Sentences with phrase «little luck convincing»

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Mendelsohn's Gerry («Like Lewis,» Curtis asks; «Like Ford,» Gerry replies) is as desperate as losers come, and there's a constant sense of him silently trying to justify his every wrong action — just one more bet, just a bit more money, just one little sign that luck is on his side (He's convinced that Curtis and a rainbow, which both men saw upon the morning of the first meeting, are charms in his favor).

If there is no threat of catastrophe — and as I said, prior to the hockey stick nobody had the slightest bit of luck convincing anyone that the sky was falling because global climate today is geologically unremarkable in every single way except that we happen to be living in it instead of analyzing it in a geological record — then there is little incentive to fund the enormous amount of work being done on climate science.