Some, like Kathleen Treanor, who lost her 4-year-old daughter, Ashley, as well as her mother-in-law and father-in-law in the bombing, speak out of a deep well of pain that is both moving and persuasive.
After reading it, Justice Byron White made an argument moving and persuasive enough that Justices Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall, and Stevens changed their minds and agreed to accept it.
In a passage from his autobiography, he gives a moving and utterly persuasive argument for the value of medical work in the creation of literature: "That is why as a writer I have never felt that medicine interfered with me but rather that it was my very food and drink, the very thing which made it possible for me to write".
And it's why, perhaps, they're so persuasive, so moving.
De Feo exploits the obvious potential for comedy but achieves a persuasive, even moving characterization.
As a kind of "defence of poetry", it is persuasive and moving.
But she is persuasive and moving in her passionate travails; you know exactly why Mr. Solis's character would want to help her.
Reno is a persuasive and moving narrator because Ms. Kushner allows her the vulnerability and fuzzy-mindedness of youth while rarely allowing her to think or say a commonplace thing.
Based on the life of Bronson Alcott and, like "Caleb's Crossing," a first-person narrative, "March" is a persuasive and moving depiction of both the Civil War and a complicated marriage.
As a result, the central human encounter - in which the sceptical, weary, faith-free Pizarro comes briefly to believe in the Emperor's regenerative powers - is, against all expectation, not only persuasive but moving.
And the Land Lay Still is a persuasive and moving account of the deep shifts in Scottish political culture between the 1950s and the end of the 20th century.
