To be fair, Alasdair McCrone's trim production is performed by a highly convincing, half-Irish cast whose energy serves the play well. |
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He was convincing enough to persuade Wall Street, thus abating the nervousness of the market. |
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It was an assertion of Aboriginality more convincing, and proudly joyful, than any activist manifesto or protest could ever be. |
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The skulls may have hastened the war by convincing both the English and the Wampanoags that each broke promises neither made. |
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However, I think we have a ways to go in terms of convincing actuaries that in fact e-mail is at worst a wash and probably a benefit. |
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Looking almost as young and lean as he did a decade ago, he is astonishingly convincing as a gangly teenager who has the world on a string. |
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He made a convincing transition from bored prince to a man in love, awakening his princess with an achingly tender kiss. |
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But Bacon's version of the piece on this disc, with its built in rallentandos, is charming and convincing. |
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The nubile young lead, Adela, is played with convincing adolescent frustration by Isabel Claffey in her Abbey debut. |
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Darwin understood that the most convincing evidence for evolution was in the imperfection of nature and the jury-rigged structure of adaptation. |
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Is it really convincing that the man could have wormed out of the cells unnoticed? |
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Some sounded convincing, and might well have once had unions, such as wherrymen, wharfingers, wainscotters, wainwrights and whippers-in. |
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She went from running errands to running his life, convincing him that she should manage his affairs and business matters. |
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He appears convincing by aggregating voluminous references without subjecting himself to the rigours of the scientific process. |
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It's more expensive, looks less realistic and less convincing, and it puts actors off. |
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The counties met in a challenge a fortnight ago, and it resulted in a convincing win for the Ulster side. |
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All too convincing, in fact, when one recalls his death last year of a heroin overdose. |
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To me, at least, the arguments have always seemed too woolly to be entirely convincing. |
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Ahern has been in government for almost five years and convincing the electorate to re-elect him will not be painless. |
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No, it's all about convincing people that what you have to sell is worth the value. |
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He offers a convincing and amusing point-by-point refutation of the criticisms. |
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She makes a convincing argument for finding a life beyond acting and not letting the business of show business be all-consuming. |
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The evident relish with which he incarnates Evil is always funny and very convincing. |
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A mere six actors played all the protagonists, and the accents used were convincing and amazingly different. |
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Perhaps the most convincing explanation of all is the simple fact that liberal states tend to be in relations of amity with other liberal states. |
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Apart from being a contradiction, it is an idea for which there is no convincing evidence. |
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Although the work is based only on published material, this part of the book is well researched and convincing. |
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A parent can try to control a child's behavior by convincing the child that an angel is always watching over him or her. |
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No major cross-regional analysis provides convincing evidence that Internet use is likely to undermine authoritarianism. |
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The judge did not refer the jury to the fact that a mistaken witness can be a convincing one. |
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What I mean is that some liars will spend a lot of time convincing themselves and others that they are not really lying at all. |
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The hardest part is convincing new sailors that I'm really a lieutenant commander at my age. |
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Another act of remembrance was the commissioning of detailed, lifelike, and convincing portraits of their ancestors. |
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This opposition provides the most convincing rationale for his famous antithesis between bureaucracy and charisma. |
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The less convincing evidence of the first expert had apparently been forgotten. |
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Of course, his convincing line to me was that his only interest in America was the fact that he found me here. |
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Effective in their appeal to the general reader, they are less convincing at the level of specialist argumentation. |
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Another convincing reason to grow beets, in contrast to such root vegetables as carrots or potatoes, is the speed at which they produce a crop. |
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Liberal ideas on society and the family can sound utterly convincing and logical to those who know no history, or don't see its relevance. |
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He seemed on edge and nervous, returning her looks with reassuring gazes that were none too convincing. |
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Despite seemingly convincing evidence, his expensively assembled defence team secured a not guilty verdict. |
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An opponent with a knife could easily run you through if you tried that, so it wasn't actually very convincing as self-defense. |
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Flagship Uberalles, third in the last running of this race, galloped ahead on the run-in and battled up the hill to take a convincing victory. |
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This old town Bristol sugar warehouse is warm and rustic but thankfully convincing too. |
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Evans's writing is evocative and full of atmosphere, her plotting compelling and convincing. |
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Two fields away the band is piping up, and a leggy 16-year-old is performing a convincing salsa with her 50-year-old father. |
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Transformed here into a gawky, convincing autistic individual, she is mesmerizing. |
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Austere and absorbing, Escape is a convincing descent into a maelstrom of anguish and, ultimately, deadly despair. |
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There are thus two completely different readings of the Tangut inscription on this coin, neither entirely convincing. |
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I doubt whether fine moral judgements are that convincing to a heifer awaiting its death. |
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I wrote to Charles Brooks at Concoco Phillips and tried to tattletale, but without any real evidence, I'm sure it was less than convincing. |
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Then I distributed the cheap and tawdry things in a convincing fashion all over the house. |
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A software legal advisor makes sure the evidence is admissible, convincing and legally obtained. |
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It's not easy convincing skeptical bosses to invest in infosecurity programs. |
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Samples of your work can also go a long way to convincing a sceptical customer to buy. |
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Your son's experience may not be scientific, but it certainly is convincing. |
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I have had no luck convincing my American women friends to divorce their husbands and marry me. |
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The series was soundly researched and well scripted, with stunning costumes and convincing sets. |
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In case you need any more convincing, here's a marvy interview with the author, as well as an excerpt. |
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The blend of contemporary beats with the ageless sound of the oud, vocals and bansuri flute is entirely convincing and unforced. |
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The vision and the plan must also be convincing to Congress, the one holding the purse strings for the government's role. |
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This author deals in short-breathed paragraphs that are convincing enough in their own right but never combine into something bigger and better. |
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If he yells and waves his arms around too much to make a convincing weather girl, big deal. |
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The Sunday thus proved something of an anti-climax, with three convincing results. |
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I recommend not using the bounce feature, as it's not as yet convincing enough to fool the spam merchants. |
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He also discusses his experience with the attitudes of fellow servicemen in WWII, and all his arguments taken together are convincing. |
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He won by a convincing eight shots and also set a new scoring record for his age division. |
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Generally, the more detail a memory has, the more believable and convincing the account is. |
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I read it over again myself and found the words to be convincing and believable. |
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In 1949 those two met again in a title fight and Robinson retained his belt with a convincing unanimous decision victory. |
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The whole mindset of most of our people is simply not convincing that we mean business. |
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Although a great many of the transvestites simply look like men in women's clothes, many were very convincing. |
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Its bitonal ostinato and airy, whimsical melodies floating above create a convincing aural equivalent of a mirage. |
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The final event was a well-fought tug of war with John's team taking a convincing win. |
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Jones proves to be a sympathetic director, coaxing Pepper to one of his most convincing performances as a callous, black-hearted wretch. |
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The obtained data are particularly convincing by virtue of the bioscope's simplicity in design. |
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The intermediate league winners maintained their unbeaten record and had a most convincing win over Eire Og on Sunday last. |
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In terms of finances, did you have a hard time convincing financial mucky-mucks to throw their weight behind the project? |
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It's impossible to develop a convincing love affair when one half of the couple is so sketchily drawn. |
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Fraser moves convincingly from his zealous naif to more steely operator convincing himself of his mission's objectives. |
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Caroline Quentin is unostentatious but very convincing as the central character Maggie Mee. |
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Dr Parapia said he still needed more convincing and wondered if there could have been other unrecorded Somali deaths. |
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Greg Kinnear does a convincing job as the doomed star, deftly revealing a man vapidly oblivious to the harm he caused himself and others. |
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The Galway southpaw, a classy boxer, matched him in every department and came out a convincing points winner. |
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His quick brushwork fits the scale of this painting, and the figure's plaintive expression is personally revealing, engaging and convincing. |
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Verifiable messages from the beyond, or repeated cases of faith healing, would go far in convincing many scientists. |
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Under Mackerras's direction, singers, the huge chorus and orchestra played this in convincing, passionate fashion. |
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Yes, bullheadedness does run in his family, but I'm sure you are quite more convincing than you give yourself credit for. |
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After a convincing start to the season last week, Leigh RU came down to earth with a bump, beaten 15-7 by newly promoted Bowdon. |
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I've seen no convincing evidence of any slavish imitation, at least until now. |
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Like Molly, she is an emphatic and convincing spokeswoman for the Iroquois. |
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No convincing business case has been made for a private terminal at Dublin Airport. |
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If the business plan is sound and convincing, and if farmers understand the untapped potential of their capital, they will invest. |
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Don't let your imagination run away with you, or else you might end up convincing yourself of all manner of implausible things based on very little evidence. |
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In fact, she is quite convincing throughout and possesses one of those rare mezzo voices that never turn thick or heavy and always maintain a vocal beauty. |
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He has that same power, that same pull, that same piercing, convincing gaze that Lorne Malvo has. |
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The moments of levity and convincing depravity make the film both entertaining and nauseatingly voyeuristic. |
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Pragmatic social science is concerned not merely with elaborating an ideal in convincing normative arguments, but also with its realizability and its feasibility. |
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He had an infectious way of making a charlatan believable, a Lothario's wooing credible, a swindler's eventual revelation of a heart behind his billfold totally convincing. |
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This is not a terribly convincing theory if only because the source was a dinner conversation among unidentified subjects, but at least those were informed media workers. |
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And then I'd prove my point by unwinding the scarf on what they thought was a pretty nondescript costume to reveal hideously convincing strangulation bruising. |
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The bigger obstacle is convincing people to let go of their preconceived notions and take the next big thing for a spin. |
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Only in the 1960s, with the theory of plate tectonics, did a convincing solution finally emerge. |
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Symphony No 5 dates from 1923-4, is the most extended in its quintet of movements, and is a thoroughly convincing rejection of post-war modishness. |
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Some of the ladyboys were extremely beautiful and incredibly convincing. |
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The composer's upbeat arrangements, jazzy and virtuoso, added a convincing tango beat to some of the Yiddish songs not originally conceived as such. |
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I think there is always a tension in these things between convincing the unconverted that you are right and invigorating your own supporters with a bold campaign. |
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Jamie Packer does a convincing imitation of the village idiot. |
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All of them are nudes and convincing as renderings of specific persons. |
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Half an hour later, we were convincing the snowcat driver that the there was plenty of snow for him to rebuild the ramp into the longest rail at the park. |
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As such, these elements function as metonyms for the entire language, and their frequent repetition constitutes a convincing representation of English. |
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Jacoby isn't quite so convincing to me on what such a view can offer at moments of great tragedy. |
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Although unbeaten so far this season not one York performance has been totally convincing, with good fortune saving their blushes on a number of occasions. |
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Actually, a rich guy got away with rape in the absence of fully convincing evidence two years after the crime. |
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Others are now convincing themselves that we have traded nettlesome financial instability for welcomed economic stability, but this rose-colored notion's days are numbered. |
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I think we spent a lot of time trying to convince tired and burned out staff that this is a good idea, instead of convincing the people who really should make the decisions. |
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Try convincing the tea-bag crowd that the U.S. should cut its greenhouse gasses more than China does. |
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Critics have noted how Williams Coos and whispers in convincing Marilyn fashion. |
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Where the wish is father to the thought such logic is convincing. |
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Young began traveling around the country, convincing wholesalers to stock the magazine. |
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Arnold was spellbinding in convincing her that the tales were absurd, obvious lies. |
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Lee makes a convincing case that the loveliness of much Renaissance art is inversely related to the moral ugliness of its patrons. |
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Set against all these worries, the perks of a few quid in government money and the admonition that you need kids to support you in your old age is not exactly convincing. |
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Does it give you any anxiety to be so convincing at playing a character so off-kilter? |
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In the end, Georgeanne has a long soliloquy about what happened to everyone afterward, fiction even less convincing than the drama and poetry preceding it. |
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Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent. |
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It took a bit of convincing to get DeCarli, a 38-year veteran of the department, to speak with me. |
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The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing. |
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But good luck convincing other countries that the case against North Korea is airtight. |
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Gaga is especially convincing at slower tempos, and this is where weaknesses in phrasing are typically most exposed. |
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Greene is so stuffed with bubble and squeak and bunched into his Seville Row wardrobe that he's as convincing as a corncob in the role of brave hero. |
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No kind of threats, cajoling or convincing can get a line-man to scamper up an electric post or poke at a blown fuse when it is raining cats and dogs. |
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What is less convincing is her buoyant optimism about our odds of survival. |
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While the author presents a convincing argument for some relationship between military life and industrial life, the tightness of that relationship remains questionable. |
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Perhaps one could make a good argument that a Mende sowei mask used in female initiation rites belonged in this section, but the Yoruba epa mask was less convincing. |
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Thanks to his familiarity with syllabic scripts he succeeded in identifying a number of consonant-vowel pairs that spelt out words which seemed convincing in their context. |
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There is convincing evidence that Akeld was the centre of a pre-Conquest thanage which also embraced the contiguous townships of Coupland and Yeavering. |
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At hospitals across the nation, panicked Americans with flu symptoms began convincing themselves they were next. |
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Caviezel is less than convincing in the crucial role of the accused, while Peet is merely annoying and wasted as Judd's ditsy, bed-hopping sister. |
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She had a way of convincing sick and maimed people that she was their equal. |
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It has been an expensive, laborious and wearying exercise contacting policyholders worldwide and convincing sceptics that demutualisation isn't such a bad idea after all. |
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Maybe his convincing films, which wed the physically linear quality of drawing to the temporally linear quality of moving images, have altered my vision. |
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Unfortunately, Vermeulen lacked an air of cogency, most likely due to nerves, and was not as convincing. |
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Cusack copes well with the physical demands of the production, offering convincing portrayals of women who are markedly different in appearance and bearing. |
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You can blame Romney's loss on a lot of things, but the least convincing of all is libertarianism. |
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As a non-expert in such things, I find their arguments convincing. |
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This line of argument is comforting and seductive, but not convincing. |
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Gabor saves her from taking her own life, convincing her to become the target gal in his acclaimed knife-throwing act. |
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She's already turned traitor on her own people once, and as convincing as her story is I'm not going to rule out the possibility she'll do it again. |
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I would spend the next decade convincing doctors to medicate my addiction. |
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Words are mispronounced, accents are horribly wrong, and the acting is no more convincing than an elementary school play put on at Christmas by Grade 4 kids. |
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He read voraciously, including several diaries written by English volunteers, and wanted to create scenes that were both historically accurate and emotionally convincing. |
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The problem is that there is no convincing evidence that epidural injections work. |
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The key to convincing selfhood seems to be to rely neither completely on the self nor completely on an other, but to tease out options in-between the two extremes. |
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The report of his anguish at that absence is unsparing, and brutally convincing. |
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The host country were convincing winners with 42.5 points on a canal which provided roach, small skimmers, perch, ruffe and bleak and the occasional sizeable bream. |
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Led by Andy and Allan, those lords of Scottish panto, this cast perform the task of convincing the audience that they really are enjoying themselves. |
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Whether or not you find that argument convincing may depend heavily on whether you are receiving a check from Matty Maroun. |
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He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney. |
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Darcy managed to save a friend from a bad match by convincing the friend of the lady's indifference. |
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Between speaking and the effect produced by it, such as convincing, frightening etc. |
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His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was. |
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Lightlife's new Crispy Gold'n Chik'n Patties and Crispy Gold'n Chik'n Nuggets are among the most convincing chicken alternatives I've ever tried. |
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But it remains to be seen whether this drive to pictorialize the political will accomplish a convincing integration of content and form. |
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It is noteworthy that he succeeds in introducing implication as material implication in a very convincing way. |
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In the 1950s, the two criminologists Sykes and Matza provided one of the first convincing criticisms of culturalist criminology. |
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He's a strong champion but last time I was able to outbox him and I must do another convincing job to get the decision in Italy. |
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This section of the chapter was less convincing than the good overview of different modes of visualizing sound in the following section. |
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The mainstream way of convincing and persuading people is an economistic way of seeing things. |
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Kirsty Stuart is grand as weary new mum Demi and Umar Malik is a hilariously convincing gangling nerd. |
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Sharma looks through WHO records to point out that there is convincing evidence of palmitic acid increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases. |
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Judge Les Spittle said the gun was a convincing weighty replica but effectively a cap gun incapable of firing anything. |
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Most of the convincing GIS images are, after all, human-produced, human-altered, human-generalized. |
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Brent Calis created a convincing god of war, while Michael Mori treated the audience to a soft-shoe shuffle as a silver-painted Mercury. |
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The biggest laughs were probably reserved for Dinger who is so convincing, he looks as though he has just walked in off the street. |
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Is it better to come in on the back of some convincing wins, like Saints, or having just played in a highintensity nailbiter, as Wigan have? |
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Matthew Ganley, takes on equally convincing roles such as her pushy trainer and narky police officer. |
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We can illustrate the distinction between illocution and perlocution by looking at the difference between warning and convincing. |
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He padded around South Carolina for a few days, convincing nobody. |
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Ken Peplowski is counted among the world's greatest clarinettists as well as being an impressive and convincing saxophone player. |
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She overreaches in her latest book, and her argument is not convincing. |
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Bunter entertained a hope of convincing Quelch that he hadn't been in the study at all. He had great faith in his powers as an Ananias! |
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Against all expectations, the accused managed to bring forth convincing evidence of his innocence. |
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Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others. |
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While they have still only suffered one home defeat by Spurs in 19 years, this was not as convincing a victory as the scoreline suggests. |
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And the film shows how mother-care can be more convincing than a legal brief in getting the goods on the corporate villains. |
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Mueller is even less convincing in his suggestion that World War II might never have happened if Hitler had never been born. |
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Henry then pulled off a diplomatic coup by convincing the Emperor to join the Holy League. |
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However, as Schaffer explains, no convincing synthesis of his work has yet been expounded. |
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Although several historical figures have been proposed as the basis for Arthur, no convincing evidence for these identifications has emerged. |
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Large numbers of successful confirmations are not convincing if they arise from experiments that avoid risk. |
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Paine provided a new and convincing argument for independence by advocating a complete break with history. |
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He mastered the local accent and mannerisms and credits that as being his first convincing performance. |
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The tests were convincing to the Warner Brothers, if not to the executives of some other picture companies who witnessed them. |
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Many previous films about the RMS Titanic shot water in slow motion, which did not look wholly convincing. |
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In the 12th century, various foreign influences prompted the Scottish kings to transform Scone into a more convincing royal center. |
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Welsh finished off his tour of America with far more convincing displays over Jack Goodman and Phil Brock. |
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A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. |
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Johnson set about convincing General Curtis LeMay of the efficacy of very heavy bombers laying aerial mines. |
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However, this was unsatisfactory because its supporters could offer no convincing mechanism to produce a significant expansion of the Earth. |
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In spite of convincing arguments for the case, the statistical evidence is simply too incomplete for a definite conclusion to be made. |
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Witness statements incriminated them, as did other evidence, but none made a convincing case on any one charge. |
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Associations can reap these benefits by convincing customers to preauthorize payments. |
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For that, they had a much more convincing and powerful interlocutor, one of the four qaids himself. |
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Next time the district comes asking for money, it's going to have a doozy of a time convincing anyone it can be trusted. |
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With most of the country now ablaze, this argument is less convincing. |
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Meanwhile, the ever-so-gorgeous Asin is an equal match as the convincing runaway bride sharing excellent chemistry with Khan. |
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Since IVM has a limited use in ART practice, convincing couples with male factor infertility such as azoospermia for IVM is very difficult. |
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The UAW had a lot to do with convincing them that they could make money in this Janesville facility. |
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Strawberry Leaf ploughed through the mud to run out the convincing winner of the Weatherbys Bank Fillies' Handicap. |
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With the help of her mother, Ali devises two tulip bulbs and a stem to serve as a kind of codpiece, enhancing her already convincing male facade. |
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These two nitpicky criticisms are allayed by his enthusiastic and convincing tone. |
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Great for convincing your co-workers to DVR Black-ish while at work. |
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That spectrum showed emissions characteristic of both redshifted oxygen and magnesium, convincing Quimby that the supernova really is distant. |
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Still, attention to fortunes stemming from landholdings would have made the book more convincing to a wide audience. |
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Kevorkian's discussion of the Dresden court and its consistories in relation to religious life is not as convincing as the surrounding chapters. |
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Oscar Gustav Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson created convincing images by juxtaposing multiple negatives to make a single contact print. |
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It makes a convincing, behaviorally honest case for overcoming one of the last bastions of unexamined prejudice. |
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The half horse, half eagle Hippogriff is really convincing and the spectral Dementors will give many a youngster sleepless nights. |
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Although they were successful in convincing many to settle at the mission to begin a life of backbreaking labor, it was soon clear that the Coast Miwoks were not thriving. |
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To Higham, dates taken directly from the decorative material are more convincing and should be given priority over those from associated material. |
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Wealthy Loyalists wielded great influence in London and were successful in convincing the British that the majority view in the colonies was sympathetic toward the Crown. |
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The victories proved instrumental in convincing the French and Spanish that the Americans were worthwhile allies, as well as recovering morale in the army. |
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It was a convincing performance against an under-strength Boyos team, with solid performances from the whole team, especially Lucas Clarke and Callum Jones in defence. |
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Moses Mendelssohn advised affording no political weight to any organized religion, but instead recommended that each person follow what they found most convincing. |
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No matter how much one denies it, there is always some hesitance when shooting an intimate scene. But an actor needs to shed inhibitions to look convincing. |
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Nevertheless, the nobles' bankruptcy, along with the threat of an English invasion, played a leading role in convincing the Scots elite to back a union with England. |
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Our convincing evidence was sufficient in the end to win the trial. |
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Dinkum Diamond would perhaps not want too much more rain, but is clearly suited by the conditions of this race judged by his convincing success in last year''s renewal. |
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The former Moseley prop, now director of rugby at the Birmingham University-based outfit, guided his team to a convincing 42-11 playoff victory over Paviours on Saturday. |
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But the second period proved a different matter as Jamie Riley's hat-trickwas added to by Lee Reece, Carl Scroggy and Gary Flood in a convincing 6-0win for Oasis. |
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However, Barber's inclusion of the Passiontide text may also have been through a desire to infuse a convincing seriousness, or even gravitas, to the overall work. |
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Slam Dunk was a convincing winner with an assured performance. |
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Both youngsters booked their tickets to the group final after convincing victories in their respective semi-final matches yesterday against unranked opposition. |
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These metaphorical superimpositions can be quite convincing. |
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The co-optation explanation again seems to offer a more convincing answer. |
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A convincing case can be made, however, that investing in the latest barcode technology today can have immediate paybacks in patient safety and lab workflow improvement. |
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Serkis is utterly convincing as the polio victim who became such an unlikely chart topper with songs such as What A Waste and Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. |
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Accelerandos and ritardandos sound most convincing when they're in response to melodic shapes that would cause the same effect in the physical world. |
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The pamphlet also makes no mention of the C.T.E. cases, whose increasing number is convincing many experts that subconcussive brain trauma can have cumulative effects. |
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The consensus was that there was no convincing evidence of such crimes having been committed, although numbers of European women and children had been killed outright. |
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I think they've demonstrated in a convincing way that this dolphin species can use electroreception, and in a way that's sensitive enough to potentially detect prey. |
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Shannon, 14, and Trisha, 11, now take a little more convincing that leprechauns are afoot, but 9-year-old Bonnie still lets her imagination soar, her father said. |
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Fortunately, what the movie does have is Reese Witherspoon, who does a good job of convincing us that ditziness and fierce intelligence aren't mutually exclusive. |
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Thomas, like most early proponents of phoneticism, saw glimpses of its presence, but fell short in the choice or presentation of convincing evidence. |
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We hope and pray that this covenant will contain a clear and convincing long-term goal that will chart the course of decarbonisation in the coming years. |
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The standard of proof in the United States is typically preponderance of the evidence as opposed to clear and convincing or beyond a reasonable doubt. |
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