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At the time, the study became persuasive supporting evidence in making the American Cancer Society's case about the manifold dangers of using any tobacco products, not just cigarettes.
Mr. Dank also offered deeply personalized views of three Chopin works — two Mazurkas (Op. 67, No. 4 and Op. 68, No. 1), in which his idiosyncratic phrasing slowly became persuasive, and the Waltz in A flat (Op. 42), which benefited from a natural rubato and a sparkling tone.
Learn to do public speaking; even if you don't stand before a crowd, it can help you to become persuasive and get in shape in all areas that matter.
And in doing so, he becomes less persuasive and less complete.
"Perhaps philosophy only becomes truly persuasive when it most closely approximates literature," suggests Rowlands, who has already successfully taken his own advice.
As Ms. Simpson begins to focus more on her heroines' inner lives (and spends less time trying so ineptly to map the social landscape they inhabit), the narrative becomes more persuasive.
As is so often true of this sort of historical survey, "God in America" is best in its earliest, least familiar sections and becomes less persuasive as it moves into the present and tries to reconcile almost-current events — George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's embraces of religion, the controversy over the Islamic center near ground zero — with its grand themes.
This hypothesis becomes more persuasive when considering the general trend of Japanese fourth graders' performance, which is often higher than the international averages in other topics.
