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As Pelleas, the tenor Richard Croft was certainly adequate, if the personality was not terribly compelling.

Ben Brantley, New York Times: Taken separately, neither plot of If/Then is terribly compelling or distinctively drawn.

The baseline Tara, understandably exhausted by the "Night at the Opera" cabin scene crowding her brain, is wan and not terribly compelling.

Then again, it might just be that Mitt Romney doesn't have a very interesting personal story, because very little of what he said on Thursday was terribly compelling.

But one's first reaction to a new staging of the play at P.S. 122, directed by Mr. Bogosian and starring Jonathan Ames, is: "So?" Partly this is because the diarist is largely focused on minutiae that aren't terribly compelling.

Ballantine and McClure are given not terribly compelling personal lives: the older agent is experiencing domestic disintegration, the younger one falls for a woman he is supposed to be using to infiltrate the Lennon circle.

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He seems, rather, like a man reading a script, and not a terribly fresh or compelling one at that.

In trying to score a lot of obvious points off a lot of obvious targets, Mr. Pierre may have won the Booker Prize and ratified some ugly stereotypes of Americans, but he hasn't written a terribly convincing or compelling novel.

Awful but compelling".

While I found her arguments compelling, they were terribly naïve.

He was terribly ineffectual but such a compelling showman that, in 1941, voters sent him to the U.S. Senate over a young man named Lyndon Johnson — the only election Johnson ever lost.

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