7131 examples of convincing in sentences

But at the start I caught the Corporal's eye, and there was in it such a convincing look of "Whatever I may do I mean awfully well," that I just sat still and did nothing.

But the next morning Joan repeated the story with additional and convincing detail.

Somewhat reassured by our noisy presence, however,for she was plucky at heart,she pulled herself together and tried to explain what had happened; and her broken words, told there on the edge of night and morning upon this wild island ridge, were oddly thrilling and distressingly convincing.

First, the document which Henry had confessed to having forged was the very one that General de Pellieux had imported into the Zola trial in Paris as convincing proof of Dreyfus's guilt.

After that, though, the American consul, Robert J. Thompson, succeeded in convincing the military authorities that we were not dangerous.

What I saw at Maubeuge was even more convincing testimony, had I needed it, that the Germans had a 42- centimeter gun, and that, given certain favored conditions, they knew how to handle it effectively.

If he were really cognisant of it, he must have acted with consummate tact, for no particle of convincing evidence was adduced against him.

Breaking in a pony and convincing it that the way of the transgressor is hard, is one of the difficulties of prairie life.

The commonest way of convincing the newcomer that he has made a mistake is to persuade him to ride an exceptionally fractious pony.

When they succeed in convincing strangers of their reliability, they are happy, and at once proceed to exhibit the peculiar characteristics of their race.

When, however, convincing proof is obtained, and the missing article discovered, the convicted thief thinks the matter a good joke, and laughs most heartily at the credulity and carelessness of the white man.

The bright small shield was a more convincing proof than a hundred arguments.

She could tell a story in clear and lively, if not always correct and elegant English, and she could describe the ecstasies and agonies of passion in a way that seemed natural and convincing to an audience nurtured on French romans à longue haleine and heroic plays.

Perhaps the only convincing detail in the latter part of the book is the heroine's miserable end.

One thing was certain, that, sometime or other, or many times, in his life he had done something, or many things, which had won for him a respect as deep as his solemnity of aspect; and certainly, if gravity of demeanour goes for anything, all the owls of all the ages in collaboration could not have produced an expression of time-honoured wisdom so convincing.

If not wholly convincing to all, there is, at least, so much probability in them that one is freed from that painful coldness and incredulity with which he beholds the sacred shows of Jerusalem.

Their ideas about Jack were based on a simple, self-convincing faith of the same order as Firio's.

Mr. Fluker often said that it puzzled him how it was that he made smaller crops than most of his neighbors, when, if not always convincing, he could generally put every one of them to silence in discussions upon agricultural topics.

And so it turned out in the course of several years, that, as their love lost its fervour, their respective monitors acquired greater power in pleading the cause of her who was dead, and convincing them, against their will (for the all-powerful wish has no virtue here), that they had done a cruel thing, for which they were amenable to an avenging guardian of the everlasting element of good in nature's dualism.

All argumentation is reprehended when anything, whether it be one thing only, or more than one of those positions which are assumed, is not granted, or if, though they are granted, it is denied that the conclusion legitimately follows from them, or if it is shown that the very kind of argumentation is faulty, or if in opposition to one form and reliable sort of argumentation another is employed which is equally firm and convincing.

And this topic is so common, that if it is well handled in this cause it is likely to be of great weight in convincing the hearers.

" "If I could trust you," said Leonard, "you might be of the greatest service in convincing the earl that his efforts are fruitless.

Talk as you will of your own virtues and hers you'd never succeed in convincing anyone of your innocenceme least of all.

Tins is a most natural and properindeed, most convincing opportunity.

The figure of Marcus Aurelius, for example, though so delicately sketched, is a masterpiece of historical portraiture, as the pictures of Roman life, done with so little, seem to me far more convincing than the like over-elaborated pictures of antiquity, so choked with learned detail, of Flaubert and of Gautier.

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