But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
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Erasmus was horrified — horrified at the violence of Luther's certitude, horrified at the violence his certitude bred within Christendom.
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But there remained little certitude for US policy going forward.
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Can I say with 100 percent certitude that they've worked?
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And from America's sweetheart, that certitude is all you need.
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Certitude leads to violence — not inevitably, but far too often.
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But it shattered my sense of certitude about what I wanted.
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Fraternity, dominance, adamance, certitude — these are the commandments of male identity.
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Weiner said he couldn't say "with certitude" if the underwear was his. .
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Whatever his political sympathies, he never had the certitude required for activism.
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When obvious certitude is lacking, we still must act and do things.
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That situation should have been handled with great sympathy, but also certitude.
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Alan's emphatic certitude is probably sincere but is groundless and deeply misleading.
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Watch, I warned Domingo with the certitude of a pro at billiards.
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They're challenging the certitude of a generation of historians who preceded them.
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But Wall Street certitude about this is a little difficult to understand.
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I wish I had the certitude that some of my colleagues expressed.
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Unlikely. There's not much to stop us from claiming certitude all the time.
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But of all of those people, we have some certitude about my father.
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The Haggler assumes that Mr. Gregg is pleased, but certitude here is impossible.
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The reality is that, despite great certitude on all sides, no one really knows.
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We just need to be wary about misinterpreting their numerical certitude for factual completeness.
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Again, to a degree of certitude that should be sufficient, they should be suppressed.
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A petroleum engineer and devout Muslim, his personality mixes earthbound practicality with heaven-sighted certitude.
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"One hundred percent," of course, connotes certitude, round-the-clock commitment, totality, crystal clarity, perfection.
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He also succeeds in locating a plangent, unpatronizing humor in Ginny's literalness and deadpan certitude.
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Excessive certitude can lead to corrective actions that waste resources without achieving the desired effect.
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"I say it all in certitude: Abdelaziz Bouteflika is alive," said the ambassador, Abdelkader Mesdoua.
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In fact, few in the scientific community would claim certitude about the impacts, as Stephens suggests.
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Les autorités sanitaires s'efforcent de retracer le trajet de la contamination mais n'ont pas de certitude.
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He talked with less certitude about moving on to other states and appeared almost wistful at times.
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Trump sometimes strings these phrases together in whole passages that suggest a certitude that is clearly absent.
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It was about the perils of certitude in all things, not just climate but also political campaigning.
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Instead of being educated to a cultured skepticism, too many have been educated to a fervent certitude.
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Perhaps if there had been less certitude and more second-guessing in Clinton's campaign, she'd be president.
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In addition, a number of other Republican senators have expressed varying qualms, with varying degrees of certitude.
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" In the same piece, Arianna Huffington remarks on Clinton's "self-righteousness," Peggy Noonan on her "apple-cheeked certitude.
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Such fundamentals may not seem fashionable in a media industrial complex that rewards logorrheic punditry and feigned certitude.
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"We're skeptical of the certitude" of the finding of suicide by hanging by the medical examiner, he said.
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And now "canon" has migrated from noun to adjective, giving the word thunder and muscle and curatorial certitude.
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Rather than acknowledging the role of climate change denial, he blames scientists and their allies for alleged certitude.
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"Sadly, these viruses pop up time to time," Mr. Hannity said, with the certitude of a medical professional.
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The dot-com bust was hurtling toward the internet with the speed and certitude of the Chicxulub asteroid.
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"We're going to do a lot better because there's going to be a shootout," he claimed with signature certitude.
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Distinctively, the building literalizes this view, forcing us to look up — delivering circularity rather than conclusion, surprise over certitude.
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They conveyed an annoyance at the McKinsey consultant certitude with which Mr. Buttigieg analyzes and makes pronouncements about the primary.
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The information about the most newsworthy meeting (in the spring of 2016) is vaguely worded, suggesting a lack of certitude.
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As such, when they report information they could not possibly know with certitude, those reports are equivalent to fake news.
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There are some days when the certitude of violent Black death feels like the only thing that's real to me.
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They embrace new truths with the convert's fervor and certitude—Oppenheimer's "contingency and complexity of belief" is not for them.
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Perhaps most worrying to his European allies, there's little he can say with certitude about Trump's plans for checking Russia's aggressions.
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Debate about how to improve the world loses its purpose—because of Marx's certitude about progress, Rousseau's pessimism or Nietzsche's subjectivity.
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Science in space may seem full of certitude and beauty, but a lot of it is guesswork and also somewhat gruesome.
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His certitude faltered, however, in the presence of women: Ullrich depicts Hitler's love life as a series of largely unfulfilled fixations.
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And if I can't tell you exactly what's going to happen with some sort of certitude, then the results become meaningless.
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She sees in both a smug certitude whose source and symptom is a gross simplification of both the Bible and reality.
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I've taken the epigraph for this column from the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who knew something about the evils of certitude.
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It's as if he puts language through a meat grinder and what emerges is nearly unrecognizable, in either comprehension or certitude.
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These uncertainties surely should weaken the certitude with which advocates claim that human activities are the dominant cause of climate change.
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You&aposre a member of a tribalist, blindered mob, imbued with a false sense of certitude that allows you [to] justify incivility.
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"We're skeptical of the certitude" of the finding of suicide by hanging by the New York City medical examiner, the lawyer said.
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Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.
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Johansson is playing a woman whose certitude has, for years, been divided by marital second guesses, by Charlie's (and Driver's) emotional bigness.
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"The blessing or the curse — depending on one's vantage point — of a binding contract is its certitude," Gee said in the order.
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So next time you play Wolfenstein, skip the weapon upgrade and go straight for the best power-up in the game: moral certitude.
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But, as elsewhere, the dust-up pitted her old sense of openness against students' moral certitude and tightly circumscribed idea of proper discourse.
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It's more that talking about sports with a sense of Olympian certitude is the most high-handed and boring way to be wrong.
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That obstinacy might have been a trait worth dwelling on given Packer's critique of the certitude that he believes defines our intellectual moment.
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As played by Tcheky Karyo ("La Femme Nikita"), Baptiste has a Gallic world-weariness and certitude that take on epic, almost comic dimensions.
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"I predict with absolute certitude, the jettisoning of concepts such as CVE," Sebastian Gorka said in November, a day after Trump won the election.
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"Of course, it is a risk on certitude for a certain period of time and afterwards to see how things evolve," Pro told CNBC.
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He has emerged as the most galling villain in Game of Thrones, addressing every appeal to mercy or reason with the fanatic's unclouded certitude.
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Failing to adopt a simpler legal process will only undermine regulatory certitude, risk millions in investments made by private companies, and hinder economic growth.
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Those accomplishments heralded professional possibilities, and with his future beckoning, Vander Laan analyzed the situation with cleareyed certitude: He was no longer a quarterback.
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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.
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By taking a derogatory caricature like Aunt Jemima and outfitting her with weapons, Ms. Saar transforms her into an image of power and certitude.
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Cette certitude ne les dispose pas à croire que les espèces évoluent ou connaissent l'extinction, ou que des êtres vivants ont préexisté à l'homme.
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French investigators concluded "with certitude" that the debris — a piece of an aircraft wing known as a flaperon — came from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777.
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One measure of the paper's contrarian vitality was the certitude with which diehard readers of any era could say exactly when its quality went downhill.
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He is a person who lacks the certitude of conviction; he is, rather, a chameleon who changes his speech and attitude to suit the occasion.
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He combines the deductive discipline of Mr. Spock, the D.I.Y. proficiency of MacGyver, and the gleeful certitude (and knack for coinage) of Ignatius J. Reilly.
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While I was academic and heavily involved in athletics, student government and drama, I couldn't with absolute certitude say where I hoped my path took me.
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But there was also a lack of skepticism about some of the evidence, and a tone of certitude about where that evidence was bound to lead.
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However, the prime minister sounded a different note on Monday morning, with Reuters reporting that May was keen to play down the certitude of a "hard" Brexit.
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Yet having sat at the tables of power in Washington DC, I can say with certitude that policymakers are often derelict in their most basic of duties.
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Otherwise, the presumptive Democratic front-runner communicates a sense of moral and ideological certitude — unrelentingly sustained for decades — that seems to thrill his followers but terrifies me.
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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.
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In a political environment increasingly defined by overconfidence, unflinching certitude and uncompromising fidelity to a specific worldview, Gillibrand expressed caution and even remorse when she was uncertain.
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JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, "MEET THE PRESS"/MAY 28: By the time I left, I did not see any smoking gun certitude evidence of collusion.
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Like an internet meme gone so viral that politicians cite it with certitude, that "day or two younger" figure was repeated in lectures and textbooks the world over.
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The intransigence and the certitude that may now cause her to be remembered as an enemy of freedom are the same qualities that served her well in captivity.
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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.
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And because that "certainty" is based on the reference data set and the algorithm the company uses, even that certitude evaporates if the data set or algorithm changes.
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Multi-generational support The certitude of Sanders voters, both in the candidate's convictions and in their support for him, is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of his candidacy.
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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.
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Newlywed Newlywed: When it comes to relationships, I seldom react with total certitude, because I acknowledge that most relationships are complex, layered and — with effort — are often reparable.
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While I'm not sure if we'll ever determine the certitude of Ford's allegations, what we do know he was entrenched in a misogynist culture in high school [and college].
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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.
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In an era of presidential blather and bluster, the quiet certitude of the Bartlet administration fills a need for a more optimistic view of what our politics could be.
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Pratt told him about Wes's premonitions of death and fear about how the occupation would turn out, but by the time we'd finished, he was back to his usual certitude.
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The civil war that Hanson envisions arises not from practical things but from ideologically imposed views that do not allow for any contrary opinions, only the certitude of the ideology.
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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.
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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.
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Mr. Cumpsty, who has a talent for subtly expressing the lonely souls of strong characters, finds the wounds and damaged masculinity that live inside Paul's walls of certitude, decorum and distance.
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In the conversation between a car and a charging station, the PKI is what provides the kind of certitude you want a computer to have before it charges your credit card.
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To their credit, the FiveThirtyEight team understands all this and has been trying to sound the uncertainty alarm at every turn, rather than voicing excessive and specific certitude in their forecasts.
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"The very worst scenario – and the most dangerous and irresponsible one for the future of France – would be to assume that an eventual Macron victory was a certitude," the paper said.
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Our president embraces pompous certitude as a sign of strength and scorns modesty (and/or humility) as a manifest weakness within himself and his adversaries and most probably among his advisers.
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The fact that this estimate varies by a factor of 3 demonstrates the extent of uncertainty and why reasonable people can disagree over advocates certitude and the extent of human influence.
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The trouble with both camps is one of forecasting everywhere: We hear an abundance of assertion; and since professionals are paid to make these forecasts, we also hear a lot of certitude.
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When he says he'll figure it out and that it will be the best ever, the certitude is sufficient, just vague enough to be possible, simultaneously reinforcing his omnipotence and their faith.
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More than likely, Tillerson and Trump aren't on the same page on this issue, certainly not with respect to the urgency and certitude that Tillerson expressed about the imminence of Assad's end.
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"They cannot tell the truth, mostly because they lack moral certitude, they cannot possibly reveal the fundamental fact that it is the progressives in America that are the real racists," he continued.
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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.
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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.
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Jonathan Chait, for instance, is a liberal technocrat, nostalgic for the certitude of Cold War liberalism and adept at writing forcefully wonkish briefs for Democratic Party policies on health care and economic policy.
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Equity markets have rallied this month as investors priced in a rate cut as early as the Fed's July policy-setting meeting, where a 25 basis point cut is being seen with certitude.
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And I felt really a little guilty because we were the only ones that had some certitude but just because there&aposs a dog tag there doesn&apost mean that his remains are there.
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The pool of children separated is relatively small compared to many other disasters, such as the Haiti earthquake or Thailand's tsunami; the number of facilities holding these children should be known with some certitude.
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Given that it is mostly used to insult people, signal ill-informed certitude, and share pissily passionate opinions on deeply trivial celebrity-related goings-on, it should be no surprise that Trump loves it.
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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.
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But one thing I can tell you, a fact I know with certitude, is that this Dorie Greenspan recipe for chocolate cake (above) ought to be on your shortlist for birthdays and celebrations, forevermore.
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That cause is embraced with virtually cultlike certitude by almost all Conservative members now, and Mr. Johnson has doubled down, promising to leave the European Union with or without a deal on Oct. 31.
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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.
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I don't think ... again, to a degree of certitude that is sufficient, I think the machines we own should suppress the machines they own when they try to pretend as if they're real people.
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"As I look back on the years shared together, it's with certitude that I say that no single person has ever affected or influenced me more as much as my older brother," Paul Igaz wrote.
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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. ♦
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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.
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He tackles questions on policy seriously, has interests in the interplay of technology and society, emphasizes the importance of public institutions and generally draws a distinction between Mr. Modi's certitude and his own willingness to learn.
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Fontana still has the power to overcome the tyranny of the discreet paradigms into which acid art and religious art are placed, to re-contextualize them away from certitude and keep art an open, fluid, mythical conduit.
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Their wildly racing emotions and thoughts make them ideal protagonists for stories, because they will often embark on completely destructive courses of action with the certitude that they are doing exactly what they need to be doing.
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For Luther, who as a young monk had suffered from Anfechtungen (his word for the terror and despair at the thought that God would momentarily be judging him and find him failing), only apodictic certitude would do.
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Filled with works that reverberate as much for their aesthetic sensibilities as for their historical significance, Fadda's exhibition takes on identity politics in the region that she refers to as the "Global South" with a quiet certitude.
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Recent Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush presented themselves not as masters of complex international dynamics but as decisive men of action and conviction who would move with moral certitude to protect American national security.
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Because of its absolute certitude in its moral superiority on matters of race, gender, abortion, #MeToo, income inequality, climate, immigration, and guns, this new version of the party has made clear it believes the ends justify the means.
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Poem Selected by RITA DOVE Who among us hasn't looked back at youth with rueful bemusement — all that impatience and hunger and certitude, that yearning for tragic emotion, for an adult heartache that will come all too soon?
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If Berkeley's violent protesters don't see this through the blinders of moral certitude, it's clear enough to the rest of us: They could hardly have done more in the service of speech and ideas they hated if they tried.
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Minimalist repetition turns into pop certitude, and the arrangements — sorting out the many tracks Mr. Curtis recorded — set aside the buzzy, abrasive keyboard tones of the group's 2012 album, "Ghostory," for a sonic vocabulary of reverberation and depth, of optimistic promise.
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The description of the "Heterodox Science" course, which Berkeley Institute's director Matthew Rose told me was furnished by the instructor, reads: From past experience we know that our certitude has often been misplaced and that scientific knowledge has usually been flawed.
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To the issue of criminality, let there be no doubt: Even a layman's familiarity of the simplest variety leaves you with the certitude that the author committed sedition; any decent dictionary will define that crime as resistance to a lawful authority.
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But his certitude never wavered, even after Ms. Corcoran's lawyer, Mr. Seltzer, confronted him with article after article in which Mr. Trump himself had discussed with reporters much of the same "confidential" information he accused Ms. Corcoran's team of divulging.
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Above gospel piano chords from Mr. Oldham, and strings that moved from encouraging to ecstatic, Aretha unleashed a vocal infused with such certitude and spirit, it seemed to distill the essence of whatever it may mean to be a woman.
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For years, an unwavering certitude of industry, think tanks, demographers, policy-makers and city planners everywhere has been that humanity is moving to the city: We just needed to figure out how to house, employ and feed everyone in a condensed space.
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Stan is a man of conviction and certitude, and—while we might disagree with many of his takes—there's no denying that they are as hot as the fire of a thousand suns, and that he really, really means what he says.
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Republican electoral gains show voters reject president's vision President Obama sports a certitude about himself and his vision that belies all the defeats he has suffered during his time in the White House ("Obama touts economy, knocks rivals in final SOTU address," Jan. 12).
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Whether due to a rejection of the staggering certitude of Greenberg's formalism, the deep veins of racism/classism/sexism running through twentieth- century criticism and curation, or the closely guarded access to institutions of art, these historical narratives are undergoing an intensive curatorial corrective.
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M. Joshua Cauller writes about how playing Hellblade requires a sympathetic suspension of certitude about the nature of reality, in order to help the protagonist deal with the world as she perceives it, whether or not her struggles are the result of paranoid delusions.
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While the era was one of Western triumphalism, when it was widely assumed that Russia and other newly freed countries would inevitably embrace liberal democracy — a view most famously expressed in Francis Fukuyama's 1989 essay, "The End of History" — Soros did not share that certitude.
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But when Ricciardi and Demos approached her about participating in "Making a Murderer" she declined, chiefly because, while her own experience with the criminal-justice system had led her to be wary of certitude, the filmmakers struck her as having already made up their minds.
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Its floor-level rectangular vitrine contains textured foam pads, sprinklings of dirt and minerals, and a plethora of slapdash display labels ("Microclimate Circulation"; "Language Barrier"; "Radical Encyclical"; "The People's International Cooperative Development Center") that evoke taxonomic natural history museum displays but undercut Linnaean certitude through disjunction.
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You focus in on the importance for good art of a mental and visceral openness that escapes certitude to the point where the formal definition of the work of art itself (via Duchamp) is open to interpretation — something Umberto Eco also identified well in his book The Open Work.
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In recent decades, as DNA testing and other advancements have solved abandoned cases and overturned old convictions, the public has had to process the fact that, more often than anybody could be comfortable with, the certitude and authority of criminal investigations might be a bit of a sham.
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Until that shape of the new "Trump doctrine" is fleshed out, all we can say with certitude today is that the "Never Trumpers" of the "swamp," former KGB colonels in Moscow, politburo members in Pyongyang and Beijing, and the mullahs of Iran are a tad more uneasy today than they were yesterday.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — In President George W. Bush's last year in office, his former press secretary, Scott McClellan, wrote a tell-all book concluding that the Iraq war was a "serious strategic blunder" based on the "ambition, certitude and self-deceit" of a White House that was not fully honest with the American people.
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Inflamed by the smug moral certitude of the chief prosecutor, Giuliano Mignini, and by the smutty insinuations of reporters like Nick Pisa — a former contributor to The Daily Mail of London who marvels that anyone would expect fact-checking in the race to the front page — the public was all too eager to embrace rumor over reason.
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CHARLES MCDANIEL, SON OF MISSING KOREAN WAR VETERAN: We are just overwhelmed, or I am, that all of these boxes that came back and out of all of these thousands of people that we&aposre the only one that has certitude on at least, I mean, is it possible obviously my father is alive someplace and he lost his dog tag?
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But in the expert — and often ironically skeptical — hands of filmmaker Errol Morris, what could have been an exercise in self-justification becomes a haunting memoir of the ultimate Washington insider, whose willingness to recognize his mistakes is offset by an unmistakable moral certitude that lingers, even when he admits he and the men he was advising were grievously wrong.
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The fact he has been courageous enough to go as an actor to a place where you don't know whether to love him or hate him; you don't know whether it's from insecurity or certitude; you don't know whether it's because he desperately needs another success, or because he believes in something artistic and he's being manipulative, or because he's just being a vindictive SOB.
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I don't know if it was the directness and certitude of his statement that rattled me—he was always clinical, always rational, always dry—or that his death was no longer just an idea—it was happening, it was real—or if, during the week I'd spent by his side, we had bonded without my knowledge or consent and, all of a sudden, I loved him.
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We were dazed with pain and also with the sick sensation that comes to you when you have not expected something to happen as it did, but, as it begins to happen, you remember that you have in fact experienced it before, and this fact determines, in the way of a sequence of bolts locking a sequence of doors, the certitude that it will recur.
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Regarding the company's certitude that the eclipse was the cause of the disaster, Chris Wilke, executive director of the Puget Soundkeeper, an environmental non-profit, said, "Part of the feed going to these salmon is chicken feed, but this is B.S." Likewise, The Wild Fish Conservancy pointed out in a statement that on July 27—well before the eclipse—another pen controlled by Cooke Aquaculture broke free from its anchor.
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It emerged, not coincidentally, in the wake of the ensanguined doctrinal disputes that killed off Europeans at a higher percentage of their population than did World War I. Modern philosophy would be marked by its refocus on epistemology, which scrupulously analyzes the conditions for knowledge, as opposed to mere belief, and which recognizes, in the spirit of Erasmus, that among the threats to human flourishing, we should not underestimate the dangers of misplaced certitude.
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But he also works in the manner of the authors of thrillers, who, to convey the motives of their characters, present clues that are sometimes seemingly insignificant along with others that are immediately enlightening: a name in an old directory; a faded photo; an illegible address on a piece of cardboard; an incomprehensible but unyielding silence; a classroom in a Polish city, the walls of which echo with the anger of a law student (Lemkin) challenging his professor about the case of a young Armenian charged with the murder of one of the perpetrators of the first modern genocide; or the novelistic situation of a law professor (Lauterpacht) arriving in Nuremberg with the certitude that his own family was exterminated by the very man he has come to charge and judge.
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