From the vantage point of 2006, the repeated laments for Agee's squandered promise no longer look persuasive.
It was the condition of the Upper West Side of Manhattan under liberal rule, far more than what had happened to Eastern Europe under socialism, that made neo-con polemics look persuasive.
Should Chelsea defeat Southampton, themselves fluent under Claude Puel, at St Mary's on Sunday any claim that they are in it for the long haul will begin to look persuasive.
John Taras's treatment of Stravinsky's music would look persuasive in any context, and in this case, the blaze of color in Geoffrey Holder's exotic sets transports a Russian-inspired folk tale to a tropical clime.
These themes are spiritual, and even those who do not believe there is a promised land might agree that Mr. Brown makes a journey in that direction look persuasive and powerful.
One, which one might call the Whig version of F/X history, is that, though long surpassed by Star Wars-style miniatures, and then by C.G.I., they did look persuasive in their day, and we honor them, so to speak, as we honor ancient Roman orators: we're not persuaded now, but we're impressed by the persuasiveness they once possessed.
Martin Richards, a geneticist at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom, says that the data look "persuasive and exciting," but should be considered only preliminary because the "sample sets are tiny at the moment" and small sample sizes can produce "misleading" results.
Mr. Dillon, wearing a beard and the flushed cheeks of a committed lush, sounds as persuasive as he looks.
On August 27th the Institute for Public Policy Research, a worthy leftish think-tank, called for a new day off to "celebrate community heroes".To the idlers, the case for more time off looks persuasive.
As she summarizes it, Stouffer's case against Rowling also looks persuasive, but last fall a federal district judge rejected it and fined Stouffer $50,000 for presenting "fraudulent" evidence.
This improbable — and improbably persuasive — love story is embedded in what looks at first like a nest of sitcom clichés.
