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

I do not think," said Doctor Manette with the firmness of self-conviction, "that anything but the one train of association would renew it.

From A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles

There was no self-conviction in his thoughts, only the idea that if he tried to do right in this matter he might succeed, but he would be unhappy.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

It may often be a necessary step in self-conviction.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

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