certainty, when there is no logic, there remains only the leader — only Mr. Trump. The New Reality of TV: All Trump, All the Time 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Many of the works on display seem not so much inspired as revolted by the religious superstructure in which Dante operated, and by extension, contemporary manifestations of religious certainty. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z And in an era of righteous certainty and flamboyant superficiality, what sets this special most against the grain is its commitment to doubt. Marc Maron and the Comedy of Doubt 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The report’s findings express certainty that climate change poses a severe threat to the health and financial well-being of Americans. CNN and NBC betray Sunday viewers seeking analysis on damning climate change report 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z That certainty I guess alarms me a little bit, because science is also an evolution. What a skeptic learned from consulting psychics — and astrologers, tarot readers, empaths and more 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Widner-Schlumpf added: "The reason for the decision lies in the fact that it was not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty a fault in the US extraditionary request." Roman Polanski goes free 2010-07-12T12:48:00Z The filmmaker, who was able to shoot inside the precinct building, captures their certainty and their confusions. '24 Days' a gripping, anguished account of a kidnapping 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Yet regret at the passing of his certainties still lingers. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z “I don’t have a defined genre, I like to be fluid,” Maluma said, his soft voice growing louder with certainty. Maluma, Fashion Chameleon 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z I’ve got an overstuffed to-see list and the certainty that the unexpected will arise. SXSW Music 2015: Early Show-Hopping, Taking In Known and Unknown Bands 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Some of his pictures incorporate equations, as though aspiring to the certainty of mathematics. Review | In the galleries: Science expands nature art, on grand and minuscule scales 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z After reading an article dismissing Andrew’s ridiculous theories, Margaret suddenly realizes how others see her husband’s blustering, grandiose claims; his circular reasoning; his obnoxious and deluded certainty. Books of The Times: In Jane Smiley?s ?Private Life,? a Marriage With No Sparks 2010-05-24T21:21:00Z We see hints of her grounded certainties in her instant attraction to Philip. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z However, as long as there is no certainty regarding the future of climate, the average person will continue to hope for the best, and the naysayers and profiteers will take advantage of that uncertainty. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z As he ages and tires, Sanders has more wisdom but fewer certainties, describing himself to a listener as “like a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn’t there.” Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Although a tentative deal is in place, executives close to the talks who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation, cautioned that a final agreement is no certainty. Fox and Apollo Global Management in talks on TV joint venture 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It forces the thought: What have all the technological achievements of Microsoft, Amazon, Apple wrought, when it comes to changing certain fundamental certainties of human nature? A dazzling new book by David Guterson 2011-10-15T04:27:07Z This certainty surprised me, because no such diagnosis was revealed in the script. Ricky Gervais' Derek: cruel, or just unusual? 2013-01-31T07:00:06Z What caused the rise in overall violent crime is actually a matter of debate, not certainty. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z Humans have an innate need for knowledge and certainty, to feel safe, secure and in control, and to feel good about ourselves and the groups we belong to, she adds. Conspiracy theories: Why some people are susceptible and how to protect yourself 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z It ends with few certainties except these: There will be more sickness and death. Coronavirus is a test that no one knows how to pass 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z And that certainty can be a very dangerous thing, because once people are viewed with that sense of certainty, they don't want to go back and admit that they might have made a mistake. Inside Netflix's "Innocence Files": "The system is set up to attain convictions" 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z "I know what the article should be about," he says, with his characteristic mix of certainty and provocation. UK soul: the sound of the Union 2011-07-07T19:59:00Z There are at least two types of confusion that art produces: Disorientation, which is a good thing, unsettling our certainties and prodding us in uncomfortable new directions; and befuddlement, which is confusion without purpose. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z When I was a kid I felt he was one because of what I took to be his furious moral certainty. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z I don’t claim to know the answers with any certainty. From Gary Webb to James Risen: The struggle for the soul of journalism 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Over and over, the exhibition offers examples of apparent certainties being scrambled. Swahili, the Pulse of Life at the Crossroads 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The action may vary from day to day but limits are almost a certainty now. Drop a fishing line into Rufus Woods for decent winter trout action 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Desire and fear, certainty, self-doubt and resolve are conjured in an instant with the angle of a glance, the lowering of an eyelid and then released as if they were never there. 'How to Get Away With Murder' keeps spotlight on Viola Davis 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It was Thoreau who said, “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z He tends to combine absolute certainty with a complete misunderstanding of what he is talking about. Review: In ‘The Speechwriter,’ Barton Swaim Shares Tales of Working for Mark Sanford 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z As the parents retreat into formality and certainty, we cannot tell how deliberate the teenagers' sabotage has been. Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy | Book review 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Both books were scarcely read when first released, which seems incredible now, when we regard them as such keystones in the century of psychoanalysis, and in the great sweeping away of the old Victorian certainties. Modernism's first wave: turn-of-the-century literature 2013-01-17T11:44:48Z Despite the promise of a major payout and another chance to enhance their legacy, the 50th anniversary celebrations were not always a certainty. Rolling Stones aim to roll back years with reunion 2012-11-22T15:00:19Z She was charming from the moment we sat down, and filled, you might say, with the easy laughter of strong conviction, the mirth of certainty. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z A few pages later, however, he is confronting yet again the certainty of death. ‘When Breath Becomes Air’: Young doctor’s last words of wisdom, hope 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As the sleeve notes for a new CD of the 2010 service put it, this grew from a "longing for the certainties and innocence of childhood". King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z Even though this “High Fidelity” does not seem connected to music qua music, it succeeds at recognizing and reveling in the joys of certainty and domain. Review: Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ Is a Cool Cover, but It Misses Some Notes 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z GERMAIN: The big Oscar certainty: supporting actor goes to a previous Oscar winner. AP writers pick `Argo' for Oscar best picture 2013-02-21T17:46:04Z For everyone else, life simply goes on, same as before, but with less physical and metaphysical certainty. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z As the play’s title character, a grammatically exacting neurosurgeon named Ruth Wolff, Stevenson will repeat those last two phrases many times as events unfold and Ruth’s clarity and intellectual certainties erode. Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z But “surpassing certainty” means there is a sense of us knowing ourselves without any compromise, knowing unapologetically we’re something that goes beyond just being here. With 'Surpassing Certainty,' Janet Mock provides her blueprint to self-love 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet the really clever thing about the exhibition is that it does not celebrate scientific certainty in some crassly positivist way. National Gallery's forgeries are the real deal 2010-07-01T14:45:00Z After all, a man was convicted of murdering someone, albeit in an incident captured on a video watched by millions — an audience for whom there was no certainty about the outcome. In the aftermath of the Chauvin verdict hangs a question: Where do we go from here? 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Yeah, my certainty about not having kids has never wavered. Isn't that selfish? Introducing our new series on childfree women 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z The only thing about it that feels out of place is the ironclad certainty of its despair. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z When that happens, thoughtful leaders and members may find that reexamining the foundations of traditional beliefs slaps their certainty into a new humility that no longer assumes they had it "right" the first time. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z You admired Sister J's certainty, but if that was her last word on mortal frailty, I thought, you wouldn't want her in charge of the gas and air. Rewind TV: Call the Midwife; Louie; Howard Goodall's Story of Music – review 2013-01-26T22:45:01Z Although a tentative deal between Fox and Apollo has been struck, the companies cautioned that a final agreement is no certainty. Fox in talks with Apollo to create TV production house 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Some of this awareness was because I was playing in a band, and some of it was because of my age and the dawning certainty that I needed to grow up. This is the best band from the ’90s you’ve never heard 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Alongside certainty in trying times, the cultural reach of classic rockers is, I think, the other key to their renewed appeal. Trends of 2012: Classic rock returns 2012-12-18T11:24:02Z They may just hear what you actually said, which obscures the certainty in your heart. Perspective | Miss Manners: Friendly neighbor needs to be dissuaded 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Despite the rising costs, the film remains on pace to top $1 billion worldwide, making more sequels a certainty. 'Fate of the Furious' Debuts to Hefty $100.2 Million 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z In the essays, Graham unravels all such certainties, lightly trolling: How absurd that I’m paid to do this work! In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z If there is one certainty in this most uncertain political season, it is this: "Expect a surprise," said Don Sipple, a longtime GOP strategist. Iowa up first in economy-themed campaign 2012-01-03T03:23:00Z “But I can say one thing with certainty: If you want to see what’s happening in the culture, Sundance is still the snapshot.” Sundance Festival Shows More Comedies 2013-01-16T17:58:40Z As a result, his real story remains only half-told: the tragedy of a man possessed by certainty. The Professor of Truth by James Robertson – review 2013-06-08T14:00:01Z This is not to say that they don't doubt themselves; they do, reasonably often, but their certainty, like faith, is capable of admitting doubt without collapse. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z Mysteries and revelations are as integral to this film’s impact as our certainty of the dangers faced by its makers: Kossakovsky and his crew might be invisible, but they are rarely far from our thoughts. ‘Aquarela’ Review: The Shapes of Water 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Much of the music, though, has the interrogative restlessness of thought in pursuit of certainty, and the ambivalent mix of anger and affection that pervades our relationships with our nearest and dearest. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z “The answer to uncertainty in the environment is certainty in our mission,” she said. Perspective | That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that. 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Of course not: Most people would want at least a 99 percent certainty that the flight is safe. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z History mostly demonstrates the violence of embracing either pole of moral certainty. The Reluctant Transgender Role Model 2011-05-06T20:53:26Z Given her absolute certainty, Maya is assigned to brief the Seals. Zero Dark Thirty: the US election vehicle that came off the rails 2013-01-18T19:31:01Z Gone, too, were Victorian certainties and the confidence of an empire. 'The Great Silence': Britain's mourning and recovery in the wake of World War I 2010-06-02T22:39:00Z I lay my head on his chest at night, so rattled by the heartbeat and thick certainty of muscle that sometimes all I can think is: Is this OK? Meeting his family, disowned by my own 2014-01-08T23:59:00Z But he comes into the movies in the 1970s, when the battles over Vietnam were raging in Southeast Asia and the United States and the old certainties were rapidly giving way to new doubts. Film: The Dude Plumbs His Weary Soul 2010-02-26T23:03:00Z The ever-present danger of an explosion — and the certainty that someone is going to be blown up at some point — creates an undercurrent of dread that the director does not hesitate to manipulate. Review: ‘Land of Mine,’ an Oscar Nominee, Explores Postwar Perils and Ethics 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z That’s our only certainty in life — we don’t know which twists and turns our journeys will take us on, but the certainty is that we will die. Jenny Saville’s Nudes Bring Renaissance Masters Down to Earth 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z As the phone company agent becomes impatient, or the bank agent confused, our sympathies and our certainties waver and lose hold, until we arrive at a state of mordant terror reminiscent of “Waiting for Godot.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Of course, it is hard to say with certainty what the real motives might be. Why tourists go to sites associated with death and suffering 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Maybe even the audience cannot say with any certainty what, in this heated meta-theatrical debate, is fiction and what is not. Best theatre of 2012, No 7: Ganesh versus the Third Reich 2012-12-13T16:02:59Z There are very few certainties in their lives, but one of them is that the old guy with the funny hair poses no threat to them, and in his presence is protection. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Saved, by a whisker 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z He assured Weil that they "are working on a strategy to secure an administrative tax ruling to give us certainty on the approach, as well as researching risk factors." New California film tax credit 'NOT good' for Sony, email says 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z We are creatures, Swift suggests, more enamored of certainty than reason. Review | Arthur Phillips shows that choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But “The End of Days” is not so much a meditation on the mysterious possibility of life—the more obvious emphasis—than a wise consideration of the unmysterious certainty of death. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z And he knows why some words, such as “paradigm” and “integrity,” are evergreen: because they’re broad, abstract concepts that leave us scrabbling for specificity and certainty. For many people, the search for meaning in the coronavirus pandemic starts with the dictionary 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z "I look very much forward to it," she said with certainty. Rooney Mara preps for stardom with "Dragon Tattoo" 2011-12-21T22:42:21Z In dramatic testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI director Comey admits, under intense questioning from Democratic senators, that he cannot say “with absolute certainty” that Vice President Pence is not a Russian citizen. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The trouble is that, unlike religious belief, medical science doesn’t traffic in absolute certainties. Toni Braxton’s strange diagnosis: Checking the science on her autism claims 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z If you want an answer about charity, then it’s this: Beware of certainties about who is “not poor.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A Good Samaritan quits when she suspects some don’t need charity 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z And so once again I stepped forward into love with a certainty that I knew exactly what I was doing. What’s Love? Don’t Ask the Answer Couple 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “This can be a model so that girls, boys, young people, can have the certainty that dreams can always be achieved,” he said. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Maestro, Meets New York 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Few of us can imagine such iron certainty now. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z Genre fans must be terrible worriers, he continues; prisoners of “an extreme state of anguish” soothed only by narrative certainty. Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction' 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z It was there, in that deep down, gut certainty that we’re not alone in this world. What Philly taught me about Sandy 2012-11-20T16:40:00Z Your daughter’s in flux, leaving the structure and certainty of school for the wilds of managing her own goals, money, purpose, time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t want to be a controlling mom? Stop telling her what to do. 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z More and more people were coming to believe that chance rather than providence guided human affairs, and that dogged certainty led to violence. Study of Obama Finds a Pragmatic Intellectual 2010-10-27T17:44:00Z The only certainty is that we are unlikely to get answers from Dylan. Bob Dylan to release Tempest, his 35th album, in September 2012-07-17T12:20:32Z But we know to an obnoxious certainty that our music is better than yours, millennials. Gene Weingarten: I gave this Beatles classic another listen. Big mistake. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This feels like a spiritual experience — it pits an intuitive certainty against the inadequacy of your own conscious perceptions. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Even with sponsors, Silva doesn't predict with any certainty that the event will be profitable. Mexican acts line up for Vive Grupero festival 2010-04-10T03:56:00Z But to call it science “cloaks the work in a sort of aura of certainty.” Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Two centuries of wrangling among bureaucrats and the people, plus politicians and artists, have made the National Mall a permanent record of passing certainties. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z A missile might go astray and, unlike taking a shot from a drone, the raid offered certainty. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z Furthermore, they seem, almost by rote, to decide to linger right in your cross hairs, making friendly-fire casualties an almost certainty. Game On: 'Armageddon,' and 'Red River' are solid, but flawed 2011-06-08T18:24:04Z Disappointment is a certainty for everyone, including children. Perspective | Parents, your logic won’t help your children handle disappointment. But you aren’t powerless. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The key texts of the Mass treated in musical settings are more or less invariable, representing firmly established beliefs — “the certainty from ritual,” as Banks put it. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z That was one of the lexical clues leading Fitzgerald to “opine” “with a likelihood bordering on certainty” that Stokes was the author of the unsigned letter. Forensic linguistics: Do your e-mails, texts and tweets reveal clues to your identity? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z He tells her she was played – though he delivers the news with more certainty than Petrov gave him. 'House of Cards' Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: Petrov and the Jordan Valley 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z The film’s moody textures and atmospheric unease goes hand in hand with the pseudoscience, emblematic as it is of a yearning for certainty in a dark and infinitely mutable world. ‘Moon, 66 Questions’ Review: Daddy Issues 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But I can tell you with certainty that if there was no Paul Abrams, Ben Sprecher had absolutely no idea that this was made up. ‘Rebecca’ Cancellation Sets Investors’ Lawyers in Action 2012-10-01T22:20:30Z Readers and writers today can't, of course, share Pope's certainties of taste. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z “It takes loss to be free,” he sang on one track, with certainty. Review: ‘Darling Arithmetic,’ a Confessional Album From Villagers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In Sam’s world, parenting is not a gilded certainty but a rewarding experiment, both complicated and enriched by the fact that she is going it alone. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z But his fury, honed to the clean, hot certainty of a surgical laser, is never questionable. Why do women love John Wick? (It's not just the puppy) 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z In fact, it was that very certainty that drove much of the damaging and excessive coverage of her email practices. Perspective | Journalists shouldn’t make political predictions. I learned this lesson the hard way. 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z "I guess that's why I love the elegance and the certainty of chemistry." Chemical industry hooked on TV show "Breaking Bad" 2011-07-15T19:20:29Z “Potential” being the operative word, because there are no certainties, even with four-year degrees. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom sets parameters for her son’s college fund to an extreme degree 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z What happens when Gray's certainty is shaken becomes grist for the spiritual mill Cahill is grinding. 'I Origins' looks polished, but story is out of focus 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z As the saying goes, the only certainties in life are death and taxes -- and Patrick Kane at Bull & Bear on Sundays. Top 10 celeb hangouts in January 2011-02-02T17:53:16Z There's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, suggests an obsessive personality. Milton Jones – review 2013-02-10T16:55:06Z The way not to sound petty is to refrain from correcting others unless it’s about you, or a matter of certainty and consequence. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Lord, give me patience with this friend who always name-drops Thee 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Not because of the risk to your health, but the certainty that you’ll be too nervous to appreciate your travels. An Informed Traveler Is a Safer Traveler 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z By the time his doubts solidify into certainty, it's too late. Grief is a distant planet: How "A Wrinkle in Time" is helping me deal with my father’s decline 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s really scary to leave a place of certainty to go to a place of, where’s the next gig? Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z It’s the word “certainty” that nails this poem to the kitchen door. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z According to several actors and musicians in the show, one of the lead producers, Mr. Chilewich, repeatedly assured them that the Gramercy run was a certainty. How ‘A Night With Janis Joplin’ Was Suddenly Canceled 2014-04-25T21:54:37Z These problems are compounded by the certainty of financial return that Hollywood studios seek before greenlighting large projects. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Maybe you also have an idea of homeownership as certainty, permanence, maturity, and of surfing as none of these. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your spouse is unmoved by the reasons to buy instead of rent 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian We are living in an era of rapid cultural change: the certainties of yesterday are no longer certain today. Futureproof - review 2011-08-18T16:47:24Z The movie strides with “absorbing, intelligent certainty through the desperately dangerous, uneven terrain of racially divided America,” Hollywood trade publication Variety said in its review. 'The Hate U Give' aims to inspire dialogue on racism in U.S. 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The one thing anyone can say about the Oscars with any degree of certainty is that they are far, far too long. A brief history of the Oscars in viral moments they want you to forget 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z So, we do not know with certainty the family meal is beneficial for health, only that there's a statistical link between families that eat together and family health. Five tips on how to keep family meals delicious, nutritious and stress-free 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z But the film reveals the equally crucial sense in which the church—that certainty of support, as steady as breath and as deep as a moan—never left her. “My Soul Is Satisfied”: An Intimate New Documentary Explores the Source of Aretha Franklin’s Power 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He makes assertions with the scantiest of proof, but delivered with utter certainty. How Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, got Donald Trump’s ear 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I loved his work and, in person, I was impressed by his certainties, by his willingness to do battle, making his little bungalow a casus belli. Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Evangelistic certainty and moral clarity were one thing; US soldiers dying needlessly in the sand in a faraway country was quite another. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z The feeling grew in me subtly, steadily, over weeks, a slow intoxication that ended in full-body certainty: Of course I was going to make the cookies. The Many Lives of Roberto, a Soup 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z For many writers, she notes, fog “became a symbol for the threat to the clear outlines of a hierarchical social order as it dissolved moral boundaries and replaced reassuring certainties with obscurity and doubt.” “London Fog,” a study of the great city’s legendary atmosphere 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z There is no certainty the discussions will lead to a deal, the sources added, asking not to be identified because the discussions are confidential. Exclusive: Cineworld in talks with Regal Entertainment about merger - sources 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The ease and certainty of tone that are so palpable in his essays, though, are missing from his autobiographical solo show. Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Most seemed to find calming certainty in aesthetics, which is to say, they were clear on the kind of world they wanted to see and the way in which they wanted to live in it. Perspective | Designers made New York fashion week happen. Sort of. 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Yet today it is strident certainty that marks most public theological discourse. The cringe at the heart of Christmas 2010-12-11T07:00:00Z There was physical evidence — according to defense lawyers, “almost to a mathematical certainty” — that the fatal shot was not aimed at Clark but instead ricocheted off the car. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The war there will not only give them lasting nightmares, but will also challenge every certainty they’d once held — about themselves, about human nature, about fate and the randomness of life. Books of The Times: ‘The Yellow Birds’ by Kevin Powers 2012-09-06T16:01:27Z That certainty, or rather the sense of it, is what his art is still about. What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z They sit together with his complex notion of cheerfulness practised in the face of the terrifying collapse of certainties. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Nobody can say answer that with absolute certainty. Will your favorite TV shows and movies survive Warner Bros. Discovery's culling? 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Certainty that the baby would not be born early stole over me, and I gathered that certainty close. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It is also, in part, a parable about the dangers of a class so complacently secure in its certainties that it fails to register a new danger. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z For him, the museum is more than a collection; it’s a statement about America, particularly its perennial conflict between authoritarianism and anarchy, or what he called “moral certainty” and freedom. Tommy Guns and Other Crime World Curiosities 2010-11-19T07:15:00Z Heretofore Nalini operates from a place of certainty, with every move dictated by tradition. "Never Have I Ever" returns smarter, funnier and at the mercy of its hormones more than ever 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z I recently saw a production of “Sense and Sensibility” by the Bedlam theater company, which injected Austen’s calm certainties with a revivifying dose of mad improvisation and physicality. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z There's nothing pat about the conclusion; it suspends the reader between certainties. Poem of the week: Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry by Ruth Stone 2011-08-01T09:17:06Z Pedaling through a seemingly trivial existence, frantically towards this block of certainty that seems to be omnipresent just over the horizon. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z There is no certainty, we might say: so stop worrying about it. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z And I’m not saying they had any certainty. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But when Ms. Cook delivered it in a tone of wistful certainty, emphasizing “all,” it became personalized; all meant all, a huge expenditure of energy over a lifetime, holding nothing back. Music Review: Looking Back on Love and Loss, With an Eye on More to Come 2011-06-10T23:00:10Z Through all of it, though, Limbaugh proved successful in part for the certainty with which he delivered his broadcasts, never wavering in opinions he regarded as undeniable truth. Rush Limbaugh, ‘voice of American conservatism,’ has died 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z That panic that exists alongside a certainty that you are being silly. My Thanksgiving panic 2012-11-22T00:30:00Z So recognize your comment as the weak excuse it is for your boyfriend’s arrogant certainties, and note that explaining and rationalizing are how partners of rude people spend a sad chunk of their time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Your kids and your lawyer boyfriend argue. Dismiss with prejudice? 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Ms Robinson is too attentive to human nature and too suspicious of certainty for such a pat ending. Amazing grace 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “I reached for the doorbell,” Mr. Branden later wrote in a 1989 memoir, “knowing without words and with irresistible certainty that nothing was ever going to be the same again.” Nathaniel Branden, lover and disciple of novelist Ayn Rand, dies at 84 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z This moral certainty at least we learned in last night’s , in which Margaret sought to use the one resource she can believe in now—money—to save Emily from polio. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Unjust Deserts 2011-11-28T13:03:53Z It’s hard to see how a toaster embodies the certainty of death, unless you’re a frozen waffle. Dust to Dustbuster? 2010-06-26T13:18:00Z "There's great certainty and comfort in the past, and he was trying to re-create that." Morrissey rules as The Governor in 'Walking Dead' 2013-02-07T15:30:17Z After all, if you’ve learned nothing else from everything you’ve just read, you should remember this one fact: Bruce Wayne has historically proven very difficult to kill with any degree of certainty. Is Hollywood Going to Kill Batman Next Week? 2012-07-11T12:00:53Z She goes about this with unflagging certainty, secure in her powers and unafraid of high-fructose sentiment. The ‘Good Witch’ Franchise Changes Gears 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z After a week of dire news — the certainty of our ruptured nation, the likelihood of a journalist being murdered — the United Nations’ report on climate change was, for some people, a bridge too far. Perspective | The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it’s the only story that matters. 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Can they say, with certainty, that they are not harboring other abusers — that they are not celebrating other icons of the music world who have equally questionable reputations? Perspective | Institutions raced to dump James Levine. They should look hard at themselves. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The working classes are questioning the great certainty by which they have always lived: that there is a place for everyone, and everyone in his place. Television: Rose, Fetch Her Ladyship a Sequel 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z Finding Viardot’s music charming, they wrote of their certainty that it would have “a successful run through the world.” A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z She thus sets up, better than many an Isabella, the surprise ending, in which that certainty maintains its full magnetism even as it flips its polarities. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z But bringing back the actors who played them was hardly a certainty. They Screamed, We Screamed. Now They’re in ‘Scream’ Again. 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z It's art that takes on the big bad themes: the impossible struggle for transcendence of the certainty of death. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z She is by no means flawless, but she swaggers with an unflinching certainty in the fact that one doesn’t have to be perfect to win. A Female Rapper Pushes Forward 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Benjamin Franklin declared that the only certainties in life were "death and taxes". These tax scams are all legal – that's morally repugnant 2012-06-21T19:29:01Z The uncomfortable certainty that it’s only a matter of time until the body turns on its owner is a powerful primal force. Invade and conquer: film's grisly return to body horror 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The only thing that unites tribalists is the certainty that the devil lives outside their tribe. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z He writes, “Such certainty comes seldom, but when it comes it is as irresistible as the downward bending of a dowser’s twig.” Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In the most impressive example, Logan establishes, to a fair degree of certainty, the real-world setting of William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But it is a dead certainty that the visual spectacle will be dull. With These Cards, Every Hand’s a Winner 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Oh, and pay attention to the two things we can say with certainty: Keep your weight down, and exercise. Perspective | Here’s what the government’s dietary guidelines should really say 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z There is no certainty the discussions will lead to a deal, the sources added, asking not to be identified because the discussions are confidential. Exclusive: Cineworld in talks with Regal Entertainment about merger - sources 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z But surveillance capitalism is also many other things: “a parasitic economic logic … a rogue mutation of capitalism … a new collective order based on total certainty” and “an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.” How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But he still has his characteristic certainty, and his sights are set in multiple directions. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It is nonsense with the heft of animal certainty and magic. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z It also means that, while the author might be adopting so many masks that one cannot say with any certainty who the narrator is, he is, in the deeper sense, on the level. Paperback of the week: Marginalia on Casanova: St Orpheus Breviary I by Miklós Szentkuthy – review 2013-01-04T22:55:07Z Not lyrical certainty – a blind optimism in the face of overwhelming misery – but musical certainty. Trends of 2012: Classic rock returns 2012-12-18T11:24:02Z Why isn’t there more certainty about what works and what doesn’t? My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z This isn’t an island bulwarked with answers and certainty; it’s honest about its vulnerability, its questions. Too much seawater, too little drinking water: Fiji’s fight to withstand climate change 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Our national ingenuity and creativeness is remarkable by any comparison – but it requires a roof under which to grow, and some financial certainties to back up the considerable commitment of its practitioners. Arts Council chief: 'what happens next?' 2013-07-24T11:05:55Z I felt the force of his words, the shelter of his certainty. A Dose of Empathy From My Syrian Doctor 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Kidman brings a reassuring warmth and certainty to the role, particularly in a late scene in which Sue reveals to the grown Saroo the vision that inspired her to adopt. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z I am almost at a hat-eating state of utter certainty about it. Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It was a chorus of certainties in what had come to feel like a work uncertain of itself, reaching in too many directions at once. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “When you buy a war rug,” Mascelloni writes, “the only real certainty in its dating is your date of purchase.” War swept under and over the rug 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z Here at Wine School, expressions of historical certainty about wine generally arouse suspicions, as do assertions of authenticity. Finding the Heart of Zinfandel 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z This apparent certainty was unwarranted: even some supporters of the fat hypothesis admitted that the evidence for it was still inconclusive. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The production moves with the fierceness and certainty of a thunderstorm, and sometimes verges on the glum; throughout, there are echoes of the earthen club music of Soul II Soul. R&B Blossoms, With Hip-Hop in the Rear View 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Travelers want more certainty, and they are planning their 2022 trips accordingly. Perspective | Travelers face more uncertainty in 2022. Here’s how to make plans. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z None of those moments, particularly in “O.G.” are resolved with any certainty or closure. What "O.G." star Jeffrey Wright learned from the real inmate actors in his new HBO film 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z But these bifurcation rituals persist because we crave certainty and we want it now. No charts, no Grammys, no Hall of Fame: Why pop greatness requires talk and time 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z With death the only certainty ahead, why deny himself the joys at hand? ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z And trumping everything: my certainty that no one could possibly love or take as good care of our son as we do. Motherlode: Leaving (an Adult) Child for the First Time 2011-05-26T19:19:20Z Yet three of the novel’s four parables refuse resolution outright; the language, rich and inscrutable, is both a barrier to and a protest against certainty. “The Divers’ Game,” Jesse Ball’s Unnerving Parable of a Country That Feigns Innocence 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Reports of social problems in the United States only reinforced her certainty that she was lucky to live in a nation promoted as “the country of happy childhood.” | 'My Perestroika': Through the Looking Glass of History 2011-03-22T23:12:14Z One reason: the near certainty that soldiers’ bodies lie beneath the building. A history spree in Ellicott City, Md. We like mystery stories for the certainty and closure they customarily offer. True-crime documentary 'The Jinx' may leave mystery intact 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z “The presence of a huge orchestra, an authoritative conductor, an immense audience, did not and could not inhibit the warmth, the loveliness and certainty of his interpretation.” Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Over 17 years as a frontman he has exuded a muscular joie de vivre; endowed with both wit and occupational certainty, he gives hedonist rock piggery a good name. Queens of the Stone Age: …Like Clockwork – review 2013-06-01T23:05:13Z There is such hope and optimism in these transnational performances, such certainty that communication would lead to a better tomorrow, that I could hardly stand it. Standing Up for Humanity in a World of Screens 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Anyone whose day begins with the certainty of that one precisely made cup would understand when I say: I was sad. South Indian filter coffee is like no coffee you've had before 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z And their view of how states will react to the new challenges that face them is sobering, as is their conviction that "Balkanisation" of the internet is now a racing certainty. The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen – review 2013-04-29T06:30:05Z And certainty, in some measure, has its place too. Art Review: Vietnamese Voices Against a Whir of War 2010-08-12T21:59:00Z The ending is poignant, focusing on possibility rather than certainty. Karina Yan Glaser’s First Non-Vanderbeekers Novel 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z “For two and a half years I’d ridden on David’s energy, carried along by his certainties,” he states near the end of the book. An Audiobook Gives New Life to the Haunting Memoir of a Waco Survivor 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “That audition was a month of worry, and three seconds of his certainty about what he saw,” Ms. Streep continued. ArtsBeat Blog: Memories of Joseph Papp Abound at Public Theater Celebration 2011-10-27T18:31:57Z What Kaplowitz, a secular Jew with reverence for the certainties of the law, wanted was a statement annulling the past. Would you befriend the person who got you fired? 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “Rather than claiming certainty or authority where none exists, storytellers stay honest by writing about what we ourselves don’t fully understand.” A Contemporary Feminist Spin on the Traditional Pioneer Novel 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z And in my groggy, remorseful state, a humbling thought occurred: A $300 bassinet will not guarantee certainty or even safety for the life of my baby. Nobody puts baby in a cooler! Learning to parent with first-world problems 2014-03-09T00:00:00Z You can only weigh your options, choose the certainties you like best, then leap into the uncertainty of everything else. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You’re never ‘too old to go for therapy’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Then it leaves you without certainty; it leaves you knowing that you could die and never see it coming; it leaves you to wonder what ending you were hoping for and why. ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Colors and volume change, but the path is sure, as a showpiece becomes a road map for constancy in an environment of certainty. Dudamel and Wang deliver a 'Rhapsody in Blue' for the Hollywood Bowl history books 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z “La Boutique Obscure” is an attempt to convey in words that brilliant, underwater multiplicity and confusing certainty of dreams. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z I glided around the store in each, and for a brief moment felt the tug of algorithmic certainty. The Optimized Anti-Style of Allbirds Shoes 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “To lead means to serve,” she says with a kind of etched-in-marble certainty. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z And there’s no certainty, there’s no satisfaction, in there. The uneasy ambiguity of the Woody Allen case 2014-02-03T20:41:00Z Your ongoing pressure is unfair to him in principle, but also makes no practical sense when it’s so easy to step out of your certainty and let him take over. Carolyn Hax: Steer clear of significant other’s relationship with parents 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The one thing that most sides seem to agree on is that a lockout is all but a certainty at this late stage. Metropolitan Opera unions facing lockout as deadline nears 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Hong’s book wanders a variegated terrain of memoir, criticism and polemic, oscillating between smooth proclamations of certainty and twitches of self-doubt. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z And it is a near certainty that one day Microsoft will turn off those servers. Critic’s Notebook: Unwelcome Innovation Earns Gamers’ Jeers 2013-06-14T22:23:07Z And every contradiction is uttered with the same uncertain certainty. Review: In Richard Maxwell’s ‘The Evening,’ Going Gentle Into the Night, or Not 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z When everything else feels chaotic, those small certainties matter. Are you binge-watching reruns of your old favorite TV shows? You’re having a natural response to COVID-19 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Nor had I dealt with my guilt that I had chosen to stay in the military and leave behind my child when I had no certainty that I would return. Motherlode Blog: Talking With My Daughter About My Service in Iraq 2013-05-05T12:56:02Z Still, there's a lot to admire about his comic touch and certainty with actors. 'Submarine': Getting below the surface of a teen's life 2011-06-09T20:11:05Z It's a dramatic opportunity that the book raises then abandons, settling instead for simple certainty. The Professor of Truth by James Robertson – review 2013-06-08T14:00:01Z Unwavering in my certainty that I could only depend upon myself, that I had everything within me that I would ever require. What He Hadn’t Told Me 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z This effect is partially temporal and partially tonal: Here, Natsu possesses some level of certainty, at least about Makiko’s mania and what it says about female identity. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “We’ve got movies that we’re certainty trying to put into the Oscar race. The festivals certainly do that because that’s been the brand of the festivals for a long time. That hasn’t changed,” said Bernard. Digital and drive-in, film festivals try to salvage a season 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z She released his fingers, knowing, with absolute certainty, that the love they felt for each other was so strong they would spend the rest of their lives together. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But violence at home, combined with the brutality he witnesses on the job, causes his facade of certainty to crack. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z These resonances complicate my certainties about history; those inert categories, "east" and "west", start to disintegrate. Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z The same is true of last year's A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky, in which the impending apocalypse is a dead certainty, rather than a looming problem to be solved. Disasters on stage: why can't theatre hit mankind where it hurts? 2011-02-03T15:08:08Z Beginning with my mother, I have always found it hard to resist someone else’s certainty. Modern Love: The Radiance, Then the Ashes 2011-06-09T20:54:29Z He bellows commands and facts with absolute certainty before insisting he means the opposite moments later. A worthy return for PBS' "All Creatures Great and Small" celebrates the value of the little things 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Want to spend time with Yogi, watch him move from his childhood through war and early disappointment, never losing the certainty that baseball was his life? A Man of Few Words, 90% of Them Memorable 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Reports of social problems in the United States only reinforced her certainty that she was lucky to live in a nation promoted as "the country of happy childhood." 'My Perestroika' offers a riveting history lesson, through Russians' eyes 2011-05-26T20:23:15Z And if you try a novel and you like it, you can experience the delightful certainty that there are more than two dozen of them waiting, without even counting the mice. In Praise of Margery Sharp 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Paper airplanes, of course, and paper helicopters that would slowly spiral down and make us question the certainty of gravity. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z “Fingerprint examiners typically testify in the language of absolute certainty,” professor Jennifer Mnookin at the University of California Los Angeles has written. Fingerprints aren’t proof 2012-09-23T12:30:00Z With Liv's case, you'd build a life around certainty, and black and white, and being the smartest person in the room. "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z And it is quite a story of shifting certainties. True crime, Netflix-style: Because you watched “The Jinx,” here’s “Making a Murderer” 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z We see blithe certainty turn to niggling doubt, and then, on election night, to devastation; Power and Rhodes, caught on camera at would-be festivities, look as if they have been punched in the gut. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Still, a clear lack of certainty about these stories doesn’t stop people from eagerly jumping on the bandwagon. Why the most hated person on the Internet today is someone you’ve never heard of 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z But one of his many strengths as a critic is an ability to express ambivalence – a welcome surprise given the certainties of his politics. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z What other certainties are there in life besides those, death and taxes? "Made For Love" and the twist ending that asks what we'll compromise for technology 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z After a bad night out, she was coming around to the certainty that her defining romantic relationship was irretrievably over. Issa Rae’s Breakthrough in “Insecure” Season 3, Episode 4 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z In England over the late 17th century, a number of thinkers began to separate different kinds of knowledge claims and the kinds of certainty they commanded. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Penn emphasized, once again, that Ukraine is "going to win this thing . . . it's a certainty." Sean Penn tells Fox News' Sean Hannity, "I don't trust you" and predicts "Ukrainians will win this" 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Antonio Marras has absolute certainty in his vision, which makes his line a small but sweet birdsong among more raucous Italian designers. Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z The known, with almost guaranteed certainty, is that the next era of computing will be wearables. Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It suggests a fundamental loneliness and lack of certainty. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z Then she paused and said, with somewhat less certainty, “But there really was a lot of action.” Can 'Insurgent' spark a male rebellion too? 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Over brunch, she demonstrates an ability to glance at a stranger and guess “with a high degree of certainty” what his fetish might be. ‘Whore of New York’ Reflects on Sex, Love and Labor 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z And it's usually the most compelling stories, not always a true story, sometimes a fictional story, that ends up convincing people to convict people and leads to a kind of certainty. Inside Netflix's "Innocence Files": "The system is set up to attain convictions" 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In this harsh environment, the rituals and talismans of daily life seem to offer the Dogons a measure of solace and certainty. Personal Journeys: Hiking Deep Into Dogon Country in Mali 2010-03-05T04:11:00Z The rest of the disc takes in the postwar movies that see Jennings struggling to continue the moral certainties of the wartime propaganda pictures. The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Three: A Diary for Timothy 2013-07-27T23:05:17Z But it is also a chronicle of Sandberg’s efforts to wrest certainty back from uncertainty. Sheryl Sandberg’s “Option B” and Facebook’s Way to Grieve Book Review 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It felt more like a certainty to me that I had to prepare for, but I had no idea how. Loving Him More When He Walks Out the Door 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Linda flicked away the theories to focus on one certainty: The battle over the island has emboldened and unified the community. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z I hope that it was, but no man can have that certainty. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z The Good Wife, on the other hand, challenged its viewers’ certainty, asking them whether #patriot or #traitor depends which side of the webcam you’re on. Binge-Watching Picks for Edward Snowden 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Why believers should forgo this comforting certainty, which is so readily available to atheists, is a mystery to me. Barbara Ehrenreich: My search for truth as a non-believer 2014-04-12T12:15:00Z I loved this version of myself — for her devotedness to her craft, for her absurd certainty, and for her promise to be true to only one outcome. When the Truth, and My Groom-to-Be, Stood Naked Before Me 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z For example, if you know a bar checks for vaccine cards at the door you can say with certainty everyone inside is vaccinated. Going Out and Worried About Covid Safety? There’s a Calculator for That. 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z If there is a certain loneliness that comes with being the last of a generation, there is also a certainty that her body is not yet tired. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z “I believe that there’s a purpose and a reason for that,” she says with certainty. The Megan Fox renaissance is here. It’s long overdue. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Looking back, I have to say: my father’s patriarchal bluster and certainty about how the world worked may have been infuriating, but you have to give him credit for trying, for getting involved. A Father’s Love, Whether He Says Too Much or Not Enough 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z “It’s an old axiom that at a time of great uncertainty people seek certainties,” James Jackson wrote in The London Times. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Heals Cows and Soothes Souls 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Sometimes it was said with a shrug of resignation, more often as an unquestioning statement – a certainty that living is better than dying. Let’s talk about dying 2012-12-27T01:00:00Z The lucky-dip nature of the bag’s contents reflects the lack of certainty over what this year’s ceremony will actually include. Oscars gift bags to include cannabis skin cream and grinning toilet brush 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z She had given up on religion by then, but a whiff of piety lingers in her flat, affronted air of certainty. Susan Sarandon: ‘The good news and bad news about Hollywood is that they’re not political’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “Literature, for Harry Mathews, and in turn for his dauntless reader,” Mr. Becker wrote, “is enriched by prizing process over product, curiosity over certainty.” Harry Mathews, Idiosyncratic Writer, Dies at 86 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Do not come to this book for grand vistas, magisterial certainty or pinpoint war strategy. Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Moorhouse is rehabilitating an everyday kind of patriotism, of people who did what they thought was right in conditions of terror and ever-growing certainty of defeat. Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps it's no surprise that such a man should create a body of work that prizes the puzzle above the certainty. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z Experts say there is no scientific assurance that someone recovered from the coronavirus is completely immune — or certainty as to how long any immunity might last. The recovered: How it feels to be alive on the other side of the pandemic 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z She notes that it’s likely that Trump was briefed about Kim, though how much certainty there was in such a briefing is unknown. Kim Jong Un appears to be alive after all. So why did CNN and other news outlets report he was on his deathbed? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “There is no such thing as 100 percent certainty,” she said. Scared to Be a Parent? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Science is, by its nature, about evidence-based probabilities not absolute certainties. The dark truth about chocolate 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z “We know with certainty that the primary way farmers decide to make a change in their practices is by looking at each other,” she says. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Out of that cloud of repression, deception and certainty, “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” begins to coalesce around a farm in Georgia founded in the early 19th century. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z That kind of certainty, and moral clarity, is essential to a country trying to find its footing again. Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' – interview 2013-01-26T21:00:01Z "She is walking towards toward marriage with a man who killed all these women with a certainty that with her, it will be different," Breillat says with relish. Catherine Breillat: 'I love blood. It's in all my films' 2010-07-15T21:04:00Z “Woody must at least understand that certainty is to be questioned,” Mr. Firth said in a telephone interview. For Woody Allen's Next Trick, Shrugging Off Bad Publicity 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Moral certainty and intolerance are the vices that drag us into the worst of humanity’s sins. I live as a feminist, but I’m tired of being so furious all the time | Dear Mariella 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z In a scary world, these shared certainties are comforting. David Mitchell: are smug Apple users losing their cachet? 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z Whenever Pryce is involved, there’s an intriguing certainty that his character is fully invested in the secrets he is keeping. Jonathan Pryce puts a new stamp on Shylock 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z They speak with confidence bordering on certainty: Fleurie is pretty and, naturally, floral. Morgon, in All Its Gorgeous Complexity 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z “On Sardinia, a matriarchal island, women represent stability, certainty and permanent values,” Mr. Marras said. Special Report: Fashion: Silver-But Not Gold for Ferre 2011-02-25T19:02:46Z But his most influential political writings centred on his increasing certainty that the European labour movement had ceased to be capable of bearing the transformational role assigned to it by earlier Marxists. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z If that’s Feldman’s way of signaling her own nostalgia for the moral certainties of an earlier sitcom era, it’s also an admission that there’s no going back. Review: In ‘Dead to Me’ on Netflix, Widows Make the Best BFFs 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z At times they seem more like ruins; the chipped sentences and broken structures let you see all the devastated, discarded certainties. In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z So I think it's certainty our legacy to pioneer new award shows that speak to new audiences, new fans, interesting platforms. Interview: MTV on how the digital O Music Awards fit its 'legacy to pioneer' 2011-04-27T19:10:07Z Gestational surrogacy makes it more difficult to name the “biological mother” with complete certainty, and this sort of murkiness strikes Lewis as the best possible world in which to raise children. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Thank God, though I hold them the dearest pleasures in the universe, I have a consolation independent of them in the certainty of your affectation. John Keats letter to Fanny Brawne set for auction 2011-01-25T17:32:31Z Sections burn to the ground then get rebuilt with the certainty of the crest and fall of waves off Point Dume. Review | Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ‘Malibu Rising’ is a fiery mix of celebrity culture and family drama 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The teenager inside me would tell you with absolute certainty that the only election to ever cause this much damage to our democracy was the 1860 contest. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Nagging doubt can be “as powerful as certainty,” he preaches. 1st Stage puts on taut drama ‘Doubt’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z If you want more certainty, choose other bulbs. Perspective | As summer’s heat wanes, it’s time to plan (and plant) for late-winter beauty 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z If we couldn’t know with any certainty who he was, they seemed to reason, at least we could understand how he worked. The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Mr. King’s ratings have dipped significantly, but there was no certainty that he would take the hint. The TV Watch: Larry King Goes Gently From CNN 2010-06-30T20:55:00Z A team of European scientists used statistics and an evolutionary model to test both hypotheses, and their conclusion adds great certainty to the interbreeding hypothesis. New study shakes up evolution! Scientists confirm Neanderthal-human copulation 2014-04-09T17:45:00Z He continued drinking in rehab and afterwards, until in 1978 he had an epiphany, described in his autobiography: "I knew with utter certainty that my problem was not quadriplegia, it was alcoholism." John Callahan obituary 2010-08-17T17:15:00Z The immediate feeling that grips them both is an overwhelming sense of resignation and entrapment and certainty that their happy days are behind them. | 'Everything Strange and New': Bye-Bye, Happiness; Life Is a Trap 2011-02-25T01:03:32Z If only the show enjoyed that level of certainty. Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z They tame the unwieldy and soothe with the promise of certainty. In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Though Dr. Page said he considered the data insufficient to explain the trend in survival rates, or even to say with certainty that hotel gyms are inherently more dangerous, he offered several theories. Safety Tips for Using Hotel Gym Equipment 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Some of the boys could not communicate very well with their hearing families, and Father Murphy operated in the literal certainty of their silence. Movie Review: ‘Mea Maxima Culpa,’ Alex Gibney Documentary 2012-11-15T23:34:58Z Prompted to explain how to lead the country back, he replies with certainty, “Get the government off the people’s back, fix the economy, and beat the Russians.” Refuge in Reagan nostalgia: Underwhelming “Killing Reagan” longs for a mythical past 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z All he has to do is diagnose — with scientific certainty! — whether the Scottish king is infected with the “damnably contagious” disease of Roman Catholicism. Review | Arthur Phillips shows that choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Rather, it's about providing certainty and reasonable remedies for all parties. Crossroads on ACDC Lane: building frenzy raises fears for Melbourne music 2013-06-24T21:30:18Z His certainty that he is Cassandra, with a fate decreed by the gods, is part of what ensures his death. He Can See the Future, but Can’t Escape It 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Mulling: Maybe a better question is, why mull at all when this “break” you keep mulling is a certainty? Perspective | How can I get my mother-in-law to back off about my pregnancy? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Hoffman followed up his research with a fascinating question posed to another 1,394 ultrarunners: “If you were to learn, with absolute certainty, that ultramarathon running is bad for your health, would you stop?” When 26 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s people’s certainty that I find strangest: “This means this, this means that.” Nobody Makes Films Like Alex Garland. But He Might Stop Making Them. 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z His wife Myriem, a Moroccan-born businesswoman, provided moral support and the license to work on a venture with little certainty of outcome. ArtsBeat: An Artist's Game of Chance on the High Seas 2013-01-08T17:24:53Z This collection of “strikingly beautiful, challenging, even bizarre” anatomical illustrations explores “our attempts to come to terms with the tragedy and wonder of being born into a body, and the certainty of our own death.” Grisly Slabs of Gothic Horror 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z None of them has any answers, but their recollections reveal one certainty: Whatever nations might fight for, these men are fighting for one another. Capsule reviews: `Knight and Day' and others 2010-06-24T20:48:00Z We’re so often told that confidence is an aphrodisiac that we forget that the absolute lack of certainty can cast a similar spell. Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z “Julius Caesar” seems to me especially timely because it forces us to question the political certainties that can entice citizens to take the law into their own hands. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The World Cup was a festival of fate – man accepting his hard circumstances, the near certainty of his failure. Sports writing just isn't our field 2010-06-15T09:59:00Z “How does one paint the near certainty of violent personal annihilation? How does one paint, and then make a viewer want to stop, to look at a canvas, to react to it?” Fred Terna, Creator of Fiery Holocaust Paintings, Dies at 99 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Doctors said there was a chance he might see again, but, for Crenshaw, it was a certainty. Dan Crenshaw started the week as a punchline and ended it as a star. The real story came before that. 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z There's no certainty that the inspiring things are poems. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z With that same certainty, she decided recently that after 35 years of writing about teenagers, she’s done. Lurlene McDaniel has made a career of making people cry 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z These nuances not only allow us to approach policy issues with more complexity, they also temper our moral certainty. A Sweeping History of What We Eat 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z It's the "celebration of an idea, and of a certainty", according to McKernan, "like saying The Birth of a Nation was the first American film." The birth of India's film industry: how the movies came to Mumbai 2013-07-25T17:07:55Z Swollen with certainty, the story tolerates little ambiguity and offers few surprises. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z He could well be invoking a partner or a child, a certainty or a longing. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “It’s so thrilling,” he writes, “with all the boring certainty in poetry, to read someone who allows the most powerful poetic engine, not knowing, to push the imagination in the poem forward.” Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The third season succeeds at deepening Peña as he continues to play cartel whack-a-mole, despite the certainty that another organization will pop up in its place. ‘Narcos’ Season 3: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z So I found myself in that delightful space of micro-disorientation, in which I teeter on a line between certainty of my whereabouts and utterly lost. Biking across Philly: Independence from the trodden path 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It wasn’t that he provided anyone with certainty but that he was calm and reassuring within life’s uncertainty. Lots of Love for Garry Shandling 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z "Old editors" are chided for asking "for too much certainty". Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK edited by Nathan Hamilton – review 2013-04-12T08:01:01Z It is about the parent’s fear of being abandoned by the child: the terrible fear, actually the terrible certainty, that the kid one day won’t want to play with you. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z That may be the only thing anyone can say with certainty. An inauguration like no other 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z I think it was the genesis of something, where fundamental certainties – about this is news, this is drama, this is entertainment, this is justice – began to blur, and we can't disentangle ourselves from that now. True or false? AMC's "Quiz" goes inside the game show coughing scandal that tests confirmation bias 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z I can’t comment with certainty on the state of the Tacoma Dome restrooms, but even figuratively, it was a bit of an exaggeration. Review: Blake Shelton rolls out his Friends & Heroes tour for a night of country at the Tacoma Dome 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z It was an early indication that I would trade spontaneity for certainty. Driving an Electric Car on Colorado’s Scenic Byways 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Her voice was silky with feigned cordiality but behind it was the cocksure certainty of people who know they’re right and you’re wrong because God is on their side. A liberal in the South: I didn’t mean to scream at that woman about abortion rights, but I was not in control 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Given the complications of translation, the influences of cultural bias and the limits of any small group’s knowledge, the distinction of “best” is impossible to make with any defensible certainty. Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The one certainty is that weeds don’t hibernate. The growing season may be almost over, but the gardener’s work is not done 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z These only reaffirmed my certainty that the original charges were correct, and I was grateful that the verdict held. Crimes and misdemeanors: Woody Allen and what we get wrong about sexual abuse 2014-02-06T13:00:00Z They are too abstract to say with certainty. MoMA Takes a Stand: Art From Banned Countries Comes Center Stage 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Years later, Arthur is still disturbed by these events and preoccupied by a paranoid certainty that the Terror remains at large. Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The author starts from the certainty of uncertainty: that the deepest truth of what happened to her damaged nation is buried in the unknowable, hidden by lies and fear. When a Nation’s Torturous Past Resembles ‘The Twilight Zone’ 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z But there is one small certainty, at least for the moment: if you step into the Tiger King universe, you’re not alone, for the content train barrels on. What happened after Netflix quarantine smash Tiger King ended? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The idea of a new series of Firefly would send many into a frenzy, and it's a racing certainty Community fans will be mobilised in a similar manner once its run ends. Veronica Mars fans flock to fund movie on Kickstarter 2013-03-14T10:29:00Z “It had been absolute, bedrock certainty that Hillary Clinton was winning that election. There was no doubt, certainly in the news department in our building.” Jimmy Fallon Was on Top of the World. Then Came Trump. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Jokes in Mr. Kundera’s early books signified an unwillingness to cave to officialdom and ideological certainty. Review: Milan Kundera’s ‘The Festival of Insignificance’ Is Full of Pranks, Lies and Vanity 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z The penetrating certainty and harmonic sparseness of Coltrane’s late work left people awed. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The need to adapt her five-year-old business for the shutdown has given her a model for the future — and a renewed certainty in her fashion philosophy. Analysis | Fashion was broken even before the pandemic. A reboot could be just what it needs. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z This absence is a certainty, for all of us. I Don't Believe in Outer Space ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:44Z And where it is now – regardless of your politics – it has become impossible to for any of us have any certainty about what is real and what is not. True or false? AMC's "Quiz" goes inside the game show coughing scandal that tests confirmation bias 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z The possibility of profound beauty presses from one direction; the certainty of imperfection, of shame, presses from the other. Flawed, Fragile, Hungry Human Bodies: A.M. Homes’s Stories Get Under the Skin 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z He is not articulate, and really kind of naked in his vulnerability, but he has a certainty about the business in his life.” Television: HBO?s ?Luck,? Starring Dustin Hoffman 2012-01-25T15:29:12Z The experience is akin to being in a popular modern art gallery viewing work that, even 50 years on, retains both a radical edge and sense of extraordinary certainty. Krapp's Last Tape/Footfalls – review 2012-06-05T17:35:01Z I felt a rude but genuine certainty that recording major incidents of this nature would work as a type of personal prophylaxis. The Year We Played Ourselves 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z I’ve heard some valid criticisms of the way Sorkin has modulated Atticus as a more withdrawn character, whose veneer of moral certainty, in Daniels’ magnificent performance, hides deep emotions he is unwilling to release. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z My theme today is not science but certainty, and the exciting absence of it in our world. The exciting absence of certainty 2011-01-20T17:52:41Z A relaxed feeling of enjoyment along with a certainty of being in good hands warmed Café Carlyle on Friday evening as Herb Alpert and Lani Hall wafted a mood of easygoing optimism into the room. Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Bring Rhythmic Precision to Café Carlyle 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z “I should manage … This feeling of certainty and acceptance is quite independent of E, whatever he may say, or do, or not do.” The love at the heart of our family’s wartime secret 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z No audience could fail to eat that up, especially when such black-and-white moral certainties seem less available. Hanks and Spielberg pick their battles with The Pacific 2010-04-03T13:20:00Z With “needless to say” certainty of your righteousness, no less? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Turn off the FaceTime instead of turning away the FaceTimer 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z "I say this most emphatically and with certainty and confidence that the allegation which led to my dismissal will eventually be shown to be false." News of the World reporter slams ex-employer 2011-09-30T15:37:07Z The surprise may not be pleasant, but it appears that Tolman — a Wheaton native — prefers the urban enigma to suburban certainty. In the galleries: City life, and the possible menace that lies beneath 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z In a bathroom so tiny it was more like a representation of a bathroom, I watched the line appear with rapid certainty. Modern Love: Diving Deep to Reach the Surface 2010-09-17T20:18:00Z I started to understand what others had always described: the softening of edges that certainty affords us. Are Bitcoins More Real Than Boyfriends? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Resistance to hunting or sharpshooting programs, at least by small groups, is an almost scientific certainty as well, Miller said. Battle lines drawn over deer cull 2011-11-25T00:00:00Z Reality will upend half of these certainties before you even get there, but it’s good to have some idea what isn’t worth fighting for before you have the fight. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Do you let a 13-year-old dye her hair platinum blond? 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The problem with Trump, he states with unearned certainty, is political, not psychological. Duty to warn: Shrinks can’t say that Donald Trump suffers from a mental disorder — but we can 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z No other kind of news story can be written so long before an event occurs, driven by one great certainty: At some point, the famous, the infamous and everyone else will die. How obituaries got a jolt of new life in the Internet era 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z For us, food provided certainty in an otherwise uncertain world. Salon Food's top 10 recipes of 2020 all have one thing in common: comfort 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The ambiguous ending of Also Sprach Zarathustra, based on Nietzsche's magnum opus, famously replaces the philosopher's vaunting certainty with something altogether more querulous, leaving admirers of both men to ponder this disparity's significance. LSO/Daniel Harding ? review 2011-02-13T22:01:02Z Yeah, he definitely had that air about him, that infinite certainty. Man Of Steel: eye to eye with Michael Shannon, the new General Zod 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z What the vicar is doing in a very cruel way, is placing a stiletto blade of viscousness that is perfectly judged to attack her own sense of decency and certainty. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Still, whatever happens, there is one certainty: The Corbins will face it as a unit. This couple has been homeless and jobless. Last week, they graduated from a D.C. charter high school. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z For who can know with absolute certainty that he’ll never “come around and be normal again?” Let’s talk about dying 2012-12-27T01:00:00Z That Cecil, whose brother marries Daphne, is a thoroughly unworthy subject lends power and irony to the book, sly in its mockery of historical certainty. Books of The Times: ?The Stranger?s Child? by Alan Hollinghurst - Review 2011-12-11T21:24:58Z I mustered the certainty that one affects when one has no idea what one is talking about and declared that bears were too furry for the Virgin Islands. Personal Journeys: Camping in the Caribbean: A Mother-Daughter Adventure 2014-05-09T19:06:46Z Down the ages from our remote past, what certainties survive? Review: The Coen Brothers “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” Is Six Giddy, Cruel Twists on the Western 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet, by Mr. Heras-Casado’s age, Mr. Boulez and Mr. Harnoncourt were both staking claims, claims that might seem outlandish in their certainty and force if they were made now. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “But if a woman goes from a size 16 to a 20, you just can’t say with any certainty how her dimensions will change.” Plus-Size Wars 2010-07-29T15:41:00Z But we found with palpable certainty that the Jews are all gone — there were 10,000 of them — and only a few traces are left of the touchstones of my mother’s girlhood. In Poland, Searching for Jewish Heritage 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z England predictably made hard work of Euro 2012, losing to Italy on penalties in the quarter final, and are no certainty to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil next year. The real Harry Redknapp 2013-04-30T14:49:41Z The 70th edition of the festival is sure to present a whole new array of films for audiences to react to, and there’s no way to predict with certainty what film will cause a stir. At Cannes, le Booing Isn’t Just Reserved for Bad Films 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z It does this by foregrounding questioning rather than certainty, experiment and mistake rather than polish and self-satisfaction. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z That certainty is also exactly what the “Revolutionary City” program at Colonial Williamsburg seeks to undermine. Colonial Williamsburg: Where the Tea Party gets schooled 2013-04-07T16:00:00Z There’s something in the way he declaims: it connotes certainty, sympathy and resignation. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z That she moves with certainty and lack of interest and still continues to succeed is her own best advertisement. Music Review: Rihanna at Prudential Center 2013-04-29T18:04:08Z With his own trio, however, these Sirkis certainties sometimes come adrift. Asaf Sirkis Trio: Letting Go ? review 2010-10-14T22:20:00Z They reinforce each other in their certainties, convinced that their acquisition of wealth, and spending of it through charitable enterprise, has earned them their place at the apex of global decision-making and moral supremacy. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It was an idealised version of home, and it lived somewhere vaguely in my future as an unspecified certainty. I got pregnant by mistake. Was I ready for single motherhood? 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Camila’s Achilles’ heel is her persistent search for someone to settle down with — her certainty that each man she meets is the one. This Is What It’s Like to Be Homeless in New York City 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But I can tell you with certainty that on a cold night in Detroit, after scarfing down a pound of pasta, I felt changed. One Night at Mom’s Spaghetti 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z If New Labour is obsolete it is not because of the personal defects of Gordon Brown, Blair's delusional moral certainty and incessant war-mongering or even the dysfunctional relationship between the two leaders. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Most of quantum mechanics deals with probabilities rather than certainties. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z And while his rhymes are nimble but cluttered, he’s inherited Cam’ron’s attitude, a certainty that’s dyed in the wool, even on purposely gooey songs like “Heart Attack” and “Perfect Day.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-18T23:45:23Z Ever since the agency's erroneous call, a decade earlier, that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, the CIA had instituted an almost comically elaborate process for weighing certainty. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z That said, I knew with complete certainty that I only wanted one more. Why three children is my magic number 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z It took planning, luck and — here comes the avert-your-gaze part — the certainty that Jimmy cares enough about Chuck to become his victim. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Finale: The Ultimate Betrayal 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z It's tantalising, ambiguous, swerving between a dreamscape and its opposite: the certainty of military orders. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z But each of the composers on the program called that certainty into question in different ways. The Esoterics sing radically secular rewrites of texts from the Christian Mass 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z But in an office often playfully likened to a zoo, tension over Taylor’s presence is a certainty. ‘Billions’ shows why some of us root for the rich and scandalous 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Laid bare, the question you face is: Can his searching plus your certainty work? We’ve only just begun, and he says he wants to be a carpenter. 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Even with this kind of research, we can’t say with absolute certainty that the salt decrease is responsible. What America can learn from the U.K.’s massive sodium experiment 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z For 10 days we'd been in the grip of Hurricane Natalia, and then suddenly she was gone and we were left dazedly trying to reshape our certainties. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Laurencia – review 2013-04-06T23:05:22Z If there’s one certainty, it’s the evening’s host. Tonys 2014: What time are the Tony Awards? 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z And yet I know myself to be real because my transition, as a teenager, required exceptional certainty. He Made Affection Feel Simple 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “Better Living Through Criticism” is as much about self-doubt and ambivalence as it is about a critic’s certainty, but it manages to be thrilling and grimly funny at times as well. Critics are human, too: “But I don’t think you’re doing the artist or the audience or the art form itself any favor if you pat things on the head” 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Because engaging uncertainty is the highest form of courage, in doing so, we move toward certainty of a much deeper and more resilient kind. Why men have so much trouble making friends 2014-04-12T16:00:00Z One could feel the excitement of the audience, as there was no certainty how the Court will rule on United States vs. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z All the imperatives are on the other side, but they continue to act on the certainty that the "we" to which they belong cannot do otherwise. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z But with around 73 million voters indicating their comfort with another four years of Trump's madness, the one certainty is that while Trump may recede from the center of our lives, Trumpism isn't going anywhere. What's next for Fox News without its "golden goose" 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Given the terribly flawed process — and the Republicans’ stubborn refusal to perform the necessary due diligence — there could be no incontrovertible certainty. Perspective | The ghosts in the room for the Brett Kavanaugh hearing 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It is hard to say with absolute certainty which of the hundreds of paintings at Velveteria, Los Angeles' velvet painting museum, are the most strangely sublime. L.A.'s Velveteria museum shows there's more to plush paintings than Elvis and clowns 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It's almost a certainty at this point Moore will follow suit. Oscars 2015: A sudden surge for Julianne Moore and 'Still Alice' 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Lotto sustains this certainty in their marriage, and in Mathilde, whom he sees as "the nexus of all the good of this world," for almost the entire novel. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Considering how much TP hates the modern world, and how much he loves the certainties of the second world war, I can't help but think that he could write an excellent The Young Lions-type blockbuster. Men From the Boys by Tony Parsons 2010-05-08T23:10:00Z Despite its horrors, war at least provided some certainties; people survived from day to day. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z We crave certainty in the most uncertain of areas: love. Does he like me? 2012-10-11T00:00:00Z But the business model of 24-hour cable news may have made the coexistence and commingling of reporting and opinion a near certainty. How breaking news got panelized: On cable, journalists and pundits increasingly share space. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Neither the groundswell of outrage over the case, nor the attacks that have been directed at him personally, have shaken Mr. Kratz’s certainty that justice was served. Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’ Omitted Crucial Facts, Prosecutor Says 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z If you can’t say with certainty the last time and place you saw these objects, go slow here! I Haven’t Talked to This Asian-American Friend in Years. Should I Call Now? 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z |
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