Even so, I wouldn't call their fruit sweet exactly, although you can sometimes eat Bramleys late, say in spring, and be almost persuaded that they are an eater.
There were moments when his passion for these pieces, combined with the orchestra's beautifully honed sound, gave the music a glow and left a listener almost persuaded that the music is more than it is.
One "exquisitely written" tale, according to the Times Educational Supplement's critic, "almost persuaded me that literature still has some relevance to life.
After drying out, we returned in the evening for the punchy rhythms of Cubana Bop, which almost persuaded us that the northern downpour was a tropical storm in Havana.
He studied at Harvard, roomed with Edward O. Wilson, believed that scientists had an ethical obligation to be conservationists, and when he first played Joan Baez records for his friend Dr. Ehrlich, he almost persuaded him that the voice was his wife's.
It almost persuaded a court that the vote would disenfranchise the state's minorities, so should be ruled illegal.Raise the spectre of the digital divide with the technology vendors and e-government champions within the public sector, and their brows furrow with concern but not for long.
He has shown it to be a hypothesis one is almost persuaded to believe that it is true, as he himself recently has characterized his own epistemic attitude (Batson 1997, 522).
When this scrupulous stylist says that "I almost persuaded myself for the time I was writing the paragraph above", or jokes that he might die in the middle of sentence or even of "a wo", it doesn't quite work: you know he's writing in the studio, so to speak, rather than live.
It's not hard to guess whose influence that is: Leon once almost persuaded me to get a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
Against Nottingham, it was a simple "1-2-3 Nottingham!" But Coach Brian Porth was so happy to get his first win that I almost persuaded him to let us chant, "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate?
