Sentence examples for underlying convictions from inspiring English sources

Yet even if it would be wildly hyperbolic to say that the same four columns have been written over and over more than 100 times, there probably are certain threads running through these two decades, underlying convictions that have made some topics natural choices or shaped how they were presented.

We must return to Nicholas' underlying conviction that our minds are images of God's mind and that this connection between them is constant and thoroughgoing and thus should never be overlooked.

Other critics have complained not so much that the positions advanced are political, as that the philosophy behind them is continuously adjusted, reinterpreted and shaded in such a way that we never know quite what his underlying philosophical convictions are.

Underlying cognitive convictions, especially those emphasising individual liberty and self-responsibility that are so closely linked to a liberal socio-cultural worldview, might play a decisive role in the acceptance of euthanasia [ 8, 16], as is evident from our study among medical students [ 15].

Everything underlying the conviction struck him as flimsy.

But nobody has fought my underlying murder conviction.

It is developed and maintained on the basis of deeply-held convictions, underlying belief.

(Silly us: we once had convictions!) Underlying this sneering condescension, of course, is grief.

But I learned an important lesson from our discussions: that I hadn't properly thought through some of the most basic convictions underlying my way of life and worldview — from God's existence to the human good.

The solution for ideological interrogators, then, would be either to dismiss Miró as a bourgeois escapist or to discover political convictions underlying the seemingly innocuous surfaces of his works.

Also suggestive of the convictions underlying Nishida's philosophy are arguments of the Mādhyamaka school of Nāgārjuna pressing for the relationality of all existents, and exhortations to appreciate the "groundlessless of things" in the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra (Priest 2009, 472).