Take the camera — the hardware is the same, and Google has yet to make the leap to two lenses, but its underlying software has made it possible to introduce a convincing Portrait Mode, nonetheless.
In the "Prologue," the eight double basses were especially convincing in jazz mode; the percussion section was perhaps too spread out physically to ensure tight cohesion.
The star talks about herself in the royal "we" but also in the more fragile "I," and is convincing in both modes.
Important features of the submarine landscape, notably the excavation of submarine canyons and the deposition of the distinctive turbidite sequences on the continental rise and in ocean basins, find convincing explanations of their modes of formation, in terms of autosuspension theory.
Here, when she's doing Cathy in superficial housewife mode, she's convincing, but not compelling.
The mode is most convincing on the truly sad "Dear Old Nicki" and the album opener, "I'm the Best," on which she says, "I'm fighting for the girls that never thought they could win".
One assumed early on that Stephen Brennan was keeping his performance low key to conserve energy for the marathon ahead, but he never approached the heights of anger and passion the script calls for; he is at his most convincing in curmudgeonly-but-crafty mode in the final scenes.
Toulon got up and running in this season's European Champions Cup but were far from convincing as they began in bullying mode before retreating into their shells.
Norman, who has spent decades training herself in invisibility as a mode of survival, needed convincing to agree to such high-profile press.
The problem is that Prokofiev is often a good deal more convincing in hand-on-sleeve patriotic mode than he is trying to portray the inner lives of his protagonists, none of whom emerge as fully fleshed characters.
