Over a raft of production styles, from regal soul to circuit-frying electronics, he slings a persuasive tale of what it's like to be young, listless, infatuated and experimenting in 2013.
On the phone a few days before the dinner, Palmer had spun a compelling and persuasive tale, saying that the Harlan County officials had failed the region's gay population by neglecting to embrace Pennington's case.
In her more persuasive tales Ms. Dark does not try to stage-manage her characters' lives, but instead allows their stories to unfold slowly, moving backward and forward in time, from hope back into memory, from confusion back into nostalgia.
That's a shame, because, separately and together, they create a portrait of the country that is deeper, more disturbing, and, finally, more persuasive than tales of great men flying too close to the sun.
"War of the Coprophages" (3×12), the series's single best episode, offered a more persuasive reading, however: Tales of crashed flying saucers with Greys to autopsy couldn't possibly be true.
And the cast – particularly Frances O'Connor, Simon McBurney and Wolfe – bring a persuasive urgency to the tale.
Her book makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.
Alan Ayckbourn, who, as the director, works manfully to whip a little fun into this listless tale, is less persuasive as a lyricist.
Brook provides just such an unexpected past in his persuasive and lushly detailed new tale of four cities — St .Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai and Dubai — offering an intellectual history of cities at the crossroads of East and West, rich and poor, modern and conservative.
The whole is a suspenseful, intricately plotted, violent and steamy tale that, while not persuasive in absolutely every detail, is an impressive piece of work.
Next Week Jonathan Romney delves into dreams and delusions, Hollywood style, with Zack Snyder's CGI epic Sucker Punch Film Choice Richard Ayoade, from Channel 4's The IT Crowd, makes a persuasive directing debut in Submarine, a comic tale of teenage angst with spiky adult support from Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins – but young talent Craig Roberts steals the show.
