Example Sentences

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In asserting that the Browns wanted the story made public, Brooks is "guilty of a degree of blinkeredness if not self-persuasion".

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

Those qualities that many critics find cloying could also be melodic acts of self-persuasion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Holy men create this excitement to themselves by the aid of divine grace, and by prayer, a powerful mode of self-persuasion: for the multitude, this excitement must be created for them.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

He spoke with all the passionate self-persuasion of a fanatic, and Del Fortis judged it wisest to control his own fierce inward impatience and deal with him more restrainedly.

From Temporal Power by Corelli, Marie

Yet there remained that fatal conviction of the unreality of every self-persuasion save in relation to the influences of the moment.

From The Unclassed by Gissing, George