Sentences with phrase «old certitudes»

The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.

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Because the church has been intimately connected with the old patterns of certitude, privilege and domination, it shares a common jeopardy with other old institutions.

Home we come again, then, to the old and last resort of certitude, - namely the common assent of mankind, or of the competent by instruction and training among mankind.»

She'll be shown to be wrong 6 ways to Sunday on some issue (to use an old fashioned phrase), to which she responds with evasions or outright silence, then comes right back with something else 10 minutes later, her confidence and certitude not one whit reduced.