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"It's my property," the latter asserted with an air of legal convincingness.

His face froze for a moment, but then he picked up his cue with surprising convincingness.

It almost seemed to the captain that the blissful moment had already arrived, such was the persuasive convincingness of McCoy.

At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, is developed the convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story."

Mr. White imparts a very peculiar quality to his tales - an oblique sort of glamour which has its own distinctive type of convincingness.

Then, a few weeks later, Wully suddenly finds him-and revenge and forgiveness are reconciled in Miss Wilson's last pages with surprising convincingness.

A three-man jury of two people skilled in folk music and a non-folk-musician female judge score the contestants according to the following criteria: musical performance, charisma and convincingness.

Those visions, however, were of absorbing vividness and convincingness, and whenever he awaked he retained a vague sense of having undergone much more than he remembered.

The substance of the note was wholly insane, yet the manner of expression - in view of all that had gone before - had a grimly potent quality of convincingness.

He pulled down the corners of his mouth till his mustache-ends dropped a full inch, and lifted himself off his horse with a bored deliberation that was masterly in its convincingness.

If this Cathedral had existed tor five centuries instead of "two decades, would it have gathered a kind of convincingness with the scratches of feet and the erosion of weather?

But these cartoons have a convincingness, a truthfulness, and inevitability - attained as a rule by slight but definitive strokes of unexpected reality - that seems to beggar the visible world itself.

There was a convincingness about this sudden relapse into childishness that caused Valdemar to feel the hair rise on the back of his neck, an unpleasant sensation that even the demon had not managed to produce.

What he said was not to be believed, even in centuried and legend-haunted Arkham; but he threw out his dark lore with a sincerity and convincingness which made one fear for his sanity.

The challenge for evaluators is how to use those aspects of an anecdote that are effective for our work-the immediacy, the convincingness, the attention-getting quality-and, at the same time, fulfill other informational requirements for our jobs, such as generalizability and reliability.

X. The Modern Masters The best horror-tales of today, profiting by the long evolution of the type, possess a naturalness, convincingness, artistic smoothness, and skilful intensity of appeal quite beyond comparison with anything in the Gothic work of a century or more ago.