| In the UK's hour of greatest need, Churchill's relations with Roosevelt were conducted with tact and a great sureness of touch. |
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| The snake had dislodged its fangs, slithering after her with sureness of the ground it moved upon, then climbed up a tree. |
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| That may sound dull, but he composed with a lyrical sureness of balance that makes his art as pure and purifying as he hoped. |
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| It is meticulously incised with an image startling in its sureness of line, composition and structure, and magnificent in its subtlety. |
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| There is a sureness of way, a gentle dignity and steadiness of purpose about a camel. |
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| As a painter of shapes, he reconstructs their terms with a sureness born of maturity. |
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| To relations with the Indians Douglas brought the knowledge and the sureness of touch which he had acquired in the fur trade. |
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| As far as I can remember, this belief, this sureness and unshaken will emerged for the first time with such strength during those August days. |
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| In this promise, and in many more found in Scripture, we sense the certainty of God's provision and the sureness of His promises. |
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| Increases the grip on the bat and guarantees sureness in match and training. |
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| Nuova Elle Emme s.a.s. products are a warranty in the time, a sureness in the world of repair of industrial vehicles. |
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| He did so, with an incomparable nobility of vision and sureness of judgement. |
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| But his sureness and occasional contriteness stayed just the right side of arrogance and has probably bought him time with disgruntled party delegates. |
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| The leaf and scroll patterns are well defined and executed with a strength and sureness that holds fast even under the magnification of a watchmaker's loupe. |
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| At 30, he has the experience and sureness of touch to unhinge any team. |
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| He lacks style, he lacks smarm, he lacks sureness in his step. |
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| The aesthetes marvelled at his sureness of foot and quickness of hand. |
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| Hundreds of airliners cross the Atlantic every day with the sureness of shuttle bus. |
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| It's the lightness of touch that I'll miss, the sureness with which a Frasier script could go from drawing-room comedy to sheer farce to tragedy without missing a beat. |
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| Technically perfect, she stuck her landings with sureness and confidence. |
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| Yesterday, the Pope's certainty in his destiny was strong as ever but this time the clergy who gathered around him sensed a different kind of sureness. |
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| Our area however, is on the individual skater and his sureness of skating skills. |
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| The key development occurs when the sureness of who one is coincides with a recognition of others and the Other, as genuinely distinct from, yet related to, the self. |
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| This is the sureness which is both stable and flexible. |
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| They even met, though only when Orwell was already on his deathbed. Mr Lebedoff shows sureness of touch in linking the men's writing and their lives. |
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| Surprisingly, he was then an impressive prime minister, negotiating a way through Britain's worst post-war economic crisis with a steady nerve and sureness of touch. |
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| His sureness was born of having looked it up in a reputable reference book. |
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| The liveliness of his imagination, the sureness of his drawing enabled him to deal with all subjects with an outstanding verve and he had great success. |
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| Only the unions involved now think the deal can survive. Over the top or notAs education secretary since May, however, Mr Johnson has shown sureness of touch. |
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| Through a host of concerts given in Switzerland and abroad he has acquired the reputation of having both sureness of style and great musical sensitivity. |
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| Moshekwa Langa's installations, videos and collages are fresh and surprising, often provocative, yet exhibit a depth and sureness of touch astonishing in one so young. |
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| It is true that when one is capable of simultaneously filling a sheet of paper with such evanescence and such sureness of hand, one could well be considered the father of drawing. |
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| Later emperors lacked his sureness of touch. |
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| The surgeon's sureness was the result of long study in school and long practice in the operating room, never did he hesitate and never was there a mis-move. |
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| But the lightness of touch and sureness of his intent as he launches a systemised advance through prog, grime and dubstep is both heartening and uplifting. |
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