Even more unconvincing is an interlude, meant to be broadly satiric, in which Margaret takes up residence in the Blessed Ark, a commune of sorts presided over by a monastic order called the Finger Baptists, centered on twenty Helpless Gentlemen whose "flaccid arms and lifeless hands" have become atrophied for want of use.
Once Howie's predicament reaches a critical point, the filmmakers, as if speeding toward the nearest exit, wrap up the story with a big emotional confrontation and a burst of violence that is all the more unconvincing for seeming morally justified.
This sensible reflection makes his decision to sue all the more unconvincing.
Indeed, the closer you look, the more unconvincing the idea of its imminent demise appears.
Kat and Alfie, for instance, have become more lurid and their stories more unconvincing to my mind".
The more deMenocal thought about it, the more unconvincing he found the data, on the one hand, and the more compelling he found the underlying idea, on the other.
For the uninitiated, Honey G is a middle-aged white woman from Harrow turned terrible rap act, who each week murders a hip-hop classic to the hysterical delight of the X Factor audience; the more toneless the voice, the more unconvincing the street slang, the more they whoop.
My thesis is that the explanations based on the present materialist/reductionist views on how experiential qualities developed out of inert matter are unconvincing and that an alternative viewpoint offers a more parsimonious and logically coherent account.
The Chicago Daily Tribune offered a more mixed opinion on the film; reviewer Kitty Kelly found it difficult to care about characters "overshadowed by environment", and considered the 35-year-old Williams unconvincing as an ingenue.
