"It's my property," the latter asserted with an air of legal
convincingness.
It almost seemed to the captain that the blissful moment had already arrived, such was the persuasive
convincingness of McCoy.
The best are most impressive for their illusionistic
convincingness, a technical achievement that recalls Marilyn Levine's astonishing 'leather' goods.
at 691-92 (describing the burden of persuasion as having two components: the risk of non-persuasion, or "the consequence that flows if a burden of persuasion is not met," and the standard of proof, or "the quality of
convincingness").
the Committee strove to sort out the factual situations or patterns that had recurred in class actions and appeared with varying degrees of
convincingness to justify treatment of the class in solido.
[I]ntuitionism claims that the best way to explain both the
convincingness and the persistence of certain moral beliefs, such as the promise principle, is to assert that they are self-evidently true.
'I am therefore of opinion that after one has taken into account the untrustworthiness, credulity and
convincingness of most of these reports, together with the possibility of falsifications of memory facilitated by emotional causes and the inevitability of a few lucky shots, it may be anticipated that the spectre of veridical prophetic dreams will disappear into nothing' (SE 19:135).
Judgments of logical soundness and pragmatic
convincingness as related to standard 3 component syllogisms and to enthymemes.
The following pages, behold, give you our version of the Biblical story, if not with the same poetic force and, I don't mean to sound pro domo, with considerable vigour, applied
convincingness and especially with a new understanding of how the world by and large works today: hardly in black and white only, mostly in gray.
Ammons registers his sense of the cost of any more organized religion with a glance at Stevens: "if truth is colorless, fictions / need be supreme, real supreme with hot-shot
convincingness / and lashes laid on lavishly for the doubter" (57.7-9).