Sentence examples for convince oneself from inspiring English sources
To convince oneself that "such are the times," or that "everyone does it".
Watching him convince communities to give up their birthright is a distasteful experience, made more palatable by trying to convince oneself that it's an essentially pre-modern tale.
As I understand it, the intellectual trick here is to convince oneself that fractional reserve banking, in which banks don't keep 100 percent of deposits in a vault, is somehow an artificial creation of the government.
At some point, confronted by yet another instantly forgettable heterosexual melodrama of a duet, one might easily convince oneself that all these international luminaries were in fact performing the same dance.
And the society in which a few donations here and there and giving one's vote to the right party are enough to convince oneself that you're doing all you can.
Attempts to formalise it into didactic public addresses must necessarily look either like bandwagon jumping... or slightly desperate efforts to convince oneself that one is doing the right thing".
In fact it is "scientism" (and by analogy the confusion of doctrines) that Flaubert is arraigning i.e., the practice of taking science out of its own domain, of confusing efficient and final causes, and of convincing oneself that one understands fundamentals when one has not even grasped the superficial phenomena.
This allows one to engage in more and more immoral acts while convincing oneself that each undermining of the rule is justified and reasonable.
To circumvent this problem, it has become customary to sample π by running the SSA for a 'very long time', convincing oneself through different heuristics that stationarity has been attained.
The story thus is an early masterpiece of Wilde's combing many elements that interested him, conversation, literature and the idea that to shed oneself of an idea one must first convince another of its truth.
Such arguments will convince them to guide their actions by the fa (model) of "regarding others as though regarding oneself," and this fa will in turn strengthen the habit of acting out of sympathy for others' interests.
