Then he issued one statement of conviction: "This music, jazz music, has a discipline that comes from practice, that's very good for life in itself".
Accordingly, every passionate utterance by a President or passionate clinch in a Meg Ryan movie is examined not for its underlying value — its relevance as a statement of conviction or aesthetics — but for its comic visual or aural or contextual similarity to an earlier pop-culture relic.
The distinction was often brought up in the 'textbook' fashion, as part of the definition of conversion offered, as above, or as a statement of conviction against a background of psychological incomprehension: I just cannot understand these people … from a psychological point of view.
The good news for Mr. Obama, and the political logic behind his statement of personal conviction this week, is that "gay money" and "Wall Street money" can be one and the same.
There is more, of course – fabulous choral music, chamber music of an intensity and humanity to rank with his great hero, Schubert (the Third Quartet a worthy companion to Schubert's Quintet as a musical encounter with last things), and his great public statement of pacifist conviction, the War Requiem.
This was his opportunity to remove some of the pessimism with a statement of boldness and conviction but, if anything, it was the guy sitting to his right who sounded the more impressive.
The statement marked a lack of conviction on Trump's part to denounce racism. .
Album: Convict of Conviction.
Far more than the modest home movie it initially seems to be, This Is Not a Film is an act of courage and a statement of political and moral conviction: surprising, radical, and enormously moving.
Five years after the terrorist attacks, the saddest thing about all the many absurdities surrounding the rebuilding — the personal wrangles and group rivalries that have obscured any sense of commonality, the pious statements masking an utter lack of conviction, the maxed-out budgets and cut corners — is that they may say a lot more about us than we'd like to think.
If the home nations' autumn statement lacked conviction for much of the past month, there were at least belated signs of deficit reduction against the southern hemisphere's finest.
