Mr. Adams said he wrote the lyrics so that they would be as compelling on paper as they were when sung.
The link between major reform in energy, health care, education and economic recovery and growth may be compelling on paper, but it resonated not at all with a great many people who were suffering and couldn't see big government, the way the president envisioned it, as a remedy.
Similarly, the Associated Press' Lindsey Bahr says that despite having "a charming, of-the-moment cast" and "a compelling-on-paper story … in execution, 'Aloha' is a meandering, needlessly confusing cacophony of story, performance, and spiritual blather.
Chris Gonyea's "January Pines" (2004), a compelling oil on paper, has a certain kinship to Charles Burchfield's spiritual views of nature.
This selection of drawings spanning six centuries has compelling works on paper by some of the more resonant names in Western art history, names like Tiepolo, Boucher, Ingres, Géricault, Beardsley, van Gogh, Mondrian and others.
CUC's latest blockbuster, Diablo, doesn't seem to be a compelling idea on paper, but it illustrates what the company does well: buy software companies that dominate a particular niche and let them follow their vision.
"Looking in the Mirror, No. 9" is one of the most compelling mixed-media works on paper.
Most prosecutors, she said, would rather put on live testimony from analysts because it tends to be more compelling than paper records.
The gestural markings and the strong handling of chiaroscuro make the pastel and charcoal works on paper particularly compelling.
My thoughts: since the late 1980s, when, as a child, I first became a boxing fan, there have been no more than a handful of matchups that on paper have looked as compelling as this one.
For me, it was to get something that was perfect in my head down on paper in a compelling way.
