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

And the beauty of him was that he too, even in the act of persuasion, of self-persuasion, could understand that, and could thereby show but the better as fitting into the pleasant commerce of prosperity.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

He had hoped for quietude and the inimitable flavor of home, of course; but this hope was chiefly a self-persuasion.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

By much argument and self-persuasion I prevailed upon myself to climb the fence, and with a sort of despairing doggedness to let myself down on the inside.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir