| 单词 | certitude |
| 例句 | During his first conversations with her, when they first returned from London, she had sounded so different, so full of certitude. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I took up the two packages and gave the bread to the little girl, the woman all iron-gray behind the counter, watching us with cold certitude. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And Desdemona announced with certitude: “It’s not that kind of country.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Well, that combined with their kindness/goodness/purity of heart and garnished with my certitude that this glorious triad I somehow finagled my way into is definitely, definitely temporary. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Everyone dies, and I don’t like wasting energy fretting about certitudes, but Aunt Aggie’s words keep echoing through my brain: whipped to death, took the skin clean off. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But his tone lacked the certitude she was used to. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He must have known, with a kind of certitude that he felt in his gut, that he finally had in his grasp what had eluded him for years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Oh, you’ve changed,” he said with a certitude that she instinctively disliked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We are damaging this core group of our most heroic and our most patriotic, and we’re asking them to compromise their moral certitude.” 'American Sniper' Writer Wrestled His Way Into Project 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z So good intentions and payback and the certitude of righteousness end, with Jon’s eyes going dim as he bleeds out into the snow. In Game of Thrones, Even the Consequences Have Consequences 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Instead of providing some kind of certitude—about reality, about politics, about our individual and collective fates—Mirza leaves us teetering on the precipice of the unknown. An Artwork for an Age of Anxiety and Ayahuasca 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z This seemed like a deeply dubious stance on the moral certitude of corporations—Corporations: Always Doing the Right Thing! The Pain of Denying Kesha Her Audience 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z What these methodologies promise is certitude, which is the argument Scalia makes for originalism: It takes the judgment out of judging. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Authority, of course, is regionally and temporally specific — what’s acknowledged as certitude now sounds nothing like it did when Pusha-T was growing up. Pusha-T, a Lecturer Seeking a Target, Finds One 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “Nothing could be further from the truth” is a particularly audacious lie because of its apparent degree of certitude. The audacious lie behind the phrase ‘nothing could be further from the truth’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Five-and-a-half hours of music in all, the albums arriving in November are a celebration of both the flexibility and the certitude of Jamal’s style — a modernist marvel, and nearly a genre unto itself. A Pair of Ahmad Jamal Live Albums Capture an Innovator in His Prime 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z His monk is a charismatic preacher and sternly judgmental moralist who finds his certitude undermined by the devil’s doings. ‘The Monk’: Atmospheric potboiler goes from cool to hot 2013-03-07T21:42:55Z I long for Nancy Spero, whose work, which often shared the same anti-war sentiments and feminist certitude, was much more subtle in its sexual politics – and better drawn, too. Very well hung: the ICA's Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition 2013-06-19T06:30:03Z But when he trusted in his lovely voice, as in the melting opening phrases of the recitative “Comfort ye,” he sang with an affecting blend of tenderness and certitude. Music Review: Musica Sacra in Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-21T22:47:06Z “They don’t care about knowledge and learning. They care about prejudices, anger, certitude and emotion.” In ‘Hindutva or Hind Swaraj,’ a Warning Against Hindu Nationalism 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z She sees in both a smug certitude whose source and symptom is a gross simplification of both the Bible and reality. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z By contrast, Karen and Natalie are pillars of certitude—Karen, in her determined pursuit of her neighbors and in her courageous response to danger; Natalie, in her commitment to her job and her mission. “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and the Marketing of Cinematic Charisma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Alala deepens this simple, fable-like premise into a lyrical confrontation with the certitudes of faith and the life-giving powers of doubt. ‘You Will Die at Twenty’ Review: Death, and Life, on the Nile 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z As Sarah, Ms. Carter ably embodies the moral certitude of 20-year-olds. | 'Any Given Monday': ?Any Given Monday? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-10-17T23:17:13Z Reason, though deeply vulnerable to deception, was still the only grounds for certitude. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z A little easier to knock the oeuvre, though, given the certitude and bite of each capsule review. Robert Christgau: How One Man Survived Writing 13,000 Album Reviews 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z For every undercurrent of gravitas and moral certitude driving our favorite crusaders, the picture of them surging into battle wearing tights and capes unironically is goofy as hell. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z And then, with eloquent efficiency, convincing certitude and boardroom authority, Richardson lays out her plan. ‘You can be unapologetically black’: How Miss Black America has endured 50 years 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z But it shattered my sense of certitude about what I wanted. What Is a Man For? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z I’m not sure I’ve ever read a memoir quite like this, one that spills its many dark secrets with so little self-pity, so much acuity and such a deliberate lack of authorial certitude. Why Did an Accomplished Writer Fall Silent for Two Decades? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But in 2019, Jhabvala’s angled ways of seeing reveal truths beyond the certitude that our current moment demands of its artists. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Many of his recurring motifs — of alienation, of queerness, of distrusting certitudes, of a life shaped in the margins — still feel startlingly modern, 90 years after his death, in 1933. Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Sometimes copy editing and language, like a lot of human activity, is an attempt to impose certitude and consistency on things–here, identity, psychology, self-perception–that are really shifting and complicated. When Did Chelsea Manning Become Chelsea Manning? 2013-08-28T13:51:42Z Darkness faded to dawn as together we targeted suspects, careened into obstacles and felt our certitude crumble. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z It could be that in times of uncertainty about the future, cultures comfort themselves with the certitudes of the past. London film festival second week ? review 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z The scoreboards of prestige offer a handsome mirage of certitude, but our ongoing discussion about greatness remains unruly, public, perpetual and paramount. No charts, no Grammys, no Hall of Fame: Why pop greatness requires talk and time 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z "This will the largest audience to witness an Emmys period. Both in person and around the world," he declared with more certitude than he ever possessed. Stephen Colbert and Sean Spicer Just Pulled Off the Perfect Trump Joke at the Emmys 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Contrasted to 21st-century parents, flailing and racked with doubt, Victorian parents basked in moral certitude. Review | Turpentine for tummy trouble? An entertaining look at Victorian-era parenting advice. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Susan Tedeschi sang with the certitude of a preacher behind her pulpit — “The sun comes struggling on / Yesterday’s dead and gone / Can you feel it? / Bound for glory.” The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z When we die our heads will still be filled with a few stupid certitudes mixed in with some more or less good ideas, and we are never going to know which are which. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z In the same way that firefighters are sometimes stealth arsonists and homophobes closet homosexuals, do some atheists secretly long for the certitude of religion? Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z As a rapper, he’s still infusing traditionalism with optimism, he’s still radiating cutesy certitude, he’s still doing that baby-talk thing that might make you hate babies and talking. Review | Did Chance the Rapper get boring? Or did we just get bored? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Before the night’s final segment, the screen showed videos of her, Jay Z and Blue Ivy, their daughter, in scenes meant to reaffirm the certitude of their familial bliss. Review: On ‘Formation’ World Tour, Beyoncé Through ‘Lemonade’-Tinted Glasses 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z For professional leagues and broadcasters, offering viewers the best product available means new, customizable camera angles, higher definition, and greater expectations of clarity, certitude, and precision. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z In political media, in social media, in cable news and talk radio, people reward certitude: strong, unambiguous, from-the-gut passion, preferably expressed as soon as possible. Hero or Bad Boyfriend? Edward Snowden and the Personalization of Public Debate 2013-06-11T14:41:58Z This lack of certitude is what puts a propeller on this memoir. Review: ‘The Odd Woman and the City’ by Vivian Gornick 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z "One problem with Atticus Finch in the movie is that there's so much moral certitude there ... he is an ideal, a paragon." Atticus Finch a racist? There goes the ideal 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The virile is not simply what is manly; it is more: an ideal of power and virtue, self-assurance and maturity, certitude and domination . . . . courage and “greatness” accompanied by strength and vigor. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z In their direct actions, their certitude and their honesty, the journalism students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas are a case study in what to do when things fall apart. Two New Audiobooks Inspire Teenagers to Make Real Change 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Some viewers were drawn to the sense of absolute certitude that Mr. Trebek projected. Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ Dies at 80 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Her protectiveness was maternal, but the goading was something different, the hawkish certitude of a visionary businesswoman. The Woman Behind Latin America's Literary Boom 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Even so, Dias is onto something: the ill-defined limbo of Guantanamo, where legal certitude goes to die, and the identity limbo of Essaid. Review | Guantanamo drama ‘4,380 Nights’ finds history repeating 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z While the orthodox condemned him, the implication that errors were embedded in church tenets made him a hero to some, including an obscure young man seeking certitude in a monastery in Wittenberg. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z There’s a reason why conservatives control talk radio, with all its grim certitude, and liberals run comedy, which is characterized by ambivalence. This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z He notes that 15th-century Spain is where the Inquisition’s power and certitude fully flowered. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z The certitude of detectives and prosecutors hardens when their theory is validated by a judge or jury, and later, by an appellate court. What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Friedrich, who cast himself and Dia’s founders as modern Medicis, likened this philosophy to the almost spiritual certitude that Giotto’s frescoes will always be there in Padua when you step into the Scrovegni Chapel. Dia 2.0: Facing the Future 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z What we’re not seeing yet is the counterbalance of human decency and moral certitude that’s also important to what could now, in the parlance of our times, be called the “Fargo” brand. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 2 Recap: ‘Unfathomable Pinhead-ery’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Plus, he’s fortified by an almost eerie certitude that he’ll eventually land a good job, launch a career, move into his own place, find a wife, and start a family. Bill Clinton vs. Lena Dunham: The Shakespearean battle of boomers and millennials 2014-03-01T21:00:00Z Only in the sense that it demands comfort with ambiguity and the end of certitude, and a certain faith in your own aesthetic compass. At New York Fashion Week, The Last Looks Are Diverse 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z After World War Two, occupying U.S. forces abolished the rescript, which many saw as a source of the obedience and moral certitude that helped fuel Japanese militarism. Japanese kindergarten teaches students pre-war ideals 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z There in the pixelated certitude of the Internet, I found the truth. Google broke my heart 2012-12-04T01:00:00Z Amid all that doubt there is a welcome morsel of certitude for fans of Doctor Who: the TV series will return to the BBC in the autumn. Doctor Who movie rumour dismissed by Steven Moffat as 'weird fantasy' 2012-08-01T14:30:00Z Like all great actors, Mr. Washington commits to the performance, but every so often he also breathes fire, imbuing a scene with such shocking ferocity and bone-deep moral certitude that everything else falls blissfully away. Review: Denzel Washington Plays Judge, Jury and Executioner in ‘The Equalizer 2’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z He brings a subtlety to his performance that is rare in video games, conveying his character’s villainy with calm certitude rather than rantings. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Is Released 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z His poems are also interested in certitude, or, better yet, finality. When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Are they yearning for the certitudes of tyranny? What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The story is less about specific enemies and more about the denial of enmity — the certitude that devotion is devotion, which should not waver when circumstances are troubling or threatening. 'Of Gods and Men': a tale of monks and martyrs, with a divine cast 2011-03-24T22:23:06Z These are similar verbs, both indicating that you are accepting the truth of something; the difference involves your degree of certitude. Gene Weingarten: How do you tell Snap, Crackle and Pop apart? Who cares? 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z What keeps the losers going is the same thing that made them winners in the first place: hubris, ego, conviction, certitude. Welcome to the losers’ club, Eric Cantor. Now, find the right metaphor for what’s next. The blistering attacks on Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, showcased Democrats’ certitude that he was a liability for swing-district Republicans and a boon for Democrats’ quest to retake the House majority in 2024. Democrats race to vilify Speaker Johnson, make him a 2024 campaign issue 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z While also cautioning that “I have no certitude,” the French military intelligence official said: “We don’t see at all that a rocket that size could have produced 471 dead. It is not possible.” French intelligence points to Palestinian rocket, not Israeli airstrike, for Gaza hospital blast 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Today’s legal culture and our polarized politics, however, demand certitude. Opinion: Three words you won't hear from today's Supreme Court justices 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Maybe Alito’s correct, though there are reasons to doubt the certitude he expressed in an astonishing interview with the opinion side of the Wall Street Journal. Opinion | The aggrieved Justice Alito points fingers but offers no proof 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z But given the reporting thus far and the fact that Carlson himself promised to be back on Monday, it is a virtual certitude that he was fired. What Fox News learned from Tucker Carlson 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Too often, all they have in common is an unshakable moral certitude of the righteousness of their respective causes. Opinion | Americans need to rediscover the lost art of tolerance 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Such certitude about the authenticity of much of the laptop data is not reflected in the letter. Analysis | The Hunter Biden laptop and claims of ‘Russian disinfo’ 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The funeral gave the church a final moment to reflect on one of its most towering and polarizing conservatives — somebody who shaped the faith with his moral certitude. Historic but spare funeral for Pope Benedict XVI, led by Pope Francis 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Airbus grew its brand by betting heavily on what it views as the certitude of cockpit automation. FAA is right about excessive pilot dependence on automation 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z The Denver company generates plenty of skepticism in aviation circles for its ambitious schedule and certitude that supersonic passenger flights can be economically feasible and environmentally benign — Concorde wasn’t, so it stopped flying. Aviation startup picks engine supplier for supersonic plane 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z And right now, a fight that combines two of those certitudes is brewing in Washington. Opinion | The GOP wants to cut funding to the IRS. We can’t let that happen. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “I enjoy her certitude. I love her certitude,” she says. Christine Baranski's long wait 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The generation of land managers who pinned these tags to sequoia slabs also instituted, with corresponding certitude and racism, the policy of fire suppression in the Sierra Nevada. Op-Ed: The monumental mortality of sequoias 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z But, as we learn more from courageous people such as Navaroli, certitude becomes murkier and social media’s quandary becomes our existential threat. Opinion | Trump’s tweets were harmful. And just to be clear, Twitter helped. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “But that level of certitude is something that I find alien to the breadth of our tradition.” Peter James Lee, longtime Episcopal bishop of Virginia, dies at 84 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “There’s not a sufficient number of cases to really make that claim, at least with certitude,” he said. Roberts, Kavanaugh helped liberals notch small victories at Supreme Court 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z On Tuesday afternoon, a trio of Republican men from Georgia and Arizona told their stories of defiance and certitude at the committee’s fourth public hearing: Brad Raffensberger, Gabriel Sterling and Russell “Rusty” Bowers. Perspective | The harrowing aftermath of counting votes 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z In the past, so much harm has been done by those possessing certitude about the inevitable outcome of history. Op-Ed: The monumental mortality of sequoias 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Even if you believe Heard gave as good as she got, the level of vitriol spewed her way only proves, with ghastly certitude, exactly what she wrote about in her 2018 essay. Column: Will the Depp/Heard hell trial never end? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z “And it is nearly impossible for us to have that certitude in an operation in which we are not participating.” Civilians are dying in Ukraine. But exactly how many remains a mystery. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z It maintained a certitude that New Yorkers needed protection from their neighbors, and that those who provided it merited sympathy. ‘Law & Order’ Is Having an Identity Crisis 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Could they, somehow, be both: a public recognition of her unconscious certitude that the young Black man she shot was fitter for a bullet than a stun? The Power of a Good Cry 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z But when a lot of them are digested, weighted and converted into a precise probability figure, down to the 10th of a decimal point, they acquire a bogus air of certitude. Opinion | We’ve become obsessed with statistical probabilities 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z “Certification connotes a degree of certitude that isn’t at all possible in the gold industry, especially in Brazil,” said David Soud, an analyst at I.R. Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon gold seeps into supply chains 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z “Reject certitude. And don’t be a jerk. Be a good guy.” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s Adviser, a Figure of Fascination and Schadenfreude 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z While there may be questions about Patrick Mahomes’s recklessness at Kansas City, Baker Mayfield’s health at Cleveland and imbalances at Las Vegas, Baltimore and Tennessee, there is certitude in Western New York. What We Learned From Week 8 in the N.F.L. 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Instead, they are becoming islands of illiberal ideology and factories of moral certitude, more often at war with the values of liberal democracy than in their service. What does a university owe democracy? 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The president is known for his certitude, a stubbornness that flashed when he shot down suggestions that he express regret for how the withdrawal occurred. One stunning afternoon: Setbacks imperil Biden’s reset 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z He hit 10 different receivers last week, fulfilling his preseason certitude that he’d have plenty of receivers to work with. No. 10 Penn State to draw on crowd against No. 22 Auburn 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Eventually, as events told a story that contradicted official assurances, the certitude of the leaders gave way to disillusionment and cynicism on the part of citizens. Analysis | After 9/11, a rush of national unity. Then, quickly, more and new divisions. 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Biden added that to his knowledge, the "bulk of that group" has been let through but can't say with "certitude" that there was a list of names passed to the Taliban. Biden's Afghanistan remarks suggest possible extension of US mission past Aug. 31 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Both operate from a posture of certitude; both threaten the health and welfare of the nation. Opinion | Rioters and anti-vaxxers are cut from the same cloth 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s difficult, and a little daunting, to try to capture one’s memories over 40 years with certitude. The story of how, and why, a Puget Sound family found magic on a small tropical island 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z But increasingly, I see pluralism as a valuable, even necessary counterweight to our yearning for certitude. Science Should Not Try to Absorb Religion and Other Ways of Knowing 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z So we pundits are merchants of certitude in a world where much is in doubt and many questions don’t have one right answer. Opinion | Ted Cruz, I’m Sorry 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z As a young man, Eli came to L.A., full of conviction and ambition and certitude, and arrived in a place that was famously — then and now — resistant to leadership. Op-Ed: Eli Broad, leader for a city that doesn't want to be led 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z As a pundit, she developed an on-air persona that suggested a more energetic and cutting version of her father’s plain-faced certitude. Liz Cheney vs. MAGA 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z It gives to those who are alienated and lost emotional certitude. The evil within us: How Christian fascist ideology led to the Atlanta killings 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z A Chinese admiral observes that Americans’ “moral certitude, their single-minded determination, their blithe optimism undermined them at this moment as they struggled to find a solution to a problem they didn’t understand.” How an admiral and a war vet-turned-novelist teamed up on a smart technothriller 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Stein: Admire the certitude with which you made your case, but I don’t think there are absolutes in baseball when it comes to “two-game set” and “three-game series.” Predicting N.B.A. All-Star Picks and Snubs 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z No answer is right for everyone; there is no moral certitude or foolproof guide. Perspective | How one doctor discovered that love is more powerful than genetics 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Today, not two generations on, it goes without saying that no educated person would share any of these bankrupt certitudes. Why Anthropology Matters 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z But what was most familiar about the insurrectionists in Washington on Wednesday was their certitude, an unbending conviction that, no matter what anyone else or the law might say, right was on their side. In Washington Riot, Echoes of Post-Soviet Uprisings 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z There is a sense of certitude permeating the resistance literature. Review | The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z But that in itself is instructive: Great art keeps us in a place where there is no “closure,” and where a principle of portly ambivalence reigns over wan and emaciated certitude. Perspective | A painting that dares to stare back at you 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The details of their philosophies differ, but not the unwavering certitude. Seahawks’ Pete Carroll, Patriots’ Bill Belichick both set in their (very successful) ways 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z At times, he could grate on people with his certitude. Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Ignites a Smoldering Homeland Security Agency 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Also, the degree of one’s certitude does not require a commensurate level of decibels. Opinion | Nikki Haley and Tim Scott give us hope for the Republican Party 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z It was the kind of test presidents inevitably must face, and Trump responded with trademark certitude. The bully pulpit: Trump pushes Washington, but virus resists 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z But it’s also clear that most people aren’t sure what to do with those beliefs – all that fresh, exhilarating certitude and maybe even a little feeling of superiority – once they have them. Mighty John Lewis 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Earlier, you suggested that philosophy’s chief value is countering our certitude. On Crazyism, Jerkitude, Garden Snails and Other Philosophical Puzzles 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z The WaPo/ABC News pollsters asked respondents about the certitude of their support for their chosen candidate. Biden’s support is broad but shallow 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z How remarkable, then, to hear the certitude of leaders who have already been badly mistaken about the nature of the threat and how to deal with it. Charting a course for hubris 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “There was a frustration with the anti-war movement, of the indignity of moral certitude without sacrifice. A lot of Americans didn’t feel like there was an honesty about that fact.” How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Our situation increasingly resembles the early 1930s, when past certitudes no longer match present realities. Opinion | For the first time in my life, I think a depression is conceivable 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z “I would have fixed that,” Mr. Trump replied with certitude, referring to the government’s bungled rescue and recovery efforts, according to a campaign official who was present for the exchange. Used to Meeting Challenges With Bluster and Force, Trump Confronts a Crisis Unlike Any Before 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z “Sadly, these viruses pop up time to time,” Mr. Hannity said, with the certitude of a medical professional. How Right-Wing Pundits Are Covering Coronavirus 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Adams cited the lack of an international travel ban and the WHO having yet to declare a pandemic as reasons for Bach’s certitude. As Olympics concerns mount amid spreading coronavirus, IOC says ‘the Games will go ahead’ 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Now he was banished essentially for his certitude. How an Education Visionary Got Canceled 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Brother King and his fellow freedom fighters — both those known to history and those anonymous others lost to it — were powered by moral certitude and righteousness. I spent MLK Day reading Stephen Miller's racist emails. Here's why 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z "Okay, with total certitude you say President Trump knew what we were doing. Convince us of that. Give us the evidence," Gowdy prompted. Trey Gowdy: Lev Parnas' claims are great for headlines, but not for a courtroom 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Physicists require much greater certitude to draw a conclusion. Thirteen tips for engaging with physicists, as told by a biologist 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z The Waldorf owners agreed to the severance deal “to have some certitude” about the legislation, Mr. Ward acknowledged in the interview in the union’s nondescript Midtown Manhattan headquarters. This Union Defeated Airbnb. Now It’s Taking Aim at a New Target. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Add to the list of life’s certitudes - the one that begins with death and taxes - the absolute certainty that Wisconsin’s conservative charlatans will do everything in their power to suppress the vote. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z “If anything smells of certitude, I tend to run the other direction,” said Benham, 78, who has worshiped at St. David’s for 14 years. The confession 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Taylor looks like he was chiseled whole out of granite, and he tolerated no end of Republican stupidities with a stony certitude. Devin Nunes is bravely defending Trump. That's bad news for the president 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z But that same moral certitude has now led him, and the country, to the precipice of disaster. Perspective | One idea has shaped Giuliani’s whole career: Everyone is wrong but me 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z As a people, we seem to demand of our leaders a certitude at odds with the gaps in our knowledge. Opinion | We can learn something from this year’s Nobel Prizes: Humility 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z In a separate filing, the judge added: "The blessing or the curse - depending on one's vantage point - of a binding contract is its certitude. The Flores Agreement is a binding contract and a consent decree." Judge issues setback to Trump child migrant policy 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z She also developed a certitude that is common among Harvard faculty, who often sit atop their fields and are quick to say so. Elizabeth Warren's long path from Oklahoma to Harvard 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s a confusing title, because Power never becomes disillusioned, never sheds her views, never admits that governing and certitude are awkward bedfellows. Review | Can an uncompromising activist keep her integrity while working in the White House? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “When we try to talk openly and honestly about race,” she writes, “we are so often met with silence, defensiveness, argumentation, certitude, and other forms of pushback.” The Fight to Redefine Racism 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Confident people give off an air of assurance and certitude and are perceived as being competent which makes us an easy target to influence. How to Resist the Lure of Overconfidence 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The president now exalts “the Squad” — four young Democratic congresswomen — as a handy symbol of all things scary: youth, minority ethnicity, female power and certitude. Opinion | The best candidate against Trump will harness hope — and fear 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The war made Holmes suspicious of moral certitude, zealotry and ideologues of the right and the left. Review | Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and the dangers of moral certainty 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z She freely admits the “certitude” and “sanctimony” of her younger self. Review | Can an uncompromising activist keep her integrity while working in the White House? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Horizontal gene transfer, Quammen asserts, “has overturned the traditional certitude that genes flow only vertically, from parents to offspring, and can’t be traded sideways across species boundaries.” Was Darwin Wrong? 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Such skepticism, foreign and domestic, reflects 16-year-old memories of certitudes about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction: Remember Secretary of State Colin Powell spending days at the CIA receiving assurances about the evidence. Opinion | Trump, Obama and Congress will all be to blame for what happens with Iran 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Within seconds, the moral certitude with which she’s always carried herself — knowing which side of the drug war she stood upon — is destroyed. ‘Narcos’ vs. narco novelas: In Latin America’s cartel TV shows, a compelling complexity 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Then, a note of certitude crept into his voice, and his words quickened. How Climate Change Is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z DiAngelo says she encounters a lot of “certitude from white people – they insist ‘Well, it’s not me’, or say ‘I’m doing my best, what do you want from me?’ Power and prejudice: why white people turn a blind eye to racism 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “They feel their moral certitudes and sense of community are being ridiculed.” ‘Everyone Was Taught to Be Accepting.’ Readers Share Stories of Their Christian Educations 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “The grounds of our civilization, of our certitude, are breaking up under our feet, and familiar ideas and institutions vanish as we reach for them, like shadows in the falling dusk.” Opinion | Our civilization is crumbling. Again. 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Distinctively, the building literalizes this view, forcing us to look up — delivering circularity rather than conclusion, surprise over certitude. The Chrysler Building Is for Sale. Does Anyone Want It? 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z In times of trouble, an anxious public looks to its leaders, and the ability to telegraph strength, decisiveness and certitude assumes greater value than in periods of calm and prosperity. Editorials from around New York 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z But when it comes to naming the perpetrators, or labelling particular acts, this certitude collapses. How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z His tone of flat certitude surprised me at a time when much of political Washington is still second-guessing itself after the embarrassment of being so collectively wrong in 2016. The Dark Certainty of the 2018 Midterms 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z We leave it at that, with the same sense of certitude that helped Copeland stay his course. Glenn Copeland: the trans musical visionary finding an audience at 74 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z And it would behoove us to show a little less certitude. Fox News Power Rankings: Texas and New Jersey act alike 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z What’s clear is that we are living through a similar interregnum in which old certitudes are no longer reliable, new ones haven’t yet arisen and morbid symptoms are popping up everywhere. Review | Worried fake news spells our doom? Humanity has always lived with it. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Judges may acknowledge complexity and even uncertainty when deliberating in the privacy of chambers, but they almost invariably strike a pose of overweening certitude in their official actions. Review | How judges weigh shades of gray to make tough legal decisions 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He’s drawn to the certitude of numbers and equations, the way answers to math problems can’t be left open-ended. Not the retiring type: The years add up for 86-year-old math teacher in Alexandria 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Ford delivered her testimony with steady, deliberate certitude. GOP races to first Kavanaugh vote after hearing from accuser 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Or about the moral certitudes of the religious right. Opinion | What Democrats Have Become 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Many of his colleagues were put off by his certitude. John McCain, ‘maverick’ of the Senate and former POW, dies at 81 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Max Boot’s July 26 Thursday Opinion essay, “Evidence of collusion,” seemed to be more wishful thinking than evidence-based certitude. Opinion | Trump voters didn’t need Russia’s help 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z "Like all great actors, Mr Washington commits to the performance, but every so often he also breathes fire, imbuing a scene with such shocking ferocity and bone-deep moral certitude that everything else falls blissfully away." Is The Equalizer 2 just a 'middle-aged male fantasy?' 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z And now “canon” has migrated from noun to adjective, giving the word thunder and muscle and curatorial certitude. Who Gets to Decide What Belongs in the ‘Canon’? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z When industrial upheaval and urbanization upended rural life, Meacham recalls, the Ku Klux Klan promised “racial solidarity and cultural certitude” — an apt summation of white-nationalists’ appeal a century later. Review | Stop saying the Trump era is ‘not normal’ or ‘not who we are.’ We’ve been here before. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z White men in economic distress use guns as a means of power and re-establishment of moral certitude. Can America's worship of guns ever be changed? | Christopher Morrissey 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Like many powerful people, he has fallen into the trough of certitude, believing his integrity invincible. Editorials from around Oregon 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z He has banished apathy, made fools of those people who once declared with pontifical certitude that we should “blow up” the system and said voting didn’t matter because there was no difference between the parties. One year in — hang in there 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z To talk to many residents of these neighborhoods is to inevitably find two attitudes: assurances that they will be voting for Mr. Jones and a fatalistic certitude that, of course, Mr. Moore will win. Alabama, Despite History of Unruly Politics, Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z But the recriminations are all the greater this time, given the utter certitude of so many that Clinton — the party's biggest brand name — would prevail. The 2016 election was a year ago. So why are people still so obsessed? – LA Times 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In a way, their calm certitude is as scary as any actual demon. Documentary 'Deliver Us' observes a present-day Sicilian exorcist 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In the previous century, such certitude undermined another well-known Oregon politician - former governor and then-Sen. Editorials from around Oregon 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Indeed, few shows I've seen catch high school society, with its self-contained seriousness, as well as "American Vandal" does, as well as the mix of innocence and experience, confusion and certitude that mark that age. How to satirize true-crime series: With 'American Vandal,' school is in session 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Clovis wrote that progressives were “liars, race traders and race ‘traitors'” who lack moral certitude. Donald Trump’s chief agricultural scientist, Sam Clovis, called progressives “race traitors”: report 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z On the tournament's eve, the only certitude gleaned from the practice rounds is...well, that nobody knows what the hell to expect. U.S. Open Thursday rundown: Six-hour rounds, Mickelson's (likely) early call and the known unknown - Golf Digest 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The White House broke its silence on James Comey's testimony Thursday to defend President Donald Trump's truthfulness, but couldn't offer certitude about the potential existence of a secret taping system in the Oval Office. A White House Spokeswoman Just Said President Trump Is 'Definitively' Not a Liar 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z In his scholarly certitude, Mr. Brzezinski sometimes showed a tendency to believe that any disagreement between theory and reality indicated some fault on the part of reality. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, Dies at 89 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z PE: "... a fresh geyser of complaints ... on the letters pages ..." The first letter, from Naomi Oreskes, falsely says that Stephens "blames scientists and their allies for alleged certitude." Opinion | Bret Stephens Takes On Climate Change. Readers Unleash Their Fury. 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In essence, Stephens asserted that climate change’s “certitude” made some Americans less keen on believing in it. New York Times staff, social media accounts push back against new opinion columnist Bret Stephens’ first op-ed 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z I suppose I’d been hoping that Benek would hand me some portal back to the faith, one paved by the certitude of modern science. God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Trump promised certitude and strength, and there were echoes of that rhetoric in his first Rose Garden news conference Wednesday. Trump condemns Syria chemical attack and suggests he will act 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z All too often in Washington, numbers of dubious provenance are cited with certitude. Analysis | Did President Trump save 77,000 coal mining jobs? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The enthusiasm and certitude with which he'd embrace any challenge proved he was going to be special. The Best Teacher No One Knows - Golf Digest 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Although one was a scholar and the other bore no papered credential, they each challenged convention or, as Pope Francis said of Merton, “the certitudes of the time.” What Thomas Merton and Muhammad Ali Had in Common 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Kerry’s reprimand of Putin expressed a progressive’s certitude about progress: The passage of time should ineluctably improve the comportment of nations. Obama’s foreign policy was error after error 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Through their religious holy day, I am better able to confront and clarify my own religious convictions and theological certitudes. Why This Rabbi Loves Christmas 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Nicks evokes Byron, in spirit and in certitude: “The heart will break, but broken live on.” The Resurgent Appeal of Stevie Nicks 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z That internal certitude has led the FBI official to freelance his positions at times. James Comey: The do-the-right-thing guy in email maelstrom 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z I admired her grit, moral certitude, and the courage of her conviction. Baltimore vs. Marilyn Mosby 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Even ignoring the disinformation, just beneath the thin layer of chivalry lies a toxic stew of religion, sexism, and judgmental certitude. The movement’s fakers: Anti-abortion’s favorite propaganda techniques, debunked 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z This is objectively false, but, in the windmill of emotional certitude that is Trumpism, feelings don’t simply outweigh facts; they are a kind of fact. Trump and the Truth: Black Outreach As Campaign Ploy 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Trump’s reversion to his typical ignorance and certitude obscured a poor showing from his opponent, the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. For Clinton, a skirmish with history. From Trump, an ambush of the facts 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z He corralled guests into critiquing political decisions and probabilities on a sliding scale of 1 to 10 — with 10 representing “metaphysical certitude.” John McLaughlin, provocateur of public affairs TV, dies at 89 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The Haggler assumes that Mr. Gregg is pleased, but certitude here is impossible. Solar Snare: Spend Thousands and Cut Power Bills by $9 a Month 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Her questions about its teachings brought only certitudes. Spanish-language mosque in Houston draws worshippers 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z In fact, he added to it with responses that did not project certitude. FDIC chief damages effort at damage control 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z These moral certitudes are more menacing to civic health than was McDonnell’s indefensible but not criminal comportment. The McDonnell decision and the corrupting crusade against ‘corruption’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The author’s disinclination toward the private and the psychological leaves a reader of “Bush” wondering exactly when and how an “unnerving level of certitude” took hold of the title figure. How Bad Can a President Be? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z We’re educated in a model that demands certitude, confidence and rightness. Doctors Getting 'Pimped' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Their equality of opportunity, of income and of wealth suffered along with the destruction of whole ways of life and moral, familial, and sexual certitudes. Hillary is Trump’s dream opponent: Clinton is exactly the “limousine liberal” his coalition distrusts the most 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z In the right hands, "The Boss" could skewer the brash ambition and entitled certitude of a Donald Trump type and the desire to see all that dismantled and discarded by Bernie Sanders-style supporters. Melissa McCarthy's 'The Boss' deserves a trip to HR and a pink slip 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Its ingredients include neurosis, self-absorption and the certitude that hell really is other people. Garry Shandling, father of all that is cringeworthy 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z They glow not with faraway fires or any particular certitude, just a sort of opaque serenity, something that may at last have descended on a man no longer obligated to see past the fence. ♦ How Bad Can a President Be? 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The old-time religion was the best practice of religion, Mast believed, and it once led the United States to a position of moral certitude and prosperity. The great unsettling 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z All that can said with certitude is that it is a million miles from the radical, game-changing reforms that have been introduced in Germany and the UK. Labour law reform: Hollande's last throw of the dice - BBC News 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Ted Cruz usually exudes the self-righteous certitude of a man who knows he is heading towards both victory and heaven. Ted Cruz's campaign is flailing – and the Alamo could be his last stand 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z They embrace new truths with the convert’s fervor and certitude—Oppenheimer’s “contingency and complexity of belief” is not for them. Why Leftists Go Right 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Hearst evinced all those attributes of Napoleonic command, certitude, and delusion that Trump is famous for. The genie grown monstrous: How Donald Trump, the all-American Frankenstein, devoured the GOP 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z There's the willful lack of understanding of how the political system works, the ideological certitude and the simple straw-man villain. A Tea Party of the Left 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z One problem for Jeb in the current climate is that he does not project the certitude of his rivals. The Daily 202: Jeb Bush’s candidacy defined by Donald Trump 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The premise of New York’s obnoxious values is not boastfulness but a sense of entitlement so pervasive that it doesn’t feel the need to boast—that ruler-of-the-universe kind of certitude. Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and New York Values 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z After the war, the U.S. occupation authorities scrapped the rescript and ethics education, which many saw as sources of the unthinking obedience and moral certitude that helped fuel Japan’s militarism. Japan’s Push for Traditional Ethics Teaching Sparks Debate 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Obama’s further reiteration of his current course left wanting those longing for the more comforting certitude of the cheerleader with a megaphone. Donald Trump: The Islamic State’s secret weapon? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It would make quite a spectacle, a festival of clashing ideological certitudes. A Tea Party of the Left 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z When a politician asserts a fact with such certitude, The Fact Checker is always eager to investigate. Ted Cruz’s Four-Pinocchio claim that ‘the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats’ 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z George F. Will’s Nov. 8 op-ed column, “Slandering Reagan,” opened with this sentence: “Donald Trump is just one symptom of today’s cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evidence.” What did George Will say? 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Finally, continued travels through the country show me that people continue to miss Ronald Reagan’s strength and certitude. Uncertain Leadership in Perilous Times 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Will uses the inexcusable deficiencies of Killing Reagan to attack “today’s cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evidence.” George Will’s had enough lying: His battle with Bill O’Reilly is finally an intellectual battle to reclaim the GOP from Fox News 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z After all, there is no certitude in economics. Elizabeth Warren’s claim that the bottom 90 percent got ‘zero percent’ of wage growth after Reagan 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z There are too many people in America today, too many parents who don't believe they can look their kid in the eye and say with certitude, "Honey, it's going to be okay." Transcript: Joe Biden Says He Will Not Run for President 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z There are too many people in America — there are too many parents who don’t believe they can look their kid in the eye and say with certitude, “Honey, it’s gonna be O.K.” Transcript of Joe Biden’s Remarks on Not Running for President 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Science can often seem quite dry, its results presented as if their certitude was never in doubt. Why we should care about the Nobel Prize for the neutrino 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z He lauded Merton, who died in 1968, as “a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the Church.” Pope Francis’s Timely Message to Congress 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Ever since on “CSI,” hard evidence with its glorious certitude paved the way to enlightenment. ‘CSI’ ends its 15-season run with 2-hour reunion finale 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In the late 1940s and well into the 1950s, spectators tended to regard the purported Hitler car as a war trophy, a battered but undeniable affirmation of American military and moral certitude. Hitler's car exerts grim fascination even if it just gave the Führer a lift to the airport 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Some certitude about a confounding situation seemed imminent. Giants’ Jason Pierre-Paul Isn’t Ready for Opener, Coach Says 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The current trend is to quietly discard these certitudes in the pursuit of ever-lower upfront cost. The smartphone price wars are not victimless 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Judging by his certitude on the United States’ ability to detect Iranian violations, it’s safe to say that’s not the Iraq war lesson Obama has taken to heart. How foreign-policy lessons from Iraq inform Obama’s Iran deal 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z We read about Alzheimer’s, autism, schizophrenia and less-common experiences such as ecstatic seizures or the certitude that one’s brain is dead — and not just in the hangover or brain-fart sort of way. How our brains toy with our minds 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Note the certitude of these pronouncements, the lordly swagger. The Syria Sham and the Iran Deal 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The era has generated more shallow certitude than lasting insight, with most commentators too intent on justification or condemnation to explore the harder questions that the conflict raises. Violence in the Age of Terror 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Having spent most of her childhood providing a certain kind of cure to sick people, Maria replied with the same certitude as Alani: “I want to be a doctor.” The Child Preachers of Brazil 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Prof Richardson argued that "education is the best possible antidote to radicalisation", because it challenged the "black and white" views of extremists, undermining "simplification and certitude". Education is antidote to extremism, says new Oxford head - BBC News 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z “I’m in a place of more peace, certitude, about staying in the seminary,” he said. Mulling priesthood: ‘Listening to God in very focused way 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The court explained that the First Amendment bars the government from adopting “a myopic interest in pursuing scientific certitude to the exclusion of all else, regardless of the consequences.” The D.C. Circuit's POM Wonderful Decision: Not So Wonderful For FTC's Randomized Clinical Trial Push 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Their certitude in themselves and what they are saying dominates the meeting. Conviction Is Convincing 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Those who might question the mayor’s certitude received a bracing riposte. As de Blasio Tours Washington, No Topic Is Off Limits 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Still, given the certitude of abortion opponents that abortion violates God’s Word, it might come as a surprise that neither the Old Testament nor the New mentions abortion—not one word. 6 Myths About Abortion 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Walker ran the meeting with a friendly certitude, accepting suggestions and making decisions to which all agreed. Chief Umpire, Stepping Down, Will Leave Indelible Legacy, in Chalk 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Shouldn’t Mr. Howell urge farmers to reject the funds on the chance Washington may one day reduce or eliminate those programs and on the certitude that they inflate the national debt? Republicans’ Medicaid charade in Virginia Don’t count me among those who pronounce with certitude on the wisdom — or folly — of the Bergdahl deal. Ruth Marcus: The Bergdahl double standard Here, perhaps owing largely to the age of the characters, audiences were offered men who lacked the certitude that the world was their idiomatic oyster. TV’s dinosaurs are going extinct: The rise of anti-heroes & the fall of Barney Stinson 2014-04-04T18:55:00Z The Noah story is a rebuke to such certitude. The God of Noah: Great, But Not Always Good 2014-03-30T21:52:48Z Once the Nowruz celebrations began, it appears the attackers acted with deadly certitude. Gunmen Open Fire at Luxury Hotel in Kabul, Killing 9 2014-03-21T13:21:35Z The state of economics simply doesn’t warrant the certitude that the CBO almost always implies—and then qualifies, as I say, in the footnotes. Congressional Budget Office blows it — again 2014-03-08T20:00:00Z The certitudes and constructs of campaigns crumble under the relentless force of the complicated reality of the actual job. How the Presidents Judge One Another 2014-02-15T23:05:24Z But as much as the record and external voices did him in, Shanahan’s certainty of his own certitude did him in. Wise: Mike Shanahan leaves the Redskins in a heap; soon will be another offseason selling hope 2013-12-30T01:46:00Z What one can say with absolute certitude is that no cricketer, nay no sportsman, has been so widely and deeply venerated by his compatriots as Tendulkar. Why Indians love Sachin Tendulkar 2013-11-14T00:20:29Z The articles in the pages that follow reveal other examples of misplaced certitude in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A Revolution in Astronomy: How We Came to Know the Solar System 2013-10-11T15:15:00.567Z In their emotional resonance and sometimes exclusive certitudes, it may be that religions furnish in citizens forms of emotional experience or languages that change the experience, the medium of the political. What do end times believers see in Syria? 2013-09-17T19:11:00Z President Obama is not President Bush and Iraq isn’t Syria, but trust is trust, and when certitude melts into uncertainty, it is hard to reshape. Op-Ed Columnist: The Era of Disbelief 2013-09-05T02:24:34Z Anderson answers these and every other question relating to the task of nation building with the indefatigable moral certitude of a man who’s spent his whole life fighting the system. Aborigines in Australia Want Independence 2013-05-31T06:05:24Z Forensic science, especially when it comes in the cloak of certitude, can go a long way to dispel reasonable doubt as a trial stumbles on in search of the truth. Trials and error in Canada 2013-05-08T16:33:00Z But a lot of this incorrect information is sophisticated, backed by legitimate-sounding research and written with certitude. Fields of gold 2013-05-01T17:20:03.033Z While the Tsarnaevs are still technically suspects, the Russell parents’ statement to reporters indicated their certitude. Katherine Tsarnaeva, the Boston bombing suspect’s wife 2013-04-24T21:11:00Z The pal gave him an incredulous look, and Boseman filled him in on the audition and his sudden certitude. Going Places With Chadwick Boseman 2013-04-14T05:10:00Z For millions of Americans of draft age who dodged serving in Vietnam, the films served as after-the-fact justification for their inactions, and morphed from celluloid to certitude. Violent Death of Ex-Navy Seal Chris Kyle Raises Host of Questions 2013-02-04T16:05:22Z With the same calm certitude, Draghi is now pushing for a more durable solution to Europe’s problems. Mario Draghi: The Man Who Would Save Europe 2013-01-17T18:19:23Z But you can't help playing the game, even when your speculation, usually tinged with certitude, is often dead wrong. IHT Rendezvous: Why Everyone Is So Certain About Hillary 2016 2012-12-11T17:56:59Z The urgency of all this became dauntingly clear last week, with the publication of a government-commissioned report that stressed the need for a "competitiveness shock" to avoid "the certitude of decline". François Hollande: a day of reckoning for France's Mr Normal 2012-11-12T17:00:02Z It also shows the certitude among Democrats that they have it won. Last-Minute Money Pours Into Senate Races 2012-11-05T18:28:01Z Such certitude is giving way to political reality. Republican Troops Keeping Ryan’s Budget Plan at Arm’s Length 2012-09-01T03:22:33Z Yet in spite of all these efforts to define the indefinable, it was in the very nature of things that absolute certitude could not, in a vast range of cases, be reached except through confession. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z A Church, whose essence consisted merely in the bond established through the sacraments, could either not be verified with certitude, or would have an exclusively exterior character. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Their only comfort is in the certitude of her being completely happy beyond the reach of pain, and for ever freed from the miseries of this life. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Evidence could not add to the certitude, no scepticism could impeach it. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Alas, modern medicine left Newtonian certitude behind some time ago. Books: ?The Undead? Book Review - Seeing Bogeymen in the Fog Around Brain Death 2012-03-26T20:55:41Z George W. Bush succeeded because of his gormless certitude. Romney's Etch-a-Sketch Disaster 2012-03-22T21:05:33Z He made no further remark to the old gentleman for a space, but looked with a little less certitude at the house.... Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z And they are drawn to Mr. Santorum’s moral certitude, his fire-and-brimstone passion, his pugilistic posture of never giving up and never giving in. The Long Run: A Passionate Persona Forged in a Brutal Defeat 2012-03-17T05:34:07Z “Consciousness being the basis of all certitude, everything, of which you are clearly and distinctly conscious must be true; everything which you clearly and distinctly conceive, exists, if the idea involve existence.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Anton Rubinstein played every school with consummate skill, from the iron certitudes of Bach's polyphony to the magic murmurs of Chopin and the romantic rustling in the moonlit garden of Schumann. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But in the past couple of months, certain powerful figures in media and politics have cracked open that certitude. Subject for Debate: Are Women People? 2012-03-07T15:57:00Z The nominal knowledge, which is only certitude, elevates itself, as reason is concrete, to definite and conceptual knowledge. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Kautsky indicates with certitude not one country in which democracy is really capable of guaranteeing a painless transition to Socialism. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z The laws that are the basis of logic, of the mathematics, and of the higher physics, and that give certitude to these sciences, are simply the laws of the human mind itself. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Like Renan, he abhorred the "horrible mania of certitude" to be found in the writing of his realistic contemporaries. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Her certitude -- recounted in Barak Goodman’s absorbing documentary “Clinton” -- seems as much mission statement as romantic guile. Clinton’s Charm Blunts His Errors in Film; ‘Good Wife’: Review 2012-02-17T09:01:54Z For truth here has, as its peculiar mode and immanent form, the self-centred pure notion, ego, the certitude of self as infinite universality. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z "I call Lawrence Clavering," repeated Herbert, the certitude of his tone weakening to a tremor. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z He spoke with so much certitude that he might have been present at the interview. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z By interlocking its multiform, infolded, self-evident certitudes he framed all his arguments. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z These days, striving for certitude in target selection and minimizing civilian casualties have become standard practice. Afghan War Reflects Changes in Air War 2012-01-16T03:31:58Z The certitude of one's self, which issues from the suppression of mere consciousness, pronounces the object null: and the outlook of self-consciousness towards the object equally qualifies the abstract ideality of such self-consciousness as null. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z But because college soccer lacks the exposure afforded those other sports, the MLS draft lacks certitude. MLS SuperDraft: Looking ahead, looking back 2012-01-10T07:06:41Z He was neither a heretic nor a Musulman; he had neither riches nor religion, nor God, nor truth, nor law, nor certitude. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z In this keen certitude touching things to come he was almost without a peer. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z She must beat down the passionate certitude of the man, puncture his blind, roaring egomania, take away from him his genius and then he would turn to her. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z The concept or possibility of cognition has come out as intelligence itself, as the certitude of reason: the act of cognition itself is therefore the actuality of intelligence. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Scientific certitude has at its basis intellectual evidence. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z In a lone waste I saw a debauchee, He had no home, no faith, no heresy, No God, no truth, no law, no certitude; Where in this world is man so bold as he? The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z But of all these stately certitudes there is not one but walks in darkness no human eye nor thought can penetrate. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z In eighteen years of close contact his wife had never penetrated the shell of certitude and personal elegance within which the judge moved. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Materialistic philosophy had already denied the existence of the soul, and of the invisible world; Kant proceeded to the denial of any certitude regarding the material and visible. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Religious certitude has for its foundation the feeling of subjective life, or moral evidence. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The fruit of certitude he cannot pluck, The path that leads thereto who never struck, Nor ever shook the bough with strenuous hand; To-day is lost; hope for to-morrow's luck. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Here again is something wonderful—something again replete with mystery and with certitude. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z For her own part Aunt Maggie had herself in hand again—was again possessed by the certitude that nothing could go amiss with her plans. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Shall the judgment of truth, on which certitude must found, exclude practical considerations of value, or shall the consideration of value have weight in the balance of certitude? International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z It is not surprising, lastly, that these two kinds of knowledge or of certitude should spring up and propagate themselves by different means. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z I was reminded of this experience by an excellent in yesterday’s WSJ, critical of certitude in science. Leaders of science-driven businesses should understand...science 2011-12-03T22:01:59Z And here again do mystery and certitude stand truly unified and harmonized. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z With them they took his coffin, expecting indeed to find him, but resigned to the certitude of finding his dead body only. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z Many will ask, what is the force of the proof, its power to persuade, and whether it carry complete certitude, or be defective. St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture 2011-11-28T03:00:25.013Z We must not say that in the one the certitude is greater than in the other. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Adherents who accept the theory of this life for this life dwell in a land of their own—the land of certitude. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z The veil parts, and he sees a “light and vision, which give to the contemplating spirit a conscious certitude that she sees God, so far as man may see Him in mortal life.” Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z Indeed, in all that portion of her relation to Mr. Jeffries she had no certitude; but she was only a little less certain on that account. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Christ is light without darkness; and to be like him implies a clearness of understanding and a certitude of truth free from all prejudice, distortion, and blinding error. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z There is no note of new discovery or fresh enthusiasm in it, but the certitude and calmness of facts long known and policies long confirmed by experiment. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z What is incapable of proof is usually decided by desire, and is without the conditions of uniformity or certitude. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z The veil that had seemed so transparent now thickens again; the certitudes that made life lovely all depart. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z According to Fries, the understanding is purely the faculty of proof; it is in itself void; immediate certitude is the only source of knowledge. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z I prudently said little save on an overwhelming certitude, but I think I encompassed it all and made my presence felt, now sweepingly, now as a mere deflection. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z There was a greater simplicity of faith, a more childlike certitude in the great truths of futurity, which we in our epoch are so ready to cavil at. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z "The truth of astrology," says the Prince Iphicrate, "is an incontestable fact, and no one can dispute against the certitude of its predictions." Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z “There are specifics — in that sense it was credible,” Mr. Biden said on Friday on the ABC News program “Good Morning America,” “but there’s no certitude.” Biden Describes Bomb Threat as Security Is Increased 2011-09-09T15:00:29Z Christ has cloven the rock, “the Breaker has gone up before” us, and by His resurrection alone we have the knowledge which is certitude, and the hope which is confidence, of an inheritance in light. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z The draught had not yet brought its accustomed poise of nerve—its tense certitude, its mental glow and confidence. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z And how solemn a thought is this, that the full certitude of His destiny expanded before the eyes of Jesus, just when He lifted them from those baptismal waters in which He stooped so low. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Jean-Claude observed him, and, notwithstanding the intoxication of his triumph and the certitude of having escaped famine, the old soldier could not suppress a feeling of admiration. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z The method of speculative cognition is to be distinguished from that of sensuous certitude, and from the reflection of the understanding by the exhaustive nature of its procedure. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z What we poor men need, is a certitude of a God who loves us and cares for us, has an arm that can help us, and a heart that will. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Few of the dates can be fixed with any certitude and it remains a matter of opinion in what order many of the events occurred. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z And the certitude of our moral obligations rests on the conviction that we have within us the power to meet them. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z It drives me crazy—people have such certitude about this. Anti-HIV Pills Show Powerful Effect Against AIDS 2011-07-13T18:26:40Z In all the growth of Christianity, no such certitude has been so universally and emphatically expressed, touching the continuance of human personality. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z There is no certitude firm enough for us to find sustaining power against life’s trials in resting upon it, but in Christ. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z This signal manifestation besides being a light to help to the understanding of what Christ meant by eternal life, was to furnish them with a reserve of certitude. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z For this moral conscience, this certitude with which the moral conscience affirms the existence of an unavoidable duty, might also be an illusion determined in us by natural causes. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z “But the witness had already stated on oath his certitude as to the identity of the men.” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Well, maybe not in the realm of metaphysical certitude, but pretty close. Global Finances: Will Greece Be the Next Lehman? 2011-06-15T06:01:03Z If we love, we shall possess an experience which verifies the truth for us, will give us an irrefragable demonstration which will bring certitude to ourselves, however little it may avail to convince others. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z In the ease of thought, originality is an ideal still more chimerical than certitude. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z But, as she put it down on the white counterpane, she had a feeling of expectant certitude that it was from Massingale. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z At one point, Mr. Weiner admitted that he could not say with “certitude” whether or not the man in the photo was him. Weiner Admits He Sent Lewd Photos; Vows Not to Resign 2011-06-07T01:30:37Z When asked if the photo was a picture of him, however, he replied with the now-famous words: "I can't say with certitude." "I didn't send the picture ..." 2011-06-06T21:40:00Z He says he can’t say “with certitude” that the photograph wasn’t of him, which is neither a felicitous phrase nor a great way of defusing the story. City Room: Weiner Has Done Himself No Favors ? Gotham 2011-06-02T23:29:06Z The universe was created for the expression of three verities, and to our misfortune, their certitude was proved five centuries before this evening. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z His odd but consistently worded answer: he could not say "with certitude" if it was or not, but "pictures can be manipulated, pictures can be dropped in and inserted." The Anthony Weiner Mystery: A Tricky News Package to Handle 2011-06-02T10:15:00Z The phrase “can’t say with certitude” will certainly lead many to believe that the photo is indeed of the congressman. Anthony Weiner Interview: Digs Even Deeper Hole! 2011-06-01T19:31:51Z It was his friend Gautier, with the plastic style, who attempted the well-nigh impossible feat of competing in his verbal descriptions with the certitudes of canvas and marble. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The fact of Descartes' existence was, to him, one above and beyond all logic, Evidence could not add to the certitude, no scepticism could impeach it. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z Perhaps the call disconcerted him; robbed the old servant's eye of its certitude; his arm of its sureness, for the blow aimed at his Excellency the latter was enabled to evade. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z And all with such a tigerish swing, such a wild and masterful certitude, that even Bowles could not but secretly admire him. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z But that certitude reflects bravado more often than true knowledge. Economic View: If You Have the Answers, Tell Me 2011-05-07T16:12:07Z Further attempts will be made in the coming days and weeks to recover as many bodies as was feasible, he said, “but there is no certitude that we will be able to raise them all.” Body in Jet Wreckage Is Retrieved From Sea Bottom 2011-05-05T20:05:49Z "Consciousness being the basis of all certitude, everything of which you are clearly and distinctly conscious must be true: everything which you clearly and distinctly conceive, exists, if the idea involve existence." Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z "Envy of the lucky man who obtained a certitude, whilst we had to be content with vague if gracious promises," he rejoined blandly. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z It is a case for living with mystery rather than demanding certitude. Is Hell Dead? 2011-04-14T08:45:00Z Thus this materialistic hypothesis, which boasts arrogantly of its certitude, begins in assumption and ends in a dilemma out of which confession of ignorance and acceptance of miracle only can extricate it. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Whether the molecule or the atom of the chemically elementary body is the “individual,” cannot be determined with any degree of certitude. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z But asking himself why he felt this certitude in the matter he had to confess that he didn't know. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z And now sons of Joel, courage, perseverance, hope—not only hope, but certitude. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Our betters ought to know better than we: they would be the last to wish that we should pretend to their knowledge, or assume a certitude which is theirs and is not ours. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z An essential note of certitude is that it should exclude all doubt, for as long as doubt remains there is only opinion. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z He hadn't that certitude of command over them, nor that confidence in their unhesitating approval of all he said and did. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z His certitude is just as strong now, even if he is unsure of the next step. Garden a Special Stop on Phil Jackson?s Farewell Tour 2011-02-10T22:19:00Z No contemporary parallel in our strange and rapidly changing times corresponds to the fixed certitude which permeated the whole of the end of the eighteenth century that the Catholic Faith was dead. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z It is very common to confuse infallibility with certitude, but the two words stand for things quite distinct from each other. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z A more probable opinion not only balances the opposition by its equal arguments, and thus puts away doubt, but it also wins assent by the surplus in its favor, and thus certitude is had. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z It had to go on, he believed, until the spreading certitudes of the scientific method pierced its unsubstantial thickets, burst its delusive films, drained away its folly. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z It brought certitude and happiness, and a sweet, tender remorse that she should ever have doubted. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z If you help me play the game this winter, you accomplish two things with tolerable certitude. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The English intelligence in particular shows itself as a rule congenitally incapable of appreciating the superior logical certitude of the deductive method. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z When the two opposites are equally probable, there is a state of true doubt, but certitude is had by recourse to the principles of possession and doubtful law. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The spirit of these radical views is not at all negative: it is hopeful, revolutionary, inspired entirely by love of certitude and clearness. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Bush's speech, throughout the 10 minutes he appeared on stage, contained the same moral certitude that was characteristic of his presidency. President George W. Bush breaks ground on new library 2010-11-16T20:14:00Z “Knowing this was a fraud with the highest degree of certitude, and having to watch people in the process of losing their life savings, was extremely difficult.” Whistle. Then Worry and Wait. 2010-10-09T19:08:00Z Those who had never been convinced before were now convinced by sheer force of reasoning; those who believed and those who wavered had their faith confirmed into something like the reposeful calm of absolute certitude. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z Direct certitude is not necessary for the judgment of conscience, for often, as in the cases just mentioned, it is not possible. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z If certitude were oil, public schools wouldn't need the largesse of people like Zuckerberg. 5 Lessons for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg About Education Philanthropy 2010-09-30T08:45:00Z That is another of the reasons why soccer is so endlessly appealing: like life, it is unpredictable, irreducible to scientific certitude. The Global Game: How Soccer Took Over the World 2010-06-04T17:00:00Z But in algorithmic times, “so” conveys an algorithmic certitude. Currents: 'So' Pushes to the Head of the Line 2010-05-21T11:20:00Z But ye would know the grounds of my certitude. John Knox It is much more than an inferential act, but it is distinct from an act of certitude. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent He had swung into the room with all the nonchalant habits, the ingrained certitude of the man born with achievement ready-made in his hands. The Valiants of Virginia And he connected it, as by some instantaneous certitude, with the play—with Egypt. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath "Thirty-two years," corrected Wedderburn in his voice of most reverberant certitude. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The question was put slowly, but the reply came with prompt and prideful certitude. The Tempering The evidence which we have of their presence lies in the phenomena which address our senses, and our warrant for taking these for evidence is our instinctive certitude that they are evidence. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Many, with Descartes, have delighted in them "on account of the certitude and evidence of their reasonings" and recognized their contribution to the advancement of mechanical arts. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude But at times a grim certitude fixed itself on him, that, having once loved, he could never love again. The Cottage of Delight A Novel The thoughts of your triumph recalls to me naturally the certitude of your good fortune. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. But she divined his unconfessed thought with the certitude of intuition. The Tempering As a conscientious deed is attended by a self-approval which nothing but itself can create, so certitude is united to a sentiment sui generis in which it lives and is manifested. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent And he shall live by kindness And the heart's certitude, Which moves without misgiving In ways not understood, Sure only of the vast event,— The large and simple good. Later Poems She had let her young friend alone because of the certitude, cultivated at Ricks, that Owen had done the opposite. The Spoils of Poynton Why do we rob ourselves of it, and live as if it were not so—as if such certitude and the joy that accompanies it had passed from earth and were no more possible? The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II Time has been my only enemy in thwarting my intentions until now—time and the multiplicity of material and documents to be gone through ere vague knowledge could be turned into certitude. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel It is the assent and the false certitude which are the cause of the tranquillity of mind. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Even doubt rests on certitude; alone with self I cannot get rid of this self. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" But there was nothing to account, as yet, for the wealth of Mrs. Gereth's certitude: the visit of the lady of Waterbath appeared but half to explain it. The Spoils of Poynton Now he adds that faith is that boldness and that wealth of certitude in so far as they rest upon reality and truth. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews And therein appeared the triumph of her masterful certitude. Where the Pavement Ends I allow this, and therefore I will call simple assent material certitude; or, to use a still more apposite term for it, interpretative certitude. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent I haven't, at all events, in spite of my certitude, interrogated Mrs. Server, and I give you my word of honour that I've not had any denial from her to prop up my doubt. The Sacred Fount "Not when you are innocent," he rejoined with the absolute certitude of a man who has never been called upon to face any really serious problem in life. The Heart of a Woman They could not add one number to another without quarrelling, and arithmetic itself, subjected to passion, lost its certitude. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels For a moment there was no certitude as to what this distant advancing force might be. Waterloo Certitude then is essential to the Christian; and if he is to persevere to the end, his certitude must include in it a principle of persistence. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent I saw him again sharply in these seconds, and to notice how he still kept clear of our company was almost to add certitude to the presumption of his rare reasons. The Sacred Fount Then to have to stand before her wondering what the next second would reveal, hardly daring to exchange fear for certitude, because of what that certitude might be. The Heart of a Woman The trembling lisp of every human soul, Of names more potent, then their own can be, Breathes the same lesson through, from pole to pole To prove the certitude of Deity. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation His blood began to course madly in his veins, as the certitude of the truth of his suspicion grew upon him. St. Peter's Umbrella It is the characteristic of certitude that its object is a truth, a truth as such, a proposition as true. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The certitude of the source of my present opportunity had rolled over me before we exchanged another word. The Sacred Fount And once more I was obsessed with the awful certitude that Luke would never be Earl of Radclyffe after me, while this man lived. The Heart of a Woman A belief in the possibility of rational certitude is implicit in every process of sincere criticism; but the discrimination or gradation of certitudes is the task of rational philosophy. Rationalism The sledge-wielder pours out more strength and certitude and joy in every blow than do you in your whole sheaf of songs. The Kempton-Wace Letters This is on the whole reasonable; yet are the stipulations, thus obviously necessary for an act or state of certitude, ever fulfilled? An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent I had interrupted her by the movement with which again, uncontrollably tossed on one of my surges of certitude, I turned away. The Sacred Fount But even as he knew that desperate certitude, he was filled with confusion and a panicky uncertainty. The Invaders His convictions were certitudes based on continual reading and reflection, and admitting in his mind of no qualification. The History of Freedom The Maori was a religious being, and when his old faith failed him in the hour of need, he turned to the new gospel of certitude and hope. A History of the English Church in New Zealand Is certitude then ever possible without the attendant gift of infallibility? can we know what is right in one case, unless we are secured against error in any? An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Mrs. Server's quandary—which was now all I cared for—was exactly in her own certitude of every absence of issue. The Sacred Fount A false idea, therefore, in so far as it is false, does not involve certitude. The Philosophy of Spinoza If this was a stimulus to exertion during the years spent in mastering and pondering the immense materials, it served less to promote originality and care than premature certitude and the craving for quick returns. The History of Freedom Open your hands wide—let me see the fingers spread, you dog—throw down that thing you’re holding!” he roared, his rage and certitude increasing together. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston This is what may be objected: now let us see what can be said in answer, particularly as regards religious certitude. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent There were implications in it to which I couldn't be blind, and I felt how my neighbour also would have caught them and been confirmed in her certitude. The Sacred Fount For by certitude we understand something positive, and not the privation of doubt; but by the privation of certitude we understand falsity. The Philosophy of Spinoza Then, turning, they fled south before the gale with what certitude they might. The Wilderness Trail They had been nice, they had thanked her handsomely for her handsome present, but nothing could modify her regretful certitude that Brenda did not care for her. Aurora the Magnificent It is a proof which is sufficient for certitude in the particular case, or a proof that is certain. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent He sought and found in the human faculties the test of truth, not dwelling, like Strauss, on their tendency to deceive; but, like Schelling, on their certitude. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Moreover, Scripture warrants the statement that the certitude of the prophets was not mathematical, but moral. The Philosophy of Spinoza He asked for spiritual certitude: “Unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding.” The Prayers of St. Paul In religion there is no certitude on this side of the grave; if we are ever destined to know the truth on that subject, we must die to find it out. Bible Romances First Series Ipso facto they cease to be certitudes,—they come short of unconditional assents by the measure of that counterfeit assurance. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The Abbé Bautain improved upon this system by placing the ground of certitude in the authority of Revelation, and considered the office of philosophy to end when it has shown the necessity of a revelation. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The whole question of the certitude of prophecy was based on these three considerations:— 1. The Philosophy of Spinoza Now, the development of knowledge which makes this the only permissible idea of God, also changes Immortality from a religious certitude to an unverifiable supposition. Arrows of Freethought The future cannot indeed be demonstrated; it can only be predicted, and prediction can never amount to an absolute certitude; yet it may amount to a height of probability which is practically the same thing. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) If then my certitude is unfounded, it is the reasoning that is in fault, not my assent to it. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Having searched for certitude, he had found its basis in consciousness; he next wanted a method, and hoped he had found it in mathematics. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." But the mind possesses no certitude, unless in so far as it possesses adequate ideas, or in so far as it reasons. The Philosophy of Spinoza The long embrace in which they held each other was the rout of evasion, and he took from it the certitude that what she had from him was real to her. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II There is also a strong hope, rather than the certitude, of a future life. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) It is the law of my mind to seal up the conclusions to which ratiocination has brought me, by that formal assent which I have called a certitude. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent The basis of certitude being consciousness, he interrogated his consciousness, and found that he had an idea of a substance infinite, eternal, immutable, independent, omniscient, omnipotent. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." It must be possible to determine, with the certitude obtainable in the exact sciences, what things are good for man and what means he has for attaining them. The Philosophy of Spinoza The early certitude on the sex-differences in the weight of the brain and in the proportion of the cerebral lobes has been completely turned upside down. The Truth About Woman Until then no man has any certitude; not even the most pious Christian that ever rolled his eyes in prayer to his Maker, or whined out the confession of his contemptible sins. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) It is the loud announcement of the principle of right in the details of conduct, as the sense of certitude is the clear witness to what is true. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Des Cartes was of opinion that his demonstrations of the existence of God "equal or even surpass in certitude the demonstrations of geometry." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Still the certitude of prophecy remains, as I have said, merely moral; for no one can justify himself before God, nor boast that he is an instrument for God's goodness. The Philosophy of Spinoza But Henry was not for a single instant blind to the certitude that, if his next book realized two thousand pounds, the credit would be due to himself, and to no other person whatever. A Great Man A Frolic Being in an entirely abnormal state, he had a curious certitude of the proper course to adopt. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Both certitude and conscience have a place in the normal condition of the mind. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent He has already told us that the basis of all certitude is consciousness—that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived, must be true—that imperfect and complex conceptions are false ones. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." In this respect, prophetic knowledge is inferior to natural knowledge, which needs no sign, and in itself implies certitude. The Philosophy of Spinoza Any uncertainty Saint-Prosper might have felt regarding the identity of him he sought, or the reason for that day’s work, now became compelling certitude. The Strollers When several 261presumptions all point in the same direction they confirm each other, and end by producing a legitimate certitude. Introduction to the Study of History Or at least bystanders thus speak of them, and the very idea of certitude falls into disrepute. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent I have determined to examine this matter, just to see what certitude there can be on this point; and I shall divide this Dissertation into four parts. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Its strictures are far too sweeping; it has the dogmatism and the note of certitude to which youth is prone. War Letters of a Public-School Boy In addition they perfected the mobility of even the heaviest of pieces, so that it became impossible for observation from the Franco-British ships or from aeroplanes to locate them with any certitude. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources He utterly repudiates all the attempts made by Newman and others to get out of the dilemma by some logical device for transmuting a mere estimate of probabilities into a conclusion of demonstrable certitude. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Another restriction is this:—the occasions or subject-matters of certitude are under law also. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent In mathematics we arrive at certitude by —— demonstration. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions This mighty truth came home to Hugh that quiet afternoon with a luminous certitude, a vast increase of hopefulness such as he had seldom experienced before. Beside Still Waters But as there is not “one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of woman cannot be treated with scientific certitude.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Newman, believing in the necessity of dogma, holds that we are justified in transmuting the belief corresponding to probability into such 'certitude' as corresponds to demonstration. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice They neither can possess, nor need certitude, nor do they look out for it. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent What liberty, certitude, and independence of judgment; what novelty and freshness of insight! On the Future of our Educational Institutions I need the certitude Of thine esteem that I may check the feud Of mine own thoughts that rend and anger me Because denied the boon for which I sued. A Lover's Litanies Are the inhabitants justified on that account in holding with certitude that the remaining 975 chambers are built on the same plan?” A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive In the clear certitude of such doctrines is a basis for action and for civilization. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work Hence it is that—the province of certitude being so contracted, and that of opinion so large—it is common to call probability the guide of life. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent We may further add, it is the effort of the human mind to attain to truth and certitude on purely rational grounds, uncontrolled by traditional authorities. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles They preferred the argument of doubt to the argument of certitude, and sought to defeat intolerance by casting out revelation as they had defeated the persecution of witches by casting out the devil. Lectures on the French Revolution I think it enough for religion, in the case at least of those who have got beyond the infant need for certitudes and dogmas. Appearances Being Notes of Travel But it is almost more difficult to identify these Geraints than it is to attain any certitude about King Arthur himself. The Cornwall Coast Sacrifice of wealth, name, or position, faith and hope, self-conquest, communion with the spiritual world, presuppose a real hold and habitual intuition of the objects of Revelation, which is certitude under another name. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Neither the sense alone, nor the reason alone, were for him a ground of certitude. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles This smug nihilism with its superior air of scientific wisdom, is often only the opposite pole of the dogmatic certitude of the churchman. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology Principles are felt, propositions deduced, and both with certitude, although in different ways. Pascal I never saw the place, and my knowledge of it is confined to a bald hearsay, albeit of the Deeds that were done within its walls I can affirm the certitude with Truth. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... All doctrines besides these were the accidents of his profession, and the indefectibility of certitude would not be disproved, though he changed them every year. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent For what a contradictory array of opinions have objective evidence and absolute certitude been claimed! The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy No one knew better than Schwalbe that the British patrol-boats would be in a position to locate with uncanny certitude the presence of their quarry, unless the strictest silence were maintained by the fugitive. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War That certitude and insistence of Mrs. Harrington's could hammer you finally into believing or doing almost anything. The Rose-Garden Husband But awareness of any fact may be in varying degrees from serious suspicion up to positive certitude. Miracles and Supernatural Religion Not even are idolaters and heathen out of the range of some of these religious truths and their correlative certitudes. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent But please observe, now, that when as empiricists we give up the doctrine of objective certitude, we do not thereby give up the quest or hope of truth itself. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Taking careful soundings with his ice-axe and using his crampons with almost uncanny certitude, he guided his companions through a moraine and debouched on to a tremendous glacier. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 And now, six months after George's marriage, it was borne in upon her with appalling certitude that George was necessary to her, and that he was not there. The Creators A Comedy Mr. Stephen, however, is well aware that empirical certitude will not supply the place of religion. Studies in Literature and History There is indeed another class of beliefs, of which I must take notice, the failure of which may be taken at first sight as a proof that certitude may be lost. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy He pointed to Christ with unfaltering certitude, saying, This is He, the Lamb of God, the Son of the Father, the Bridegroom of the soul. John the Baptist Defer to the you, she has certitude for, me? thanks, lad!— but why argue about it?— or fancy I'm lonesome?— do I look as though you had to? American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany On the cover of the letter he added, “I conjure thee, my friend, not to break this seal until thou shalt have acquired the certitude that I am dead.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Certitude does not admit of an interior, immediate test, sufficient to discriminate it from false certitude. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent If we had an infallible intellect with its objective certitudes, we might feel ourselves disloyal to such a perfect organ of knowledge in not trusting to it exclusively, in not waiting for its releasing word. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy He first wished to find a basis of certitude—a starting-point: this he found in consciousness. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 This certitude was so far from agreeable to him that he almost found it in him to drop the endearing title by which he had hitherto addressed her. A London Life and Other Tales |
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