| 单词 | persuasive |
| 例句 | The question of what makes someone — or something — persuasive is a lot less straightforward than it seems. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The afternoon sun was putting on a persuasive show. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Their argument is persuasive,” Shmuel answered, his thumb and forefinger pointed at her like a gun. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She considered her address to have been persuasive and powerful—“a great event” in her life. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But her rants were so persuasive, her fretting so vivid, that it was not so easy to dismiss her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The wedding itself did not end until 5:31, and Humperdinck had to use all of his persuasive abilities to get even that much accomplished. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Holmes apologized, claiming a dire need for money, and was so persuasive and abject that even Belknap felt mollified, although his distrust of Holmes persisted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My voice had been persuasive; might not persuasion have other uses? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Again, ethos, pathos, and logos—the Three Musketeers of the persuasive arts—can’t be altogether separated. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He wrote letters so persuasive that the directors of his divinity school looked favorably on readmitting him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z —Agent K Another extraordinarily common, effective persuasive appeal in logos is analogy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps as a result, the most persuasive scientific critiques on Clovis initially came from fields that overlapped archaeology, but were mainly outside of it: linguistics, molecular biology, and geology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z According to the standard ways by which we measure persuasiveness — by the logic and appropriateness of the persuader’s arguments — that should make the people using the script book every bit as persuasive as Tom Gau. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Carla uses all her persuasive powers trying to convince me not to leave home. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So I focused all my persuasive powers on my mom. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Part of what it means to have a powerful or persuasive personality, then, is that you can draw others into your own rhythms and dictate the terms of the interaction. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Supreme Court reversed, holding that when a pattern of race-based strikes has been identified by the defense, the prosecutor need not provide “an explanation that is persuasive, or even plausible.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Luce remained vague for my benefit, but still persuasive enough for theirs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And the orator need know nothing of medicine himself, hmm? socrates: Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The last one, in which you argued that the boy wouldn’t have made the kind of overhand stab wound that killed his father, was very persuasive. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Scaramouch’s argument was persuasive, but my mind was still undecided. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a plausible and quite persuasive answer to the second question, which will then lead us to a plausible but more speculative answer to the first. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The superintendent said something about needing a permit, but Luke could be persuasive. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Mabel was most persuasive, for everyone named now twitched a shoulder to signal okay. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Citra cleared her throat and tried to be her most persuasive self. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If we want to understand the persuasive personality type, Gau seems a good place to start. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He repeated again in his soft, persuasive voice, “Big money.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He became persuasive and a little more foreign than he need have been. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Capital murder requires an intent to kill, and there was a persuasive argument that there was no intent to kill in this case and that poor health care had caused the victim's death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Again, he says, handing you your flash drive with Hardwick’s almost finished persuasive essay on it. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They weren't partial or biased, just very persuasive in detailing how organic brain damage, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can conspire to create severe mental impairment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “By more persuasive people. Not a sweetheart like you. And they got nothing.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a handsome, sophisticated medical doctor with curly dark hair and round Fiorucci spectacles, a brilliant, ambitious man, charming and persuasive, with a quick, flaring temper, who had done extraordinary things in his career. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked down, afraid of the persuasive power of his eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Yet this view fails to reckon with the persuasive powers of Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller, which played the crucial role in creating momentum for the H-bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As predicted, Cleopatra’s overpowering personality, incalculable wealth, and persuasive speech put Mai Antony’s fears to rest and captured his heart. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Jason remembered how persuasive Octavian could be, and he was winning the officers to his side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z You know that’s from James and the Giant Peach—a favorite book when you were little—but it’s all so muddled, and the voices are so persuasive, you don’t know what’s real and what’s not. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z That he knows the audience will be wondering why he hasn’t used the most persuasive argument in his arsenal. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I imagine,” Livingston reflected years later, “that he was persuasive.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But as soon as listeners started nodding, it became very persuasive. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These five parts roughly correspond to the sequence in which you might imagine putting a speech—or, more broadly, any persuasive appeal—together. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z You may not find young Hazel’s logic persuasive, but I have trod through this vale of tears longer than you, and from where I’m sitting, she’s not the lunatic. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But it still took many, many months of persuasive pestering before Dasch received a new German passport and a ticket back to Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “You didn’t know how persuasive Jeanine was—” Something inside me snaps like a brittle rubber band. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Mimicking the ogres, I made my voice as persuasive as I could. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Johnson’s public argument that the Maddox had been attacked—not once, but twice—was persuasive. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Those who were told to nod their heads up and down, meanwhile, found the editorial very persuasive. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "How has my lovely and persuasive sister gotten Robert to agree to the imprisonment of his dear friend Ned?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He’s very persuasive, and she wants to be persuaded. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But now the principle of persuasive speech was at the heart of government. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z When they wanted to be, they were irresistibly persuasive. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Get somebody who makes her living by writing to write some very persuasive letters.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “We’d be here all night if we kept negotiating. See how much faster that was? Much more persuasive to our target.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The same applies to any speech or extended piece of persuasive writing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I wondered whether he could be a doctor; but no, I thought; he couldn’t be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Someone with clear and persuasive words, and I’m so easily tongue-tied. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry about Rosalie,” he said, his eyes wide and persuasive. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “No need to be persuasive with this one. It’d cook itself if we told it to.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z As the collar of the average Western worker made its journey from blue to white over the course of the last century, the value of the persuasive arts for career advancement has grown in proportion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z While his guilt wasn't really in question, there were persuasive reasons why this case should not have been a capital murder case, above and beyond the absence of a specific intent to kill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But the neurologist was persuasive, intimidatingly handsome, and the recipient of a fabulously coveted research grant. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z While all those types of information were also transmitted by other means in preliterate societies, writing made the transmission easier, more detailed, more accurate, and more persuasive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Shawn was too strong, she said, too persuasive, for her to confront him alone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His persuasive technique! are tailored to the individual as he gains understanding into the character of each. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Dinner’s ready,” my dad calls out, totally messing with my persuasive flow. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z We were able to make persuasive arguments about the differences between children and adults, but that wasn't the only obstacle to relief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His voice was so persuasive, so impossible to resist. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Hooks, a critical witness against McMillian, wasn't persuasive or reliable in the transcript—he just repeated the same story he’d given the police about driving by the cleaners at the time of the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes. Several times. He is quite persuasive.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “No need to be persuasive with this one. It’d cook itself if we told it to.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Emotion in a persuasive appeal is only effective inasmuch as it is shared emotion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was a cheeky thing for a sixteen-year-old to say to his principal, but Pete was the one kid in Torrance who could get away with such a remark, and make it persuasive. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The next year, the professor suggested Terryl do her persuasive address on violence in advertising. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difH- cult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “She said if we work hard”—I tried adopting Parvathi Teacher’s persuasive tone—“we can do anything when we grow up.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She spent even more time with the debate team and at tournaments, once arguing in the persuasive category in favor of child support. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Whatever extra persuasive muscle was found in the high- fear booklet was clearly irrelevant. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham and Millet had lobbied strongly for Henry Bacon of New York, and Burnham believed that his earlier talk to the Lincoln Commission had been persuasive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Rondon’s gifts of metal tools were a persuasive means of communication, allowing him to forge a fragile friendship. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Okay, we are going to begin a unit on persuasive writing,” Mr. Daniels says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The information available to them was all secondary stuff—my husky voice, my flat chest—but these things were far from persuasive. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was also a persuasive spokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters’ roll in the Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not far to my house,” I say, trying to sound persuasive. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If we want to understand what makes someone like Tom Gau so persuasive, in other words, we have to look at much more than his obvious eloquence. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And I had not been persuasive enough on his behalf. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Louie just had a hankering to steal in his head and two persuasive liters of German brew in his belly. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z What was interesting about Gau is the extent to which he seemed to be persuasive in a way quite different from the content of his words. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The earnestness in her voice was persuasive, and on the afternoon of the appointment, after tenth period, Lexie parked her Explorer outside the house on Winslow. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he said in Kyrrian, not bothering to make his voice persuasive, “Come to me and bring the child.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The disproportion between their personal feelings and the wanton destruction of real estate and innocent life is both comical and horrific, and also oddly persuasive. Review: ‘Colossal,’ With Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis and Giant Monsters 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But Mr. Moll was equally persuasive in other, quite different parts. Kurt Moll, German Basso Profundo, Dies at 78 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The fly-in was an experiment meant to test not only his persuasive powers, but also, more vitally, his intuition that his isolated listeners might constitute an invisible tribe. Movie Review: ‘Radio Unnameable,’ a Documentary About Bob Fass of WBAI 2012-09-18T21:50:25Z But even at his most surreal, Waugh lent a persuasive, self-contained logic to how his fantastical parodies played out. Theater Review | 'Mr. & Mrs. Fitch': In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh 2010-02-23T03:01:00Z I suspect Penhall's intention is to suggest that a vital service is being sabotaged by inadequate funding but, as it stands, his play could easily be taken as a persuasive plug for private health care. Birthday – review 2012-07-01T15:30:01Z A dexterous, agile comedy and a wholly persuasive, fleshed-out character study, this picture announces Gerwig as a significant talent behind the camera as well as in front. Toronto film festival 2017: a surge of woman power 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The only sequence that felt really persuasive, in fact, was Hamlet’s meditation near the end on Yorick’s skull, when Mr. Dean’s tense, shrouded music was most anchored to a character, to the poetry. ‘Hamlet,’ a New Opera, Makes Shakespeare Strange 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “But it is a powerful and persuasive rendering of a corner of women’s health care under siege.” What’s on TV Monday 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z So did, despite all the crazy components, an instantly recognizable sculptural style, on persuasive display in the second of the show’s three sections. Art Review: When East Met West Under the Buddha?s Gaze 2011-08-10T23:20:02Z The most sobering truth in this book is that truth is not persuasive, because beliefs are impervious to facts. A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z But as an actor, Harden uses the persuasive strength of her voice to inhabit every line. Audiobooks for Those Long Summer Drives, Without the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z But its creation signals a notable achievement: Owners of smaller restaurants, most of them unschooled in or uncomfortable with legislative politics, came together to make a persuasive case for their businesses and workers. How Small Restaurants Leveraged Their Pain to Win Stimulus Money 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z And Mr. Fiennes, who often exudes an air of aristocratic reserve, is entirely persuasive as a hearty bon vivant. ‘The Invisible Woman,’ About Charles Dickens’s Mistress 2013-12-24T16:57:59Z Mr. Johnson writes crisp conversational dialogue, and the prickly relationship between the central characters is enacted with persuasive sensitivity by Ms. Pinkins and Ms. Wiest. Review: ‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Finds a Chilling Place to Work 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z It would be hard to imagine a more persuasive endorsement. Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z He sounds persuasive, though he says he hasn't stolen a coat since 2009, having sought treatment for what he calls an "obsession". Coat-stealing isn't art, Mike Ballard 2010-10-10T21:30:00Z The evidence the film presents against captivity is scientifically and morally persuasive. Free Lolita! The remarkable story of a remarkable whale held captive for four decades 2014-04-06T10:58:00Z And the passacaglia of the third movement progressed with persuasive momentum. Review: A Rising Star Debuts With the Philharmonic 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z An impressive percentage of the nearly 60 shows not only made a persuasive case for consolidating the men’s wear presentations but also for the robust health of men’s wear in general. At New York Fashion Week: Men’s, California Was the Muse 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Poniewozik’s argument is more persuasive, however, when it comes to comedy—or, at least, a certain kind of comedy. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z On Saturday, she said she had found those arguments persuasive. Jennifer Holliday Decides Not to Sing for Trump After Opposition 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Wright projects persuasive thoughtfulness no matter how silly the material, but he can’t turn Core into a credible character. Review: In ‘Hold the Dark,’ Wolves, Gloom and Blood in Alaska 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z And not every panel in the triptych is equally persuasive. ‘Days of Grace,’ a Mexican Film by Everardo Gout 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z On this Mary’s mom is persuasive; Mary’s more upset than the discarded spouse herself? Carolyn Hax: There’s something unforgiving about Mary 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Some such pieces for official occasions are not masterworks, but the musicians made a persuasive case for them, with their full yet balanced sound, flawless intonation and sensitive approach to text. Sounds from old Europe return to Washington 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Ambitious, persuasive performance is Ms. Monae’s strong suit, whether onscreen in Oscar bait like “Moonlight” and “Hidden Figures” or onstage singing futuristic R&B and funk that never loses its pop gloss. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But his Bach recital on Thursday was characterized by unabashedly personal interpretations that he delivered with persuasive intensity. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z This was a competent but not entirely persuasive interpretation of the sonata, whose balance of melody and accompaniment represented a new development in Beethoven’s musical language. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Completes a Beethoven Project 2010-05-16T21:44:00Z But Oramo held it together remarkably, giving it a sense of impetus and coherence that proved surprisingly persuasive. BBCSO/Oramo – review 2012-07-19T11:43:10Z Shoppers, ultimately, pick and choose from the styles that are most persuasive, refreshing and appropriate for them ... as it should be. Top spring fashion trends 2011-03-23T19:25:04Z As a result, their shift to the manners of the English gentry, landed and not so landed, and achieved through uniformly persuasive accents and deft physical performances, is all the more bewitching. This is how you bring Jane Austen to the stage 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Even now, with 21st-century stage technology, what Wagner makes musically persuasive has struggled to be visually and dramatically so. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The two internal movements of the Beethoven were more persuasive here than the outer two: The final Allegro, its tempo carefully restrained, developed haltingly rather than organically. Review: Jaap van Zweden, Precise at the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s a persuasive argument, and one I wish I could still believe in. Perspective | The media must stop live-broadcasting Trump’s dangerous, destructive coronavirus briefings 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Like so many Smith effects, the ones from The Exorcist fulfilled the requirements of movie art through subtle mechanics: horrifyingly persuasive and dramatically correct. Remembering Dick Smith, the Godfather of Movie Makeup 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Of course the bear is fake; of course Glass’s bleeding wounds are the results of very persuasive makeup artistry—who would want or expect it to be otherwise? The Suffocating Solemnity of “The Revenant” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z That he is still admired is largely because of persuasive interpreters of his clear-eyed songs. Classical Music Recordings 2013-05-03T19:32:33Z Otherwise, she is magnetic in the role: persuasive, mercurial and occasionally cruel. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z But they are both forcefully persuasive and more than willing to wade into substantive policy discussions, as seen in their health care debate in February. What’s on TV Wednesday: Debate Night With Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Such cinematic juxtapositions are persuasive: A dying planet is an ugly one, while healthy ecosystems please the eye and the earth. ‘David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet’ Review: Ruin and Regrowth 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z It offered a persuasive argument for a different relationship with our food, for the good of all. A revolutionary, crunchy bean pie for a small planet 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z His careful and persuasive book is an extensive updating of an essay published in French in 2011. A troubled union 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Certainly that was the case in Whitted "Hope Springs Eternal," which inspired the most persuasive performance of the set, even though it was also the newest composition in Whitted's book. Whitted's sextet blows hot and cold at Jazz Showcase 2011-01-07T14:13:00Z She’s thought about the play and has alert, persuasive and counterintuitive things to say about it. Books of The Times: ?Being Wrong,? by Kathryn Schulz; ?Wrong,? by David H. Freedman 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z Both of his parents are still alive, and his 88-year-old father offered the most persuasive argument for why he may yet change his mind: grandchildren. Breakfast isn’t a sport. Zeke, one of the Emanuel brothers, would beg to differ. 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s persuasive, but not as emotional or stirring as you might expect. Television Review: ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer,’ in HBO Documentary Series 2013-06-09T21:13:51Z Jack’s account of his disenchantment with Judy and Howard is persuasive in its detail. Theater Review: ‘The Designated Mourner’ by Wallace Shawn, at Public Theater 2013-07-22T02:00:02Z Here, the line lyrical and the range congenial, Ms. Fleming is finally persuasive. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns to Rossini?s Tale of a Sorceress and Her Crusader 2011-02-20T22:58:51Z Whatever the cause of the lack of cohesion, it would be perfectly unobjectionable, and even less detectable, were the emotional trajectory more persuasive. She Lost Her Father, Her Health and All She Held Dear. At Least She Found Perspective. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He began appearing in coverage of the 2008 election and of the financial collapse, because the most persuasive expert for TV is an expert from TV. Donald Trump Was the Real Winner of ‘The Apprentice’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z It's packed with people you've never heard of, all selling millions while apparently locked in a tooth-and-nail struggle to come up with the least persuasive album title of all time. The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You | CD review 2010-03-25T15:30:00Z Indeed, you need not look very far for a shared sensibility among L.A. born and raised conductors, with Michael Tilson Thomas, David Robertson and Leonard Slatkin among the composer’s most devoted and persuasive champions. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Immerwahr elicits performances of persuasive rawness from both of his actors. Review | A doctor, a parent, a dying child. A play about what medicine can and cannot do. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Albert Serra’s new film, “Story of My Death,” which opens today at Anthology Film Archives, is among the most original and most persuasive recent historical dramas. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z In the early 60s, he designed a series of posters for the C100, presenting their numerous actions of mass civil disobedience in the most direct and persuasive format. Letter: Robin Fior's posters for CND 2012-10-09T15:14:20Z These striped bowls, pitchers, pepper mills, funnels and egg cups may be figments of Mr. Bailey’s imagination, but they appear to be subject to the laws of gravity and cast very persuasive shadows. Art in Review 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z The disc mixes hallucinatory, electronically enhanced pieces with visceral acoustic works; in both cases, the performers of New York’s invaluable Talea Ensemble supply persuasive authority. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Carter, Rand Steiger, Mozart and More 2014-04-23T16:20:45Z Only the scene where Clytemnestra counsels her daughter to grit her teeth and bear it is persuasive and sobering. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z She is a singular and persuasive presence on stage who positions herself somewhere on the cusp between live art, cabaret and a retro happening. 7 Day Drunk ? review 2011-08-19T20:31:01Z Now, at age 79, Ms. Evers-Williams will get that chance, thanks to the persuasive power of the pop orchestra Pink Martini. ArtsBeat: Carnegie Hall Dream Comes True for Medgar Evers's Widow 2012-12-06T15:56:53Z Ms. Morisseau, who now splits her time between apartments in Bedford-Stuyvesant and North Hollywood, is a persuasive speaker who used to pay her rent with her winnings from performance poetry slams. Playwright Dominique Morisseau Can’t Forget the Motor City 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Daunting yet seductive, the mere look of the pages was an apt metaphor for this dazzlingly persuasive concert, which featured members of Axiom, one of the Juilliard School’s contemporary-music ensembles. Music Review: Axiom Plays Boulez and Stockhausen at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-21T21:49:17Z Losing his cool when Double A rejects his idea, Richard goes for the cheap insult rather than attempting to make a persuasive case for his tech. 'Silicon Valley' Recap: It's Apple Maps Bad 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s a heavy role — Killer is the story’s sacrificial lamb — yet Caan, working with Coppola, imbues the part with a subtle, persuasive innocence that doesn’t patronize the character or sanctify his disability. Remembering James Caan and His Potent Mix of Swagger and Delicacy 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Published reviews sounds persuasive because they are written with an air of being objectively correct. Such tweet sorrow: Twitter catches critics in web of emotion 2010-09-21T13:35:00Z Performed as an interactive exercise that allows no one to maintain a distance, the show is a sharp reminder of the persuasive powers of live theater. Review: ‘The Bitter Game’ Brings Black Lives Matter to the Fore 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Along with the Fauré, the other work written specifically for the harp made the most persuasive case for the solo instrument. Xavier de Maistre Makes His New York Debut 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z That was the persuasive narrative when they opted for Bigelow over James Cameron – they want to be on the right side of history when they tick the box. Oscars 2013: Lincoln stays red-hot favourite as awards fever rises 2013-01-12T08:00:03Z But most critics found the book readable, persuasive and sobering. William H. Grier, Psychiatrist Who Delved Into ‘Black Rage’ in 1960s, Dies at 89 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z She said that while Austen could have ingested arsenic through medication, other elements of the British Library’s biographical analysis seemed less persuasive. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “The brilliantly realized visual effects are invisible and persuasive,” I wrote, but as “compelling romantic fiction…the film fails utterly.” Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z It was mid-January when Kamryn decided to put her concerns in a letter after learning the art of persuasive writing in school, said her mother, Kim Gardner, who also teaches at the school. First-grader wrote Old Navy asking for girls’ jeans to have real pockets. The letter went viral. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z If some of the “awesome precision” the review noted went missing here, a deep sense of musicality and rhythmic vitality made the account persuasive. Music Review: Aeolian Players at Symphony Space, Celebrating 50 Years 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z And there are moments of the breathtaking emotional insight we have come to expect of this actor, whose Hamlet was the most persuasive I’ve seen. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z In the most persuasive stuff, such as Matthew Donnelly's Fortune Teller, the magic is heavily and openly underlined with irony. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-08T23:08:45Z Foster makes a persuasive case that hobbies are a salvation, and a universal one at that. Review | Crafting isn’t just about making cute things. For Sutton Foster, it’s lifesaving. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Nor, frankly, does he summon enough gravitas to be persuasive in the role of a grief-maddened father. Review: Jackie Chan Seeks Vengeance in ‘The Foreigner’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z After assembling a dossier of evidence, she showed it to Simpson, who said he found it “totally persuasive.” Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Even without an upbeat ending, though, “Betting on Zero” would be persuasive advocacy. Review: ‘Betting on Zero’ Tracks a Crusade Against Herbalife 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Schumer trained as an actress, and her tears in “Trainwreck” are fairly persuasive, if not as contagious as her laughs. Review: ‘Trainwreck’ Delivers the Full Amy Schumer Experience 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The character of Nkechi, if not entirely autobiographical, clearly owes a great deal to Anyanwu herself, and her performance is persuasive and endearing. How do we shape memories of those we've lost? A friend's death triggers 'Good Grief' 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z In fact, “The Age of Austerity” is at its strongest when Mr. Edsall refrains from making overly broad generalizations, or at least illustrates his hypotheses with persuasive evidence. Books of The Times: Thomas Byrne Edsall?s ?Age of Austerity? Interprets Politics 2012-03-05T22:35:39Z There are persuasive performances from a trio of highly experienced actors. Held – review 2012-11-14T18:28:12Z He's charismatic and persuasive, and he somehow hoodwinks a class just as impressionable as he. Rereading Stephen King: week four – Rage 2012-07-03T12:59:44Z Ms. Errico is, if anything, even more persuasive as Sharon, an Irish lass newly arrived on American soil, than when I saw her in the role a dozen years ago. Review: ‘Finian’s Rainbow’ and the Perils of a Pot of Gold 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Majors is reflectively and sensitively persuasive as a bold and insightful artist stuck in frustrating circumstances. Review: The Disappointing Blandness of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z For all the importance people ascribe to being persuasive, it turns out we’re not terribly good at it. New in Paperback: ‘An American Family,’ ‘Red Clocks’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He's calm, angry, persuasive, aggressive, gentle, kind and empathetic when he has every single reason to crumble, like many other characters on the plane do. "Hijack": How Idris Elba's reimagining of a hero made me feel better about my chances of survival 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z There's a persuasive argument here that the recent Scott is the true Scott. No Regrets: Writings on Scott Walker, edited by Rob Young - review 2012-07-27T21:55:02Z That may be why they have a tough time finding a persuasive tone. Movie Review: Will Ferrell in ?Casa de Mi Padre? 2012-03-15T22:00:11Z “I will try to be persuasive that there is a tremendous multiplier effect — that this brings in revenue to the government,” he said. Republicans Start Lining Up to Fight for the N.E.A. and N.E.H. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Here the individuality came to the fore in an imaginative display of tone colors, the quartet making a wholly persuasive case for a powerful work seldom heard hereabouts. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Yet Aldrich, who made three more films before his death at 65, thought the premise of “Twilight” was still plenty persuasive. Burt Lancaster in ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ 2012-10-20T23:03:01Z A director’s attempt to reconstruct a persuasive image of a distant time depends on the ability to create a comprehensive world. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z If his Billy Bigelow sounded more like Moses than a carnival barker, he located the character’s anxieties and created a persuasive dramatic monologue. Music Review: ?An Evening With Paulo Szot? at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2012-01-14T01:45:52Z In such persuasive circumstances, “Venus in Fur” proves a seductive entertainment for sophisticated adults. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Venus in Fur’ at the George Street Playhouse, in New Brunswick 2013-05-11T00:21:28Z And as indie rock has developed over the band’s career, the trio has incorporated new streams of thought into its steadily persuasive sound. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z I like to think that I reassure them that they can indeed write persuasive, evidence-driven essays no matter what anybody in the room is wearing. The politics of my cleavage 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Onscreen, this romance is intriguingly spooky but not entirely persuasive, partly because Skarsgård is playing a man whose emotional composition is forbidding terrain: stone and ice. “The Little Drummer Girl,” Reviewed: A Fever Dream of Glamourous Espionage 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Full-toned, flexible, accurate and powerful, every gesture, every flinch is persuasive. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z It’s a powerful argument, at once persuasive and oversimplified. Review: ‘The Whitney Album’ Looks to Theater to Remake a Painful Past 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Almost, one feels, as an exercise in virtuosity, Donne turns a human flea into a persuasive romantic symbol. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z Although the choreographic rightness of “Barocco” is an illusion — Bach certainly never envisaged anything like Balanchine’s physicality — it’s a persuasive one. New York City Ballet Double Bill at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z We live in the Midwest, and that kind of argument or comment is persuasive to people around us. "American Factory" filmmakers on how the Dayton-set doc became one of the year's most joyful movies 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z “Mr. Fincher creates a persuasive ambience of political menace and moral despair,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in December. DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z Where he's most persuasive is not in this self-help stuff, which is pretty obvious. Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James – review 2013-02-14T07:00:02Z These once-new technologies changed the terms of our perceptions, making one style obsolete and another newly relevant, one image sterile and another persuasive. Jacqueline Humphries’s Digital Paintings, Aglow in the Dark 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The emerging film is not simply a persuasive augmentation of Katz’s argument, but also a disturbing portrait of how very human impulses — passivity, rationalization, social pressures — can shape the writing of history. ‘Tantura’ Review: Unearthing the Past 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z But he's not particularly persuasive, and it doesn't help that "Wasted" assaults a viewer with rapid cutting, disorienting moments of fantasy and a relentlessly throbbing music score. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-01T17:39:05Z None is persuasive enough to justify settling into "American Rust," though. In Showtime's small town drama "American Rust," abandon all hope ye who break down here 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z Had he been more persuasive with his good buddy, Muhammad Ali, this remake of the 1941 classic “Here Comes Mr. Jordan,” would’ve been about boxing, same as the original. Heaven Can Wait: Back in LA, Rams go for a Hollywood sequel 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z And some scholars do not find all her interpretations persuasive. Revisiting a Scholar Unmasked by Scandal 2014-03-09T21:47:03Z Excluding social sciences, there are just nine entries representing the whole of science – but a spectacular 19 economists, easily the best-represented academic field and perhaps testimony to Flanders's persuasive skills in the elimination process. UK scores in Prospect's thinkers list 2013-03-13T14:37:14Z The most persuasive and memorable parts of “C,” it turns out, are not coded, intertextual ones, but simple, straightforward passages of description. Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z The persuasive genius of Frederick Douglass, of Abraham Lincoln, of Ida B. Wells, of Cesar Chavez, sprang from a mastery of this language, and a perception of its application to a previously unimaginable future. Obama and the Collapse of Our Common American Language 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z They’ve made psychologically persuasive Chéri’s own family legend: the story of her light-skinned ancestors, who, in the Texas of 1893, find in passing for white a conveyance for a lucrative life of crime. Review | Get a load of the exuberant new sister act: Mary and Martha Clarke, singing outlaw heroes of ‘Gun & Powder’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z My sales technique was unimpeachable, but even more persuasive was the nostalgia the books evoke. The Famous Five back on TV? A new generation are in for a treat 2012-11-06T17:03:01Z This version was technically persuasive: an x-ray image of the essence of Dior, from the famous Bar Jacket, sleek and chic in black alligator, to romantic dresses, light as the proverbial feather. Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z Note that a credible source supports the persuasive message that sells. Would you buy a logo from this man? 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z But Mr. Gyllenhaal, whose theater experience is more limited, is every bit as persuasive. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Like a good number of engineered music groups, Fifth Harmony never quite coalesced into a unit with persuasive personality. Normani and the Work of the Pop Princess 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Since the book was first devised for broadcast, this suggests a delightful recursive process: listeners to Noise nodding their assent while Hendy's voice on the radio tells them, persuasively, how persuasive radio voices are. Noise by David Hendy and The Story of Music by Howard Goodall – review 2013-03-08T10:01:01Z There were less persuasive sets: Alice Teyssier and the rest of the trio the Atelier presented a jumbled mixture of singing, spoken text, electronic noise and flashing television sets. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Blends Freedom With Radiance 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z The performance, with Andrew Davis conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, was wonderfully persuasive. A Mass of Life – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-12T16:00:01Z The staging is lean and hungry, and, for the most part, it effectively frames Shakespeare’s persuasive speeches and murderous rationalizations. The assassins are back in Folger’s spooky ‘Caesar’ She just became a dance educator with access to much greater means and the attendant persuasive force — a dance educator with power. Repeat After Her: There Is No Dance Without Dance Education 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z One wonders about the persuasive power of a gathering that won’t require anything more of a viewer than an access code and a laptop. When a Film Festival Goes Virtual, What Do We Lose? Or Gain? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z It is why Estée Lauder herself often slipped miniature sizes of silky lotions and creams to strangers, trusting her product to be the most persuasive marketing strategy. Skin Deep: Skin Deep – Solutions Come One Tiny Tube at a Time 2012-11-05T22:18:03Z Ms. Finn’s tone, as well as that of the pianist Neus Estarellas, was flexible enough to sound persuasive in all these effects. Resonant Bodies Festival, a Showcase for Vocalists 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Friday's persuasive performance of "Four Tone Poems After Arnold Bocklin," which began the program, proved the crowd pleaser it deserves to be. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z There is a moving account of Luce’s conversion to Catholicism and a persuasive analysis of her role as ambassador to Rome in resolving the post-war status of Trieste. A woman of substance 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z I don't blame him for eloping with Atika – if she had no feelings for him at all, it was a hell of a persuasive performance. The Honourable Woman recap: episode seven – The Hollow Wall 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z And what happened next was theatrical and over-the-top and entirely persuasive. Review: When Real Life Adds an Unexpected Round to the Fugue 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z But little about it felt persuasive until the final solo when Dunia Acosta was left alone to inch her way across the stage with swiveling steps and measured moments of stillness. Review: A Cuban Troupe’s Strong Dancers, Less Strong Premieres 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The friction between implausible lyrics and persuasive vocalization, or vice versa, can create meaningful sparks. Review | How do we know if Lorde is keeping it real? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z He’s not a powerful singer; next to Jay Z in the lusty “Murder” he sounds boyish, and he’s not persuasive playing the going-down-slow narrator in “Drink You Away.” Justin Timberlake, 'The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2' review 2013-09-30T05:20:00Z The most poignant element of this production is the persuasive way Hoke and Daisy age, and the way Wallace and Robinette’s rapport takes on a kind of glow. ‘Driving Miss Daisy’: A safe, entertaining ride at Ford’s Theatre The real secret of the opera’s success, however, as revealed in David Schweizer’s understated yet persuasive production in Long Beach’s Beverly O’Neill Theater, is that under everything lays a winning coming-of-age story. 'As One,' the every(wo)man transgender opera 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most persuasive aspect of “Oklahoma City” is its refusal of paranoia. Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z But his search for intelligent life, couched in a moving account of his path to the top of Harvard’s astronomy department, is fascinating and persuasive. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Stillness and introspection, however, are less persuasive qualities on stage. Frank Ocean – review 2013-07-10T18:34:00Z But it’s so musical that it’s immediately persuasive. Dance This Week: A Classic ‘Beauty,’ Non-Virtuoso Dance and Ailey Returns 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Zwick was in Washington last week to talk to anyone who would listen about “Trial by Fire,” not just as a movie but as a persuasive call for the elimination of the death penalty. How director Ed Zwick is trying to keep pace with a changing Hollywood, long after his ‘Glory’ days 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The most persuasive version I’ve ever seen, from Fiasco Theater in 2014, refrained from interpretive gloss, and let the play’s paradoxes speak eloquently for themselves. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In effect, this dastardly illusionist is a maker of persuasive computer-graphic action scenes akin to those that Marvel movies are based on, and these effects serve two purposes for their master villain. Review: “Spider-Man: Far from Home” Presents the Illusion of a Good Movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z But I see the daughter’s silence as period-appropriate and chillingly persuasive. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Meslay’s ultimate argument to Ms. Rose proved both simple and eminently persuasive. Texas Monthly: The Artworks John F. Kennedy Saw in Texas on Nov. 21, 1963 2012-11-25T05:07:16Z Frank may be the most persuasive portrait of the artist I have ever encountered. Recalling the Eloquent Loneliness of the Playwright Brian Friel 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s certainly too ham-handed and too synthetic to be any kind of persuasive parable about the relationship between Africa and the West. Denis Johnson’s New Novel, ‘The Laughing Monsters’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “Widows” nonetheless offers an occasionally persuasive, if transitory, line of immediate passion through the authoritative presence of its cast. “Widows,” Reviewed: Steve McQueen Grafts Heist Film 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The least persuasive pages are devoted to pop culture, which he rightly sees as dull and repetitive, but whose significance he vastly overestimates. Ross Douthat Has a Vision of America. It’s Grim. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Some were used in a sting by an undercover agent who hoped the sense of wealth created by fancy paintings on a yacht would be a persuasive part of his pose. Joining Plastic, Glass and Metal on the Recycle List: Fake Art 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet this moment, when it finally arrives, is quite brilliantly handled, psychologically persuasive and a proper shock. ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z But the CFA was in danger of losing its moral authority and its persuasive power to guide design, and there was no credible way forward without making its membership more diverse and more professionally substantial. Perspective | With most Trump appointees off the fine arts commission, Biden can put a progressive stamp on federal architecture 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Though its most persuasive speakers are politically involved bicyclists, car enthusiasts receive screen time as well. Review: ‘Bikes vs Cars’ Explores the Debate in Cyclist-Friendly Cities 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Its case in her defense is somewhat persuasive and enjoyably anachronistic. ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ Review: Sexy, Spirited and Almost Convincing 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z This data is surely not worthless – it probably revealed many interesting things – but it doesn’t make Kindlon’s comments on generational change infallible or even necessarily persuasive. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z If there’s a problem with her casting, it’s that she may come across as too seasoned and assured to be persuasive as a shaky, neophyte recruit. Review: ‘Quantico’ Flips Between Jousting F.B.I. Recruits and a Terrorist Attack 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Gilbert M. Gaul contends precisely that in his persuasive new book, “Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football.” Review: ‘Billion-Dollar Ball’ Explores the Economics of College Football’s Top Programs 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z “Why has she entered our bloodstream?” wonders Schoenberger, a persuasive proponent of the play’s enduring importance despite its dated elements, most risibly that women hovering around 30 are past their prime. It Takes More Than the Kindness of Strangers 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z This new book, though, lacks the visceral immediacy of “The Last Campaign,” and Mr. Clarke is less persuasive making a case for Jack Kennedy’s transformation in the last months of his life. Books of The Times: ‘JFK’s Last Hundred Days,’ by Thurston Clarke 2013-08-12T21:23:16Z The album's title track tells the ballad of Lianne, and it's persuasive. Lianne La Havas: Is Your Love Big Enough? – review 2012-07-07T23:05:10Z Ms. Wasikowska tends to be a recessive screen presence and here, with little to do but walk and squint, she’s mostly persuasive as a determined voice. Mia Wasikowska Plays Robyn Davidson in ‘Tracks’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Not only charming but also amazingly persuasive, he could regularly sweet-talk publishers or newspapers into underwriting his extravagances. Review | A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “Displaying the usual meticulousness associated with the Pixar brand, ‘Ratatouille’ is a nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film,” A.O. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Vida’ and ‘Game of Thrones: The Last Watch’ 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z A persuasive and demanding attempt, by a thought-provoking British scientist, a biochemist at University College London, to answer some of the most fundamental questions in biology. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But to think that Jesus is the exception in this case, one would need a good deal of persuasive evidence. And it just doesn’t exist. Did Jesus think he was God? New insights on Jesus’ own self-image 2014-03-23T17:00:00Z On the phone, Nicol, 25, has a persuasive and clear-eyed sense of his own averageness. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z As Reggie, Mr. Stack is persuasive in the more demanding passages when, in the second act, he faces the kind of trouble that fathers of teenage daughters just beginning to explore sex must confront. Theater Review: ‘Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra’ at Playwrights Horizons 2014-04-22T02:00:02Z Foster is a persuasive, joyful actress—bright and sensitive, with a tinge of improbable musical-theatre pluck. How “Younger” Became “Gossip Girl” for the Publishing Industry 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z In 10 hours, he went from a horrifying firebrand to a persuasive messenger, maybe even a pope for the ages. Our president is a TV addict. It’s going to get the best of him, but he’ll never get the best of it. 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The argument of authorial intent is more persuasive the more control the author has over the work. Are Ernie and Bert gay? Who gets to say? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Alex von Tunzelmann, doesn’t find that thesis wholly persuasive — but she does admire the book’s ambition and sweep, adding that “much of the material here is lively, enjoyable and compelling.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Like most wannabes, I found this argument wildly persuasive. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z But it doesn’t mean that we, the jury, are going to find him persuasive. High Fidelity at 20: the sneakily dark edge of a comedy about bad breakups 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z And the acting, especially from Ms. Hamilton, is passionate and persuasive. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z There is a puppet master of sorts in “The Salvation” who helps make Delarue jump and gives the movie a weak glimmer of a political back story, though one as persuasive as “F Troop.” Review: In ‘The Salvation,’ a Hero Lays Waste, Western Style (Danish, Too) 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Other characters, though, embody the more persuasive appeal of a populism that sounds uncomfortably familiar these days. Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The ideal of persuasive song must surely change in a world where music can be used to boost consumption, drive away teenage loiterers, or soften up detainees for interrogation. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z This means that one key skill for us to develop is persuasive and effective argumentation. The resistance is all in your head: 6 ways to fight Trump brain rot 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z The difference, in this book’s persuasive theory, is that Trump and television merged into a symbiotic beast, that Trump is television in human form. A New Book Argues That Trump Is Television in Human Form 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Doroff said that the response to the pants was immediate and persuasive. Front Row: A Hunger for J Brand?s Houlihan Cargo Pants 2010-05-12T20:05:00Z It is a suspenseful, persuasive story that often pictures the so-called intelligence community — as seen in London, Washington and Beijing — as bureaucracies run amok. Adam Brookes’s ‘Night Heron’ is a top-notch thriller about stolen secrets Ms. Mattila was most persuasive in the languid “Hôtel,” aptly conveying its smoky decadence. Music Review: Karita Mattila at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-11T22:22:47Z The poise of the sound was all the more remarkable given that, of the six works, only Mr. Ludwig’s was composed for string orchestra; the others were heard in generally persuasive arrangements. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2014-03-17T20:59:12Z Its sound may be slightly unfashionable, but Ms. Costanza has a way of being persuasive. New Releases by Rae Sremmurd, Becky G, Cakes Da Killa 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z His voice, previously so pleading and persuasive, acquires malice as the force of his hatred of the FBI becomes apparent. Crime fiction roundup - review 2012-12-21T08:00:01Z His facial language, from imperious sneers to comic eye rolling, was precise and persuasive. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-08T22:44:54Z Throughout, their commitment was palpable, their energy persuasive, their ability to communicate with one another superior. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Some of his observations are overly broad generalizations, presented without detailed, substantive or persuasive evidence. Books Of the Times: ‘Antifragile,’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012-12-17T05:15:19Z Its pasteurized visuals are less persuasive and distinctive than the matte paintings that Albert Whitlock devised for The Birds, Diamonds Are Forever and Earthquake. After Earth: Will Smith & Son Play a Hunger Game 2013-05-30T16:22:40Z This slim but persuasive volume catalogues the centuries-long efforts to derail African American progress, from post-Reconstruction racial terror to contemporary legislative actions that have disproportionately criminalized blacks and suppressed their voting rights. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z We were supposed to be talking about her upcoming comedy tour and the broader subject of comedians using the persuasive power of humor to resist the Trump administration. Comedy icon Lizz Winstead on Roseanne’s unrepentant racism: “This is ugly, and it’s inexcus... 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Spearheading the fresh paint's trial by bank holiday sweat is the sleek but effortlessly persuasive techno of Naples pioneer Marco Carola. Clubs picks of the week 2013-05-25T05:00:19Z "I can be persuasive," she says, and one sees this is true. When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono 2012-06-16T23:06:00Z Or its curators, for that matter: Given its themes and preoccupations, Kim’s show would be thinner and less persuasive if it were held at the Getty Center. With Pacific Standard Time, Getty finally climbs down from hilltop oasis it built 20 years ago 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z There’s dramatic potential in Ryder’s struggle to assert his identity, only to be upstaged by unforeseen troubles, but Mr. Sobel’s film skates past any persuasive sense of motivation. Review: ‘Take Me to the River’ Immerses a Teenager in Scandal at a Family Reunion 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z He thought that reboots might work, at least notionally, and could even be innovative if the animating idea were persuasive enough. In ‘Reboot,’ Everything Old Is New, to Streaming 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z He is both amusing and persuasive when he writes, “In a sonnet, the ratio of humiliation to uplift is 8:6.” Books of The Times: Shame on Me, and You for Taking Pleasure in It 2011-08-02T21:23:10Z Then as now, his most persuasive work is delivered with fists pushed very deeply into his pockets. Ultraviolet - box set review 2013-07-25T14:00:02Z And because Loach is an accomplished filmmaker, his account is especially persuasive – particularly to those critics of neoliberalism who desperately want it to be true. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z The “Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother,” positioned as a solo harpsichord interlude between the two secular cantatas, was less persuasive. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The narratives were persuasive enough that thousands of viewers began advocating in real life for their exonerations. Wisconsin inmate confesses to the "Making a Murderer" killing of Teresa Halbach 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z I wasn’t sure whether this approach alleviated the opera’s sinister undertow or actually exacerbated it, but, in musical terms, the performance gave a persuasive demonstration of how modern “Salome” remains. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It was followed this summer by “Wow,” a less persuasive club thumper with a brittle trap beat and a Dadaist rap of the sort that gave Beck his first hits some 20 years ago. 10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums (and One Festival) You Shouldn’t Miss 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Speleers' performance and persuasive mug lend both characters an air of credibility and danger in a way that indicates he understands how his physicality fits what these men represent. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z You’re not required to believe any of it, but somehow the word that comes to mind when I reflect on the 136 minutes I spent pinned to my seat watching this thing is “persuasive.” ‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z These sequences are worthy, persuasive, poignant and, in comparison with the story of the protest, familiar and not exactly vital. Viceland’s ‘Rise’ Relives the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z More persuasive is the rawer stuff, Ms. Henry’s peculiar blending of horror and compassion. Review: Whimsy, Horror and Missing Bones in ‘Hunter John and Jane’ 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z It certainly looks persuasive on the oatcake, densely packed and promisingly flecked – but though Rachel finds the texture “amazing”, it’s not quite blue enough for her liking. To brie or not to brie: can vegan 'cheese' taste as good as dairy? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As a press agent he was persuasive rather than pushy; as a producer, he believed in consensus decision-making. Walter Seltzer obituary 2011-04-05T17:25:40Z “I would sometimes tell him his opinion was so strident he would be more persuasive if he toned it down.” After the Play, a Supreme Encore From Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Kendall, a young actor to watch, is especially persuasive as a lost, unsophisticated country boy who, a few sweet eccentricities aside, is as normal as blueberry pie until he very clearly isn’t. Review: Marin Ireland Brings Down the Halfway House in ‘Blue Ridge’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z But he is also a violinist of formidable technical and persuasive powers, as his recital on Saturday, July 29, will attest. Mozart on the Water: Bargemusic Presents Mark Peskanov 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z On the other hand, the sense of community proved uncommonly persuasive. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The music thrills more than it intrigues; it prefers to make blunt declarations, not thoroughly persuasive arguments. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Tomás de Torquemada, for example, may have burned, stretched, hanged and disemboweled unbelievers, but he had nice hair and everyone agrees he was impressively persuasive. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: For a week I recorded my dreams. Here are my political prophecies. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z However much history informs this movie, “The Grandmaster” is, at its most persuasive, about the triumph of style. Movie Review: ‘The Grandmaster,’ Wong Kar-wai’s New Film 2013-08-22T21:24:54Z Julia Bullock, a radiant young soprano, is part of a tiny group of singers able to be persuasive in both classical and popular styles. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Together, these books make a persuasive case for regarding Ikonomou as Greece’s most original and perceptive chronicler of his country’s fears and yearnings. Greece’s Fear and Yearning Crystallized in Fiction 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z A persuasive school of thought has it that the years between 1967 and 1979 – maybe we draw a line at the upriver freakout of Apocalypse Now – were the best American cinema would ever have. Bored of blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Sonji’s inability to sustain the piety is persuasive in Turner’s vivacious portrayal, a performance filled with poise and, when required, fire. ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’: An unusual sparring match If Malick's striving toward a oneness with nature, his great theme, always, strikes you as less than persuasive "The Tree of Life" will not change your mind about America's trippiest major filmmaker. Cannes: Malick's cosmic film debuts — at last — to boos, cheers 2011-05-16T14:17:20Z In each case, exculpatory evidence was uncovered, persuasive enough to garner new trials, evidentiary hearings or writs of actual innocence. What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z But what television and domestic video do create are persuasive semblances of ordinary life. “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and the Marketing of Cinematic Charisma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z And those new to his work will find here a persuasive portrait of Victorian England. Review | ‘The Woman in the Water’: An elegant mystery novel set in Victorian England 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The stakes are grimmer and considerably more persuasive in “A Thousand and One,” the poignant feature debut of A.V. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The reason: two very persuasive performances by the film's young lead actor and actress, whose stoic, miserable characters experience small measures of redemptive joy in friendship. 'Starry Starry Night': Child actors brighten Taiwanese tale 2012-07-05T20:50:06Z The study may not be enough, they admitted: “It has been said that we now live in a ‘fact-resistant’ world where data have limited persuasive value. No link between autism and MMR, affirms major study 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The JACK’s premiere of a new quartet was less persuasive, though not in execution. Review: John Zorn’s Spirit of Restless Invention Flows Forth 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In these pages Mr. Clarke uses his insider’s knowledge of national security policy to create a harrowing — and persuasive — picture of the cyberthreat the United States faces today. Books of The Times: Richard Clarke Warns of U.S. Risk in ?Cyber War? 2010-04-26T22:26:00Z But the math on crop productivity is persuasive. In defense of corn, the world’s most important food crop 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The antagonists, if they are not equal as polemicists, are matched in passion; Roth shores up the opposing contentions with equal persuasive energy. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Together they display little of the chemistry that would make their love story persuasive. 'Kiss Me, Kate' an ingenious adaptation at Pasadena Playhouse 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z If the connections Anthony draws are sometimes vague and not always persuasive, that may be a risk built into his essayistic, undogmatic approach to reality. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Particularly cumbersome are his intermittent questions – he does a lot of wondering aloud – a rhetorical strategy that needlessly implies a level of naïveté than Mr. Jarecki’s strong, persuasive moviemaking finally demolishes. The Carpetbagger: Sundance Documentaries Transform Data Into Stories 2012-01-30T17:29:47Z The Dodds’ story is rich with incident, populated by fascinating secondary characters, tinged with rising peril and pityingly persuasive about the futility of Dodd’s mission. Books of The Times: Perched in Berlin With Hitler Rising 2011-05-19T21:00:11Z Because he must raise funds in addition to researching and making the films, Burns and his collaborators have to map out projects years in advance, but Rockefeller proved persuasive. PBS' 'Cancer' an epic, vital story Ken Burns just couldn't refuse 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z And Mr. McGregor, his antic youthful energy tamed but not entirely suppressed, is a very persuasive and touching dad in distress. Movie Review: ‘The Impossible,’ With Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor 2012-12-21T02:00:13Z But it was when Mr. Kahane sang most naturally and intimately, abetted by an outstanding band of resourceful players, that his copious talents were most persuasive. Music Review | Gabriel Kahane: Tied to a Time and Place, but Not a Single Style 2010-03-04T22:54:00Z As it is, though much of the material here is lively, enjoyable and compelling, the thesis is not persuasive. The Evil Repercussions of the American Revolution 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z This movie was adapted from his best-selling 1996 autobiography, and Ifans' portrayal of him as a charismatic pied piper with an insinuating leer is entirely persuasive. 'Mr. Nice': Reliving a drug dealer's halcyon days 2011-09-01T19:14:07Z But at a time when those in power brazenly flaunt their misogyny, this faith in the persuasive effects of public shaming strikes me as misplaced. ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review: More Cultural Learnings 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z But this final ride along, including "The Set Up," has presented the most persuasive argument that now is the right time for the comedy to bow out honorably. A fond farewell to the "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" hero cops, who are ending this ride along just on time 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But all were comfortable in the transitions from spoken theater to song, and the frequent dancing was more than persuasive. Review: Chutzpah? An Afro-Cuban-Yiddish Opera Worth a Schlep 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z But that persuasive, influential story of the suppressed or derided woman reader has shifted dramatically in the near-century since was first published. The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack – review 2012-07-05T07:00:01Z The scuffle dislodges Carlson's microphone but the bass and drums remain locked in a persuasive groove while the stage is cleared, all except for one girl dancing spellbound, apparently oblivious to the bedlam around her. Splashh – review 2013-06-02T14:30:01Z Toby, vigilant about his diet and insecure about his height, is persuasive as a well-meaning egotist. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s an ingenious expression of the commanding and persuasive power of art. Going Topless, Tig Notaro Takes Over Town Hall 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z By the time a late act of betrayal occurs, followed by an even less persuasive denouement, the truth of this world has drained away. 2010-02-11T23:57:00Z The surprising capstone, though, is the transformation of Blackfriars into a stage for a persuasive rendition of Davis’s musical. Perspective | A cool musical where? The autumn season of plays at American Shakespeare Center is a rich one. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Except for the fact that he looked several years younger than Aida, he gave a persuasive performance, filling the house with vigorous, virile sound. Radvanovksy triumphs in Toronto "Aida" 2010-10-03T15:31:00Z It was remarkable, when groups aimed their theatrical rifles earnestly at the audience, to see just how much more persuasive the women were at this than the men. Dance Review: A World Tour With San Francisco Ethnic Dance 2010-06-14T22:29:00Z I'll leave it up to viewers to decide which is the more persuasive of the two and only say that the winner is determined by each audience . . . and a number of them voted to abolish. In an Amy Coney Barrett reality, "What the Constitution Means to Me" is even more gutting 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z But that sound, punishingly strenuous to replicate, isn’t much more than a flashy novelty trick, unless it is driven by a persuasive sense of uncontainable romantic fervor. Music Review: John Lloyd Young Takes ‘Jersey Boys’ Style to Café Carlyle 2014-02-05T22:20:04Z In marshaling his persuasive arguments, Professor X draws on the work of scholars and sociologists and demographers, and clearly he’s picking up on sentiments floating in the air. Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z Sachs’s account of Toscanini’s career is persuasive and compelling in the important ways. A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z He handled the fragments of “Fem” with geometric brightness, a Mondrian painting in sound, but his turn to its more reflective, nocturnal conclusion was entirely persuasive. Review: Taka Kigawa Masters the Conflicting Rhythms of Ligeti 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z This is very familiar stuff, and it’s not entirely persuasive that Owen agrees to a collaboration with Kurt that he knows is exploitative. In Will Chancellor’s ‘A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall,’ the hunt for purpose is on And in the process of making the case against Naz, we’ve seen smart, committed people like Detective Box carefully gather the evidence necessary to make a persuasive argument for Naz’s guilt. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z What makes Mr. Wayne’s portraits of Jonny, his mother and the tour staff so persuasive — and affecting, in the end — is his refusal to sentimentalize them, combined with his assiduous avoidance of easy stereotypes. Books of The Times: ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine,’ by Teddy Wayne 2013-01-28T20:14:16Z In the best performance he has ever given, Black is extremely persuasive – even lovable – as an undertaker so revered that not even cold-blooded murder can sway his neighbours' attitude toward him. If Jack Black can make an excellent movie, surely anything is possible 2012-07-26T16:00:00Z The challenge for Soderbergh and the more-than-game cast is to turn the artful verbiage into persuasive human speech and the plot machinery into a plausible slice of organic reality. ‘High Flying Bird’ Review: A Thrilling Dunk on Capitalism 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The vernacular is only one aspect of the vitality and inventiveness of Raisin's writing"; the portrait of his protagonist is "persuasive and compassionate . Book reviews roundup 2011-07-08T21:55:24Z It’s a subtly gutting moment, made especially persuasive by the warmth radiating from Chilcott. ‘Modern Swimwear’ Review: The Designer and the Murderer 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The other works on the program, Strauss’s “Four Last Songs” and the Mahler Fourth, were no less demanding of the conductor in their different ways, and here Mr. Mena was less persuasive. Music Review: At Tanglewood, Mahler and Strauss, and Yo-Yo Ma 2010-08-02T20:57:00Z Whatever its merits, the campaign was persuasive: Public-opinion polls found that over a decade, Americans’ willingness to be greeted with “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” dropped sharply. For Fox News hosts, the hydroxychloroquine controversy is fuel for the culture war 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Giving his persuasive new e-book a spin, I met Epstein yesterday at midnight at The French Roast, a busy all-night restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A Midnight Rendezvous with Eric Epstein, Author of The 24-Hour Genius 2013-06-17T18:54:03Z But Levine proved the most persuasive, telling Pfirman that while “moments that were really spectacular were really spectacular … world-class spectacular,” she needed “refinement.” 'The Voice' recap: Blind auditions are now twice as nice 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison does not always make a persuasive psychological case for the ease with which the newly renamed Kathy and Ryu settle into the new strictures of their lives. | 'Maple and Vine': ?Maple and Vine? at Playwrights Horizons - Review 2011-12-08T03:01:15Z But in that fleeting picture, he embeds a persuasive case for the codependency that rules them both, one that allows their partnership to survive, even in the aftermath of embarrassing, even humiliating, disclosures. Review | This new Broadway play about the Clintons’ marriage is as fascinating — and sad — as you’d expect 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Unpopular causes rarely find the most persuasive champions, and sometimes only the least eloquent are willing to speak out. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z Though their evidence is circumstantial, a confluence of events and witness testimony will help them build a persuasive case. Books of The Times: Scott Turow?s ?Innocent? Catches Up With Rusty Sabich 2010-04-29T20:51:00Z Mr. Robbins is well spoken and persuasive, but the series is a reminder of how unusual his looks are for a man in the counseling field. | 'Breakthrough With Tony Robbins': Tony Robbins Applies Positive Thinking to Distressed Lives 2010-07-26T22:26:00Z In the event, only Mark E Smith and Snoop Dogg had to prerecord their contributions; but the real surprise is how persuasive Gorillaz are, even without their guest vocalists. Pop review 2010-04-29T23:39:00Z Rushdie's self-presentation as a stern literary ombudsman to errant politicians is not much more persuasive. Why Salman Rushdie should stick to holding Obama to account 2013-01-04T08:00:07Z Not a religious experience; rather a mass hallucination — an elevated, persuasive fiction, a thing that can't be but is, right before our eyes. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z Rather than impersonating a typical Herman diva by belting their upbeat messages to the rafters, Ms. Daly made them all the more persuasive by discreetly holding back. 2010-01-21T06:40:00Z Nevertheless, the film-makers face an uphill struggle; neither version is really persuasive. Sundance film festival 2013: Lovelace – first look review 2013-01-24T12:56:41Z And two cheers for Patten, who taps the Dickens spirit in his persuasive turns as Magwitch and the comic Jaggers, a smarmy lawyer involved in Pip's fate. Review: Dickens classic done up in trademark Book-It style 2011-02-17T21:32:05Z Dramatically, he was persuasive both as an old man tormented by guilt and as an embattled captain facing an impossible choice. Rare Met revival of Britten's shipboard opera 2012-05-06T16:31:04Z He also blackmails and kills people, but this is actually his most persuasive tactic. 5 Simple Ways to Change Someone’s Mind 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Even if Mr. Mortensen’s Freud is nothing like the father of psychoanalysis — who would know? — it is dramatically persuasive. 2011 Films: ?Melancholia,? ?Tree of Life,? ?Moneyball? 2011-12-17T02:03:03Z The intention is persuasive, but it is too apparent, and the inconsistent use of puppets is a muddle. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z Matthew Hindson’s Septet was more persuasive in its energetic passages than in its reflective ones. New-Music Performances Open the MoMA Summergarden Series 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z He has not yet solved all the issues posed by the work’s sprawling architecture, but his reading is largely persuasive. Opera Review: On Opposite Shores: 'Meistersinger' and 'Rosenkavalier' 2011-05-24T18:30:06Z One of the women offers a different and persuasive argument: “I think they thought they were little gods.” Review: In ‘No Más Bebés,’ Forced Sterilizations at an American Hospital 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Olsen and the more persuasive Mr. Isaac may generate heat, but their performances and the filmmaking lack the frenzy that might explain how these two crazy kids turned into murderous fiends. Movie Review: ‘In Secret,’ Directed by Charlie Stratton 2014-02-20T22:51:13Z He is indeed a persuasive advocate, and he made the best possible case for the work’s being plausible if hardly definitive Mahler. Review: We Held Our Breath Through Simon Rattle’s Mahler 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Reitman's analysis of Scientology's ability to survive scandal and mockery is compelling and persuasive. 'Inside Scientology': an in-depth look at a secretive religion 2011-08-03T20:48:04Z Isherwood is not a particularly adept or persuasive literary critic in his diaries, but his enthusiasms are vital. Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z It wasn’t the most transparent playing, but, supported by the orchestra’s outgoing accompaniment, it foregrounded the spine of Chopin’s melodies to an uncommon and persuasive extent. Review | Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony live — and work — for the present 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Cooper sings pleasantly enough and throttles an electric guitar with persuasive fervor. Review: The Gorgeous Heartbreak of ‘A Star Is Born’ 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Salazar, a sturdy and genial presence, is not entirely persuasive as a hotshot management consultant. Review: ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ Is Jonathan Larson’s Run-Up to ‘Rent’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z And so the novel’s secondary subject is its most persuasive: the persistence, and modifications, of memory. Review | ‘Ohio’ explains how America got into this dark mess of alienation and frustration 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z We're not saying Tiny Dancer is going to be big, but the facts are quite persuasive. New band of the day: Tiny Dancer (No 1,474) 2013-03-19T16:22:07Z Those moments didn’t really work dramatically, either, since his Giovanni isn’t zesty, but rather pretty serene and matter-of-fact, mostly sober but a little wry, temperamentally gray — if still a practiced, persuasive romancer. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Its inadvertent, but most persuasive, lesson turns out to be that bad guys — or at least naughty ones — are more fun than good guys. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z What do you think that narrative about the "browning of America" is so persuasive despite all the complications that should be applied to it? Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Far more persuasive are her discussions of the artist’s hand — the shakiness of Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s line, the crosshatching of her husband, Robert, the rigorously controlled quality of Charles Burns’s drawings. The Hand of the Comic Artist 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z He was very persuasive with his ideas and personally showed us around the city. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z Hers is not a large or rich voice, but it is a persuasive one. Music Review: Sarah Shafer and Richard Goode at Town Hall 2012-12-10T22:40:00Z Unfortunately, the flesh-and-blood performances are less persuasive, often looking and sounding strained or awkward. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Most of the essays in “Pulphead” are haunted, in a far more persuasive way, by what Mr. Sullivan refers to with only slight self-mockery as “the tragic spell of the South.” Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z Yet, while it seems unclear to whom this happiness belongs — the filmmaker, Georgy, someone else, perhaps you — such a persuasive and powerful depiction of reality is itself a joy. | 'My Joy': ?My Joy,? Directed by Sergei Loznitsa - Review 2011-09-29T23:47:55Z He used all his persuasive power to help engineer passage of the 13th Amendment through the House, and he often criticized President Abraham Lincoln for his slow approach to emancipation. On the trail of Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania’s equal rights champion 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps the least persuasive layer of the collage is Sam and Louise’s neutral banter into microphones. In 'Adler & Gibb,' the business of art — painted with familiar brushstrokes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The vivid bloodletting “Traitor” was alternately coffeehouse quiet and arena bombastic, and equally persuasive in both modes. Olivia Rodrigo’s Punky Heartbreak Revue 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The Vietnam scenes are far more compelling, partly because the writing is less strained and partly because the actors create a persuasive, tense and swaggering give-and-take, with movement to match. War drama hits home 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Undaunted by the forced humor, Robert Kleinendorst and Ms. Khobdeh, as the prince and the priest’s daughter, were charming, persuasive comedians. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Opens Its Season 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Yet this once powerful alliance of beauty and morality, so persuasive to many of the great socially conscious Victorians, has been almost entirely lost from view. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z Ford got away with only being semi-kakutanied as, while declaring Canada "deeply flawed", she called its American first half "strong and persuasive". Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-06-15T21:55:16Z Its techniques are impressive and various, though its most persuasive special effects are Mr. Dujardin and Ms. Bejo, physically graceful performers with faces the camera cannot resist. | 'The Artist': ?The Artist,? by Michel Hazanavicius - Review 2011-11-24T13:00:00Z The pioneering structuralist Roman Jakobson had famously promulgated six functions to language, but he hinted at the possible existence of a seventh, one in which words acquired the persuasive force of incantations or magic spells. Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The idea that we’re buttoned-up moderns with atavistic needs does not become more persuasive through repetition alone. Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z By contrast Mr. van Oort made a persuasive case for revisiting Beethoven’s impetuous concerto on the kind of instrument he first performed it on. American Classical Orchestra Ends Its Season in ‘Prague’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z They are far more persuasive, perhaps because their associations are less predictable, than Grossman's several treatments of howling human heads. Lauren Grossman at Platform Gallery: leviathans and hellmouths 2012-04-05T19:30:11Z This is due in part to Ms. Ajaero’s persuasive sales pitches, and in part to her habit of tucking in a little extra something. Pleasures and Prescriptions of the West African Diet, at Nneji 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Virginia, which eliminated the Virginia Military Institute’s discriminatory policies against women and cemented the rule that no law may engage in gender discrimination unless there is an “exceedingly persuasive justification” for doing so. Senate confirms “radical feminist” judge Nina Pillard to federal bench 2013-12-12T23:04:00Z More provocative than persuasive, these near-soliloquies add buckets of information, but you can hear the writing in every phrase and weighted pause. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The most persuasive advocacy on Friday night occurred when these players channeled their evident desire to connect into performances of notes on the page. Review: Ligeti Sounded Thrilling, When Alarm Will Sound Was Let Loose 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z But on closer inspection the Zen philosopher turned out to have anger issues, the extremist was seductively persuasive, and the Bible basher one groovy chick. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z Only at the end of Mr Simms’s book does he become less persuasive. Historians and Brexit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z He can be enormously persuasive, not so much because of the strength of his arguments, but the sheer force of his personality. Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z We don’t hear anything specific about Kirsch’s discovery except that it “boldly contradicted almost every established religious doctrine, and it did so in a distressingly simple and persuasive manner.” Review | Attention, Tom Hanks: Dan Brown’s new novel, ‘Origin,’ is ready for you 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z So persuasive was Ms. Schnabel’s performance that, during the filming, a fellow actress mistook her improvised tirade in an Atlantic City hotel room for genuine hostility, Ms. Russo-Young recalled. The Many Faces of Stella 2010-12-29T21:45:19Z The texture of her two major novels tends to lushness and formality, more verbal foliage, while her stories are plain-spoken and persuasive for their apparent directness. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z In general, “The East” is a bit more persuasive on the psychology of its characters than on the politics of their actions. Movie Review: ‘The East,’ Written by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling 2013-05-30T20:11:16Z But Crawford is a poet as well as a professor of English at St Andrews, and his poetic intuitions lead to historical speculations that are mainly credible and persuasive. The Beginning and the End of the World: St Andrews, Scandal and the Birth of Photography by Robert Crawford ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:04Z That what happens in California often determines what happens in the rest of the country is a persuasive reason to heed Venkataraman’s impassioned call for making a commitment to future change. Humans Are Impetuous and Shortsighted. Can We Change? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Disregard the arguments for and against drone warfare advanced in “Good Kill,” and the movie still makes a persuasive case that our blind infatuation with all-powerful technology is stripping us of our humanity. Review: ‘Good Kill’ Stars Ethan Hawke Fighting Enemies Half a World Away 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z His Beatles argument is both vivid and persuasive — it made for an engaging Atlantic cover story — but also shows places where he's likely to be assailed. Joshua Wolf Shenk argues for the dynamism of duos in 'Powers of Two' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Leonard makes a persuasive case that a principal strength of Charles and his management team was their ability to analyze and act on this intelligence before their competitors could. The Truth About Koch Industries 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z His elaborations are elegant, persuasive and come to a surprisingly feminist conclusion — that female desire shaped evolution. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The problem with “persuasive design”, the armory of psychological techniques used by tech platforms to ensure your attention never wavers, is that the rest of reality wasn’t designed that way. Dopamine fasting is a tech fad that sounds silly – but might just work | Oliver Burkeman 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Love is an abstract concept; God either exists or – as per the persuasive lack of evidence – He doesn't. Richard Herring ? review 2010-12-21T22:45:00Z Briefly, the play is a strange and not exactly persuasive compound of facile thriller and earnest, insubstantial meditation on freedom and exile. ‘Shesh Yak’ Stars Laith Nakli and Zarif Kabier 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z And if you are sufficiently persuasive you might change the minds of others. Rick Gekoski: It takes judgment, not taste, to pick a Booker winner 2011-08-26T13:25:14Z But it's not made any more persuasive by the need to highlight the songs. The Bodyguard 2012-12-06T00:40:52Z But she isn’t skilled enough to create a persuasive inner life for Julie, and because Hogg avoids scripted exposition, her actress can’t lean on the dialogue to help fill in the blanks. ‘The Souvenir Part II’ Review: Life, as She Imagines It 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Several essays here complicate easy appeals to "resistance" in art, or its capacity to be "activist", with persuasive readings of Sartre's critique of Flaubert, or the films Dogville and Mystic River. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z It was a startling choice for an incarcerated defendant — even those with persuasive stories of innocence typically don’t trust the system enough to roll the dice again with 12 jurors or an appellate court. What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Patinkin’s performance helps make “Wish I Was Here,” with all its weaknesses, a far more persuasive and heartfelt portrait of death and dying than the recent “Lullaby,” which drowned in its own tears. Zach Braff Directs and Stars in ‘Wish I Was Here’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Her most persuasive proposition is that the internal processes of grief and the external ones of mourning are dynamically opposed. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z However, despite their professed interest in the formal conventions of propaganda posters, Bianchi and Drapic conspicuously fail to address the persuasive power of architecture itself. Review | A rare glimpse of North Korea 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Lévy makes an ardent and mostly persuasive case about what dominance by these resurgent powers would mean for the world. New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Hurt has played madmen before, and he’s persuasive and compelling as the vengeance-obsessed sea captain, bringing his own brand of mumbling intensity to the role. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z The Sills-Sherrill roaring may be more persuasive than the wooing, but not by much, and both actors play the comedy with a welcome touch of class. Shakespeare Theatre throws a musical punch with ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Among Emmy's actor categories, a jury considers just one sample episode per nominee, so it better be persuasive. Emmy Awards: Lead-actor bridesmaids again? 2011-09-14T21:59:04Z The Britten work was most persuasive in its calmer passages, like the sublime, increasingly muted barcarole of the fifth and final movement, quoting his own “Death in Venice.” Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2014-04-27T16:31:02Z He’d make a persuasive case, tangentially related to the truth, and it almost always worked. The Many Voices of Boots Riley 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Like journalism, American film history tends to be rather too neatly divided between sober, apparently disinterested chronicles and gossipy counter-histories, some persuasive, others fantastical. Harvey Weinstein Is Going to Prison. But That’s Just a Starting Point. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Echols makes a fiercely persuasive case against the execution of prisoners not lucid enough to understand what is being done to them. Books of The Times: “Life After Death,” by Damien Echols 2012-09-19T21:18:19Z The young nurse who steers them toward this difficult decision, Thomas Rémige, is subtle, persuasive and extremely good at his job. Review: ‘The Heart’ Offers Portraits in the Race to an Organ Transplant 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z As a photographer, Sugimoto came to prominence by making images that are both highly persuasive and strangely self-effacing. A New Hiroshi Sugimoto Sculpture in San Francisco Reaches for Infinity 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The sung-through show is properly jumbo in its lush musical sound, executed by about a dozen musicians somehow able to create persuasive orchestral effects, and its pivotal spectacular moments land on the mark. Review | ‘Miss Saigon’ at the Kennedy Center brings back the megamusical’s highs and lows 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Around two-thirds of the way in, however, the film catches hold, as the disturbing claims of its subjects — mostly unsubstantiated but nevertheless persuasive — accumulate and clarify. ‘The Hacker Wars,’ a Documentary About Prosecutions 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z When attempting to create impact, we reflect on what is persuasive to us, our state of mind, our desires and our goals. How our desires shape our beliefs | Tali Sharot 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z He is persuasive on so many topics that he makes you wish we could turn the world off, then on again, in an attempt to reset it. ‘Ethics in the Real World,’ Peter Singer’s Provocative Essays 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Their works landed with persuasive panache on Wednesday, aided by powerful but never overly brash conducting by Dalia Stasevska, also making her Philharmonic debut. Review: At the Philharmonic, Contemporary Is King for a Week 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Frederiksen, the head of collections, said that information will be updated when the museum’s review is completed, but, at this point, he said this evidence is no longer viewed as persuasive. Where Are Their Heads? Hordes of Ancient Statues Pose That Puzzle 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Still, getting there isn’t easy; whatever voice tells us to attach to the evident is loud and persuasive. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Olsen and the more persuasive Mr. Isaac generate heat, but their performances and the direction, from Charlie Stratton, lack the frenzy that might explain how these two crazy kids turned into fiends. Movie Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T22:56:45Z As Mark Antony, Ray Fearon ripples with eloquence and is quite comically persuasive: he makes you aware of his manipulation even as he cajoles – and in doing so makes you the more manipulated. Julius Caesar; The Physicists; Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-09T23:08:07Z Even at its most persuasive, the opprobrium — which became more aggressive as the campaign season accelerated — felt disproportionate to the film’s humble intent. Perspective | ‘Green Book’ may not have deserved best picture, but did it deserve all the hate? 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Mostly his songs were strong and steady, projecting a deep, indisputable, and ultimately persuasive confidence and sense of self. Postscript: Guy Clark, 1941-2016 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z But I must admit, these performers made a persuasive case. ArtsBeat Blog: Senators and Congressmen, All Trying for a Laugh 2011-12-05T16:53:17Z But that's the least persuasive strand in this otherwise superb biography: who doesn't want to be somewhere near the centre of things? Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-11-16T10:06:01Z He is excellent and persuasive on the gap between what we perceive to be wrong and what actually is, and therefore the gap between what we perceive to be helpful and what actually is. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Learning to cope in a chaotic world 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z These occasional jolts of intensity do not snap us out of the film’s hypnotic spell, which remains persuasive enough to make the 163-minute duration feel like something to luxuriate in rather than an endurance test. Sedate expectations: will Blade Runner 2049 give birth to the slow-burn blockbuster? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Bitterly contested divorces pale into insignificance compared with the heightened emotions that are the result of an ex-prime minister, over-inflated with his own persuasive abilities, lumbering us with a referendum. My husband’s boasts are worse since Brexit – and I can’t stand it | Dear Mariella 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z David Bryan Jackson is funny and persuasive as Candida’s father, Mr. Burgess, a snobbish businessman whose predatory labor practices vex the Rev. Morell. Review | A giddy poet lights up ‘Candida’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z If you are trying to imply that they are somehow linked to his closeness with his mother, you haven’t been very persuasive. My Grown-Up, Live-In Boyfriend Is Really Close With His Mother. Ugh. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z As the Trollingers note early on, “all museums, just like the Creation Museum, are rhetorical — that is, their purposes are persuasive, and their claims are never neutral.” A look inside the Creation Museum's cabinet of curiosities 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine, said he found the evidence persuasive. Experts find remains of England's King Richard III 2013-02-04T14:07:03Z Mr. Vanderbilt’s theory — and it’s a persuasive one — is that despite journalism’s dramatic shortcomings, reporters make good central characters because they are detectives with pens. When Journalism Catches Hollywood’s Eye 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The show’s endurance ultimately had a very uncomplicated bottom line: Albrecht and Strauss wanted to see the end of the story Simon was telling, in large measure because, according to Albrecht, he was uncommonly persuasive. Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z This chapter isn’t altogether credible, and Marion’s naïveté is more narratively expedient than persuasive, but her raw desires and vulnerability are a relief from the movie’s free-ranging cruelties, petty and otherwise. ‘Only the Animals’ Review: A Missing Woman, a Cruel World 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Shrimpy was having trouble with his wife, a sour-faced nightmare of a mother played with persuasive relish by Phoebe Nicholls, but he had a sympathetic ear in Lord Grantham, who felt his pain. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z The title of Kushner’s grainy and persuasive novel refers to a notorious strip club in San Francisco. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Coming across that sentence a dozen years ago in an otherwise persuasive volume of social history, I raised an eyebrow. Jeeves and Wooster Are Back in a Fizzy New Homage to P.G. Wodehouse 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Philip Pearlstein, an artist whose coolly observed nudes reclaimed the naked human body for painting, and who found a persuasive modern idiom for the portrait genre, died on Saturday morning in Manhattan. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z But its explanation was less than wholly persuasive. Snubbing Margaret Thatcher’s Clothes 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z But the beauty of individual details did not always add up to a persuasive narrative. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-28T00:08:27Z But the monsters the humans battle are “described as canny, and brave, and intelligent,” and given persuasive emotional back stories. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z It began Thursday with Jakub Hrusa, a conductor with an ear for rarities and the skill to make persuasive cases for them. Review: An Audition Season Begins at the Philharmonic 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z I fear that, notwithstanding his thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis, we have a long and torturous path ahead. Why America’s Political Divisions Will Only Get Worse 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z If they lack the urgency of his coarser urban photographs, they are persuasive nevertheless because of his usual high contrast and tight cropping. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Sakari Oramo has long been a friend to the hardly heard, and it is to his credit that he is now lending his persuasive skills to the effort to bring female composers to greater prominence. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In contrast to the upright military lawyer Mr. Elliott played on “JAG,” his Wolf West has a nasty twinkle that’s the most persuasive thing about “Scoundrels.” | 'Scoundrels': Virginia Madsen Stars in a New Comedy on ABC 2010-06-18T22:16:00Z Now a new study suggests that female anger is simply less persuasive—to both men and women—no matter how it is expressed. Why Angry Men Are More Influential Than Angry Women 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z This meticulous and persuasive book is a vehicle for pain and insult. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The piece’s mysterious tension was beautifully sustained in a supple and persuasive performance by Lin. Pianist Steven Lin sets bar high for Washington Performing Arts’ new season Ben Hutchinson in the Observer felt differently: "The psychological analysis … is insightful and largely persuasive … this book presents an unprecedented source for understanding the ability to massacre." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2012-10-05T21:55:16Z This movie was adapted from his best-selling 1996 autobiography, and Mr. Ifans’s portrayal of him as a charismatic pied piper with an insinuating leer is entirely persuasive. | 'Mr. Nice': Reliving a Drug Dealer?s Halcyon Days 2011-06-02T21:47:04Z Increasingly timely, it needs a persuasive new production, immediately. Beth Morrison's '21C Liederabend. Op. LA' at Disney Hall was a good idea (but next time, rethink the presentation, please) 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z More disturbing is its persuasive suggestion that such a world view is not misplaced. London Theater Journal: 12 and Miserable 2010-07-29T15:47:00Z He has few lines, his Virginia accent is wobbly and his continuous moaning and sobbing are not persuasive. Novel take but predictable revelations in 'The Whipping Man' 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Compared to the other pressings, Electric Recording’s version had vivid, visceral details, yielding a persuasive illusion of a human being standing before me drawing a bow across a violin. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z This show’s most persuasive character turns out not to be the first lady of the American theater but the boy who would grow up to be A. R. Gurney. | 'The Grand Manner': Kate Burton in A. E. Gurney?s Comedy at Lincoln Center 2010-06-28T02:12:00Z Kentridge’s parades move with an unknowable purpose — be it spiritual progress or protest march — but so persuasive you wish you could join in. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Washington’s more laid-back approach has a persuasive emotional logic, and it adds a different kind of suspense to “Raisin.” Theater Review: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway 2014-04-04T02:00:14Z Either way, his reasons for continuing the relationship aren’t particularly persuasive. I want to leave my partner of 15 years. Am I being selfish? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z As it is, Mr. Redmayne provides a persuasive study in the psychological confinement that comes with the crown. | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King 2012-02-03T15:48:00Z The line separating persuasive domestic drama and showy histrionics is never breached. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z I find his vessels to be unexciting and often plain ugly, but that’s not to say an argument for a survey could not be persuasive. MOCA's Gaetano Pesce exhibition stumbles across a bright ethical line 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The most persuasive of them is a series of brutish portraits of Cézanne’s uncle Dominique, a court bailiff. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z She is at her most persuasive when most wayward. Karen Finley's portrayal of the widowed first lady in 'The Jackie Look' kicks off the Broad's feminist series 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The Freundlich essay’s earnest, directive tone is in perfect counterpoint to Mr. Leu’s shrewdly and entertainingly persuasive video. Art In Review: PER-OSKAR LEU: ?Crisis and Critique? 2012-02-16T22:48:15Z Foer dons the heavy mantle of cyber-skeptic with this persuasive brief against the big four tech giants who he believes pose a threat to the individual and society. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Conducting from memory, she waved her long, slender arms with a persuasive animation not only intended to shape phrases and cue players but also to seemingly bat away any resistance to musical momentum. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The result is rigorous yet readable, frequently startling yet eminently persuasive. ‘The Enigma of Clarence Thomas’ Makes a Strong Case for Its Provocative Thesis 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z But he’s assertive and persuasive, as boys were socialized to be then. Perspective | As a kid, I loved Judy Blume’s books. As an adult, I wonder: How do they read today? 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z The women are rivals, but as they play a piano trilling about lace and melodies — and everything else unmentionable — they form a rueful sisterhood that’s as emotionally persuasive as it is narratively dubious. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, some of what you see is not real but persuasive computer-generated images — in other words, special effects. | 'Turtle: The Incredible Journey': The Call of the Wild, Heeded With Tenacity 2011-06-23T21:49:05Z Their passionate you-and-me-against-the-world bond is as persuasive as the emotional fireworks that explode on the rare occasions when that bond is strained. | 'Touching Home': Ed Harris Stars as an Alcoholic Father 2010-05-13T22:53:00Z Mr. Gelb’s commitment to promoting gifted singers who are also persuasive actors has sometimes been confused with the practice — deplored mostly in theory by opera lovers — of simply favoring looks over voice. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z Blending blues and country influences in his vocal and instrumental intonations, he was rock’s most persuasive black ambassador to the white kids who were just getting into that miscegenated musical form. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Her commitment and dexterity, however, proved persuasive, above all in the taxing finale, while Sokhiev, in his element, perfectly captured the drama and thrill of it all. Very fine. Philharmonia/Sokhiev – review 2013-01-27T17:26:00Z It was so persuasive an achievement that now, when he turns his attention to France, it’s a bit hard to believe that the author is anywhere near as clueless as he presents himself. Kitchen Confidential: Three Culinary Memoirs 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Her research shows that what people found persuasive was real voices, uncut, not produced ads. The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z But it is also a propulsive, positive and persuasive mode. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “Mumia” gradually becomes a persuasive attempt to celebrate the content of his character, not the violence that apparently led to his imprisonment. ‘Mumia Abu-Jamal’: a portrait of the imprisoned activist 2013-02-21T23:14:48Z Though Ramírez never goes incredibly deep into Bolívar's psyche or motivations, he's persuasive — or perhaps inspiring enough — to follow into battle. 'The Liberator' is a compelling primer on Simón Bolivar 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Moss, a 1960s figure in the public mind thanks to “Mad Men,” may offer a persuasive bridge between periods. ‘Rapture’ and ‘Heidi Chronicles’: Feminism then and now 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The National Trust may take it over: earnest Nicholas le Prevost is utterly persuasive as a Trust representative, giddy with pleasure at decaying delights, which include chamber pots full of ancient celebrity wee. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z I’ll say this – if he thinks his cri de coeur is any argument for being admitted into Princeton on persuasive writing merit, he didn’t quite hit that one out of the park. We don’t need your apology, Princeton kid 2014-05-05T14:21:00Z Rose Wilder Lane’s astute and rigorous biographer, William Holtz, made a persuasive case, in “The Ghost in the Little House,” that Lane was her mother’s ghostwriter. The Clunky Memoir That Became “Little House on the Prairie” 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Not all the insights are equally persuasive, but some of the strongest focus on cinematic technique — how wipes and cross-fades “created an unrealistic atmosphere in which everything became relative.” Review: ‘Hitler’s Hollywood’ Unearths the Cinema of the Third Reich 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Intelligence and romance shine through his gentle voice — carried, on this album, by grooves that are even more persuasive. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z And the actor's trademark gumption is what makes his performance persuasive but also exhausting. Tom Hanks' "News of the World" is a toothless throwback Western 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Part of the value of her book is that it provides a moving and persuasive illustration of this dry policy proposition. In ‘Girl in Glass,’ mom of ‘distressed baby’ takes on Huffington, the system 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Some imprecision in the coordination among the soloists, the Tanglewood Festival chorus and orchestra in the “Agnus Dei” made that oasis of peace less persuasive. Music Review: Tanglewood Welcomes Late Substitutes for Verdi’s Requiem 2013-07-28T19:39:40Z Whatever her mistakes or stylistic lapses, she makes a persuasive case for the therapeutic use of psychedelics. Review: ‘A Really Good Day,’ Ayelet Waldman’s Better Living Through LSD 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Using the vivid colors and delicate lineations of the Book of Kells for inspiration, he establishes a surprising and completely persuasive link between the ancient art of manuscript illumination and the modern practice of animation. Movie Review | 'The Secret of Kells': Outside the Abbey?s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z But his diagnosis of America’s debilities is more persuasive than his prescriptions to remedy them. A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “We found that memes that were intended to be explicitly anti-Trump weren’t as persuasive as those that weren’t so explicit,” Mr. Purzycki said. Memers Have a New Campaign Aimed at Getting Trump Out of Office 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Just one persuasive butthead who convinces me to join a cult or be a misogynist, and I wouldn’t be here. Where Did Those Hot Dog Fingers Come From? Daniels Explain 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Levit is always persuasive, giving even the most standard repertory the spark of revelation, and his poetic phrasing and touch convey both mysteries and immense satisfactions. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Finally, the score has a highly persuasive advocate in the conductor Bertrand de Billy. Opera Review: This Version of Massenet's 'Cendrillon' Fits Just Right 2011-07-12T13:00:05Z For reasons that are more narratively useful than persuasive, they bring the body with them to their destination, a sprawling compound where a bacchanal is underway. ‘The Forgiven’ Review: When the Haves Dispose of a Have-Not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Besides, if Ms. Gunderson isn’t a poet, she is a persuasive, feeling writer with an assertive command of structure and a punchy way with individual scenes. In the Hudson Valley, Shakespeare as Man, Myth and Drinking Buddy 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z His affection for the place is endearing, although it may not be persuasive. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z “Ideologues of Brexit,” they say, “have been tireless in conjugating faux histories: eccentric, wayward and for the most part short of any persuasive meaning.” Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Japy is just as persuasive in her much less flashy role, playing a girl who bottles up her emotions until they explode. Review: ‘Breathe,’ the Story of a Scary Teenage Romance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z With a palatial bedroom of a set by Christopher Oram and vivid period costumes by Julie Weiss, the show is as light on persuasive acting as it is saturated in Southern Gothic atmosphere. Theater Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2013-01-18T03:00:00Z Films are rarely this committed or, indeed, persuasive. The Spirit of '45 – first look review 2013-02-11T11:25:31Z More disturbing is its persuasive suggestion that such a worldview is not misplaced. Theater: In London, Young Playwrights, Including O?Neill 2010-07-30T22:49:00Z Auden in Bennett's "The Habit of Art," a hugely persuasive performance despite the lack of physical resemblance between the two men. 'Harry Potter' actor Richard Griffiths dies at 65 2013-03-29T11:30:13Z Glaser, however, is persuasive in her argument that the actions at best ignored inconvenient evidence, and at worst acted in spite of it. Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s the more successful of the two narratives — compact, ruthless, governed by a persuasive sense of dread. Novellas of Tokyo’s Lost Generation, Newly Translated 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Wood is persuasive, too, although Kit Lesser’s script writes the character as a cliché: the agent who gets too close. ‘No Man of God’ Review: Buddying Up to Bundy 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Some of the ways the new hall intends to embrace a broader audience already feel persuasive. After Decades, the Philharmonic’s Hall Sounds and Feels More Intimate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The most persuasive sections of this book deal not with the political, but with the personal. '41,' George W. Bush’s Portrait of George H. W. Bush 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The actors’ portrait of a nearly dead marriage that has persisted more out of habit than out of anything else is compellingly persuasive, all the more so because the movie gives them no easy solution. | 'Beautiful Boy': Alone to Face the Fallout From a Son?s Horrific Crime 2011-06-02T22:20:41Z But I think it would be a lot more persuasive if it took into account North Vietnamese and Vietcong views. How Military Quagmires Have Caught Mighty Powers by Surprise 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z In the absence of actual empirical evidence for WIMPs, a single, very persuasive theoretical argument that they must exist has sustained the years of steady investment in searches for them. Physics confronts its heart of darkness: Cracks showing in dominant explanation for dark matter 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Yang made a persuasive case for hearing them on guitar with her extraordinary technique, musical sensitivity and expression. Guitarist Xuefei Yang opens new vistas, from Bach to 'Butterfly Lovers' 2012-09-30T16:50:06Z This year pianist Iain Burnside is at the helm: his persuasive powers brought about this coup. Die Walk?re; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:26Z Research into the growing field of educational entertainment shows that when people are immersed in a story, they become more open to the persuasive messages embedded in them. The missing ingredient in fighting climate change: positive fictional role models 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Still, Lin is more persuasive with a bow than baton. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z But he’s less persuasive as a haunted, grieving father. ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ is the Latest in the ‘Yay, Rich Jerks’ Genre 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Anthony doesn’t look much like the real Manson, but he is scarily persuasive as a psychopath with a top note of charm. Review: Mulder Meets Manson in NBC’s Compelling ‘Aquarius’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z You get the feeling they'll be even more persuasive the next time they play London. Vampire Weekend – review 2013-05-03T16:48:32Z Mallon imagines backroom prejudices and resentments so thoroughly out of touch with the country's mood that they're almost persuasive. 'Watergate': Thomas Mallon's novel of Nixon's downfall 2012-02-22T22:01:06Z But the characterizations lean toward the superficial, and Mr. Cummings is more persuasive in his songs than in his book scenes. Theater Review: ‘New Girl in Town,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-07-29T22:00:21Z He brings an emotional intensity to his confessional scenes that’s persuasive, but you still wish Danny would pull himself together so we could move on. Theater Review | 'Looped': Valerie Harper Is Tallulah Bankhead on the Skids 2010-03-15T05:35:00Z Late at night, as the ovens exhale the comforting smell of masa, a single, plain tortilla can be very persuasive: roughly textured, but dewy and tender, with a sweet, almost toasted flavor. Taking On the Tortilla Industry 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z And, in general, this was a “Tristan” in which solitude was more persuasive than communion. An Orchestra’s Ecstatic, Once-in-a-Lifetime Birthday Party 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Millepied’s pleasant version of this Jerome Robbins mode is less persuasive in its meandering and would-be playfulness than when it expands into virtuosic turns and leaps. Reviews: Works by Rebecca Davis and Milka Djordjevich, and Lyon Opera Ballet 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Cheese, when it’s offered, is a more persuasive last course. At Sauvage, European Discipline Meets Gut Instinct 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, it’s a labored device that works against Mr. Doremus’s sometimes persuasive groping for realism. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z This puts docs in a funny new situation: they must now incorporate persuasive techniques to convince patients that they offer the best counsel. What effect has the internet had on healthcare? 2011-01-09T00:05:48Z It’s not very nice, and it’s certainly not very persuasive. Perspective | Want to fix agriculture? Stop with the name-calling — and death threats. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Still, “Little Sister” lists persuasive circumstantial evidence that Natalie’s death might not have been an accident. Review | How did Natalie Wood die? Forty years later, her sister offers theories in a new book. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z It’s also precisely the kind of detail that Mr. Jarecki uses to enrich the film with a persuasive verisimilitude. Movie Review: Richard Gere in ‘Arbitrage’ 2012-09-13T21:28:56Z Marshaling extensive and persuasive documentary evidence, and writing in a clear, urbane style, Mr. Smith told a less romantic story. Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The New York Philharmonic’s inaugural Biennial fell short of its potential, producing no wow-inducing event, but it established a persuasive template and cemented Alan Gilbert’s position as one of the most imaginative of American maestros. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The accumulation of stories and sympathetic faces is persuasive; it’s buttressed by testimony from scientists like Theo Colborn and Al Armendariz, named regional director of the in Dallas since the film was completed. | 'Gasland': Josh Fox?s Look at Natural Gas Drilling on HBO 2010-06-20T23:54:00Z You could see the economy of the small gestures and the freedom of the large motions, so everything was persuasive as an instinctual response to the music. The Best Dance of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The Japanese material, which includes a Kabuki staging of “Medea” and a quick tour of a Tokyo department store with mannequins inspired by Greek statues, is the more persuasive. ‘The Owl’s Legacy’ Explores the Glory That Was Greece 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Some critics found Mr. Gay’s Freudian tour of the 19th century long on colorful instances but short on analytic rigor, suggestive rather than persuasive. Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z As a document of Mr. Deen’s pain and a plea for visibility, it is persuasive. Review: In ‘Draw the Circle,’ a Girl Becomes a Man 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z This system certainly seems to work, because Holmes’s books, while biographically persuasive, always feel subtly personal. An insider’s tale of how biography works: ‘This Long Pursuit,’ by Richard Holmes 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z I’m starting to think that “Better Call Saul” is an extended and highly persuasive argument against a career in the law. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 7: Jimmy Goes Backward 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s not that West’s self-declared opera needed to sound like Verdi, but it did need to offer some persuasive connection between music and theater. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Monk is not a political artist, but she closes “Indra’s Net” on a utopian note, idealistic but persuasive in its earnestness: a reminder, if not a wish, necessary early in her career, and especially today. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z But it is not at all persuasive to relate this to what is happening in the United States today, because ordinary people here, unlike the Chinese poor, are not doing better. Getting Better All the Time? 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z His passionately personal engagement with his idols is all the more persuasive for these attempts to merge with them; there is no facade of critical dispassion. Review | Philip Hoare’s examination of Albrecht Dürer takes readers on an entertaining, digressive ride 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z These inspired performances are subtle and persuasive as well as fiery. Britten & Shostakovich – review 2013-06-08T23:05:25Z Did you find this, or other arguments, equally persuasive? Swimming against the tide: Lawrence Weschler on 'Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of Astrophysicists' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z It’s been thrilling and curious, and also—most of the time, at least—deeply persuasive. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z In the concert hall, I found Mr. Haimovitz’s Bach less than persuasive. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z I'll confess that here is where I was ready to protest that I am pretty unconcerned about changing the flavor of my water, but Wassberg Johnson makes a very persuasive counterpoint. Will record heat make Europe embrace the American ice cube? 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z The stagecraft is more enchanting than the narrative, but what marvelous stagecraft it is: projections conjuring a watery world, life-size boats moving through it with a choreographed fluidity more persuasive than I’d ever witnessed onstage. I Love London Theater. But Not London Theatergoing. 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Pinker convincingly demonstrates that there has been a dramatic decline in violence, and he is persuasive about the causes of that decline. ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Steven Pinker's 'Better Angels of Our Nature' 2011-10-07T20:00:41Z But the lessons become stand-ins for richer characters who could have been memorable — and persuasive. ‘Butter’ Review: High-Stakes Popularity 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Once in a while, a book comes along that lands like a well-timed shake of your shoulders, a persuasive, invigorating invitation to try harder and do better. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Piazza offers a persuasive portrait of decline, but it is the crumbling beauty and flailing hopes of Rose that resonate. Review: In ‘The Wannabe,’ Drugs, Money and Aspirations to Join the Gotti Circle 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z What this powerful, persuasive documentary reveals, however, was just how cool a guy Tillman was: an inspiring leader, self-effacing intellectual and nobody's fool. — T.K. June 4 at SIFF: 'A Tribute to Edward Norton,' with the actor in attendance 2010-06-03T20:12:00Z In part because of the persuasive “60 Minutes” segment, Geter was released from prison, and Mr. Safer won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for the broadcast. Morley Safer, longest-serving correspondent for CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ dies at 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The persuasive upshot is that the cloud, with its "techno-messianism", constitutes an enclosure of the "digital commons". Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-07-06T06:59:01Z Because the new movie, like the original, is primarily a buddy picture, Mr. Malek also spends a lot of time looking at the more persuasive Mr. Hunnam. Review: Tough Guys Tough It Out in ‘Papillon’ (Again!) 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z "Children don't understand the persuasive intent of advertising." YouTube Kids app exposes children to too many ads, some groups say 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In those initial moments, he paints a persuasive portrait of a terminally restless young man at odds with himself and the world, wrestling with doubts and losing. Review: Michael Urie Puts the Madcap in Hamlet’s Madness 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The approach you prefer can be a matter of taste; I find observation more persuasive. Review: The Philharmonic Journeys From Ocean to Desert 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z In a sense, his new book operates as a persuasive argument in favor of muting the trumpet. Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop: A Different Kind of Literary Tango 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z “We want performers to be persuasive, so that their virtuosity is delivered with panache, and fluency and ease,” he said. At Juilliard, Can You Hear the Sprezzatura? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Nordstrom’s acoustics also enabled the young countertenor Terry Way to show that he is as persuasive in quiet music as in more forceful passages. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z Ms. Snook looks remarkably like a Leonardo DiCaprio cousin when duded up, but is more persuasive when dolled up in period dresses with a slash of red lipstick. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes Mr. Wolfert will offer genuinely persuasive analyses, like dark and insightful readings of Antony’s speech in “Julius Caesar” or a section of “Henry V,” but mostly the iambs gum up his own story. Review: A Warrior, Leaning on Shakespeare, in ‘Cry Havoc!’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It was part of a series titled The Robber Barons, which made a persuasive analogy between the early industrialists and the fat cat bankers of deregulated capitalism. Is it design, or is it ... art? 2010-05-04T14:49:00Z “Who decides what’s good?” he says, which is calming without being all that persuasive. Fit in my 40s: Mamma mia! Can I really work out by singing Abba? | Zoe Williams 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Kamryn Gardner, 7, from Bentonville, Arkansas, wrote a letter to Old Navy earlier this year for a persuasive writing assignment in her first grade class at Evening Star Elementary School. First grader persuades Old Navy to put pockets in girls' jeans 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z But, to me, what makes the death routine dramatically persuasive is how embedded it was in Kaufman’s act. The Belief That Andy Kaufman Is Alive 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Instead, difficult emotions are registered in close-ups of individual human faces, and a perverse, persuasive idea rises to the surface. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z Later, when Dell’s hostile ex-girlfriend and son resist his amends, a new house and car prove remarkably persuasive. ‘The Upside’ Review: A Billionaire and His Buddy Find Reasons to Be Cheerful 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Is “What Lies Upstream” persuasive in all respects? Review: ‘What Lies Upstream,’ a Broad View of a Chemical Spill 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Where's the point in engaging in a battle of ideas if you have no interest in being persuasive? The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z One answer, at once peculiar and persuasive, lies in the unassuming person of Lebel, a consistently reassuring presence who seems, even when bearing very bad news, to provide a measure of calm and safety. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z He’s the persuasive moral core of the piece, and his Prior segues effortlessly from ironic self-deprecation to ferocious righteousness and back again. Review | Forget ‘important.’ ‘Angels in America’ is brilliantly entertaining. 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z But across three episodes it makes a persuasive case for Chamberlain as a generous, sensitive soul who was both blessed and constrained by his stature and his extraordinary all-around athletic ability. Little Big Men: ‘The Luckiest Guy in the World’ and ‘Goliath’ 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Seattle Symphony music director Morlot, a well-known exponent of Berlioz’s music, stitched up this varied musical fabric into a persuasive whole, giving the singers plenty of expressive opportunities while never allowing the pace to flag. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z We don’t underestimate the persuasive power of Harvey Weinstein, whose company distributes Playbook and has campaigned exhaustively for it. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Director 2013-02-21T22:05:35Z The committee is also suggesting that Princeton change the standard of evidence in sexual misconduct cases to a preponderance of evidence rather than “clear and persuasive.” Princeton May Change How It Conducts Its Sexual Assault Investigations 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, it was Brahms’s violin concerto that proved the least persuasive part of the program. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2014-04-01T23:25:00Z It is “one of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I’ve read in some time,” our critic Dwight Garner writes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Experts disagree on the probabilities, but the soft-spoken Mr. Buzzelli is persuasive, and the videos of his late-night homecoming on Sept. Critic’s Notebook: New Sept. 11 Documentaries on Cable 2012-09-06T22:22:29Z Her writings frequently put her at odds with church leaders, but her mastery of the archives and persuasive writing style won her admirers among Mormons and non-Mormons alike. Linda King Newell, Feminist Scholar of Mormon History, Dies at 82 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z To anyone who might suggest musical theater has hit a creative dead end, the actor-songwriter unfolds a spectacularly persuasive counterargument in the myriad melodious masterstrokes of “Hamilton.” History as you’ve never heard it before 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Flanked by younger admirers for a patchwork tribute, Dolly Parton easily held her own, with her voice still twangy, feathery and persuasive. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Haig looks at design as persuasive communication and believes that what makes design work is what company managers want to know. Would you buy a logo from this man? 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z Clarissa dominates the opera’s final scenes, when “The Hours” is at its finest: the emotions sincere and persuasive, the music fervent. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z He builds a persuasive case for how personally enriching a Living+ facility could be. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 6: Cool New Rule 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Wouldn't it be nice if "Love & Mercy," the uneven biopic about Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson, was as persuasive as the performances of the two actors who play him at different periods of his life? Uneven 'Love & Mercy' saddled with one Brian Wilson too many 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “He said to me once that he believed in ‘persuasive accompaniment,’” Mr. Blank said. Donald Pippin, Conductor on Broadway and Beyond, Dies at 95 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z On Friday evening five string players brought some of the festival’s spirit — energetic and persuasive if not always ideally polished — to three repertory staples. Music in Review 2011-05-09T22:30:48Z Reggae is big in Hawaii; Mars's syrupy vocal works well on the persuasive lover's dub Show Me, the work of Jamaican producer Supa Dups. Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox – review 2012-12-09T00:05:56Z "Keynes's view came over very strongly in the play. I didn't find it very persuasive and it's now much argued about by historians." Versailles play not a history lesson 2014-02-28T12:16:20Z “This is a bold claim, and Feldman spins out its ramifications in fascinating and persuasive ways.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z “How can I be strong, how can I be persuasive with the minimum? Don’t you think that’s something that can sometimes be very feminine?” she wondered. Silvana Estrada Arrives With a Devastating Album About Heartbreak 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The photographs’ renderings of frames within frames create surprisingly persuasive pop-up illusions. Chris Engman’s photographic illusions dazzle 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But you need something to keep you engaged, like a persuasive lead performance. ‘Anne at 13,000 Ft’ Review: A Woman Adrift 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Serving as composer in residence for the San Francisco Symphony in the mid-80s, he created a forceful and stridently persuasive orchestral sound in works like “Movers and Shakers” and “Bamboula Squared.” He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Robertson has created a persuasive voice for these reflections, salty and sassy, occasionally flaring into hot bursts of anger, and prone to gin-fueled digressions. Theater Review: Audra McDonald in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ 2014-04-14T02:00:01Z But all of the dancers, including Louis, who becomes more grounded and dynamic each season, and Kenny Corrigan, a persuasive newcomer, brought the work’s images and themes of death, futility and emptiness to dancing life. Dancing at Paul Taylor, a New Generation Finds Its Footing 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z It’s the most persuasive proof captured on film that the tools of exploitation can make transcendent art. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Koliada is a master at promoting her company via social media and persuasive direct engagement with the culturally influential, and she and Mr. Khalezin tend to drop names that echo. Banned in Belarus, but the Shows Go On 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But it is a powerful and persuasive rendering of a corner of women’s health care under siege. Review: ‘Trapped,’ a Documentary, Looks at Abortion Clinics in the South 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Absorbing in scope and expressive in detail, the piece offered compelling evidence of Mr. Lewis’s prodigious imagination and persuasive skill. Music Review: George Lewis, Composer Portrait, at Miller Theater - Review 2011-11-13T23:12:08Z It wasn’t perfect, but was persuasive for generations of people striving for a healthier diet. Adam Liaw: five scientific developments that will change the way we eat 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Its opening narration still makes for a persuasive sales pitch: “Don’t you want devoted followers who will leave their families for you? … And will kill for you? Don’t you want to become a cult leader?” From Waco to Charles Manson: what TV gets wrong about cults 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The novel is less assured, less persuasive, when it turns toward its heroine. ‘Painted Horses,’ by Malcolm Brooks As is often the case in many midlevel and even pricier movies of this type, the more that filmmakers try to reproduce or fabricate entire worlds inside a computer, the less persuasive the results are. Review: In ‘Gods of Egypt,’ That Doughnut Beast Is Stepping on My Sandal 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The artist’s observant and sympathetic portraiture of simple, often barefoot, country folk in their worn, patched clothes offers persuasive evidence of the humanity of a man whose humility and simplicity were noted by his biographers. Review: Bassano's Pastoral Idyll 2010-04-23T13:25:00Z The driving crazy part is hilarious and persuasive, partly because Ms. Delpy and her cast depart from the usual caricatures of Frenchness while still engaging in broad, silly satire. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘2 Days in New York,’ Starring Julie Delpy and Chris Rock 2012-08-10T06:23:01Z And so, after a while, the Anderson-ish tics become less noticeable, and both the emotions and overall movie more persuasive. ‘Emma’ Review: Back on the Manor, but Still Clueless 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Angela Davis said that Morrison was quite persuasive in getting her to write her autobiography. Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: "People are afraid ... of powerful black women" 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Starting with a base of streamlined tailoring, but adding thick, light layers of knit in autumnal colors, the designer made a persuasive pitch for pile-it-on dressing that still respected the masculine silhouette. 2010-01-18T21:04:00Z Yet here, they only occasionally make persuasive connections with their unhappy, contentious characters. ‘A Delicate Balance’ Revival Stars Lithgow and Close 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Alan H. Nelson, a retired professor at University of California, Berkeley, who has contributed to Shakespeare Documented, an online project curated by Ms. Wolfe, said he also found her case persuasive. Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Edwards’s hulking, mentally diminished Tom Kettle is a persuasive inheritor of the mantle of Lennie Small in “Of Mice and Men”; wait for his remarkable wooing scene. Review | ‘The Ferryman,’ an explosive, exhilarating human drama 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z In his illuminating book “The Ministry of Truth,” a biography of “1984” and its influence, Dorian Lynskey makes a persuasive case that the novel is structured in a way that heightens its ambiguity. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z One issue is that the characters simply aren’t persuasive as a unit, and despite the performers’ efforts, their interactions never find the flow that comes with longtime intimacy, even when things have gone south. ‘Alice, Darling’ Review: That’s What Friends Are For 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z This persuasive argument is the core both of Adonis's account of the five days and the assessment of the future of coalition politics that follows it. 5 Days in May by David Adonis – review 2013-06-14T08:01:00Z Gregory Perri is most persuasive when Brian lashes back at his unseen Harvard critics and his increasingly aghast friends, particularly when challenged about whether his research might lead in directions that fascinated Nazis, too. Review | ‘Smart People’ puts race under a comic microscope 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z But how persuasive are these arguments for the average man on the street? If you have time to read this, you have time to Save the Arts from funding cuts 2010-12-06T14:58:00Z But the authors are persuasive in arguing that in this White House, “impulse and instinct ruled.” A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z All three surgeons decline to operate in a showy display of professional ethics that is commendable and not the least bit persuasive. | 'Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?': Picture This: Joan Rivers, Retiring Type? 2011-01-24T23:19:26Z Marge can be pretty persuasive, as you will see when you click on this just-released Simpsons short. How Homer Simpson Decided Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z He’s especially persuasive playing the kind of brutal redeemers who unblinkingly snuff out the murderous many to save a single innocent, which is exactly what he does at the start of “The Equalizer 2.” Review: Denzel Washington Plays Judge, Jury and Executioner in ‘The Equalizer 2’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z And if all that isn’t persuasive enough, Bill Oddie presents all the runners with a medal. Fancy dress, covered in paint or stark naked – the best fun runs 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Though not spotless, the performance was more persuasive than tentative. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall 2013-01-06T21:57:01Z Yet in the Public Theater’s bilingual audio production “Romeo y Julieta,” the extraordinary Julio Monge portrays Friar Lawrence with such warm ease and steadiness that the ploy seems — well, still exceedingly unwise, but almost persuasive. ‘Romeo y Julieta’ Review: Young Love in Two Languages 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Also persuasive were his renditions of the less-demanding second and third Ballades, well phrased and pedaled. Pianist Yundi leads with quiet force at Disney Hall 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Buscemi plays Khrushchev with persuasive realism, and he certainly looks the part, with his bald head and boxy clothing. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Roberts is that precious pearl: a practising scientist who not only knows his field inside out, but also understands how to write compelling, persuasive non-fiction. Callum Roberts' Ocean of Life is a manifesto for marine management 2012-06-07T06:30:01Z But it’s problematic that Mary’s quiet rebellion is more persuasive than Edie’s frantic one. | 'Apple Cove': In-Laws Are Core Issue for This Adam and Eve 2011-02-15T23:42:54Z The Brahms variations followed, played with an unusually light and athletic touch which was not wholly persuasive but nevertheless gathered momentum for the towering fugal conclusion. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z Here, Ms. Kristeva’s affection for her subject finds effortless expression in a vibrant and persuasive imagining of Teresa as she might have sounded off the page. ‘Teresa, My Love,’ Julia Kristeva’s Latest Novel 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z It wasn’t supposed to leave the room, but I am persuasive. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z She can only try to make a persuasive case — then wait for the Senate jurors to let her know whether America really is what she thinks it is. Val Demings has an American dream. The impeachment trial is testing it. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z More persuasive is Clinton’s contention that presidential politics, especially compared to parliamentary politics, favors arena-filling showmanship rather than the quieter, detail-oriented realism she prefers. Hillary Clinton Opens Up About ‘What Happened,’ With Candor, Defiance and Dark Humor 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Maybe the A-listers are partly to blame, for being such persuasive actors. Analysis | From Fred and Ginger to Kate and Leo: When movie couples make fans hope for real-life love 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z “The result is rigorous yet readable, frequently startling yet eminently persuasive.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z He’s less persuasive in the aggressive “Alas for You,” although a murky sound mix might have been as much the problem as a lack of belting chops. | 'Godspell' : ?Godspell? at the Circle in the Square - Review 2011-11-08T03:00:04Z “The topic is important, the treatment compelling, the conclusions persuasive. Just don’t expect anything to change as a consequence.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Desperate, he starts churning out sonnets, “moved by the Nerudian hope of managing to write something so extraordinarily persuasive that Carla could not go on rejecting him.” ‘Chilean Poet’ Is a Playful Novel About (Yes) Chile and Poetry 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Somewhat stiff at first, Mr. Lithgow grows more persuasive as Jack’s conflicted relationship with his father comes to light, forcing him to mediate in an impossible standoff. Theater Review: ‘The Outgoing Tide,’ Bruce Graham’s Drama at 59E59 Theaters 2012-11-21T03:00:00Z Rose McGowan is speaking on the phone from New York, vivid, unguarded, persuasive, so much more campaigner than celebrity. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z His short answer to his own question is that this music is “rich, generous, exuberant and positive,” and that the “power of the contrasts” seems persuasive, even on a first listen. In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z It is hard, in this cozy, wired-up, GPS world, to imagine circumstances in which human beings would be so completely at the mercy of nature, but Mr. Carnahan constructs a persuasive picture of primal danger. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z Saba's "Care For Me" is one of those albums that's so magnetic it moved around the music community by word of mouth, generating endorsements both organic and persuasive. Top 10 albums of 2018 in hip hop and R&B 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z He could be charming and persuasive with candidates, explaining how he could help them win the office they thought they so richly deserved. The fall of John Weaver, a Lincoln Project co-founder whose political career was shrouded in mystery 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The performances are unassailable, with Norris’s overburdened Carol and Marshall’s chipper Barbara being especially persuasive. Hands down, ‘Baby Screams Miracle’ is the windiest show in town 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Gayle is persuasive as the self-absorbed teenager who jumps between the usual modes of feeling, resentment and boredom. | 'Family Week': Beth Henley Revival Opens at Lucille Lortel 2010-05-05T02:26:00Z He’s not a persuasive enough crooner to pull off a ballad such as “Raina.” Album review: Nick Waterhouse, 'Time's All Gone' 2012-05-03T22:45:00Z Mr. Gilbert was at his most persuasive in the straight-ahead tempos and rhythms of the grim march segments, which count for much in this work. Music Review: Following Tradition With Three Solid Blows 2010-10-01T22:36:00Z Over here, unlike in Prague, “one didn’t need to be a persuasive speaker, or have a charismatic presence,” in order to thrive. Books of The Times: Molly Antopol Looks to Old World in ‘UnAmericans’ 2014-03-18T19:56:45Z What is the meaning of the words spoken by the elaborately garbed woman who keeps recombining the verbs “see, think, say, hear, remember, forget” in persuasive but bewildering monologues? Boston Ballet Takes On William Forsythe’s ‘Artifact’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z His version was most persuasive, his balancing of classical and contemporary styles most assured, when the piano played alone; especially given the burden of outdoor amplification, his relationship with the full orchestra sometimes turned cloudy. The Knights and Timo Andres Fill Out Mozart’s ‘Coronation’ 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z This new book is a worthy addition: Solidly accessible and thoroughly researched, it makes a persuasive case for Harlan’s significance and sometimes reads like a mystery. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z And so begins the most persuasive ever 10-track instruction to seize the day. My favourite album: Back in Black by AC/DC 2011-08-05T15:23:28Z But the interviews and scenes of protests and confrontations that take up the bulk of the hour don’t cohere into a persuasive picture of the country’s current condition. Television Review: ‘Witness,’ HBO Documentary Series on War Photographers 2012-11-05T19:27:21Z Elaine Paige’s “I’m Still Here,” though softer edged than most, is entirely persuasive given her interpretation of her character, Carlotta, as a jolly but tough never-say-die good-time girl. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z For the persuasive clarity of these images, Ealing paid the price. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z In its neurotic, scattershot way, C.K.’s letter is powerful: It’s funny, deeply felt, and often persuasive. What Louis C.K.’s powerful Trump warning gets wrong 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The show’s cynical and morbid components are more persuasive, if a tad monotonous. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “Pericles” begins as a so-so play that — presto! — turns into a far better one, a transformation achieved satisfyingly by Folger Theatre’s gently melodic and ever more persuasive presentation of an eternally-puzzled-over work. ‘Pericles’ shows how ‘lesser’ Shakespeare can be more 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Robert Fairchild danced robustly, but Sterling Hyltin, stabbing her point shoes into the ground correctly, was not quite persuasive playing cold and cruel. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-15T20:46:54Z Here is the kind of seductive, persuasive, humorous supporting performance that is a keynote of Tucci’s career. Beyond the negroni: Stanley Tucci's 20 best films – ranked! 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z It’s not the most subtle device, but it’s persuasive in Ms. Wilde’s hands. Review: ‘Meadowland,’ a Missing-Child Story Centered on the Parents 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Happy infatuation chemicals are persuasive, but they don’t really hide anything. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is it a rebound or a wide-open shot at happiness? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Convinced that arresting images had more persuasive power than high-minded lectures, he put the accent on entertainment. Jack Masey, Whose Exhibitions Showed American Culture to World, Dies at 91 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Given the value of the items, Mr. Clark said he had wanted to make sure that the evidence of looting and illegal trafficking provided by government officials was persuasive. Netscape Founder Gives Up $35 Million in Art Said to Be Stolen 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z If you are the type of person who cares about things like Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, this list will be persuasive. Ivanka Trump should speak up for the NEA — in the name of “Frozen” fans like her daughter 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Senior makes a persuasive case that middle-class children have been placed in a strange and unprecedented social position: at the top of the family hierarchy, with no responsibilities of their own. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z For more than a decade, he was a unique and persuasive liberal voice in American affairs; we shudder to imagine what he would have made of the current US political situation. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The cast members work hard at overcoming the formulaic nature of their lines but are generally more persuasive in their moments of bristling silence. Review: ‘Transfers’ and the Anguished Art of the College Interview 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Variety called it “outstanding,” and Vanity Fair wrote that Mr. Valois is a “persuasive, sensitive performer.” He Wanted to Give Massages, but the Movies Called Him Back 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z And as persuasive as her work in the standard repertory has been, you got the sense that this undertaking reflected something personal and dear. Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z "I just wanted my speech to be the most touching, heartfelt, funniest, yet also persuasive, because that's what a leader is," the Oscar winner said. Keaton honored at Women in Entertainment breakfast 2012-12-06T01:01:05Z Possessing just enough variation, and refreshingly sans cute devices, the group's tautness indicates that, with more songs in the vein of the persuasive "Fascinated," bigger things await. Pitchfork in review: Odd Future plays nice 2011-07-18T04:27:00Z That message hits, even though a new, less pathetic ending for Echo is not quite dramatically persuasive. ‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate) 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z He’s also — particularly given Mr. McGraw’s persuasive turn playing Mr. Hedlund’s violent father in the high school football movie “Friday Night Lights” — a genuine missed opportunity. | 'Country Strong': I Am Woman. Hear Me Sob, Y?All. 2011-01-06T22:53:01Z Kushner’s portrait of life inside the women’s prison is grainy and persuasive. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers Big Ideas in Close Quarters 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z His case would be more persuasive if the film, which he also wrote, didn’t play so fast and loose with history, conflating events past the point of fictionalization. | 'Princess Kaiulan': Q?orianka Kilcher Stars in Tale of Hawaiian History 2010-05-13T23:12:00Z There are plenty of persuasive and compelling health, environmental and ethical reasons not to consume animals. Turns out our stereotypes of hunting are really about our own fear of death 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z By Act III he was top-notch, with a real Verdi baritone voice, powerful singing and persuasive acting. Seattle Opera’s ‘Rigoletto’ a triumph of singing, acting, playing 2014-01-13T18:59:07Z If “Intrusion” has one redeeming feature, it’s Marshall-Green, whose performance as the husband with a dark secret has a crackling, tightly controlled intensity far more nuanced and persuasive than anything else in the film. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The ensemble members, roughly half as many as past Broadway productions, have a relatively persuasive ease with their multipart choral numbers. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Audra McDonald in ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? - Review 2012-01-13T03:01:13Z At the bowl, the slender Masur proved a formidable technician, displaying a natural podium manner and persuasive musicianship. At the Hollywood Bowl, breathing life into the most famous symphony ever written 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Even so, Mr. Ball’s argument that Dodd-Frank contains the seeds of further politically motivated fiascoes is persuasive—and worrisome. ‘The Fed and Lehman Brothers’ Review: When the Bailouts Stopped 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z As short as a line or as long as several paragraphs, a fragment could be potent and pointed, delivering a punch of sentiment without the persuasive padding required of more discursive forms. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z He is impressed by Croggon's persuasive and optimistic defence of blogging. Noises off: Netizens of the world unite 2010-09-17T15:29:00Z López-Claros and Nakhjavani are persuasive in arguing that such systematic mistreatment of women impedes economic growth and leads to lost revenue, lost opportunities and wasted money. Three New Takes on Feminism: In the Dorm, in the Economy and Around the World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The teacher said there would be “no cards, no parties, no gifts and no Christmas tree” unless pupils wrote a persuasive argument about why the school should celebrate the holiday. Yorkshire school that 'cancelled Christmas' reinstates it after hundreds of letters 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z She was more persuasive in two darkly colored Scriabin études and three Rachmaninoff pieces phrased with sweeping confidence. Music Review: Lola Astanova in Horowitz Tribute at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-21T00:44:23Z Conductor Christopher Franklin leads the orchestra in a persuasive account of the score. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z The actor is commanding and persuasive as "Murder" Legendre, capable of rousing men from their graves to become his unthinking slaves. UCLA film festival a fascinating window into our cinematic past 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Sauper missteps in his interstitial use of American jazz, which is too historically freighted, but otherwise scores with a surreal, moving, infuriating and persuasive argument that in South Sudan there’s nothing “post” about colonialism. Critic’s Notebook: Mirror, Mirror: Sundance Hits 30 2014-01-23T22:44:05Z The film, which won an Oscar for best documentary, turned an Al Gore slide show into a visually compelling and morally persuasive argument for heeding the dire signs of global warming. In ‘Extrapolations,’ Scott Z. Burns Dramatizes Some Inconvenient Truths 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z They were so persuasive that Ms. Hartley had a shirt printed with the declaration “I am NOT Mrs. James Garner.” James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Now Andrew Cherlin, the well-respected sociologist at Johns Hopkins university has weighed in with a persuasive case for a sort of middle ground. How the American Family Has Changed Dramatically 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Less persuasive is the way “The Prey’s” story becomes jammed by a host of minor characters and their distracting agendas. ‘The Prey’: Distractions slow down exciting chase 2013-06-06T20:26:27Z For his supporters, this apoplectic behavior under oath was not only persuasive; it opened up that vein of reflexive empathy that conservatives often reserve for white men in positions of power. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But Hader put forward a persuasive argument and got his wish. Classic films fan Bill Hader back for more of TCM's Essentials Jr. 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Last month, the Yale psychologist Jillian Jordan and her colleagues made a persuasive case for a better one: we hate hypocrites because they’re guilty of “false signalling”. Why are we so hostile to others? | Oliver Burkeman 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Nor are the events that follow more persuasive. Humana Festival, Turning 40, Looks at Mortality, Dystopia and Change 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z On his blog during the primaries, Adams gushed about Trump’s persuasive power, calling the Republican presidential nominee a “clown genius” with “a 98% chance of … winning the whole thing.” “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams vows to kill Donald Trump if he becomes acts too “Hitler-ish” 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Manohla Dargis named the film a Critic’s Pick in her review for The New York Times, calling Poppy one of Leigh’s “most persuasive optimists.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ and ‘WOW’ 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The report, “Death by Fire,” on Tuesday night is polished, persuasive and restrained — hallmarks of the “Frontline” ethos. | 'Frontline: Death by Fire': Questioning the Guilt of an Executed Father 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z The word “model” does not quite encompass the varied reasons Mr. Sabbat has evolved into something more compelling — an “influencer,’’ and among the more persuasive ones around. Luka Sabbat, the 18-Year-Old Fashion Influencer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Anfam, apparently intending to assist in that effort, wrote back that he planned on sending the museum “a not-long yet highly persuasive email.” In Knoedler Art Fraud Trial, Expert Testimony on Fakes Weighs Heavily 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z But it felt a shade less persuasive in its connective spoken scenes. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z We pumped his friend for information, and admired the plausibility of his tale, the way he edged it with guilt at over-indulgence and plumped it out with persuasive details about his family and job. The Human Comedy; Blood and Gifts; Accomplice 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Most persuasive, however, is the intensity of their sound. This week's new live music 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z The book isn’t ambitious or persuasive enough, however, to earn such a subtitle. Books of The Times: ‘Lionel Asbo: State of England’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-19T18:59:48Z If the performances are considerably less persuasive it’s partly because Campos shows no interest in the inner lives of his characters. ‘The Devil All the Time’ Review: Down-Home Livin’ and Dyin’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z His latest book is a persuasive, demanding attempt to answer some of the most fundamental questions in biology. Heart of the matter 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z By the time they got to Mr. Mirski’s unfurling of his persuasive skills, she was hooked. He Won the Argument and Her Heart 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Yet even the failure to find a persuasive closing note doesn’t detract from Mr. Oyelowo’s riveting performance. In ‘Default,’ Somali Pirates’ Demand Is for Coverage 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The performances were more persuasive moment by moment — gradations of dynamics were particularly well observed — than as broader structures. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z She is persuasive on how East and West will need voices of reconciliation, not merely stern condemnation. Books of The Times: ?Wanted Women: Faith, Lies & the War on Terror? - Review 2012-01-15T23:49:30Z It’s a confrontational film, but never an alienating one, and so much of what’s in it is persuasive. ‘Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America’ Review: Social Studies 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The book’s key contention—that tighter rules inspire entrepreneurs to create new, more dangerous and criminal smuggling routes—is persuasive. Making profits out of hope 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The attractions of Mr. Tharaud’s work are similar, with the added draw of a lively interpretive imagination that leads him to recast familiar music in peculiar but usually persuasive ways. Music Review | Jean-Guihen Queyras: Muscular Renditions of Bach, Schubert and Debussy 2010-03-08T22:19:00Z Her chilly, disciplined Regina keeps emotion wholly in check, so much so that the bitterness that the dying Horace unloads on her — in Willis’s most persuasive work in Washington to date — feels totally comprehensible. Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z She was most persuasive as a goofy pop cheerleader with a handful of catchy songs bent on "making you smile." Katy Perry: Ditzy girl gone wild 2011-08-23T07:00:00Z He tracked down every famous funny person he could find, and he must have been persuasive. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z They share an interpolated but quietly persuasive moment in which Anya sleepwalks, which in a way is what everyone is doing all the time here. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z The result is a stunning reordering of life in the revolutionary years of the early 19th century – slightly off-kilter to be sure, but all the more persuasive for it. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z And the slack attempts to relocate this den of junkies to modern-day Seattle aren't persuasive. 'The Connection' links addicts, their audience 2011-08-11T21:04:04Z Blending with the strings but with a reedy brightness that complemented the winds and brasses, her sitar was a persuasive orchestral chameleon. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Page’s Cymbeline reacts with a persuasive blend of shock, sorrow, gratitude and, most affectingly, mercy at the strange turns that fortune has taken. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Veronica may not be an entirely believable character — she seems to float above Chicago rather than to have risen from any of its neighborhoods — but she is always a persuasive presence. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Untold: Hall of Shame,” a documentary about a high-profile doping scandal in the early 2000s that shocked the world of competitive sports, offers a persuasive reason: because every other athlete is taking them. ‘Untold: Hall of Shame’ Review: Cheaters Never Prosper 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Sitting through all five plays in six days, I sometimes felt myself slipping into the same torpor that infects the characters, even when the acting was keenly felt and persuasive. Theater Review: Thurber’s ‘Hill Town Plays’ Are Produced by Rattlestick 2013-09-06T02:00:01Z The problem isn’t just the business practices of a few companies, he explains in his nimble and persuasive new book, “The Tangled Web We Weave.” The Problem Is in the Internet’s Bones 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z It was never an especially persuasive or stirring building before – it was fine, it spoke of a moment -- and looks even less sure of itself now. SFMOMA's expansion tries mightily but ultimately rings a bit hollow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z However, in each of his persuasive speeches to world leaders and conversations with journalists, Zelenskyy conveys the deportment of a rational, determined man. Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z If not, sprint to the bathroom and stuff your pockets with toilet paper squares before Donja R. Love’s throat-lumpening, nose-reddening, fantastically moving and not entirely persuasive “Sugar in Our Wounds” really gets going. Review: ‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ May Make You Cry About the Past, and the Present 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Both Sue Ann and Charlotte are practiced and sophisticated deceivers—both are, in effect, actors in their lives, whose persuasive powers and false self-presentations are the very motors on which the movies depend. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z While there are persuasive arguments to be made for each, Verdi is clearly more favored today; “La Traviata” was the most performed opera worldwide in the past five years. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Worse, Mr. Taleb undermines his more persuasive ideas by scattering them about in a book that is also filled with gross generalizations and rash assertions, all indiscriminately lobbed at the reader. Books Of the Times: ‘Antifragile,’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012-12-17T05:15:19Z Becky also has a way with words—pugnacious, lacerating, vicious, seductive, persuasive, deceptive. Highlights from the 2018 New York Film Festival 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z He contrasted concertos in D major and minor, and made explicit the connections between two Mozart works — arguments that were more persuasive from the keyboard than from his perch as conductor. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z None of this was persuasive to the State Department. Visa denials scuttle play with Syrian actresses at Georgetown And I find the most persuasive evidence in these details, these fundamentals of art. How Turner's paintings inspired jazz composer Tim Whitehead's new record 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z “What I wanted to do, and the only thing I felt like I could do, was to try to create songs that were persuasive enough that I could disappear into them.” Joe Henry and the Art of Disappearing Into a Song 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z He is persuasive and vivid about the art itself, as when he describes Freud’s “beady-eyed focus on humid, blotched skin and sagging flesh,” in paintings that were “raw and rash-ridden.” ‘The Art of Rivalry’ Dissects Four Jostling Pairs of Artists 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z They are not, frankly, very persuasive, but don’t say you weren’t warned if the flesh-eating worst does come to pass. Television Review: ‘Zombie Apocalypse,’ on Discovery Channel 2012-12-17T22:47:45Z David Allen was there for the whole marathon, and he wrote in The New York Times that the musicians’ “commitment was palpable, their energy persuasive, their ability to communicate with one another superior.” Classical Music This Week: Beethoven Reviewed and Birthdays 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z His persuasive turn as the bluntly named Richard Bone, a tarnished golden boy who lives off women and becomes involved in a mystery, probably didn’t help. Film: The Dude Plumbs His Weary Soul 2010-02-26T23:03:00Z As directed with a persuasive combination of showmanship and sensitivity by Lynne Meadow, this production magnifies the innate theatricality of Ms. Edson’s play without compromising the firm emotional truth at its center. Theater Review: Cynthia Nixon in ?Wit,? at Manhattan Theater Club 2012-01-27T03:01:00Z As art, it stands alone, 100 percent persuasive. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The chef behind these and other persuasive arguments for getting out of the house is Christopher Cipollone. A Welcome Return to Fancy (but Not Fussy) Dining, at Francie 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It would be a persuasive opening statement even if Banks were not wearing a custom-made bra constructed entirely from flashing blue LEDs and Swarovski crystals. Azealia Banks – review 2012-09-30T16:30:01Z They try to curb their wild tendencies and blend in, lacking the restraint or fine-grained social acumen to do so in a totally persuasive way. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Mardi Gras in New Orleans, meanwhile, has one of the most persuasive whistled intros in musical history. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z “Doing her own singing, Buckley is a rich, startling vocalist who if anything seems to under-excite the crowds she performs for. Yet she is also persuasive as a reluctant, unreliable parent.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Masked Singer’ and ‘Wisting’ 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z He was among the first to make a truly persuasive uncut recording of the hourlong work, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, in 1978. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Plays Carnegie Hall 2014-02-17T22:48:40Z That these readings and others seem plausible -- even persuasive -- is a testament to the film's concision. "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z It's hard to imagine a film this persuasive doing otherwise. Effective 'Difret' looks at abhorrent practice in Ethiopia 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of a marvelous chronicle of the Great Migration titled “The Warmth of Other Suns,” is an elegant and persuasive writer. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Calvin Klein and Marni were among those making a persuasive case for big, easy pants ending in cuffs as wide as banners. In All the Spring Fashion Looks, a Balance 2014-04-16T21:59:46Z Mr. Petrenko’s reading of the inner movements was remarkably lucid, making a persuasive case for the Sixth as one of Mahler’s most logically constructed symphonies. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z If that fantasy is persuasive, it’s because, for all its noirish, even horror-movie trappings, “Tár” is a largely realistic depiction of its subject matter. In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z While Ms. Duffy, often nearly naked and singing with the cool roundedness of melting ice, creates a subtly ambivalent portrait of a woman both self-important and persecuted, the opera’s other characters are less persuasive. Review: ‘Breaking the Waves’ Lends Musical Heft to a von Trier Tale 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z His snooty maître d’ is as persuasive as his brutish boss. Review: ‘Fully Committed,’ on How the Elite Dine, Has a Different Flavor Now 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Filled with accessible rock and even some pretty persuasive disco, it's easy to see why Lanegan is as convincing as a gang leader as he is a hired gun. This week's new live music 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z But Ms. Monk’s approach to political content, so free of didacticism, is seductively clear and persuasive here. Review: Meredith Monk, Still Peerless at Shocking Serenity 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Charm is Laszlo's forte, a superpower he finds more persuasive than hypnosis. Who would have guessed that "What We Do In the Shadows" would provide a clear model of polyamory? 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Nick Kimberly, in the Evening Standard, argued that "no composer could ask for a more persuasive advocate", and noted that Pahud was always the "glue that bound the myriad layers of activity." The Proms 2011: week two in review 2011-08-04T11:04:34Z More persuasive was a white embroidered sleeveless blouse with trim black shorts, the dropped waist beaded in matte gold. Fashion Review: Outside the Met, Fashion?s Overture 2010-09-13T21:33:00Z The show caused a stir and put Mr. Gardiner on the map as a conductor of immense persuasive gifts. John Eliot Gardiner Returns to Monteverdi’s Vespers 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z Instead, nearly every ensemble member becomes part of a choir, with soloists, that is as persuasive a latter-day equivalent of the Greek chorus as we’re ever likely to see. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Rather, it’s in their insistent delivery — a commitment to repetition so persuasive that even Kendrick Lamar, who knows from sticky catch phrases, tweeted the line this week. Rae Sremmurd like a Vine video in musical form on 'SremmLife' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Naturally, the conceit of the play requires Sarah, who now works at the school as a custodian, to face a persuasive combatant in the form of her latest teacher, James. Review: Sound, or Silence? A Passionate Debate in ‘Children of a Lesser God’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z But in her quest to give her different dissident voices equal time and equal weight, Ms. Thurber forsakes a persuasive dramatic through line to create what feels like a crowded and noisy op-ed page. Review: ‘The Insurgents’ Stars Cassie Beck in a Lucy Thurber Drama 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z At one point Cornelius presents one of the most persuasive defenses of suicide set forth in the mainstream English-speaking theater. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z The trailer is powerfully persuasive, opening with a scene of Troy admonishing his son that’s intercut with flashes from the rest of the film, before concluding with an explosive outburst from Davis. Fences trailer: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis face off in Oscar-tipped film 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z How much more persuasive the narrative would be if it had been argued that Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe, intelligent and complex figures who both died tragically, made important contributions to the art of taking pictures. Book review: ‘Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, a Biography’ by Philip Gefter 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z And to judge by much of the public speaking and ostensibly persuasive writing one sees these days, it’s also woefully neglected. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z He wants to be engaged, believed and persuasive. Ask Amy: Wife’s snooping creates justification to snoop His performing, however, has a communicative force that immediately renders his scores exciting, fascinating, persuasive, sensuous. Review: Thomas Adès Calls for Complexity at City Center 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z She can be curiously cool, but not always: At the Met last year, she was a revelation as Octavian in Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” which brought out persuasive passion in her. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Inon Barnatan offered a persuasive account of the sonata, in which two brief pensive meditations surrounded a dense, agitated middle movement redolent of Berg. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z I don’t find the anti-choice perspective intellectually persuasive at all — the personhood of the fertilized egg, sex as a kind of contract to have a baby. Changing the Debate: Katha Pollitt Talks About 'Pro' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z A. H. Weiler, writing in The New York Times, said, “It evolves, through an unpretentious, documentary treatment, as tough and persuasive, if disquieting, drama.” The Week Ahead: Nov. 18 — 24 2012-11-18T08:00:06Z He manages to be persuasive even in the potentially embarrassing bit of tai chi-esque movement Ms. Waltz gives the character during the “Evening Star” hymn. Review: A Writhing, Emotional Revival of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z This may be the first moment that tears at the heart in “Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity,” Ping Chong + Company’s probing and persuasive new work of interview-based theater, but it is not the last. Review: ‘Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity,’ Young New Yorkers Tell Their Stories 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z While some of the Gaylor arguments have a surprising amount of persuasive force, others are probably more reflective of pareidolia, the human ability to make patterns and meaning out of randomness. How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z “Lone Star” offers an amusing and novel television conceit, but in an age of Enron and Bernard Madoff, it takes a very persuasive actor to keep viewers rooting for a swindler. Television Review: Two Lives, Two Loves, One Con Man 2010-09-19T17:08:00Z The later stories in “Prodigals,” on the figurative B-side, are more experimental and a bit less persuasive. Review: ‘Prodigals’ by Greg Jackson Skewers the Elite 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Walter is considered to be so cunning and persuasive that the institution’s staff must wear earplugs in his presence, lest he recruit them in an escape attempt. Review | Oh, the horror! Why it’s hard to look away, even when a book is full of gore. 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Combatting one’s inner voices of racial prejudice, sneaky and, at times, irresistibly persuasive, is a life’s work. A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But, as Garner plied the trade, it certainly was acting of the most persuasive order. James Garner: Tribute to a Marvelous Maverick 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Putin worked on the oligarchs using something even more persuasive than a cup of tea – a complete list of their commercial secrets and indiscretions. Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review 2013-05-10T08:00:02Z Her transformations, physical and moral, are so incremental and persuasive you can’t turn away from Crystal — even when the system utterly fails her, and she strikes back with a hellish vengeance. ‘Bethany’ at ACT: A mom whose life has crashed — hard 2014-04-19T03:40:16Z From Tuesday’s Los Angeles Times op-ed, in which the dean describes urging his students to be fair, logical and persuasive: The “Scalia effect” and Fox News: How the justice’s trademark tone will shape the next generation of right-wing pundits 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z This is soul singing at its rawest and most persuasive. Music Review: Rock Songs Turned Testaments of Triumphant Soul 2011-05-25T22:18:01Z The most persuasive passages in Bob Honey are those in which Penn writes of his character’s insomnia. Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The movie’s insistence on heroizing him, though, is a puzzle, particularly because Welles was the more persuasive outsider. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The composer-soloist switched from drums to marimba to vibraphone with persuasive ease, winning alert support from his fellow LA players. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z Both principals are persuasive, savvy actors, a particularly vital element in this theatrically exciting staging by Stephen Wadsworth. ‘Götterdämmerung’: The end of the world, done right 2013-08-10T17:25:17Z In 1984, the governor gave a most impassioned, persuasive explanation of how he reconciled his religion and his Democratic politics in a lecture at the Catholic University of Notre Dame. Mario Cuomo: Catholicism’s best defender of choice 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z While we might continue to vote for winners, and the idea that these shows usher in a new tranche of talent is persuasive, for every globe-straddling One Direction, there are a dozen struggling Misha Bs. Has Britain got talent show fatigue? 2013-03-16T06:00:00Z None are more persuasive in revealing the sensuality, delight and even playfulness Bach brought to these motets, which are among the most personal expressions of his faith. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z But "man of the people" isn't this comic's most persuasive pose. Dara O'Briain | Comedy review 2010-03-19T21:30:00Z His argument is circular, but ultimately persuasive — and it’s sweetened by coy images of him arranging flowers. Art in Review: MARIO GARCIA TORRES: ?Cover Letter? 2011-04-28T20:54:34Z What’s evident in all Mr. Peck’s work, even in his less persuasive dances, is that he keeps setting himself new challenges. Justin Peck’s ‘Rodeo’ at New York City Ballet 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z She was most persuasive as a goofy pop cheerleader with a handful of catchy songs bent on “making you smile.” Concert review: Katy Perry at Allstate Arena 2011-08-22T06:09:00Z Eddie, brought brilliantly to life by Doug Stanhope, made a persuasive case for giving up, something that it’s hard to imagine Ms. Rivers, the iron woman of comedy, ever doing. | Comedy : ‘Louie’ and ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ 2012-06-21T21:39:32Z You may find all this somewhat easier to believe than Ms. Groff’s affectionate, but never especially persuasive play, directed by Marissa Wolf. Review: ‘Fire in Dreamland’ Is a Parable of Love and Licorice 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z To spend any time with Mock — as I did recently, by video chat — is to understand that she is extremely persuasive. True Romance: Janet Mock on the Final Season of ‘Pose’ 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Sorkin was persuasive, Kidman said, and she was buoyed by past experiences landing a funny line in stage plays here and there. How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Two of the most persuasive saleswomen New York has ever seen are peddling their wares with high style and equal determination at the Nederlander Theater, where “War Paint” opened on Thursday night. Review: In ‘War Paint,’ Sing a Song of Face Creams 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z And then there are the drugs, showered on Johnny by a persuasive dealer named St. Jimmy. Alienation sings! 'American Idiot' comes to B'way 2010-04-20T23:17:00Z Cobb is 90 now, but he retains his effortlessly persuasive touch, as shown on his new record, “This I Dig of You,” out last month on Smoke Sessions. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z But what exploded him into international stardom was his chillingly persuasive performance in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z And it sometimes felt less persuasive, as when he stretched many phrases out almost to a halt. Review: The Philharmonic and a Conductor Get Reacquainted 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z "Your hands on me aren't the least persuasive," she tells him, unpersuasively. Martha Hyer obituary 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z But you need persuasive singers to plumb the depths of the music and the subtleties of the characters. Review: Jonas Kaufmann, Back at the Met, Is Good, Not Great 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Outside the theater, real-life teenagers are organizing behind a political movement that is coherent in its aims and persuasive in its message. Review: In ‘Education,’ a Fictional Protest That Pales Next to Real Ones 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Its large-format reproductions of paintings and sculptures are a persuasive reminder — those colors! — of what made Gauguin the modernist pioneer he was, and the contemporary star he is. We’re Still Talking About Gauguin 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z And the soprano Judith Bettina, a seasoned, persuasive interpreter of Mr. Babbitt’s music, was dazzling in her lucidity and commitment. 2010-01-12T07:08:00Z This Bulgarian artist, based in Brussels, has a persuasive subversive streak. ‘I-Cure’ Provokes at the Queer New York Arts Festival 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Sullivan, however, does not present any persuasive evidence regarding this assertion. Books of The Times: ‘Untouchable,’ Michael Jackson’s Life, by Randall Sullivan 2012-11-12T21:52:09Z It’s a sign of this young company’s skill that its orchestra, led on this occasion by Sean Kelly, is as persuasive in the score’s subtle moments as in its slapstick ones. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Once you’ve built up your confidence and determined your value, it’s time to get persuasive. The Best Negotiation Books for 2015 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Though their arguments are stretched thin at times, the authors are persuasive when arguing that the Chinese market accelerates innovation. Out of the Master’s shadow 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z With luck and time, it will channel its disorderly sense of structure and theme into surprising and persuasive works. Review: Rom-Com as Ritual in ‘The Art of Luv (Part 5)’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z I knew that he should go to the hospital immediately, but it took almost 24 hours and a persuasive doctor on the phone to get him to agree. Modern Love: Age Is No Obstacle to Love, or Adventure 2013-09-12T18:12:17Z Hired experts speculate and possible witnesses testify, their backs to the camera and their voices distorted; much of it is persuasive, but none of it is evidence. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'The Injustice Files: At the End of a Rope' 2012-02-21T19:02:23Z Some phrases are focused and persuasive, with a girlish feistiness; others are shaky. Critics? Choice: CDs by Karen Elson, Crystal Castles, Keith Jarrett 2010-05-23T22:36:00Z But the persuasive texture of this portrait of extreme wealth is distinctly contemporary. “Succession”: An Irresistible Family Power Struggle, Told Through Soap and Satire 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z But at its most persuasive, “First Person” is an aria on the necessity of self-invention, on the loops and lacunas of memory and the bullish inadequacy of all language. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Though a persuasive champion of Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites, he turned them over to six other players last Sunday. Music Review: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2012-03-17T00:22:16Z The actor Woody Harrelson narrates the documentary “Kiss the Ground,” a frenetic but ultimately persuasive and optimistic plan to counter the climate crisis. ‘Kiss the Ground’ Review: Regenerating Hope for the Climate 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z In short, she was a persuasive proponent for an excellent new work. At SSO, a new concerto and kudos all around 2012-01-22T20:29:04Z The book’s deeply persuasive message is “that all of life can be understood as casework.” ‘Fourth of July Creek’ by Smith Henderson 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z They drummed up enough financing to create a persuasive depiction of early-Victorian London, right down to the bonnets and fenders. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z If we want to eat meat, the argument to get it from animals such as grey squirrels is persuasive. A nice bit of squirrel: should we chow down a diet of invasive species? 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The first movement of the Sonata No. 2 was a tumultuous conflict of darkness and light, and Yundi’s expressive shading in the second movement was persuasive. Music Review: Yundi Plays Chopin at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-21T23:56:00Z Since that doesn’t quite work here, the question is what else is on offer, besides the most persuasive commercial for Austen ever created? Review | A writer spent years reading only the work of Jane Austen. She learned a lot about herself. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z In short, they can be very charming and persuasive. What made George Santos lie so much? Experts weigh in on his deception. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z A section on the opiate crisis includes a speculative and persuasive disquisition on the possible links between chronic pain and the authoritarian promise of control. How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z For now, no one at Oculus, Sony or Valve has given a persuasive demonstration of how players will travel inside virtual reality, beyond exploring a small area on foot for the Vive. Virtual Reality’s Potential Displayed at Game Developers Conference 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Still, a hint of artifice keeps this performance from being wholly persuasive, and Walpole’s variable Mid-Atlantic accent doesn’t help, given the Southern setting. Review | ‘Member of the Wedding’ is Southern Gothic looking for flavor 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Curiously enough, the passages in “Golden Gate” devoted to explicating the bridge’s symbolism and allure are its least persuasive: pretentious, clichéd, derivative and pompously theoretical. Books of The Times: The Building of a Symbol: How It Got There, and Why It?s Orange 2010-08-23T19:38:00Z Behind the outrageous interludes showcasing Robin using persuasive fibbing to guide her clients through every kind of extravagant embarrassment, she’s confronted with the pressures all women must face. Smart Watch: "Flack," "Whiskey Cavalier" and sex appeal of liars 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Still, autonomous liberal democracy has had few chances to thrive in Latin America, and Vargas Llosa’s passionate belief in it can be persuasive. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine a more persuasive performance. A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Rob Reiner, also a persuasive guy, said, “You got to do this play!” Larry David on Broadway Theater, ‘Seinfeld’ and Death Etiquette 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Then and now, her playing was persuasive; Beethoven’s music can withstand, even demand, both approaches. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Wade’s Carter was even better, freewheeling, funny, persuasive. Michela Marino Lerman and Others Tap Into Betty Carter 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z They have some persuasive ideas: Passages suggesting that Kubrick conceived the film as an allegory for genocide — filling it with allusions to the Holocaust and to the slaughter of Native Americans — are convincing. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z “Rookie Blue” paints a persuasive portrait of those youthful mixed feelings. | 'Rookie Blue': Missy Peregrym Plays a Sexy New Cop on ABC 2010-06-24T00:03:00Z This, according to the report's authors, "provides powerful and persuasive evidence of the enormous positive fiscal impact of the creative industries across California." Now that artists can't afford the Arts District, L.A. needs to rethink its role as a creative city 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Stan and James deserve all the credit for their persuasive performances, and not simply due to the makeup and wardrobe magic that makes them doppelgangers of Lee and Anderson in their prime. "Pam & Tommy" is the greatest, hugest love story ever told about an unauthorized celebrity sex tape 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The show's endurance ultimately had a very uncomplicated bottom line: Albrecht and Strauss wanted to see the end of the story Simon was telling, in large measure because, according to Albrecht, he was uncommonly persuasive. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z It was actually shot in Germany, though the feel for London is very persuasive. The films that time forgot 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z There is a Seinfeld generation gap, or so suggests an informal, statistically insignificant but highly persuasive survey of TIME’s millennial staffers. Did You Ever Notice How There's a Seinfeld Generation Gap? 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Among his most remarkable achievements is assembling a persuasive period soundtrack that is almost entirely devoid of predictable classic-rock touchstones. Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air,’ directed by Olivier Assayas 2013-05-02T23:51:05Z Curtis, making her film debut, turned out to be a natural, delivering a persuasive performance of operatic panic that suggested a ferocious core. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z And while I found the broad arguments at the beginning and end of this book to be fascinating and persuasive, I yawned periodically over details of the Rig Veda, neo-Confucians or Sikh ideology. What Is the Meaning of Sacred Texts? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z This persuasive and blackly funny book of poems takes its tone and subject matter from old Hollywood movies, but the intensity of the attack is all Minnis’s. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z And in this case, the trade just isn’t persuasive. The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z While the argument is persuasive, it’s not the only possible outcome. Is “Felina” the Secret To the Breaking Bad Finale? 2013-09-25T18:26:48Z Such a fragile moment cries out for a ferociously persuasive argument for engaging with the world in person, not through our screens. You Had to Be There. ‘Encounterism’ Argues You Still Do. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z It puts a persuasive foot forward with its inaugural show, “Indian Modern: Narratives From 20th-Century Indian Art.” 10 Galleries to Visit on the Upper East Side 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Some are almost too persuasive: one man who asked me for money got treated to that typical liberal combination of shifty eyes and pocket-fumbling. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z We can still be tempted to the cinema by the names on the marquee, but as franchises have become the dominant force in the business, the persuasive power of those names has declined. What Becomes a Star Most? For Tom Cruise, It’s Control. 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z But Mr. Belgrader makes a persuasive case for drilling at least a window into that wall. | 'The Cherry Orchard': ?Cherry Orchard? With Turturro at Classic Stage - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:07Z His arguments are persuasive, but, for me, there remains one fight that the Americans will still generally win: originality. British TV drama – can it compete with the US? 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z After intermission, the Del Sol Quartet, the energetic and persuasive young ensemble from San Francisco, took the helm. Pianist Frederic Rzewski, Del Sol Quartet perform at Library of Congress 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Dark Money,” the result of Ms. Mayer’s research, is a persuasive, timely and necessary story of the Koch brothers’ empire. Review: Jane Mayer’s ‘Dark Money,’ About the Koch Brothers’ Fortune and Influence 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Available on YouTube, that century-old film is amusingly of its time and Ruth is an amiably persuasive screen presence — a movie star. When Athletes Go Hollywood 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z If the film is less persuasive for its lack of balance, it’s at least heartening to learn that undesirable dams can be destroyed and their rivers restored to their old ways and means. Movie Review: ‘DamNation,’ a Documentary, Wants Nature Left Alone 2014-05-08T22:45:18Z The movie is clearer and more persuasive about this chapter of Hudson’s story, adopting a more plaintive tone as it explores an atmosphere of disdainful hysteria that prevailed at that time. ‘Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed’ Review: Living a Double Life 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z He's a charming psychopath, persuasive, reasonable, dangerous – eventually mostly to himself. The Comedy of Errors/Richard III ? review 2011-01-30T17:50:01Z Mr. Pullman is not Harrison Ford, obviously, but he is a gifted character actor persuasive as a guilt-ridden husband who maintains that he is innocent of murder. The TV Watch: ?Scott Turow?s Innocent? on TNT 2011-11-28T18:47:35Z Such luscious visuals may be persuasive enough keep optimistic viewers on the hook, perhaps assuring us that some worthwhile twist is lurking a few episodes down the road. "Servant" is M. Night Shyamalan's slow stroll through the horror of first world problems 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Acosta’s rise from businessman to powerful local politician, on the other hand, is more persuasive. Review: ‘Daphne’s Dive,’ Where Everybody Knows You’re Broke 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Hearing Mr. Bell play it, you were convinced that there was no finer, more persuasive advocate for this kind of repertory. Music Review: An Exuberant Conductor and a Starry Violinist 2011-08-07T21:48:50Z DiCaprio is persuasive as the little boy lost impersonating a tough guy, and Mulligan finds ways to express Daisy’s magnetism and weakness. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z That argument would be more persuasive had most of the Guantanamo detainees been captured under circumstances bearing some resemblance to battle. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Alan meets Lennie and quickly becomes infatuated with her; she gives him some political reading material, which he finds very persuasive. Woody Allen’s Secondhand Sixties Radicalism 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Still, for all its persuasive charms, Ruby’s was tiny—an outlier among Dean & DeLucas. The Man Who Made the Australian Café (and, Yes, Avocado Toast) a Global Phenomenon 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Raine explores any number of a doctor's dilemmas, pins down the hierarchy of hospital life, and is very persuasive on the struggles women face at senior level. Tiger Country - review 2011-01-20T09:43:53Z Lit simply with a desk-lamp, it's as otherworldly as it is persuasive. Artists at Seattle's Foster/White turn books into art 2012-07-19T20:12:11Z Special effects have become so persuasive that it now looks as if there’s a real person flying through the air rather than computer-generated pixels. Movie Review: Andrew Garfield Returns in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ 2014-05-01T12:00:02Z But Ms. Green never moved us beyond this initial effect of strangeness; there was little in “nerves” that really imprinted itself on the eye or felt structurally persuasive. Dance Review: What to Expect When Fairy Tales and Reality Are Just as Strange? 2011-02-05T00:03:32Z This connected with some of the more strident sound production in the work, but it also slightly undercut the persuasive drama of Wiancko’s writing. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “Take a look at your life/Are you petrified?” he cried in a near-sob, his passion so persuasive it made you rethink the notion of going too far. Music Review: American Songbook?s Afro-Cuban Connection 2011-02-22T00:00:10Z Here’s an example of Winters and Blier at their persuasive best. Classical-Music Click: A World of Spanish Songs 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Which means one of the most persuasive award winners will be carrying the mantle for perhaps the most socially charged movie in the field. Oscars 2015: Five story lines to watch 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most persuasive answer to worries about elitism is the observation deck, at the intersection of the old brick and new glass parts of the building. Finally, a Debut for the Elbphilharmonie Hall in Hamburg 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z True to the album’s title, it’s comfortable and less persuasive. The Strokes Wipe the Slate Clean on Comedown Machine 2013-03-26T11:00:30Z The documentary “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” makes a persuasive case for why I should have paid more attention. Review | In ‘Nobody Speak,’ the free press, not just a website, faces a grave challenge 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z He’s persuasive as a diffident, paralyzed high school star with buried anger at his father. N.B.A. Pros on the Big Screen: Can These Stars Act? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z In one experiment Trivers and his team asked 306 online participants to write a persuasive speech about a fictional man named Mark. Living a lie: We deceive ourselves to better deceive others 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z A warning so vivid and persuasive that your fellow citizens all act to make sure it never actually plays out. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z |
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