Sentence examples for lend conviction from inspiring English sources

Oh well, this is hardly the first time that a great painter or writer has failed to lend conviction to the embodiment of overwhelming goodness.

Sometimes it takes little more than touch or some quality of personality to lend conviction to an idea that's in the air.

And her gravelly, skeptical voice lends conviction to even the glibbest one-liners.

Julia Hills gives the gilded serpent Goneril a touch of real venom; Simon Armstrong is a vocally resonant Kent and Trevor Cooperr lends conviction to Gloucester's credulity.

Ms. Barron lends thorough conviction to Julia's adult-adolescent agony.

His beard lends him conviction.

We must refuse, out of principle and conviction, to lend a "cultural", "religious" or, worse still, "Islamic" colouration to social questions.

In "Vocalissimus," spiked with gibberish, laughter and sprechstimme, Ms. Gaissert's dramatic conviction lent a note of Weillian street toughness to an otherwise whimsical part.

Mosby has come under increasing criticism from all sides after her failure to get a conviction lent fuel to her already numerous critics among law enforcement professionals and caused many of the activists who stood behind her prosecution of the officers to rethink their support.

Although Mr. Smith doesn't lend Donne's prose any special conviction, the words still resonate with his situation.

Callaghan's scenes lend the females she draws power, conviction, and notoriety.