Sentence examples for strange conviction from inspiring English sources

He has the strange conviction that if he opens his stuck eye he will see what happened.

They share the straight world's strange conviction that pigment slapped on canvas by a man painting in a field in the 1880s embodies a value hard even to calculate.

There's also a contingent of economists who have read Hicks, or at least claim to have read him, but seem to have come out of the experience with nothing more than misleading catchphrases and the strange conviction that they have transcended something they actually don't understand.

Horton is mocked for his strange conviction that a dust speck is populated by a village of little people, and later faces more ridicule when he agrees to help hatch an egg abandoned by the flighty party-girl Mayzie La Bird (Kelly Felthous, in pert, blond, chirpy Kristin Chenoweth mode).

It is their strange conviction that the constitutional "right to keep and bear arms," which was the Founding Fathers' interim formula for mustering local militia at a time when there was no standing army, must be invoked in behalf of criminals or half-wits who have a grudge against society, the Presidency, the Negro, the white man, the Kennedys, or the Jews.

He is a popular figure with a common touch whose charisma concealed a strange lack of personal conviction; a political optimist subject to excoriating bouts of depression; and, above all, a man who failed to chose his friends very wisely – Brandt's chancellorship came to an ignominious end in 1974 when one of his closest aides was unmasked as a communist spy.

Conrad explains it by saying, "...he summed up, he judged; 'the horror.' This was some sort of belief, it had candor and conviction, a strange commingling of desire and hate... and perhaps in this is the whole difference, perhaps all the truth and all the wisdom are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time when we step over the threshold of the invisible.

The strangest thing about this conviction is that no other nation's history and culture more compellingly demonstrate the fluidity and sheer unnaturalness of racial identity.

Simon agreed: "In a strange way, there is a conviction in your performance".

Yours ever, Dominic It is a strange argument that because the conviction rate is low you should make it worse by labelling rape complaints as likely to fail.

Each of these three figures addresses the court, the dead man via a medium – an amazingly, electrifyingly strange conceit, carried off with absolute conviction.