The phrase "a persuasive idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts or arguments that are intended to convince or influence others.
Example: "The author presents a persuasive idea that climate change requires immediate action from all nations."
Alternatives: "a convincing notion" or "a compelling argument."
Europe needs a persuasive idea of its future that can rebuild democratic support.
The person with both a desire to persuade and a persuasive idea had to be physically present with the audience and there was no amplification.
Home was a persuasive idea that spanned the abandoned shtetls, towns and cities of old Europe from where Jewish refugees fled, and the "Old-new land", as they called the biblical land of Israel that was to become their sanctuary.
He promised that those with broader shoulders would bear more of the burden: a persuasive idea, which rightly includes the upper-middle income bracket hit by child benefit changes, but which should surely extend beyond to the top rate taxpayers.
Suddenly, thousands of cattle kept in pens and fed on high fructose corn syrup, gluten, liquid fat and hormones looked like a persuasive idea – ie, they get twice as big in half the time and therefore have shorter lives in which to cause trouble for us all.
Instead, difficult emotions are registered in close-ups of individual human faces, and a perverse, persuasive idea rises to the surface.
The whole idea of interstellar travel was created by fiction writers, but because it has many elements of good science in it, it is a very persuasive idea.
Far beyond the issue of whether interstellar travel is technologically possible is the very practical issue of where we should go once we have built our first "starship". The whole idea of interstellar travel was created by fiction writers, but because it has many elements of good science in it, it is a very persuasive idea.
"It became a very attractive and persuasive idea," Ms. Noland said.
God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel's persuasive idea of hell.
Around one bend, we get the eyebrow-raising but persuasive idea that Desi Arnaz was a crucial architect of modern television.
