Sentences with word «unpersuasive»

I find this argument unpersuasive.

It was a minority opinion to be sure, but a second viewing was unpersuasive in uncovering the film's supposed positive values.

Yet the primer also found unpersuasive the arguments being used by skeptics, including the possibility that temperatures were only appearing to rise because of flawed climate records.

When that would - be persuasive communication fails to achieve its intended results, it becomes unpersuasive communication.

So it's a very unpersuasive argument, once you start looking into it.

This is simply unpersuasive, and nowhere near as good as the nursery rhyme prayer «Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.»

Those who also believe in what the Bible says either already agree with you or know a different verse that supports their position, and those who don't will find your argument irrelevant and therefore completely unpersuasive.

I wish I could help him and others who talk this way to see why, to a gay American in 2012, their approach seems not only unpersuasive but also callous.

The 2009 Royal Society report, dominated by geoengineering researchers, treated it as an uncertain effect that may even work the opposite way, and referred to some distinctly unpersuasive focus - group results suggesting that individuals may increase their efforts to cut their emissions if governments invested more in geoengineering.

In such a perspective the just - war theory of Augustine and the sexual restrictions of the Roman Catholic Church are equally unpersuasive, and, indeed, are themselves immoral!

Sehat's reliance on individual «rights» as protectors of religious freedom is unpersuasive when these «rights» are divorced from their historical» largely Christian» context.

This is a book that has everything going for it except its arbitrarily imposed» and quite unpersuasive» thesis.

The anti-closure camp generally counters with a trio of time - worn and ultimately unpersuasive assertions.

As unpersuasive as Behe's ideas are scientifically, they are even less convincing philosophically.

Marshall is forced to fall back on psychobabble because the political case for environmentalism has proved unpersuasive.

Advancing his own profession as a social scientist, Fischhoff expresses his concern that the climate scientists» advocacy «might be like shouting at people who speak a different language, thus losing their trust while conveying little content, resulting in unpersuasive communication.»

And his excuses, the arbitrator ruled, were «micro-quibbles of a few unpersuasive explanations.»

Unfortunately for Lance, «his guarded and unpersuasive performance is unlikely to convince officials to rescind his lifetime ban from sports.»

A federal judge found this theory unpersuasive and, in 2014, dismissed all of Huon's claims against Gawker, but permitted him to pursue some claims against Above the Law.

The insistence that we treat Christianity only within its own history (and study religion only through Christianity) remains unpersuasive because it simply begs the question of the proper context for the study of religion and the doing of theology.

(I found the attempts by others, such as Roger Rosenblatt, Ronald Dworkin, and Laurence Tribe, to design such a reconciliation to be wholly unpersuasive.)

The equation between compassion and increased government expenditure is increasingly unpersuasive.

The committee also found the arguments for introducing the bill somewhat unpersuasive.

Mayor Bloomberg's latest defense of the Ground Zero mosque is passionate and detailed and, once again, com pletely unpersuasive.

«The bare facts of NYCHA's failure to conduct lead inspections and the false reporting that followed are unacceptable on their own terms, but I have also found subsequent explanations of these failures to be singularly unpersuasive,» James wrote to Olatoye.

The idea that a hung parliament after the next general election will enable Labour and the Lib Dems to come seamlessly together and introduce a fairer electoral system is very seductive to many, but historically unpersuasive.

Telling them they are clowns or morons (as I have done many times) is self - indulgent and clearly unpersuasive.

«Unpopular government, unpersuasive opposition» — Peter Kellner on public opinion & the economy (Comments: 18)

A thudding dud, crammed with clunky dialogue, bad acting and gruesome but unpersuasive gore.

Joe Wright's adaptation is diligent, faithful, sweeping, full of witty retorts, generally well cast, and yet emotionally unpersuasive.

Perhaps sensing this, Bigelow offers a few literal - minded and unpersuasive crosscuts between the narratives late in the film.

Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day - Lewis, graying, fastidious, never unpersuasive) rules his private corner of London's 1950s haute fashion world.

The fact that better readers enjoy reading more than poor readers — and that the relationship stands up even after boatloads of covariates are poured into a regression equation — is unpersuasive evidence of causality.

The court found the prison's justifications unpersuasive.

Scholars such Goodwin Liu, now a justice on the California Supreme Court, have generated creative but unpersuasive alternative histories of the Fourteenth Amendment just for that purpose.

Other myths, like «Anyone Can Be a Teacher» or «Teachers Are Poorly Served by the Universally Dreadful Teacher - Education Programs Currently Available» are similarly overdrawn, making their subsequent debunkings unpersuasive.

But he also said, «The Court finds the answer to the question of how many courts go in one direction or the other to be unpersuasive whatever the outcome.»

Judith Lean, the solar scientist, finds Kaufmann's work unpersuasive and unnecessarily critical of China.

Assuming that the pension plans can be read as requiring active service as a prerequisite for the accrual of pension benefits, I find unpersuasive the argument that this precludes damages as compensation for lost pension benefits.