convincing
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He used to build his rosters by strutting up to future NBA stars and convincing them to head from high school to his training camps in Kentucky.
Upon the plane’s return to the U.S., its “suitcase nuke” triggered the Geiger counters at an airport in Maine, convincing a customs agent that a nuclear bomb was about to strike America.
But if the movie’s just-so fatalism is less than galvanizing, it’s also soberly convincing.
As chief financial officer, he was overseeing billions of dollars of investment to fix the problems regulators had identified while also convincing shareholders that Citi was getting back on track after the 2008 financial crisis.
Sterger said she’s seen a lot of character work fall flat, even in the “big leagues” when it comes to wrestling, just because they didn’t know how to be a convincing storyteller.
From Los Angeles Times
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