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And Hanns Eisler, a Stravinsky associate whose radical politics saw him expelled from the United States in 1948, brought to his score for Alain Resnais’s 1955 Holocaust documentary, “Night and Fog,” a neutrality almost untenable to modern listeners accustomed to more emotionally suasive scoring.

In addition to all the attractions of the tree, and as though there were not enough, there is a subtle serpent gifted with suasive speech, who, either wiser or more truthful than the All-perfect Deity, says that although God has threatened immediate death as the consequence of disobedience to his command, yet they “shall not die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

Ministers of religion as well as physicians have always wielded with authority the suasive power.

A printed volume, enforced by the suasive rhetoric of its two producers, gives to one side an unfair advantage.

As an orator, he was denunciatory rather than suasive; thus while on the one hand he powerfully impressed, on the other hand he stimulated opposition.