Sentence examples for Social conviction from inspiring English sources

While its radical, abstract technique was de rigueur with the young modernists, the novel has the scope, drama and social conviction of a 19th-century English novel.

Meanwhile the progressive majority with strong social justice instincts is increasingly and disastrously dispersed among Labour, Lib Dem, nationalist or green parties – partly because Labour seemed to lack authentic, infectious social conviction.

What an ideology does is give you reasons not to pursue your own apparent rational interest — and this cuts both ways, including both wealthy people in New York who, out of social conviction, vote for politicians who are more likely to raise their taxes, and poor people in the South who vote for those devoted to cutting taxes on incomes they can never hope to earn.

Burn with a political or social conviction?

Critics of strong social convictions in the West also generally hold him in low esteem.

And on an album so ostentatious about its social convictions, Mr. Scott seems to have grappled most with insular matters.

The legacy of the Last Poets and Scott-Heron was more deeply embraced by second-generation rappers with social convictions.

The Nevilles showed their multicultural reach and social convictions and multicultural with lyrics and rhythm: funk, salsa, calypso, reggae.

In any event, his inherited wealth hasn't weakened or compromised the religious and social convictions by which he lives and works.

F.D.R. put it differently: "Theodore Roosevelt lacked Woodrow Wilson's appeal to the fundamental and failed to stir, as Wilson did, the truly profound moral and social convictions".

Mitt Romney, who will be officially nominated this week as the Republican nominee for president, appears to trim his social convictions to the party's prevailing winds.