But the film draws its strength from the restraint, complexity, tenderness and assurance with which Ms. Toye approaches her delicate material.

From the new power and assurance she felt within, she knew it.

Before a train reverses its path, the operator is required to get clearance from the command center and assurance that there are no trains to the rear and no passengers on the track.

In the play, Wilde progresses from epigrammatic assurance to a public role for which, tragically, he is no longer writing the script (2:30).

But the Wilde of Mr. Emerson, making his New York debut, is stunning as he progresses from epigrammatic assurance to a public role for which he is no longer writing the script.

His lack of height in no way detracted from the ease and assurance of his manner.

Mr. Stankevicius, the vice president, finishing his coffee, said: "Our political assurance comes from moral assurance.

Condemned to the fringes of life by a debilitating stutter and persecuted for his homosexuality, Casey writes from the shadows with the certainty and fluent assurance of one who knows them well.

As Wilde, Michael Emerson is stunning as he progresses from epigrammatic assurance to a public role for which, tragically, he is no longer writing the script (2:30).

I traveled from assurance to assurance, as though I were running a race in relays.