It took Merwin several volumes before arriving at a style barren and bleak enough to make his pronouncements on life's barrenness and bleakness feel persuasive.
I have no doubt that to some ears, his Russian accent will feel persuasive too, as was the case with Colin Farrell's flint-eyed Vory gangster in Peter Weir's underrated Gulag escape thriller The Way Back.
An eye-catching victory born of a second-half revival and a potentially decisive third goal in stoppage time has ensured the Doha-backed "projects" feels more persuasive.
But Ms. Green never moved us beyond this initial effect of strangeness; there was little in "nerves" that really imprinted itself on the eye or felt structurally persuasive.
Could you write that I would like to go?" If my hair had been braided, I'm sure I would have felt a persuasive tweak.
In the case of Mr. Romney, whatever his stated positions may be, the idea that he's a far-right ideologue, a kind of Rush Limbaugh with better suits and frosty hair, just doesn't feel especially persuasive.
In this début novel, Wroblewski illustrates the relationship between man and canine (at times, from the dog's point of view) in a way that is both lyrical and unsentimental, and demonstrates an ability to create a coherent, captivating fictional world in which even supernatural elements feel entirely persuasive.
"Cross Over Effects" (2003), the earliest piece here, is probably the most physically and visually satisfying -- partly because the artist's decisions on balance, scale and style look and feel most persuasive, and partly because it is the only work in the exhibition in which Ms. Booker takes advantage of the decorative potential of the tire treads.
With respect to the second factor, "the advantage of entrepreneurship", research on cross-cultural psychology suggests that when the content of the message fits cultural-frame, messages feel more persuasive (Uskul & Oyserman, 2010).
Smith's eight-piece band – three silky backing singers, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums and a chap on electric cello – occasionally threaten to flatten a song into a smooth jazz pancake, although a finger-clicking, darkly dramatic cover of My Funny Valentine feels like a persuasive Bond-theme audition: sigh another day.
