And while addiction may make Jon sound like a bummer, as played with great swagger and subterranean wit by the movie's writer and director, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, this improbable charmer conveys convincingly triumphant braggadocio.
He said he centered the movie on an Irish-American family because that is an experience he could convey convincingly and because the Irish have a fierce sense of loyalty, a clannishness, that would be interesting to explore in a world where loyalties can conflict.
It conveys more convincingly than any ical treatise the complexity of the region's allegiances and the futility of the Western occupation.
Vision, and the ability to convey it convincingly to others, are two core attributes that McElhaney ascribes to female leadership, and ones that differ from male traits of goal-driven short-termism.
The different characteristics of the surfaces you drive on are also convincingly conveyed throughout.
That sort of conceit worked better in the recent "Follies" revival, one of several Broadway musicals in which Ms. Peil has convincingly conveyed fragile rectitude.
Ed Lyon's portrayal of Atys, in the first three acts, had a deer-in-the-headlights quality that convincingly conveyed his character's confused loyalties and amorous desperation.
Frequent references make it clear that Beyer has Proust on his mind, but the novel's sense of memory is more often imposed from the outside than convincingly conveyed from the internal perspective of the characters.
Their existence also conveniently reveals that Viren's dullness (conveyed all too convincingly by Mr. Deshmukh) is a virtue: in this family, rebellion for a black sheep means doing the right thing.
The growing threat from Moscow means that "conventional deterrent capability must be restored as a matter of urgency and convincingly conveyed, to avoid presenting Russia with inviting targets", the think-tank warned.
