Martin Fredmann, the company's enterprising artistic director, still likes to mix and match in his international commune, but the results are considerably more persuasive than in the past.
It's a neatly executed homage to Yeats's rough beast — and if Richey's writing is less "personal" here than in other poems, it's also considerably more persuasive.
When Ms. Middlebrook turns from such theorizing to the day-to-day lives of Plath and Hughes and their struggles to balance the demands of domesticity and art in their marriage, the results are considerably more persuasive.
For the most part, however, Mr. Gore's stripped-down narrative emphasizes facts over emotion, common sense over portentous predictions an approach that proves considerably more persuasive than the more alarmist one assumed, say, by Tim Flannery in "The Weather Makers".
If they had shown the slightest inclination to uphold international treaties when they were in power — the United Nations Convention Against Torture, for instance, comes to mind — their plaintive cry would be considerably more persuasive today.
/ I had to keep my back against a wall / to keep from falling". It's a neatly executed homage to Yeats's rough beast — and if Richey's writing is less "personal" here than in other poems, it's also considerably more persuasive.
The sort of evidence perceived as adequate and thus persuasive varied considerably across the professional memberships of innovators, with medical staff espousing almost exclusively scientifically derived evidence, while other professionals contented themselves with statistics and financial figures.
And if you really think about what it was like to live in the 19th century -- an imaginative exercise that the show makes considerably easier -- this starts to sound persuasive.
Mr. Davies, who is best known as a conductor and has long been one of Mr. Glass's most persuasive champions, plays the piano with considerably more finesse than the composer, so it wasn't surprising that the Études are far more varied than the pieces Mr. Glass played.
The most persuasive result is that patients with CH reported considerably worse parent- and child-reported HRQoL in the domains "motor functioning" and "cognitive functioning", also presented in a high percentage of patients considered at risk for impaired HRQoL in these domains.
