All 13 Uses
conviction
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- It was the connection, not just the convictions, you had to get hold of.†
Chpt 5
- And three larceny arrests, no convictions, against Walter Boyle.†
Chpt 5 *
- "Good people, the Woodworths," Clumly said with conviction.†
Chpt 1
- A small man, noisy and quick as a blue jay—a flaming, apoplectic face—but he seemed much larger than he was, because of the size of the desk, perhaps, or because he had power over Clumly, or because he had a stubbornness about him, the same as a jay, an unshakable conviction of his own lightness that went beyond mere confidence born of his having looked through a fine-toothed comb, as he sometimes said, at the ins and outs of things.†
Chpt 2
- "All right," he said with finality but no conviction.†
Chpt 3
- Then, with conviction: "Everything's fine.†
Chpt 5
- He did push-ups in those days; his arms and chest were as solid as truck tires, and that was how his talk was, too, steaming with dangerous conviction.†
Chpt 5
- He had a feeling, almost a conviction, that Benson had recognized him.†
Chpt 5
- That time too she wanted to die, and she said to herself with conviction, I am going to kill myself, but she was afraid.†
Chpt 6
- SUNLIGHT: Say it with conviction.†
Chpt 7
- Had gone to Paxton full of wrath knowing Paxton no more in the wrong than Taggert but undaunted by that because Taggert was his brother, and not even Millie's predictable conviction that she'd forced him to go there could keep him from it (she'd be wrong, clear as it might seem to her; her scorn at his failure to go earlier had not driven him to it but had merely made it occur to him for the first time that he could go) and had stood in old Paxton's office like a boulder, jaw slung forward, thumbs in his suspenders.†
Chpt 13
- Conviction flared up.†
Chpt 13
- CLUMLY (without conviction): That's it.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(conviction as in: spoke with conviction) a strong, firmly held belief
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(2)
(conviction as in: owed a fine after the conviction) a court's finding that someone is guilty