Sentence examples for force of belief from inspiring English sources

Many listeners have dismissed Shostakovich's orchestral portrait of Leningrad under siege as a work of propagandistic kitsch; Bernstein, through sheer force of belief, makes it sound like a masterpiece.

In short, the Islamists, fortified by the force of belief and endurance, will not give up easily and quickly.

She is not rewriting "Inherit the Wind," or any of the other dramas about the forces of enlightenment battling the forces of belief.

The group has been heavily influenced by both millennial thinking, which stresses the imminent final battle between the forces of belief and unbelief, as well as jihadi strategic thinking, which encourages extremists to use violence to destabilise states or nations to allow their eventual conquest.

The vital force of their belief acts upon our own belief.

I reminded her that she was 90, but my words were no match for the force of her belief.

Ali Khamenei's metamorphosis and the force field of awe around him are confounding things, proof of the power of belief.

Such is the strength of belief in this theory that the US government has been forced to issue a denial.

Sheer force of self-belief concentrated in a stare.

A personable, soft-spoken father of 14 children, his easy manner sometimes belied the force of his beliefs.

Eurostat's Eurobarometer opinion polls showed in 2005 that 52% of EU citizens believed in a God, 27% in "some sort of spirit or life force", and 18% had no form of belief.