Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

So I knew to a certain degree that I could do all kinds of things that I didn't have a chance to do before.