Sentence examples for formidable persuasive from inspiring English sources
The Wall Street Journal later reported the Yucca Mountain decision as the "biggest defeat" of Reid's career, but added, "The fact that the campaign went on for so long is testimony to Mr. Reid's formidable persuasive powers — a gift that still could put him in line to be his party's next leader".
Rahm Emanuel put his formidable political persuasive powers behind doable deals.
What helped complete his change of heart were Mr. Hume's formidable intellect, patience and persuasive skills.
Although the playwright's use of Eliot's fictional characters serves well to illuminate the novelist's personality, the oppressive outside world that Ms. Tempelsman creates is not as persuasive or formidable as it might be.
Melissa Errico's formidable beauty is probably the most persuasive element in the Irish Repertory Theater's revival of George Bernard Shaw's breakthrough comedy "Candida".
His deadly power of cross-examination, easy mastery of facts and figures, and persuasive speech made him formidable in every kind of case.
But as persuasive as Mr. Forbes's message may have been, his formidable organization and his seemingly endless campaigning here were at least as important.
The Christianity of C. S. Lewis, Augustine, and Blaise Pascal--the one I found more persuasive and better reasoned than Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault (as formidable and brilliant at they are).
But while the core story of "Gravity" is pure genre down to the workmanlike nature of chunks of its dialogue, it makes the most of that situation by having a formidable narrative drive, a plot smartly worked out to the smallest, most persuasive detail, and an intense, immersive score and sound design by composer Steven Price.
You look at Blair and his favourites, and you think, none was formidable, in the old, EM Forster sense of having a character that imposes itself with persuasive grace.
