Sentence examples for inward conviction from inspiring English sources

It fails both as a satire and romance because it is controlled by no inward conviction.

"Now of course communities have enacted the penalty of death for many offences far lighter than this: still hope leads men to venture, and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Some of their extremists, such as Jahm ibn Ṣafwān (d. ad 746), regarded faith as purely an inward conviction, thus allowing a Muslim outwardly to profess other religions and remain a Muslim, since only God could determine the true nature of his faith.

What the world didn't know what that as a kid who'd struggled with depression his whole life, Mitcham's attempts to offset an inward conviction that he was "a nothing" by pursuing personal achievement at the expense of everything were reaching an explosive collision.

Many Protestants and Roman Catholics alike assumed that her self-presentation was deceptive, but Elizabeth managed to keep her inward convictions to herself, and in religion as in much else they have remained something of a mystery.

Elizabeth, moreover, had no interest in probing the inward convictions of her subjects; provided that she could obtain public uniformity and obedience, she was willing to let the private beliefs of the heart remain hidden.

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The eyes – or the ears, if we're listening to something read aloud – seem crucially involved in conveying that inward clinch of critical conviction, just as in attending to paintings or music.

The ideals, or meta-norms as Axelrod calls them, emerge partly out of an inward sense of vocation a conviction that one is doing work that is meaningful but are also grounded in a commitment to peer sanctions and monitoring.

Her noble experiment in looking inward does not have the punch or conviction of her social and political essays.

Again, the rationale is not ridiculous: a lie is more grave than an untruth, which can be merely a mistaken conviction, and it implies conscious intention to deceive rather than inward-turning self-deception.