Sentences with phrase «unconvincing in»

Still, many times, people are totally unconvincing in this role.

Perhaps it would have found this argument unconvincing in any event.

They will be found unconvincing in a court because they relate to a report requested with the imprimatur of Congress.

I must say they are unconvincing in their efforts to discredit.

I find it ultimately unconvincing in several ways, but it is a good exemplar of a school of thought, often associated with the movement usually termed «eco-socialism», which holds that no technological «fix» for our energy - related environmental issues is possible.

It isn't bad, but it's pretty shallow and unconvincing in its portrayal of a determinedly straight guy (Fumiaki) who finally admits that he reciprocates the feelings that his long - time friend (Takeo) has been confessing for ages.

Biel, who rather distressingly looks at least a full decade older than her 19 years, is at least only flat and unconvincing in her handful of «dramatic» scenes, which is more than can be said for the ever - embarrassing Prinze.

But he is absolutely bland in every scene in which he has to talk (though it's not completely his fault — the soap - opera script is written at a bad, junior high school level) and quite unconvincing in the mindless action sequences filled with ridiculous mid-air, slow - motion sword play.

Julianne Moore and Ellen Page are unconvincing in this hammy fictional version of a true story about a lesbian couple fighting for their pension rights

But the film ultimately rests on Ulliel's shoulders; he's been unconvincing in the past (see: Eva), but here he's the perfect choice for a man slowly succumbing to his inner demons.

Sadly, she remains utterly unconvincing in romantic roles, and paired with the zombified Jones, sporting a Danish -LRB-?)

Unfortunately, Diaz is unconvincing in her role and almost seems incapable of adding humor to the mix here.

What feels so tightly focused and earned in Breaking Bad too often comes off as forced and unconvincing in the land of the soulful bikers....

Woolas was pretty unconvincing in defending some of his leaflets - but given what the literature had said then anyone would have struggled frankly.

Poll after poll confirms a public appetite for further controls on incomers, while Labour MPs are unconvincing in this minefield.

I'm sure even MacDonald will be genuine enough to give an honest assesment on his reign as Villa caretaker manager as being unconvincing in terms of the results they've acheived under him, although he was firmly of the opinion that he could take the club forward.

United have been quite the opposite — dour and one - paced, unconvincing in front of goal.

Players have bad games; strikers often look unconvincing in unconvincing teams; and as we established not four paragraphs ago, the first game of the season is the worst game of the season when it comes to actually knowing what's going on.

Arsenal were unconvincing in the second half as the result proved in the end as City leapfrog them on the Premier League table.

However, Sanchez has played there severally — including last week — and has been unconvincing in all attempts.

Winning badly is the sign of champions, as the cliche has it (though we should note that this same weekend, Arsenal were also unconvincing in victory).

We were called unconvincing in many site, but from our movement, chances, ability on the ball we are convincing it was just the finishing that let us down..

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).

Not exact matches

After seeing Foxx singlehandedly tackling a slave - owning Leonardo DiCaprio in «Django Unchained,» his part in «The Amazing Spider - Man 2» feels wildly unconvincing by comparison.

In reality, the arguments that P&G presents in the manifesto are unconvincing, and wilt under careful analysiIn reality, the arguments that P&G presents in the manifesto are unconvincing, and wilt under careful analysiin the manifesto are unconvincing, and wilt under careful analysis.

However, it also means that their final product looks like something created in the 1990s by a middle schooler and is thus totally and wholly unconvincing.

Pascal's Wager in an unconvincing argument that shouldn't be employed.

Enforcement will be hampered in arguable cases, and courts will make mistakes, sometimes punishing sincere but unconvincing believers while exempting more convincing fakers.

Wills's contention that Madison was a proponent of legislative supremacy among the branches is unconvincing given that it was the overweening power granted legislatures by the state constitutions that Madison and other Federalists sought to avoid at the federal level in the Constitution.

In itself, while it does not affirm everything that orthodox Christian faith affirms, Madison's vision is sufficiently impregnated with Christian faith to be not only unconvincing but even unintelligible without it.

But this virtue can not vitiate the confused, unconvincing and even distorted account of Church teaching on homosexuality which occurs in this programme.

But it is shared by people whose marriages have been broken, who remain unreconciled, and who» because we can do no more than «support» them in their brokenness» must experience our liturgies, architecture, and teaching as profoundly dissonant and unconvincing.

Many FWTs will agree that a person is not justified in affirming a theodicy that he or she believes personally to be totally 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.

The script makes a telegraphic, unconvincing stab at a rationale — but in effect, the idea is that the dream of multi-culti America circa 2017 is enough to inspire a Resistance in an alternate 1962.

This success in bringing organized labor into the middle class made Marxist class analysis unconvincing to many.

But the larger argument — that we can live as if war has been abolished and that faith in God requires that we live that way — is morally unconvincing and at times morally perverse.

Indeed, the proclamations were rather obtuse and unconvincing, but the opportunity to say «why» must not be lost in the black hole of online commentary.

Neville's claim that Platonism is supported by a religious intuition of the «irreducible dualism between Form and chaos» (CG 67) in reality is simply unconvincing; every metaphysics acknowledges the contrast between order and disorder, but there is no reason to think that that contrast — as experienced — is any more genuine or vivid for a Platonist than for an Aristotelian.

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.

In fact, those who find the tenets of religion intellectually unconvincing often defend it on the grounds that it is essential in order to preserve the moral fabric of societIn fact, those who find the tenets of religion intellectually unconvincing often defend it on the grounds that it is essential in order to preserve the moral fabric of societin order to preserve the moral fabric of society.

This is why apologetics, in my opinion, are hugely unconvincing.

Despite a rather unconvincing performance at home to Hull City in the FA Cup, there was indeed a huge positive for Arsenal going into the business end of the season.

Given the Red Devil's unconvincing recent showings in attack, it makes sense that a player like Bale could be on the agenda to add some pace and flair up front.

Smalling was first targeted by Arsenal in January while Jones is now also emerging as a target for the Gunners as they look to improve on some unconvincing defensive options of their own.

United are surely now well - placed to grant him this wish in January, with Jose Mourinho certainly in need of reinforcements at left - back after freezing out Luke Shaw and rotating between unconvincing options in Ashley Young, Daley Blind and Matteo Darmian in that position.

Both have been unconvincing and largely uninspiring in their victories, and at moments profoundly shambolic in defeat.

The Red Devils boss wants to strengthen in the attacking midfield department, with Angel Di Maria unconvincing since his big - money move from Real Madrid last summer.

United have not won the Premier League since Sir Alex Ferguson's final season in 2012/13 and many will question if Mourinho is really the right man for the job at Old Trafford after an unconvincing first two years in charge.

Chelsea made plenty of changes over the summer and in January, with the likes of Nemanja Matic, Diego Costa and Michy Batshuayi among those to recently leave, while unconvincing additions such as Alvaro Morata, Tiemoue Bakayoko, Danny Drinkwater and Olivier Giroud have come in and made minimal impact.