As the narrator says: "What was at stake included the risk that I would look foolish in my own eyes . . . and then she would be unable to resist the inward conviction that I was a fool.

He was swayed by one - "You have expressed my inward conviction.

Wolf had on his face a look that John Larsen had learned to respect, an inward conviction that only followed a long period of hard, analytical thought.

Cadfael looked about him for the small alien thing he had come to find, with no assurance that it would be here to be found, only an inward conviction that some benevolent finger had pointed him to this place.

At the present day (ca. 1872) the most usual argument for the existence of an intelligent God is drawn from the deep inward conviction and feelings which are experienced by most persons.

Therefore I cannot see that such inward convictions and feelings are of any weight as evidence of what really exists.

I have to admit that the Goodspeed Opera House, which is in the business of tending to our musical theater heritage, has revived "Paint Your Wagon" with a goodly amount of swagger and certainly no less inward conviction.

He has gone far along a difficult road who has come to the point of seeing that deprivation, pain and disability are of no consequence at all, beside the inward conviction of grace, and the secret peace of the soul.

I feel an inward conviction that he is there still, and probably prepares some terrible disaster for us.

I admire your candour and wonderful freedom from prejudice; for I feel an inward conviction that if I had been a great classical scholar I should never have been able to have judged fairly on the subject.