I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.

Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: " I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.

Those pains which mean certain death when ignored will become the most powerfully felt.

Katherine Holman was certain that Harthacnut was poisoned, but felt that that the culprit will never be known with certainty due to " no shortage of discontented candidates.

Even if the king was not accountable for his management of the kingdom's entries, he may have felt responsible to defend his administration on certain occasions: Arrian tells us that during the mutiny of Alexander's soldiers at Opis in 324 BC, Alexander detailed the possessions of his father at his death to prove he had not abused his charge.

Throughout history, there have been many who have claimed having secret knowledge was result of great often supernatural powers, insofar as certain platitudes alluding to an ability and knowledge of the occult ( literally, " hidden ") techniques oft felt could be of great import.

I sometimes felt, paradoxically, closer to Austin analytic philosopher than to a certain Continental tradition from which Searle, on the contrary, has inherited numerous gestures and a logic I try to deconstruct.

As long as I didn't open my mouth, I felt a certain security.

The curvature of a curve can naturally be considered as a kinematic quantity, representing the force felt by a certain observer moving along the curve ; analogously, curvature in higher dimensions can be regarded as a kind of tidal force ( this is one way of thinking of the sectional curvature ).

In the 20th and 21st centuries, these ideas were combined with appeals by certain modern churches and neo-pagan and New Age groups seeking to recover something of ancient spirituality that is felt to be missing from the modern world.

Angered by management's failure to pay him certain incentive awards he felt he was due, Barry sat out the 1967 – 68 season, joining the Oakland Oaks of the rival American Basketball Association the following year.

Johnson decided not to take the job permanently due to what he felt was a lack of commitment from certain players, and Los Angeles ended the season with a 10 game losing streak to finish 33 – 49 and out of the playoffs.

It was rejected for seeming too bleak ; the final exit from the hospital was intended to imply Selena and Hannah's survival, whereas test audiences felt that the women were marching off to certain death.

If the Director of Public Prosecutions ( DPP ) felt that a certain video might be in breach of the Act, then a prosecution could be brought against the film's producers, distributors and retailers.

As an adult, Rio soon discovered his musical talents which opened a way for him to express himself, thus enabling him to overcome restraints he otherwise felt due to a certain, intrinsic insecurity or shyness towards other people.

As could be seen by the prospectus, as political objectives went, the programme was certain to be of immense assistance to Daniel O ' Connell in his efforts to revive the agitation for Repeal, but O ' Connell also knew and felt that he was receiving, for the present, a powerful support from them ; but he knew also, that they were outside of his influence, and did not implicitly believe that Repeal would be yielded to " agitation "; that they were continually seeking, by their writings, to arouse a military spirit among the people ; showing plainly, that while they helped the Repeal Association, they fully expected that the liberties of the country must be fought for in the end: it was in appearance only that they worked in harmony.

Anderson said that in contrast to the group's previous albums, which he felt " suffered at certain times from being quite obscure ," he intended Coming Up to be " almost like a ' greatest hits '".

Comparing the two maps, he found the separate arcs formed a circle, 180 km ( 111 mi ) wide, centered near the Yucatán village Chicxulub ; he felt certain the shape had been created by a cataclysmic event in geologic history.

RJR's management team, working with Shearson and Salomon Brothers, submitted a bid of $ 112, a figure they felt certain would enable them to outflank any response by Kravis's team.

Ironically Snow White was an enormous success, but Walt had previously read a book on psychology, so instead of giving out bonuses to everyone he gave out " salary adjustments " to certain animators who he felt did exceptional work.

Without denying the applicability of the Austrian theory of value as subjective only, within certain contexts of price behavior, the Polish economist Oskar Lange felt it was necessary to attempt a serious integration of the insights of classical political economy with neo-classical economics.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

Mama always felt that the collection symbolized Mrs. Coolidge's wish for a little girl.

Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.

Students testify to a felt need for a religious faith or ultimate personal philosophy.

The mild activity of his command during the sojourn of the troops at Valley Forge could be handled by a subordinate, he felt, so like Henry Knox, equally loyal to Washington, who went to Boston at this time, Morgan received permission to visit his home in Virginia for several weeks.

The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.

Sir -- I read of a man who felt he should not build a fallout shelter in his home because it would be selfish for him to sit secure while his neighbors had no shelters.

He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

In his sculpture therefore it would not be possible for him to project anything of what Jesus felt for his mother ; ;

only what Mary felt for her son.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.