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

The hope flickered; only the momentary necessity for self-persuasion kept it alive.

From Special Messenger by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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