Sentence examples for seemed unconvincing from inspiring English sources

Even our hopes seemed unconvincing.

But those early claims by prosecutors that Knox and Sollecito, neither with a criminal history, were involved in a drug-fuelled sex attack seemed unconvincing.

The Postscript is composed in a dreamlike, florid language, loaded with literary allusions, and in its tone of pastoral make-believe has seemed unconvincing to some.

The royal family also indicated that it had not raised a fuss about the prank by the D.J.'s, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, whose impersonations of the duchess's in-laws seemed unconvincing to many listeners.

If an unarmed man's claims of innocence seemed unconvincing, the police might kill him.

The theory that homeless people were to blame seemed unconvincing to several residents.

The pregnant Rachel, a successful barrister, seems completely lost, with hostility towards her unborn child that seems unconvincing.

I understand that my arguments may seem unconvincing to those people who feel as though they've been owed more than this spate of spitting weather.

When multinational advertisers exploit loopholes elsewhere in the world it makes what they practise and preach in the UK seem unconvincing.

Official estimates of the number of non-Iraqi guerrillas operating in Iraq, for instance, have ranged from "a very, very small percentage" to several thousand.As a result, the administration's claims to be winning seem unconvincing.

That, however, is a fact Europeans are reluctant to accept, just as the link between slaughter in Madrid, London or Amsterdam and the Afghan-Pakistani terror nexus seems unconvincing to many Europeans floating on an Iraq-comforted wave of moral smugness.