persuasive

How To Use persuasive In A Sentence

• He says it amounts to a persuasive economic argument for a regular festival. Times, Sunday Times
• What makes Christopher Hitchens such a capable and persuasive debater is a mixture of his ides, arguments, and charm. Danny Groner: We Need Discussions, Not Debates
• His ring classicism has always argued so persuasively against excessive physical harm, his pride was beyond anything but a regal exit.
• The rapture effected by an aesthetic of the sublime is often more persuasive than any rational argument in its direct exploitation and manipulation of the audience's sense of actualities, possibilities, ethical duties and emotional affinities/antipathies. On the Sublime
• We are confident that their reputation and persuasive skills will come in handy for the municipal authorities to collect taxes from defaulters, " said Bharat Sharma, a revenue officer.
• There was not a single low note or phrase that did not display infallible technique or persuasive musicality.
• For one thing, it will force the government to produce a compelling, coherent, consistent, and persuasive account of their programs, their debacles, and their triumphs.
• By mid-century, the Marxist sociologist C. Wright Mills could write persuasively…of American office and store workers as a new proletariat, no less regimented, poorly paid, and declassed than manual workers of the previous century.
• If anybody's got a persuasive argument in favour of the blasted thing I'll give it a hearing, but I've yet to hear one that doesn't sound like a justification for faffing about instead of working. Archive 2009-06-01
• It is never particularly persuasive to address believers as if they are idiots in need of education.