self-conviction

Example Sentences

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It's hard to imagine their opponents, Australia, suffering from the same chronic lack of self-conviction.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025

In the consideration of such a book the motive power, the plot, is hardly of moment—it is the workmanship, and what one might term the self-conviction of the novelist, that counts.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

The by-standers said, “God forbid!” and when the horrified exclamation betrayed their consciousness of the position, Jesus was content, without a word, to mark their self-conviction by His searching gaze.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

You don't know how pathetic it seems to me," she confided in Honor, "his self-conviction and efforts to atone.

From Banked Fires by Savi, E. W. (Ethel Winifred)

He, Eben Tollman, would lead them both slowly into self-conviction by as deliberate a campaign as that which had won him his wife in the first instance.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul