How To Use Convincingly In A Sentence
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Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note.
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Unless looks deceive so convincingly, he does not look indigent and like someone in state of abject poverty; more like a man in full control of his bearing, faculties and appearance.
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The trend gets much worse at midseason, with a "what were they thinking" project called Work It, a shrill Bosom Buddies knockoff about two unemployed he-men who dress as women none too convincingly to get jobs as pharmaceutical reps.
Critic's Notebook: The ABC Upfront
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Although she gets reborn in a Caribbean setting, there is no direct lineage convincingly established for her.
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For example, Jonathan Saunders gave us a convincingly grown-up collection of soigné clothes, using an almost entirely black-and-white palette.
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Neither dates nor provenances can convincingly explain the development of these distinct artistic languages within the Jewish art of the Iberian Peninsula.
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He is merely trying - not very convincingly - to reproduce the two-dimensional character created by the media.
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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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Your mind is working fast but your emotions stay cool, so you can still talk convincingly about ideas - and the right person is listening.
The Sun
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McConnell's aides rushed to his defence yesterday, insisting unconvincingly that, had he failed to check on whether he needed to register the painting, the media would have hounded him over the issue.
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I like to call this the Good Query Gone Bad: it contains all the basic elements (although not done very well); the querier has clearly given some thought to the market appeal of his book (but not presented the results very convincingly); the story itself sounds rather interesting (despite being poorly described).
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Querypalooza, part XIX: pulling all of those disparate elements together into a harmonious whole, or, may I see those principles in practice, please?
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He was unable to lie convincingly.
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It should also be noted that the source of illumination is not convincingly resolved if Astronomy and Music were located over (or between?) the funnel windows of the southeast wall, in spite of Clough's claims.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The deflagration is what signifies a SNIa, and it is possible that there exists a subclass (not convincingly detected) of SN where the progenitor (or one of its progenitors) are a magnesium WD.
Merging White Dwarfs Set Off Supernovae | Universe Today
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How to portray convincingly the people at the centre of unspeakable cruelty?
Times, Sunday Times
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He is so convincingly cocky you want to slap him for being such a rogue.
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He was unable to lie convincingly.
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For most TV and live performances, this studio recording will simply be played through the sound system, and the singer will convincingly lip-synch the performance.
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Tina Fey, Emmy award-winning star of "30 Rock" and noted Sarah Palin impersonator on "Saturday Night Live," has proved she can convincingly play a number of roles as an actress.
Tina Fey Falls Flat as Speculator
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Your mind is working fast but your emotions stay cool, so you can still talk convincingly about ideas - and the right person is listening.
The Sun
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Spock’s perfect concentration was broken; he glanced over at McCoy, his expression unconvincingly calm, clearly expecting the worst.
Demons
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Amorth presents his ostensibly absurd stories convincingly, with charm and plenty of natural levity.
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You can look at your home life realistically and talk convincingly about the changes you want to make.
The Sun
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Though Sen, 72, won his 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and has taught the subject at both Harvard and Cambridge, he could just as convincingly be described as a sociologist, historian, Sanskritist, political analyst and moral philosopher -- for starters -- as his new book makes clear.
Winning Argument
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The impersonator had convincingly imitated Mr da Silva's husky voice and informal style, but Ms Wagner became concerned about the tone and content of the interview.
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In an editorial last month, Ross Douthat argued convincingly that John Paul was a great man, but he was also "a weak administrator, a poor delegator, and sometimes a dreadful judge of character.
By Punishing Legionaries of Christ Leader, Pope Benedict Finally Grabs Some Good PR
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K.E. von Baer, the founder of the whole present science of the history of development, has certainly a most competent judgment of the correctness of this so-called biogenetic maxim; and he convincingly shows, in his essay on "Darwin's Doctrine," that the embryos never represent a former animalic form, but that their development follows the principle of representing first the common characteristics of the class, then those of the order, etc., until finally the individual characteristics appear in the formation.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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Both of the schoolgirl characters are portrayed convincingly, the dialogue being sharp, punchy and humorous.
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Many new al-Qaida members say, unconvincingly, that they decided to become a jihadist after reading an extreme, anti-American blog, or after converting to Islam, sometimes just a few weeks before.
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Football was cancelled last night, which was a good thing as my body was still recuperating from the previous night's game (which we won rather convincingly).
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It was therefore up to them to ensure against a collapse and they did so convincingly.
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While there is nothing wrong with this in theory, it flies in the face of Brubaker's otherwise convincingly argued claim that the miniatures were often conceived as complex visual wholes.
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She argues convincingly that anatomy must be historicized in a particular time, place, and locus of interests.
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When you tell me that an estate is now of small value to its life-owner and unget-at-able for any public purposes, in consequence of a will made by a man who died twenty years ago, it appears to me that you shew me convincingly that we have not Free
Speculations from Political Economy
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A particularly contentious issue in medieval military debates concerns the longbow: was it a revolutionary or an evolutionary weapon Jim Bradbury turns his attention to this question in The Medieval Archer Boydell, 1985, convincingly challenging the conventional view that the longbow was a new and devastating weapon only fully adopted by the English after the experience of Edward I’s armies against Welsh archers at the end of the thirteenth century.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Myths of Medieval Warfare
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Mill famously tried to accomodate this fact within utilitarian structure with a doctrine of “higher” and “lower” pleasures, though not especially convincingly.
In Search of Higher Pleasures
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She had a commanding lead, and it narrowed, and then she won convincingly, so it was good news for Republicans across the board.
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‘What I expected’ is an adroit compromise between the impulses to form and to freedom: ‘twist’ fails to rhyme convincingly with ‘pass,’ but in that failure assonates and alliterates with ‘questions.’
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The message seems to be that it's inhuman to torture a nonhuman who simulates human emotion convincingly enough.
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Jane Seymour does an excellent job with the deceptively difficult role of Solitaire, who must be a bewitching beauty but also one who is convincingly sheltered and innocent.
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As divided and unprepared democratic forces fumbled for a plan of action, demagogues would rush forward convincingly promising protection.
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It witters on unconvincingly that having next of kin makes the decision less sovereign to the individual involved.
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He looks uncomfortable, stalls and waffles unconvincingly about waiting to hear from lenders' underwriters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story couldn't be convincingly told if there wasn't a convincing constructed context where there are constants, ephemera, characters, events, themes, boundaries, and plot.
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We'd just discarded the possibility of me doing a Lara Croft convincingly.
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Your mind is working fast but your emotions stay cool, so you can still talk convincingly about ideas - and the right person is listening.
The Sun
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That could have backfired horribly had we not won the Ashes so convincingly.
Times, Sunday Times
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As far as we can tell, all the elimination decisions rest solely with the public for the remainder of X Factor, which leaves Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne with little more to do than squabble amongst themselves in unconvincingly stage-managed ways.
X Factor Betting Odds: Simon And Dannii, Sitting In A Tree?
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The paperback cover is unevenly laminated to imitate broken glass, but so convincingly that the book looks damaged.
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It is wonderful that any man could have, in the space of eight days, written, with his own hand, so fiery an invective, so compelling of the attention of any reader, so completely annihilative of his antagonist's pretensions and contentions, so convincingly establishing his own: to have made of it, in the course of composition so rapid and totally unrevised, such a jewel of
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
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I have seen such as "February", for instance, in the Boston Museum, present for me the sensation of a man of great private spiritual and intellectual means, having the wish to express tactfully and convincingly his personal conclusions and reactions, leaning always toward the side of iridescent illusiveness rather than emotional blatancy and irrelevant extravagance.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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I think the men in the garage would then maybe smile, but unconvincingly and maybe say, ‘Yeah, all right mate.’
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Be that as it may, his depiction was so convincingly done as to restore belief in the existence of centaurs!
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Unconvincingly, the Tory leader - mispronouncing the word ‘leadership’ - said he welcomed the chance to put his job on the line.
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And it took four years and ten billion dollars of hand waving by John Shannon et al. and his ilk (you all know who they are) to demonstrate to the world convincingly and irrefutably, that the myth of reusability flew just last month, and will fly again next month, and now, after the absolute debacle of Constellation, still remains the defacto standard of manned heavy lift launch vehicle utility, scheduling, sustainability and affordability.
Augustine Commission To Meet Today - NASA Watch
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Projected on the gallery wall, the video of the event convincingly resembled programs hosted by televangelists.
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He was able to convincingly speak the language of revolution and continued to do so down through the dark days of civil war and into the early 1930s.
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He very convincingly portrayed a man struggling against a disease that meant he was wasting away in order to get something of extreme importance done.
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Nobody has convincingly explained how the birds, bees, flowers and hares of the uplands can coexist with a new influx of humans.
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He would be reintegrated providing he recommitted convincingly to the collective cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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he argued convincingly
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He explained somewhat unconvincingly that the company was paying for everything.
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But powerfully and convincingly, he set out his heartfelt belief that he did what was right.
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Being a natural, unshowy performer with a tremendous singing voice, she shifts all the more convincingly from lowly sibling to elegant diva.
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The horse, who would have won even more convincingly that day had he not clouted the final fence, looks capable of following-up in similar company tomorrow.
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This conceptual version of ornament can be regarded either as an extreme case of primitivism or, just as convincingly, as the ultimate in sophistication.
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And in "The Twisted Sisterhood," Valen argues convincingly that such animosity is pervasive and has lasting consequences.
"The Twisted Sisterhood," a book about the "dark legacy of female friendships"
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The other dishes and the ewers and basins are all signed by or have been convincingly attributed to a skilled but anonymous engraver known from his monogram signature as ‘P over M’.
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Have any formerly unidentified flying objects been convincingly shown to be alien spaceships?
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After losing their first race Bristol 1 benefited from a capsize by a London boat in the second race and went on to convincingly win the third to make it into the final.
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Nobody has convincingly explained how the birds, bees, flowers and hares of the uplands can coexist with a new influx of humans.
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Eyes, animated by carefully placed lashes and highlights, are convincingly lifelike.
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Instead of creating the usual digital effects, Jennifer Carpenter, the daughter of film director John Carpenter, convincingly distorts her body to portray the possessed girl.
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All are so convincingly staged here that you almost wince with pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a nice touch, but the picture does not handle fantasy sequences particularly convincingly.
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‘But 40 is the new 30,’ insists Sean, rather unconvincingly.
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He is quite an original thinker and really did invent the idea of Mozart as a brat so convincingly that now most people think it's fact.
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He explained somewhat unconvincingly that the company was paying for everything.
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As Thomas Frank so convincingly proved in ‘What's The Matter With Kansas’ this sense of grievance is simply what makes guys like him tick.
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They were full of energy and life and argued their convictions against the war convincingly.
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When I explained that I was a journalist, I was unconvincingly told in broken English that I looked like a "picture on a wall" of a rioter in Davos, which I took to mean I looked like some sort of photofit picture.
The Guardian World News
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The dialogueless scenario refuses to jell, and is performed by Bebe Neuwirth somewhat unconvincingly, except when she slinkily dances.
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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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Though, I imagine Mme Royale is pretty convincingly an iron lady if she managed to fight her way though the phallocratic French political scene, especially on the left.
French socialists pick candidate
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Maybe I'm inured from years of baseball games and seeing the red, white, and blue unfurl from the Symphony Hall ceiling every time the Pops plays "The Stars and Stripes Forever," but any flag that every side can convincingly wrap itself in doesn't bug me that much, Eddie Izzard's warnings notwithstanding.
Amo, lloro, canto, sueño
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The members passed an enormous tax cut in the teeth of a recession - taking us from surplus to deficit so quickly that not even the talk-radio gasbags could convincingly pin the blame on our all-weather scapegoat.
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The actress has some kittenish mannerisms which sometimes distract but she drifts convincingly enough through the sticky New York nights.
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Henry's break from Rome is convincingly anatomised, and Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn both emerge as strong, self-willed players.
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Even if we conducted a formal university-based experiment and successfully replicated the basic findings many times using different mediums, healers, and deceased spirits; objective biophysical measures, such as supersensitive thermographic cameras; and convincingly ruling out any reasonable possibility of fraud, the findings would not justify the definitive conclusion that Dr. Jones, or any spirit, deceased or otherwise, had shown up.
The Sacred Promise
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He offers up his worst side, arguing unconvincingly and half-heartedly.
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He demonstrates the importance of the actors' contribution by pointing to the difficulty advertisers have had, since the strike began, getting non-union actors to emote convincingly.
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Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch.
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Yet Palin unconvincingly blames her political enemies — including those questioning whether she was really the mother of her last child — for forcing her July resignation as governor, for the good of Alaska.
'Rogue' Palin hints at ambitions
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Having talked unconvincingly last month of famous victories that were in fact forgettable and creditable performances that were anything but, he could afford to raise a smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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He can sing country, which to me is the hardest thing to pull off convincingly, and he can yodel, which is awesome," he says.
Chicago Reader
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York endured a joyless visit to Pontefract as they were convincingly beaten 24-0 in a Powergen Yorkshire One result.
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Although they had recently beaten the home side convincingly in the cup the opposition on that day had fielded a weak team.
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How to portray convincingly the people at the centre of unspeakable cruelty?
Times, Sunday Times
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Using lush grays and greens, his paintings convincingly evoke wet and misty terrain, as well as the more crisply delineated forms and glimmer of bright sunny days.
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What made her sets more than just a potpourri of disparate songs was her ability to somehow convincingly bind everything together.
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Furthermore, the connection between assimilative campaigns and nation-building, though frequently asserted, is not convincingly demonstrated.
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Planning for the first of these "dialogs" is underway for November in Washington, D.C. The two organizations will also seek to train scientists to speak compellingly and convincingly, in non-technical terms, about the world's sustainability challenges.
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Moreover, they ought to do it so convincingly as to make the nonpublic sector of the national economy see its benefit.
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It's a timeless conceit, but in "The Rules of Civility," Amor Towles sets it convincingly in a late-1930s milieu where the limousines and cocktail parties of the haut monde contrast piquantly with the wider context of the Great Depression.
The Best Fiction of 2011
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he argued unconvincingly
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As those progenitors of the contemporary avant-garde, The Futurists, so famously encouraged in the years leading up to WWI, Byrd casts her analogic net so widely it convincingly illuminates the interrelationship between mind and body, subject and object, ego and environment.
Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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The lead children don't gel convincingly as a family unit and their performances, on the whole, are stilted.
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Your mind is working fast but your emotions stay cool, so you can still talk convincingly about ideas - and the right person is listening.
The Sun
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First of all, the 1ps subjunctive is typically understood to simply be *(-o)-oh₂ (although Jasanoff convincingly argues for a purely "athematic"1 *-oh₂ in the earliest stage of PIE, contrasting with present indicative *-mi) and the 1ps optative is normally *-yeh₁m.
Lehmann's dismissal of PIE *swe
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There was a short-lived fashion for Worcesterberries about ten years ago when they were unconvincingly touted as a rival for brambles or tayberries.
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The report argues convincingly that the lads mags such as Zoo and Nuts that contain objectified and degrading images of women, should be seen as a teenage magazine for boys.
2009 November « My Political Ramblings…
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The positioning of A Lover's Complaint as the tailpiece to the sequence - itself convincingly dated to around 1603-4 - suggests that Shakespeare finished assembling the collection at around that time.
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It sounds convincingly like self-improvement.
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He argued forcefully and convincingly that they were likely to bankrupt the budget.
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But such actors cannot be expected to mouth Marxist slogans convincingly.
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The psychological damage wrought by the recent war subtly and convincingly underpins this account of three variously unhappy women and three ill-assorted men who may or may not offer them the hope of happiness.
A Wreath of Roses, by Elizabeth Taylor – review
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The nippy corner-forward, scorer of his side's first point after 17 seconds, slammed the ball convincingly past St Mary's net-minder Nicky Walsh.
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Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, two actors I don't like very much, perform convincingly and, more important, don't overact and chew the scenery.
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The Conservatives, however, convincingly beat them in head-to-head battles.
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He doesn't possess the personal gravitas to speak convincingly of great political ideals.
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That could have backfired horribly had we not won the Ashes so convincingly.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is immorality in provoking a war. (the takedown of the brutal dictator was an afterthought only dragged up reluctantly to a primary purpose up after the first two reasons were convincingly shown to be false after the invasion).
Balkinization
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Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note.
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The paperback cover is unevenly laminated to imitate broken glass, but so convincingly that the book looks damaged.
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Clarke is always at pains to point out errors and misconceptions in earlier writings, and he does so convincingly.
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It's treacherous territory, to be sure, but Half Cousin pull it off convincingly, faltering only in the rare moments that they sacrifice melody to spotlight quirky instrumentation.
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If we want an asphalt texture to convincingly cover a parking lot, it's well worth the time and effort to work on the edge detail until the seams are invisible and any repeating patterns are kept to a minimum.
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All are so convincingly staged here that you almost wince with pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is also poverty, convincingly etched in the statistics, and etched too, in the lives of people like Hortensia Cabrera, mother of 14, widow.
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Joseph's words did not convert me on the spot, but they shook my beliefs to the roots, because they chimed so convincingly with the evidence that I saw around me.
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As the Readers and Writers Festival Closing Performance, Munro read a yet-unpublished story from what she is saying - unconvincingly - will be her last book.
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If push comes to shove, many women MSPs could convincingly take on the role of clippies.
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She made herself say it gently and convincingly as if she could still be the source of adult verities.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Freud demonstrated quite convincingly that when born, humans are ‘polymorphously perverse’, that is to say capable of receiving pleasure and stimulation from the whole body as one erogenous zone.
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Be that as it may, his depiction was so convincingly done as to restore belief in the existence of centaurs!
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All are so convincingly staged here that you almost wince with pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The balance problems are never convincingly solved by conductor Paul Gambill, and the playing throughout lacks rhythmic bite and sparkle.
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I can't complain, " answered Wilson unconvincingly. " When are you going to sell me that car?
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The eviction similarly feels too didactic to be dramatic and too staged to be convincingly informative.
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Be that as it may, his depiction was so convincingly done as to restore belief in the existence of centaurs!
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The last picture, a deadpan rear view of a pinheaded clown with large, circular ears, looks convincingly like a collaboration between Philip and Don.
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In the book, the author accurately assesses the centrality of Williams's biblicism and argues convincingly that, first and foremost, Williams was a biblicist.
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Costner, with his easy grin, incipient beer belly, thinning hair and bright devilish eyes, plays broken-down convincingly.
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Few things are harder to create convincingly than an album of rhyming spoken word - it's hard not to sound pretentious, derivative or hokey.
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No-one, in UK broadsheets at least, writes terribly convincingly about film at the moment.
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These results demonstrate convincingly that our campaign is working.
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He insists, not entirely convincingly, that he harbours no animus towards the First Minister.
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Boscaini manages to say this entirely convincingly under a sullen, grey sky in Dublin.
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This Minoan etymon is my attempt at better explaining (via expected Etruscan *caupaθ) the source of both Germanic *haubida- and Latin caput in a way that an over-cited Indo-European root (*)*kaput- just can't convincingly accomplish without fiddling with the phonetics.
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He convincingly argues that the protagonist suffers from a narcissistic disorder that structures her personality.
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A sudden eruption in the manager of common sense on tactical deployment, a rediscovery of cohesive drive among the players, and England could yet bid convincingly for glory in the summer.
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I also own a stylophone, a berimbau and a zither, none of which I can play convincingly.
Friday Open Thread
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But then, 10 minutes later, he's still needling and wheedling so convincingly you start to flip-flop back to the earlier assumption that, self-effusing pretence or not, Alan Davies hates having his picture taken.
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These results demonstrate convincingly that our campaign is working.
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My recommendation here would be the novels of someone like Cecelia Holland, who immerses the reader in historical periods so convincingly detailed and yet alienated that they might as well be fantasy worlds -- we have to learn our way around in them from narrative clues, not from infodump exposition or prior knowledge.
MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers
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Tastes convincingly homemade, and very pleasant it is too, in a slightly studenty protein-rice-and-beans way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your mind is working fast but your emotions stay cool, so you can still talk convincingly about ideas - and the right person is listening.
The Sun
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He explained somewhat unconvincingly that the company was paying for everything.
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Both of the schoolgirl characters are portrayed convincingly, the dialogue being sharp, punchy and humorous.
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There was a short-lived fashion for Worcesterberries about ten years ago when they were unconvincingly touted as a rival for brambles or tayberries.
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The notes in Burnt Amber blend convincingly, creating an illusionary world where sweetness is dry and smoke is moist… In one breath, oozing honey, balsams, labdanum and storax crystallize themselves into incense resins burning with thick, lung-invading smoke that uplifts the spirits and hugs the heart.
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A flood of widows in cornflower blue burqas, demanding the right to work, sweep the viewer convincingly right into the middle of the drama, where a western cameraman captures the commotion.
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She has convincingly demonstrated that this fusion of figure and concept is based on both a naturalization of allegory and a naturalization of sculpture.
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When dealing with people who seem to have basic socialist principles but are dead-set against immigration, what arguments can convincingly win them over?
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As divided and unprepared democratic forces fumbled for a plan of action, demagogues would rush forward convincingly promising protection.
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The eviction similarly feels too didactic to be dramatic and too staged to be convincingly informative.
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Part of the attraction was the hope that a formal discipline which required one to name signifiers and signifieds would display convincingly the ideological contents of various activities.
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Rarely has the potential power of hip hop been so convincingly harnessed, with Chuck D's furiously articulate lyrics detonating like bombs.
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In addition, he provided an altar frontal, or paliotto, a fragment of which Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi has convincingly identified in the Madonna and Child now in the Palazzo Capponi.
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The claimant knows all the things he ought to know, and talks convincingly to the long-lost heir's friends.
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Fowler can't, as far as I'm aware, convincingly lay the smackdown on any of the assorted candyass jabronies that hang round Albert Square.
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Janos' argument convincingly explains the mainsprings of politics and economics in modern times.
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To succeed we must become first a central part of the argument and then win it convincingly - as democrats in a democratic process.
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He admitted years later that the frustrated actor had convincingly pitched himself.
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Improbably yet convincingly, the film ends on an optimistic note.
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He's forceful and intimidating when necessary, but also convincingly conveys the character's inner turmoils and uncertainties.
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I also own a stylophone, a berimbau and a zither, none of which I can play convincingly.
Friday Open Thread
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Or if you need to be able to say convincingly to sundry persons,'This old thing?
Times, Sunday Times
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The call for aggiornamento by the Pope thus assumed the character of a search for a fortification of the faith in order to render the Mission of the Church more effective and able to respond to these challenges convincingly.
Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
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These results demonstrate convincingly that our campaign is working.
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Reports at this meeting showed convincingly that chronic tobacco smoke exposure produces emphysema in mice.
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The singer can also convincingly quiet things down, as displayed on such torchier fare as "I Love You" and the title track.
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First of all, the 1ps subjunctive is typically understood to simply be *(-o)-oh₂ (although Jasanoff convincingly argues for a purely "athematic"1 *-oh₂ in the earliest stage of PIE, contrasting with present indicative *-mi) and the 1ps optative is normally *-yeh₁m.
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She replied to my points so convincingly that my argument was soon in tatters.
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Do we think there's no such thing as bad art: poorly written novels, cliched and unoriginal paintings, unconvincingly acted films?
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Lence has convincingly argued that ‘the injuries, the usurpations, all these were sufferable until the pernicious acts of George III threatened the very foundations of self-government.’
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I looked around the room occasionally to marvel at how the drama of an autistic woman convincingly portrayed by Claire Danes who revolutionized slaughterhouses and the cow industry, enraptured the men.
Doug Demeo: Inmates And Landscapes
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He builds his argument carefully and convincingly for intercultural literacy, pointing out that no culture exists in isolation.
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The actors in the commercial convincingly bulge out their cheeks to convey that they are full of putrid vomit.
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The correct view is exactly the opposite-if McCain knows the truth, doesn't really believe what he's saying and tells lies unconvincingly, that is evidence of the far deeper corruption of the man.
Later On
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As divided and unprepared democratic forces fumbled for a plan of action, demagogues would rush forward convincingly promising protection.
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He pronounced every syllable, and he did the accents convincingly but not cornily.
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Looking unconvincingly dissolute, he is trying to recover from being "morbidly alcoholic," and his doctor encourages him to write the novel we see unfolding in flashback.
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However, I believe you have mucked that up by arguing so convincingly above for (a hypostatized) Art's double role as true believer and cynic.
The Power and the Piss
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As an aside, I should say that New Yorkers - at least, the New Yorkers who were there last night - don't really do the bovver boy act very convincingly, which added to the pantomime quality of the whole event.
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If the emotionally devastating Goya and even the eerily detached Manet are far superior in conjuring lived horror, with flowing blood and choking gun smoke, it’s because they belonged to times when organized violence could still be convincingly registered in specific detail, at human scale, and painting had not yet lost its grip on external reality to photography and on historical fiction to the movies.
June 2006
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Each plot thread should make sense in itself and interweave with the others, not only convincingly, but in the most effective way for this kind of book.
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However, in an encouraging display of maturing emotional strength, Ernests did not cripple himself with self-beration and continued to hold convincingly, while pressuring Djoković on his serve.
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