Very convincing, as an argument

Usage examples of persuasive.

He said he would guarantee me an income of ten thousand crowns per annum if I succeeded in making the king change his mind, and by way of encouragement he recalled to my mind the effect of my persuasive powers at Paris seven years before.

He was still cautious about this undertaking, but Tyndall had been persuasive, explaining how lucrative the pearling industry wasthough not without risks, for it was dangerous work with no guarantees.

Gandhi himself and many of his followers would claim that the techniques of Satyagraha are only a marshalling of the forces of sympathy, public opinion, and the like, and that they are persuasive rather than coercive.

THE FOURTH BOOK Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope So oft, and the persuasive rhetoric That sleeked his tongue, and won so much on Eve, So little here, nay lost.

This may be the most persuasive argument of all in Amman, Riyadh, and the Gulf capitals.

It was Claire Duhamel, a persuasive French woman who sold bonds for Banque de Lausanne et Geneve, known as BLG.

Knowing that the Hotel Metrolite did not specialize in offices, Diane was loath to comply, but Cardiff put reassurance into his jackish smile and added a few persuasive sentences.

That movie turned out to be effective persuasive writing, precisely because the characters were so believable.

Army and Air Force staff chiefs of various commands who formed a younger set on which he believed he could count after he had treated it to his persuasive oratory.

Hoping to further the turmoil, Hiddukel went to Chislev, goddess of woodlands and nature, and-in bis best persuasive manner-convinced her that doom was at hand.

The persuasive titillation of his mouth and tongue blunted her will to resist, and though she relished each blissful stroke that strummed across the gutstrings of her being, she strove desperately to gather the scattered fragments of her wits.

Third, they so miscited past precedents, and wrenched them so out of their historical context, as to make a mockery out of the rule of precedent and the requirement that if past precedent is to be overruled, the Court must provide honest and persuasive reasons for breaking with the past.

Thus I was relieved and grateful when feminists such as Jacqueline Rose and Jane Gallop, in the late seventies and early eighties, performed ingenious and persuasive readings of Lacan as critic of phallocracy, rather than advocate.

Eyes and fingers speak in its favor, visual evidence and palpableness do, too: this strikes an age with fundamentally plebian tastes as fascinating, persuasive, and convincing - after all, it follows instinctively the canon of truth of eternally popular sensualism.

Do you know -- and this is no persuasive lie -- even when hundreds of women were available for testing, Ty has never found two plausible queens at the same time!