Conviction in example sentence

Concerning the Manhattan prep and deb season of some unspecified year past, "Metropolitan" transports your mind into a social order that exists just beyond our consciousness: where young socialites discuss Fourier without conviction, Jane Austen without having read her work, and love without never having really been in it.

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Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage.

"The President of the Royal Society has been vouchsafed a strong inner conviction that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."

I was drawn by their sense of personal conviction and their life of service, and opted for baptism into the Christian faith as my 10th birthday present.

Anonymous extraordinaries are people who work selflessly and vigorously for what they believe in, people who are motivated by conviction and not recognition.

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