Perhaps his listeners could tell that Gosse didn't much like those he referred to as "classical" poets, either; he quoted Keats with enthusiasm and approved of the Romantics, who, with their "expression of personal conviction, of personal experience," were much more to his taste.
Investors like Grantham could weather severe trouble because of a deep conviction based on years of experience.
Since, however, most of what anyone finds painful and unpleasant arises from the conviction that some objects of experience are inherently undesirable or impure, the best strategy to follow in helping oneself and others overcome pain and suffering is to show that there is no basis for the belief that some objects are inherently undesirable or impure.
She said it simply and with the kind of conviction that comes from a lifetime of experience.
He insisted that, in the absence of actual supernatural experience, the conviction of having had it was quite enough for an American.
Most of those who work in the health service were aware of his own late son's illness and felt that when he spoke about the NHS not having any more top-down reorganisations, he carried the conviction of someone who had real experience of what the NHS represented in British life".
The statement was earnest, and delivered with the conviction of a man who has experienced the N.B.A.'s full emotional spectrum.
The axioms, theorems, proofs, and illustrations that fill Euclid's "Elements" express the conviction "that there is a form of unity beneath the diversity of experience".
The McCain campaign also started with a big idea, one rooted in the candidate's life experience and the conviction of McCain and the people around him that the Bush Administration has handled national security badly.
