"Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," an excellent show at New York's Museum of Modern Art, abounds with persuasive descriptions of people and places.
One of the most intriguing (and persuasive) descriptions of how we grow compares our storage of memories, dreams and sensations to the information found on the concentric layers of a redwood tree.
Ms. Peck could write: her instructions were clear, her arguments persuasive, her descriptions appetizing.
As a critique of government, this is oversimplified, but it's persuasive as a description of FIFA, where "the good of the game" seems to get subordinated to the good of FIFA.
On the whole, therefore, against the criteria of Box 2 many of these articles present only weakly persuasive and authoritative descriptions or arguments.
His take on A.D.H.D., for instance, is mostly persuasive when grounded in descriptions of stressed-out parents, teachers, and clinicians.
But the evidence that proved most persuasive to the jury was not the description of the boxes of documents sent to be shredded last fall, in the weeks before the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a formal investigation into Enron's accounting.
It's meticulously plotted and persuasive and even has a nice line in nature description.
The judge, Sandra S. Coleman, said she found Mr. Charles's description of his time on the run detailed and persuasive.
In a powerful and persuasive reassessment of Wollstonecraft's "Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark," Holmes cites her poetically precise description of a jellyfish so nebulous that it looked "like thickened water, with a white edge".
