Sentence examples for considerable conviction from inspiring English sources

The debater's trick had humiliated Shangle and raised considerable conviction that the defense was less than admirable in its tactics.

"You'd like to see them in fifth place," Calhoun said, not in a mean way, but with considerable conviction.

With considerable conviction, Pope John Paul II often speaks of the vigor of American Catholicism, but Hansjakob Stehle, a German author of several books on the Vatican, said that "the fact that most strongly influences him is de-Christianization, secularization, what many would call the Americanization of the world".

Even rulers such as Moctezuma were expected to cut down on their otherwise luxurious lifestyle and did so with considerable conviction and effort.

Saroja Devi exudes glamour, while Sowcar Janaki as the boozing wife acquits her role with considerable conviction", concluding that the film would be "Remembered for the taut onscreen narration, the excellent performances by Sivaji Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki and M. R. Radha, and Saroja Devi's glamour".

V.V. Rozanov (1856 1919) was an apocalyptic prophet preaching an unusual interpretation of Christian religion; a number of his intuitions and passionate assertions are found in the novel The Possessed (1871 72), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, whose own nonfictional prose is of considerable quality and conviction.

I said those last two sentences with considerable force and conviction.

Burgess has written the lobbyists to be cracklingly smart and persuasively spoken, and Jules Willcox and Paige Lindsey White lend the roles considerable grit and conviction, but it's not enough to make these broadly drawn types quite human.

Conan Doyle became the world's most renowned proponent of spiritualism, but he faced considerable opposition for his conviction from the magician Harry Houdini and in a 1920 debate with the humanist Joseph McCabe.

The authors report a considerable disparity between the convictions of the attending physicians and their actual daily practices for blood glucose control in the intensive care unit (ICU).

But, experience has demonstrated time and again that achieving change takes considerable time, energy, passion and conviction.