In one of his more shameful episodes, Strauss backpedalled furiously, writing to Hitler to assure him that his missive to Zweig had "not represent[ed] my view of the world nor my true conviction".
If they proved true, convictions would follow.
The true convictions of your heart will, eventually, be betrayed by the disobedience of your tongue.
I don't have a clear sense of what his true convictions are.
As Brown talks, you can sense his true convictions coming and going.
With prodigious versatility, or perhaps a lack of true convictions, Nevinson tried his hand at a range of styles.
In the Reagan years, the intellectual conservatives at the Heritage Foundation scorned Bush and Baker as chameleons without true convictions.
What happened to the Copts this fall cast a dark cloud, which the interim government, whatever its true convictions, would do well to dispel.
Indeed, although affirmed negotiators proved relatively more open to compromise when either the salience of their true convictions or the importance of remaining faithful to those convictions was heightened, the reverse was true when the salient goal was compromise.
Nevertheless, Keene says that all of these gains are fragile, because President Obama — who in his first term has not only failed to push for gun control but has signed legislation extending gun rights — has been hiding his true convictions.
Others suggest her actions reflect the true convictions of a woman who is no longer overshadowed by the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, who had a strained relationship with the Pentagon.
