Sentences with phrase «expressing moral conviction»

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics — storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

The researchers also rated past presidential candidates» charisma, by combing their speeches for charismatic tactics - storytelling, expressing moral conviction, setting high goals.

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The result of such widespread disenchantment has been that people now simply do not have the vocabulary, verbal or symbolic, to express their spiritual longings or to root their moral convictions in a worldview that sees significance and worth in human beings and human societies but also in the Universe.

«I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow - citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness...»

It's a moral conflict expertly conveyed by Ejiofor, who, whether delivering stern lessons to his police officer student and friend Joe (Max Martini) or dealing with a host of shady businessmen (including Mamet regulars Rickey Jay and Joe Mantegna), smartly expresses his character's staunch conviction with hints of sorrow born from the recognition that devotion to his «code of the warrior» and its rituals inevitably means pain for himself and those he cares about.