Sentence examples for he convinced himself from inspiring English sources
He was apparently so convincing that he convinced himself.
"Or so he convinced himself".
He convinced himself that would be for the best.
And he convinced himself it's what she'd have wanted.
But he convinced himself that he was not gay.
He convinced himself that he preferred her this way.
He convinces himself that he's turning to science for authority, when really he's cloaking himself in its mystery.
Now he recoils: he resists "the blackmail of the avant-garde," nor can he convince himself that "tedium was a necessary prelude to ecstasy..
When she conceives again, he convinces himself that she is faking her pregnancy; and when she gives birth, he is certain that the child is not his.
When he convinces himself that a particular course of action is "the right thing to do", as he has about Iraq, he is firm of purpose and untroubled by doubt.
Despite frequent references to Hoover's loathing of Communism (which he convinces himself is poisoning the civil-rights movement), Eastwood and Black omit his active role in the rise of the Red-baiting pols Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
