Her unconvincing speech was a loosely-connected string of truisms and cliches, with nary a story to give it substance. |
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And the assumption that he had packed away his nuclear kit and abandoned all ambitions still strikes me as deeply unconvincing. |
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A relationship between Francine and her sister Dawn is tenuous and unconvincing. |
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One reviewer finds Perkins' story implausible and unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs. |
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Barlby moved back to the top of division four in unconvincing fashion with a 1-1 draw at bottom club Acomb Celtic. |
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The secretary said the unconvincing win over Park Ratheniska should have been a warning to their players to prove their worth. |
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He thought that Alex and Dave Smith were unconvincing tacklers, whereas Coutts in his own central defence was rock-like. |
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Celtic lost to Basel in the Champions League, to Motherwell in the SPL, and were unconvincing last weekend against Hibs. |
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No matter the improvement at the breakdown yesterday, this is a Lions team which is still monumentally unconvincing in the phase. |
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Instead a unforced knock-on from a punt into their 22 put Kendal on the back foot and unconvincing defence allowed Cooper in. |
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The farm's entrance was lined with a piece of hopeful, if unconvincing, carpet, designed to disinfect the car tyres as they drive over. |
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In keeping with their performance during the opening 45 minutes, the equaliser was unconvincing in its conception. |
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I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths. |
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The matches took place in bad weather and with unconvincing refereeing, which brought about some traumas. |
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I find Professor Taylor's hypothesis that Miss Rossiter was probably suffering the symptoms of pyelitis on that date most unconvincing. |
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The 85 minutes of laboured monologues and unconvincing heroism are as entertaining as a pet's funeral. |
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Argentina will be harder to penetrate and more testing of the German defence, with the right-back Arne Friedrich unconvincing. |
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On the way to Vegas, we get a fair amount of lame character development, unconvincing drama, and sporadic comedy that's low on the laugh meter. |
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There is no indication that they received, or even sought, such information other than the utterly unconvincing say-so of Mr Davis. |
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Could it be that you're finding it all just a teeny-weeny bit unconvincing? |
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Amid all the rehearsals there are love triangles, back-stabbing, popular girls and a very unconvincing school playboy. |
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As Mitchell, he is all surface mannerism with no depth, an unconvincing Southern accent in a hat. |
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Near the end, there is a sudden reversal of our ideas about the matron and her husband, but it is both maudlin and unconvincing. |
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It's swung in from the right and Sol Campbell's unconvincing attempt at a clearance goes out for a Celta Vigo throw-in. |
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But their efforts became lost amid a forest of faintly unconvincing football motions. |
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His choreography is banal to the point of insipidity, and the acting he requests from his dancers is utterly unconvincing. |
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I've always been frustrated by the ending we saw in the cinema, which strikes me as tonally appropriate, but utterly unconvincing. |
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He is a wooden, boring, uninspiring, unconvincing orator, who completely lacked the common touch or any real ability to communicate with voters. |
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Although far from dreadful, it's just rather silly, shallow, unconvincing and inconsequential. |
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Often premature and unconvincing generalisations are made from rather more limited and partial changes. |
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To be honest, nothing about the trip to Milan would, save for the hope that Italy continue their unconvincing form under their new manager. |
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Male novelists are often accused of writing unconvincing female characters, but this novel has to create a strong protagonist in Tara Mullray. |
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A good actor with the right material, he is simply miscast and unconvincing as a predatory seducer. |
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Also, your slavish use of obsolete, twee and anglicised Hibernicisms is peculiarly un-Irish, not to mention unconvincing and uncouth. |
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In Raul they have the most exciting young striker in the world although defensively they are unconvincing. |
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The dialogue and the acting are strained and unconvincing, and far too complacent considering the events under consideration. |
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Absolutely stunning CGI slowly degrades into a very unconvincing PS2 version of the Rock as the Scorpion King. |
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So the Journal's assurance that there is no story here is profoundly unconvincing. |
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His left-leaning editorial cartoons were, by his own admission, shrill and unconvincing. |
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We had a sheriff who played Santa Claus every year decked out in an unconvincing, moth-eaten, red suit. |
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This was a so-so sitcom with ambitious but unconvincing dance numbers and wrestling action. |
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Churchill's responses to the academic fraud evidence have been entirely unconvincing. |
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I find it ultimately unconvincing, although as I say, the argument may be more subtle in the book. |
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Her motives and relationships are rendered dry and unconvincing, but her self-absorption rings true. |
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Porter et al. acknowledge that theoretical basis of repression is weak and unconvincing. |
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For example, to argue that all these crimes require some form of further intent is unconvincing, since that is not true of murder. |
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Perhaps part of my indifference is that on the whole, the cast was full of unconvincing actors. |
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I was not impressed with his evidence, which I found to be vague, and unconvincing in the extreme. |
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Actor Lalonde is for the most part only adequate and, in the several spots where the text calls for him to cry, is utterly unconvincing. |
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In addition, I found the claimant's evidence generally to be unconvincing and unreliable. |
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The political situation at that time precluded filming the exteriors on real South-East Asian locations, and the studio jungle looks unconvincing. |
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It is these human religious constructions that have become unconvincing. |
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But Marin is unconvincing when he pontificates or philosophizes. |
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It is an unconvincing bit of salesmanship that betrays little perspective on himself, let alone the presence of core convictions. |
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Similarly, the tie-in with South American legends and superstitions attempts to engage with a mythic archetype of monstrous evil, but this too is patchy and unconvincing. |
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That is why his sudden espousal of the Tobin tax looks unconvincing. |
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Al-Mughni's statement was technical, legalistic, convoluted and entirely unconvincing. |
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Actually blinded by prosthetics, he walks the fine line between acting and mimicry, giving a performance that is neither stifled by imitation, nor unconvincing. |
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I puzzled for a minute, then gave a totally unconvincing answer. |
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Schuster segues into the novelist's conceit of placing herself into the subjective space of her biographees and this is both unconvincing and irritating. |
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While Baldwin is an unconvincing gay rights activist, he seems to have an ulterior motive in writing this article. |
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This is the usual defense that these companies make and I just find it completely shallow and unconvincing. |
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Ever since the modern study of art history began in the eighteenth century, there has been a variety of more or less unconvincing answers to that question. |
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Real's defence of the cup has so far been unconvincing, even in last week's defeat of the Russians, but they are in little danger of failing to qualify. |
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It was only those happy with a win, unconvincing or otherwise. |
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The exhibition is unconvincing, as well, in its overall plan. |
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Though this record is fun, with some neat twists and turns, it remains unconvincing and sounds too much like a thesis on white funk rather than the real thing. |
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As he suffered derision upon derision, I am not certain whether I should call this Monterone unconvincingly pathetic, or pathetically unconvincing. |
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The more they blustered, the more unconvincing they sounded. |
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The completely unmoving, unconvincing romance between a wooden Hayden Christensen and an uncharacteristically bland Natalie Portman is only the most obvious clumsiness. |
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His seduction technique is unvaryingly frivolous, not to say unconvincing. |
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It is exceptionally unconvincing that this is impossible or perennially elusive. |
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The lack of warmth in the Kerzner handholding, is highly unconvincing. |
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The hype has worked, but the reality is a lumbering, unconvincing tale that is filled with one cliffhanging moment after another but never builds into a satisfying thriller. |
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The result is long passages of simplistic monologue explaining basic Marxism in an entirely unconvincing manner, making the characters appear as cardboard cut-outs. |
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The film has an interesting plot, but shame about the silly car chases and unconvincing escapes from death or even injury bar a delicate scratch on Johanssen's damask cheek. |
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The aggressive and coarsely humorous moments are mostly unconvincing. |
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As a leader of the free world the United States cuts an unconvincing figure with its racial segregation. |
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Chelsea's form in the new Premier League was unconvincing, although they did reach the 1994 FA Cup Final with Glenn Hoddle. |
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They came into the tournament highly ranked, but with a little bit of an asterisk as their last two wins had been unconvincing. |
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Although the evidence against them was unconvincing, the accused were found guilty and condemned to death. |
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Everything seemed too hackneyed or unconvincing or simply impossible. |
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The Ryan-Romney ticket has its answers, contrived and unconvincing. |
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The prose is sometimes flat and the dialogue occasionally unconvincing, but she is by no means bereft of novelistic promise. |
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The Mexploitation fall-out runs to explosives, rape, death by flame-thrower and a cavalcade of unconvincing plot turns. |
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But I remember it well, and that's why Dracula cuts an unconvincing figure as a laid-back Johnny Reb with flowers in his hair and nothing in his pockets but his hands. |
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He gave me an unconvincing explanation of the fault, but I have my doubts. |
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This may occur when the submissions were accidentally omitted, or were so unconvincing that it was not necessary to explicitly state the adjudicator's findings. |
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A public judgement on Rodgers seems to have been suspended until after the Everton clash, but a grumbly Anfield was treated to another unconvincing performance. |
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He found the existing English versions of the texts unconvincing, and decided to make his own translations, despite his lack of skills as a linguist. |
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