The devotion to the beauty of the natural world seems to have instilled the conviction that it should not be marred by man-made objects, which helps explain the centuries-old vitality of Japanese objects of everyday use.
The over-all experience of my own hajj, sixteen years ago, instilled a conviction in me that has remained to this day: Islam was the most progressive of the major religions when it was introduced, and for a few more centuries, when it flowered intellectually, but it seems now to be permanently moored in an earlier, more primitive time.
"I had no fear of horses, even at that age when I was dwarfed by them," he recalled in his 1992 autobiography, To Be a Champion, "and on horseback I was instilled with a conviction and self-belief I never felt at other times".
Her years of research instilled in her the conviction that she has a very good sense of how likely events are, not only in physics but also in politics.
It was Becker who instilled in Gottschalk the conviction that history was not simply a chronicle of events, but could and should encompass the methodology and insights of other disciplines.
DAVID R. CARR JR. and George W. Brumley III, co-managers of the $330 million Oak Value fund, are deeply committed to value investing, a conviction that was instilled in them at an early age.
Although the Campbell household revered F.D.R., Campbell was drawn to the University of Chicago's conservative school of economics; his adviser there, Milton Friedman, instilled in him free-market convictions.
She will use the brilliant mind god graced her with to make progress on the convictions and principles her mother instilled in her.
I served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force for 5 years, which instilled in me the importance of acting swiftly with conviction and the value of a small team of dedicated people.
When the tragedy came, it seems to have instilled in him a deep sense of the inexorability of fate, a conviction that, naturally, influenced his view of character.
"The purpose," Judge Richard Lussick said, "was to instil terror". Taylor's conviction was widely welcomed in Sierra Leone but the response in Liberia, where he was once seen as a freedom fighter, was more critical.
