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 her this deceit was a sinful hypocrisy, but in him it would be as virtuous as the care with which the prosecutor cajoles the criminal into self-conviction.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul
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 act in this instance was performed blindly, without self-inspection, and therefore without self-conviction.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)
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
