Sentence examples for necessary conviction from inspiring English sources

Despite fine work from Mr. Gray, Mr. Durning and Michael Learned, the show lacks the necessary conviction to be big (2 20).

Perhaps only the visceral horror that lynching inspired gave Meeropol the necessary conviction to write a song with no precedent, one that required a new songwriting vocabulary.

Unless the Italian left takes on these matters with the necessary conviction and sophistication, misogyny, homophobia and racism will surely outlive Silvio Berlusconi.

The neighborhood had wide sidewalks and slow traffic, and it was an ideal place to develop that very necessary conviction that every cyclist requires: my bike and I have a right to be here.

His slithery, straight-faced intensity, coupled with that of the gloriously resurgent Rene Russo, brings necessary conviction to Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler (eOne, 15), a media satire that walks a compelling line between the sordidly serious and the seriously silly.

His scarecrow features betoken an ecstatic embrace of madness: a belief that only in psychotic levels of hatred will he be able to summon up the necessary conviction for his survival and revenge.

They admit privately that the case was not well handled at the time, but that they secured the necessary convictions and sent a firm message.

A majority of one was sufficient for acquittal, but a majority of two was necessary for conviction.

A new study shows that "[t]eachers lack the necessary knowledge, conviction, and role models to teach evolution properly," Mervis wrote.

But his portrayal of the feckless Jim Hacker is highly sympathetic, and he skips down the play's path with the necessary lunatic conviction.

He lost the conviction necessary for topspin.