When asked a question, she occasionally pauses to say something like "Let me formulate a persuasive response to this, which I haven't had to until now".
But I am your man when it comes to delivering content, piquing a student's curiosity, helping a hesitant writer formulate a persuasive essay and encouraging students to make connections across the curriculum.
Ms. Lacy — friendly, energetic, looking far younger than her 67 years — delivered a persuasive rationale for her brand of public art, now known as "social practice".
White House officials may have thought it would be a persuasive rationale because Comey has come in for criticism from leaders of both political parties.
In 2003, for example, an article by James Atlas in The Times described him and Mr. Kristol as neoconservatives who had felt that the Vietnam War had a "persuasive rationale".
For the neoconservatives who emerged out of the Vietnam era -- most notably Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol -- that war had what they felt was a persuasive rationale: the need to avoid the spread of Communism.
Nor is it a persuasive rationale, which can be readily expressed to scientists and the public alike.
What we learned was that, even after coming up with a persuasive rationale and a list of practical measures, there was a long interval spent carrying the message to multiple audiences before the result began to take shape.
On Tuesday, when Mattis appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). needled him about the absence of a persuasive rationale.
[33] Our results were remarkably similar (59% for open-placebo; 35% for no-treatment control), suggesting that open-label placebo in the context of a persuasive rationale may show comparable efficacy to established IBS treatments.
Under his tutelage she formulated a new rationale that would liberate women not just by making sexual intercourse safe, but also pleasurable.
