Sentence examples for persuade herself from inspiring English sources

She tried to persuade herself to not like him.

Like Tony Blair, she appears to be able to persuade herself of a series of improbable but convenient propositions.

We can even hear her trying to persuade herself ("she would gladly have submitted … ") of her unselfishness.

For her, it takes a little longer: She has to persuade herself that Lenny's schlubby looks don't matter, that his devotion to her is real.

Perhaps Hearst learned to mimic her captors in order to survive, but became so fluent in their rhetoric that she began to persuade herself?

She resisted his marriage proposals for eighteen months, because, Bair writes, "she knew a womanizer when she saw one," but he had "such charisma that she was almost able to persuade herself that it didn't matter".

Though she has persuaded herself otherwise, Truss doesn't want people to care about correctness.

"I'm sure there were times when to console herself she persuaded herself that I was this man's child.

She had persuaded herself that he was amorously interested in Harriet; worse, she had persuaded Harriet of this too.

When she finally persuaded herself to buy a new car, she didn't draw much additional satisfaction from it.

And he organised our wedding.' But she has persuaded herself that his lawyers made him do it.