instilled

In economically depressed Roma, Texas, Al Cortinas instilled pride in his students by making them dress up for concerts—and kept a supply of ties on hand for any boy who didn’t own one.

If anything, those years instilled in me a glowy kind of financial confidence.

His performances instilled hope and helped me imagine a life beyond my circumstances.

The confidence she instilled in us was really cool.

In the book, he writes of "angry crescendos and heavy silences" from his parents' bedroom, which instilled a "constant watchfulness that became instinct before I understood why".