All 19 Uses
conviction
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Look Homeward, Angel
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- All his convictions in family affairs had been previously signed with her approval.†
Chpt 3 *
- She had perhaps a greater reason for quietude than he, for she had come on from the cruel openings of her life, through disease, physical weakness, poverty, the constant imminence of death and misery: she had lost her first child, and brought the others safely through each succeeding plague; and now, at forty-two, her last child stirring in her womb, she had a conviction, enforced by her Scotch superstition, and the blind vanity of her family, which saw extinction for others but not for itself, that she was being shaped to a purpose.†
Chpt 1
- His mind, just emerging from the unreal wilderness of childish fancy, gave way completely in this Fair, and he was paralyzed by the conviction, which often returned to him in later years, that his life was a fabulous nightmare and that, by cunning and conspirate artifice, he had surrendered all his hope, belief, and confidence to the lewd torture of demons masked in human flesh.†
Chpt 1
- He had a roof-and-gulley high conviction; with careful tucked-in elbows he weighted down the heated Toytown street-car, staring painfully at the dirty pasteboard pebbledash of the Pisgah Hotel, the brick and board cheap warehouses of Depot Street, the rusty clapboard flimsiness of the Florence (Railway Men's) Hotel, quaking with beef-fed harlotry.†
Chpt 1
- He was hurled, at eight years, against the torturing paradox of the ungenerousgenerous, the selfish-unselfish, the noble-base, and unable to fathom or define those deep springs of desire in the human spirit that seek public gratification by virtuous pretension, he was made wretched by the conviction of his own sinfulness.†
Chpt 1
- In fact, they felt their approaching separation instinctively: Eliza's life was moving by a half-blind but inevitable gravitation toward the centre of its desire—the exact meaning of her venture she would have been unable to define, but she had a deep conviction that the groping urge which had led her so blindly into death and misery at Saint Louis had now impelled her in the right direction.†
Chpt 1
- He felt, rather than understood, the waste, the confusion, the blind cruelty of their lives—his spirit was stretched out on the rack of despair and bafflement as there came to him more and more the conviction that their lives could not be more hopelessly distorted, wrenched, mutilated, and perverted away from all simple comfort, repose, happiness, if they set themselves deliberately to tangle the skein, twist the pattern.†
Chpt 1
- Why, hell, yes," he said with an air of conviction to the grinning counterman, "he was bald as a pig's knuckle when the Spanish American War broke out."†
Chpt 2
- His faith was above conviction.†
Chpt 2
- A swift thrust of conviction left him unperturbed.†
Chpt 2
- At times he got insanely drunk and tried to frighten her by feigning death, one time so successfully that Ben, bending over his rigid form in the hallway, was whitened with conviction.†
Chpt 2
- It was Eliza's rooted conviction that most human ills, except her own, were "all imagination.†
Chpt 2
- "A cup of coffee will fix you up," he added with cheerful conviction.†
Chpt 3
- He came to her, like a creature who had travelled its life through dark space, for a moment of peace and conviction on some lonely planet, where now he stood, in the vast enchanted plain of moonlight, with moonlight falling on the moonflower of her face.†
Chpt 3
- He spoke seriously, haltingly, in the same way that he read, without genuine conviction.†
Chpt 3
- He did not want to reform the world, or to make it a better place to live in: his whole conviction was that the world was full of pleasant places, enchanted places, if he could only go and find them.†
Chpt 3
- Moreover, since Ben's death, the conviction had grown on him that men do not escape from life because life is dull, but that life escapes from men because men are little.†
Chpt 3
- He inherited his father's conviction at times that the world was gathered in an immense conspiracy against him: the air about him was full of mockery and menace, the leaves whispered with treason, in a thousand secret places people were assembled to humiliate, degrade, and betray him.†
Chpt 3
- And the conviction which Eugene had had at Ben's death, more than a year and a half before, was now a materialized certainty.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(conviction as in: spoke with conviction) a strong, firmly held belief
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(conviction as in: owed a fine after the conviction) a court's finding that someone is guilty