"What do you think?" "It isn't unconvincing," I said.
Julie Maroh wouldn't be the first writer to think that a film treatment of her work is unconvincing, not real, not what was properly intended.
There's second-wave emo on "Keep Holding On," and the album closes with "Drifter," a not-unconvincing bit of country-rock reflection, because why not?
The picture's moralism is unconvincing, not only because current sensibilities are unlikely to be shocked by misbehavior in high office (or out of it) but more seriously because Mr. Zaillian's conception of politics is sentimental and unreal, and his sense of history is ultimately that of a decorator, not a storyteller.
To some audiences, especially those who think that "Rashomon" pulled off a swifter version of the same trick, these nudges of emphasis will seem itchy and unconvincing, not unlike the absurd carrotty wig and hamster-colored beard with which Bruno, a master of disguise, attempts to mask his appearance.
While several individual arguments may seem weak by themselves and only suggestive of homology at best, the overall architectural similarity based on the combined features does not seem too unconvincing.
But with Hawthorne this leads not to unconvincing pasteboard figures with explanatory labels attached but to a sombre, concentrated emotional involvement with his characters that has the power, the gravity, and the inevitability of true tragedy.
Not an unconvincing piece of bombast like Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone," the song is a call to adulthood, and it makes the case for shouldering life's troubles: that's where the rewards are.
In his Facebook manifestation, hastily arranged in response to Barack Obama's resounding success with the Little Cyber-Platoons, John McCain was not merely unconvincing, he was plain silly an old geezer out of his depth in an utterly alien milieu.
For many devout Hindus who abhor violence and attribute their aversion to violence to precisely their religious philosophy, such a position is of course, not only unconvincing and inaccurate, but rude and offensive too.
