He is a combative and convincing performer, quite unlike the trembling civil servants who are usually dragged before select committees.Part of the committee's problem was that from the moment the plagiarism had been revealed, the government had made no attempt to hide its mistake.
Then, through 2008 and the first half of 2009, Massa out-scored Raikkonen, and was generally the slightly more convincing performer.
The two have been evenly matched for pure pace this year - Magnussen has shaded Button nine-eight in qualifying in the 17 races so far this year - but Button has been the more convincing performer in races.
Unlike actors in Hollywood, who need to play a role and be convincing, performers need to be themselves on stage.
Ms McGovern is one of the most convincing performers in the drama, even if Mr Fellowes has somewhat underwritten her role.
A very convincing performance.
On Friday afternoon at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum's medieval collection in Upper Manhattan, a talented group of performers made a convincing case that there was something decidedly operatic happening far before the Renaissance.
It's symptomatic of the tone of "Knight of Cups" that even Blanchett, ordinarily the most sure-footed of performers, has trouble finding a convincing reality to play here.
This Satchmo is the tortured being behind the ebullient public image; the performer and the writer make a convincing case for their viewpoint.
Yet in a sense it is straightforward, illustrative music, a chain of bright episodes, like illustrations in a children's book, which require the performer to link them together in a convincing narrative.
