sureness

How to use sureness in a sentence

She had reached a stage when she seemed to be no longer feeling her way, working, when in the humor, with sureness and ease.

It is such a delightful mixture of vagueness and cock-sureness, and even more picturesque than Romanism.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Besides, the slowness of the postillion Joshua Abnett, which probably helped to the delay, was warrant of his sureness.

And it will be victory, said Veronica, with a 267 sureness of tone that was vastly comforting to Marjorie.

But here it is, that the extraordinary sureness and precision of the mind of Homer stands us in such admirable stead.

That working is coldly mechanical, and is not distinguished either by lightness or by sureness of touch.

RICHARD WAGNERJOHN F. RUNCIMAN

It was an historical subject, treated with a spirit and a sureness of touch almost worthy of Titian himself.

And, with no emotion whatever but a certain grim sureness of himself, he at last adjusted the entirely red cravat.

BUNKER BEANHARRY LEON WILSON

And thus fame, which slowly but with irresistible sureness has grown to his stature, has not disturbed him.

Julia thought of Nellie, of the old woman's sureness and silence—a lean old savage woman of many lovers.

NARCISSUSEVELYN SCOTT

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985