Sentences with phrase «most unconvincing»

The calculations by Max and others involving simple equations and simplifying assumptions I find most unconvincing.

From my own experience, the most unconvincing evidence for accelerating warming is this graph: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.C.lrg.gif

«A Little Chaos» is all too tidy as it imposes a predictable, pat modern sensibility on a most unconvincing depiction of late 17th - century French aristocratic life, with Kate Winslet starring as a green - thumbed widow hired to design part of the gardens at...

Stiller's vanity - free characterization is so strong that it's no wonder Brad's Status feels most unconvincing and thin when it strays from Brad into his former friends» new lives without him — or, more worryingly, into a generic and hollow satire of the woke sensibilities of kids these days, for whom «cis» is an insult.

Barcelona may have won this battle over Real Madrid, but some of the club's hardcore fans will be scratching their heads after what should have been a memorable victory came in the most unconvincing and un-Barcelona way possible.

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British church historian Owen Chadwick reviews the John Cornwell book, Hitler's Pope, in the Tablet and, like most reviewers, finds Cornwell tendentious and unconvincing in his claim that he has unearthed anything new (see William D. Rubinstein's review in FT, January).

Periodically, Rufus interpolates his own (invariably unconvincing) exculpatory analyses of Lady Susan's manipulative behavior — her most cold - blooded remarks are merely jokes shared with friends!

Most FWTs, however, have found (or at least would find) this line of reasoning unconvincing.

One that I find especially difficult to endure is the climactic conversation between Raskolnikov and Sonya in book four of Crime and Punishment, with its unremittingly forced portentousness and the embarrassingly obvious (but entirely unconvincing) device of Raskolnikov asking Sonya to read the story of the raising of Lazarus in John's gospel — which culminates in one of the most egregious displays of authorial heavy - handedness in the history of serious literature.

This intellectual formation works against the metaphysical foundations of natural law reasoning, and therefore most people find the arguments remote and unconvincing — «academic» in the bad sense of being about something other than the real world we live in.

As witnessed this season with the Away performances against all the teams (bar Palace) in the lower reaches of the League.You could have written Southampton's tactics before the game as it's what most teams do against us.We continue to be unconvincing and like you Anders S I do not offer the excuse of the side being full of replacements for rested First Team players.

Finally, Luis Suarez leads the line ahead of unconvincing Chelsea strike duo Alvaro Morata and Olivier Giroud, with the Uruguay international still among the most prolific forwards in the game even if he's not been at peak level this term.

Chelsea have looked an unbalanced and unconvincing side in most areas of the pitch, with Hazard one of the few to keep performing at the high level set last season.

Also, I believe, that when we lose or show unconvincing performances... most of us heavily blame Wenger only....

Arsenal could do with improving in that area after an unconvincing start to the season, with injuries keeping the likes of Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker out of most of their games so far.

His situation at Real has become strained with his unconvincing performances resulting in whistles and catcalls at the Santiago Bernabeu — most recently in the 2 - 2 draw to Valencia at the weekend, which all but ended the club's La Liga title hopes.

However, they were made to work hard for their most recent triumph, when Fernando Torres scored late on in an unconvincing 1 - 0 victory on Merseyside back in August.

After experimenting with Rooney in a midfield role last season, most notably as part of his unconvincing and unpopular attempts to bring a back three - based system to Old Trafford, the Dutchman has returned the conundrum that neither Sir Alex Ferguson nor David Moyes were able to solve.

He said: «This was probably David Cameron's most old fashioned party conference speech yet, packed with rat - a-tat lists that don't stand up to scrutiny and some rather unconvincing attacks on Labour.

Although the newest edition of the authoritative textbook, Vitamin D, claims that in humans calcidiol binds with equal affinity to the DBP whether it is derived from vitamin D2 or vitamin D3, 37 the citation for this statement is the author's own PhD thesis, in which he reported results obtained from testing the DBP of a mere two people.48 Since the gene for the DBP is one of the most polymorphic known (meaning it exists in many forms), existing in three common alleles and 124 known rarer alleles (alleles are specific forms of the same gene), each allele itself having many polymorphisms, 37 a sample size of two is rather unconvincing.

The argument that a plant - based diet being more the Paleolithic norm is still unconvincing and goes against most scientific studies.

And most the of early scenes involving Cooper, McAdams and Stone are clumsy and unconvincing.

When it's not trying to shoehorn an unconvincing romance down our throats, «The Promise» indulges in some of George's most self - indulgent finger wagging.

Even the most resourceful, imaginative filmmaker would be hard - pressed to redeem the screenplay, specifically the lengths to which Cody goes to disguise the true nature of the story, and also the underlying reasons for the charade, which are unconvincing and in bad faith.

Even the most resourceful, imaginative filmmaker would be hard - pressed to redeem Diablo Cody's screenplay, specifically the lengths to which the writer goes to disguise her story's true nature, and also the underlying reasons for the charade, which are unconvincing and in bad faith.

There are some other problems as Showman unspools, perhaps the most obvious being the weird and unconvincing CGI used to make already - tiny actor Sam Humphrey appear to be even smaller as Tom Thumb, Barnum's show's resident little person — it looks like he's awkwardly walking on his knees throughout, and he occasionally appears then disappears from group musical numbers.

Franco can be a very fine actor, particularly when paired with a strong director, but here he's flat and unconvincing, traits which extend to most of the supporting players.

Almost all of the characters are dumber than they should be, examples; a doctor ends up committing one of horrors most offending rules, a young cop who is completely unconvincing, and one of the sisters that wants to make an escape but never tries very hard to do so.

AMERICAN HISTORY X An interesting and for the most part honest presentation of a difficult subject, this film about a young man who becomes the leader of a neo-Nazi gang is hampered by a banal ending and some unconvincing moments.

The actors are set against completely unconvincing green screen backdrops or walk in long helicopter shots through the snowy mountains (a tableau that will be overly familiar to anyone who's seen a fantasy epic in the last five years (the fact that most of the movie is shot in New Zealand makes the effect more apparent)-RRB-.

The period setting is sketched in broad strokes (fittingly, the only real - life filmmaker name - checked here is Norman Taurog, director of Elvis vehicles and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies), giving the Coens a chance to play with dated and outmoded film techniques: wipes, bird's - eye - view matte paintings, painted backdrops, unconvincing model submarines, and, in the movie's most perverse act of homage, a very long driving scene of questionable urgency.

Krueger offers an energetic, if ultimately unconvincing, call to expand existing education and training programs for people of all ages, focusing especially on the most disadvantaged.

I find most of the arguments that the WG I community is biased to exaggerate risks to be thoroughly unconvincing.

Most of these issues were deemed either solvable, unconvincing or worth the trade - off by the Bitcoin Core development team at large, however.

The main camera's f / 1.7 aperture produces nice and realistic bokeh, unmarred by the unconvincing and unreliable software blur most phone makers are going in for these days.