Sentence examples for didn't persuade me from inspiring English sources

"The cover didn't persuade me and the blurb didn't persuade me, and the introduction [in which the two modern characters are stuck indoors on a rainy day in the summer holidays] was really dull.

Why? Her faux-naive answer – "I wanted to know more about how and why couples swing" – didn't persuade me.

'So I didn't know what I wanted and I said to my father, "I must get a job in the theatre" and he didn't persuade me not to.

"A Better War" is a fine book, unjustly overlooked (until recently — more on that in a moment), but it didn't persuade me that the Vietnam War was ever winnable: I still agree with the view of other historians, especially Neil Sheehan in "A Bright Shining Lie," that the U.S. could not have won in Vietnam because we were fighting Vietnamese nationalism.

But ultimately it is Grant's story, and whatever the virtues of their friendship, the book did not persuade me that it "changed America".

When Garrigan protests that he did exactly that, Amin declares smilingly: "Ah, but you did not persuade me, Nicholas!" It is another feather in the crowded cap of co-writer Peter Morgan, who has a great gift for this kind of face-off drama taken from real life.

But she doesn't persuade me any more than Epstein does that her subject is a great poet.

It's done the European rounds since its premiere in 1965 but this is the first British performance, in a translation by Donald Keene, and a production by Michael Grandage – the third in the Donmar West End season supported by United House – that doesn't persuade me it's long overdue.

Critics have been nearly unanimous in finding these pictorial narratives, which might be the stills from an early silent film or an old-fashioned Vassar senior play, "ludicrous" and "amateurish," and Ford doesn't persuade me that they deserve a reëvaluation.

"Because that's the way things have always been done," and "because that's what everyone else is doing," don't persuade me to follow a particular course of action if the proposed approach doesn't stand up to an evaluation of its merits and disadvantages.

The media does not persuade me one bit".