Sentence examples for convincing sight from inspiring English sources

There are no gruesome scenes of Plath hammering away joyously on a typewriter; instead, we are treated to the far more convincing sight of a poet in mid-block.

For Pope, rhyming couplets were the units of that essential eighteenth-century quality, wit: True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd, Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the notion of the mind.

Matlock says that it was love at first sight, before convincing the flawless object of his affection to undergo liposuction of the chin, arms and thighs.

Unaware that the egg had been tampered with, the client would be convinced by the sight of the black needles that evil spirits were harassing her.

In "Going Blind," a documentary pegged to his own glaucoma, Joseph Lovett seems largely interested in convincing himself that losing his sight won't be so bad.

Canby also suggested that second sight was not convincing on screen, since it appeared simply like flash-forward which is a standard story-telling device in films, and concluded that "Not only do you probably have better things to do, but so, I'm sure, do most of the people connected with the film".

At first sight, this argument sounds quite convincing.

At first the wooden decoys were simply a means to an end primitive carvings just convincing enough to lure Long Island's ducks and shorebirds into the sights of hunters.

"The paper feminine hygiene industry has done a very good job of convincing women that their period is something [which] should be out of sight and out of mind, something they shouldn't talk about," Zivku said.

Nothing convincing.

After convincing a friend to come with her to the International Magic convention, in London, which she describes as "a sea of men – genuinely not a woman in sight", she met the magician Max Somerset.