Sentence examples for less persuasively from inspiring English sources

A certain amount, perhaps less persuasively, is psychoanalytic.

These men redefined poetry, literature, philosophy, theology and (less persuasively) science.

His obsession with Hindu mysticism (suffusing, they argue more or less persuasively, his writing about the Glass family) is used to construct a rigid map of his life.

Mr. Fraser less persuasively inhabits the dopey geniality and unrestrained coarseness of Kjell Bjarne, despite leaving his mouth agape for long stretches and walking with a shambling, galumphing gait.

She also became a little blank -- less persuasively and surely less deliberately -- in the very peak notes of "Sempre libera," which were not only uncontrolled in themselves but imperfectly set in the line.

The temptation for anyone writing about "Regrets Only," which doubles as a comedy of Park Avenue manners and (far less persuasively) a tract on gay marriage, is to quote as many of those one-liners as space allows and then to try to describe just how Ms. Baranski delivers them.

In Mark, Jesus' arrest and execution feels persuasively less preordained and willed than accidental and horrific.

The second fundamental principle is often expressed, far less poetically and persuasively than King's phrases, as a need for accountability for results.

Christian Bale is persuasively melancholy but less gloomily brooding than Michael Keaton, a sturdier figure than George Clooney and Val Kilmer, and more likable than any of them.

The course of Cora's life and the history she bumps into in her rather Gumpish way are persuasively conveyed, but what she feels becomes less and less so.

Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, has written a book, "Better Angels of Our Nature," that argues persuasively that humans have become less violent in modern times.