My Red Sox malaise, if anything, stems from the opposite problem: the growth of a national brand so strong that its particulars are only compelling when opposed to those of an even more dominant and pervasive one.
Like the failed album that inspired it, "Sample This" is only compelling in parts: It's the film equivalent of an earworm.
However, it was only recently that compelling basic science data, small clinical trials, and epidemiological studies have provided support to the idea of a true causal effect.
His compelling presentation was only slightly undermined by his own admission that such a plan would currently be illegal.
Finally, the psychological argument from satisfaction of ambition is only partly compelling: it was surely more rewarding in every way to be a tyrant than to be a Dreran kosmos.
But it's only intermittently compelling to watch, as it moves through a rambling evocation of history and memory, setting images of slavery and oppression alongside joyous group dances that create the apparently obligatory scenes of acceptance and reconciliation.
But the high court ruled that Miranda's nine-hour detention and the seizure of his computer equipment was lawful because although it was "an indirect interference with press freedom", there was not only compelling but "very pressing" evidence of a risk to national security.
The tiles, called azulejos, are not only compelling, they are also uniquely Portuguese – which is why, in 1971, the convent became the centrepiece of the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, a museum dedicated to preserving tile art from around the country and across the centuries.
Personally, I'm partial to Mr. Bush's new emphasis on the freedom and democracy argument, which for me was the only compelling rationale for the Iraq war.
She went there determined to teach computer science in a way that was not only compelling and rigorous but also, as she puts it, "nurturing".
