He cannot be unreal -- the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

It is true that intuition has a convincingness which is lacking to intellect: while it is present, it is almost impossible to doubt its truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference

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?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quiet American]

This is the reason of the convincingness of his characters, their dramatic truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference

But it is very possible that when Mr. La Farge wrote conviction he meant to say convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

But while DH levels don't set a lower bound on the convincingness of a reply, they do set an upper bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Disagree] Reference

Platonist is made so perhaps less by the convincingness of Plato's logic, than by the inevitable and irrefutable grace of his dramatic art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, in developed and convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession] Reference

In that case her modesty does indeed reinforce her convincingness, and not detract from it, but it does so by reducing the claim that this is a Michelangelo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

These states are not simply unpleasant sensations, for they bring "a feeling of coming from a deeper region and often have an appalling convincingness" (V, 136).    From Wordnik.com.  [William James] Reference

There is, however, a certain peculiarity in the essence of beauty, a peculiarity in the status of art: namely, the convincingness of a true work of art is completely irrefutable and it forces even an opposing heart to surrender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture] Reference

And a fresh break is made in Mr. Masefield's convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference

"It's my property," the latter asserted with an air of legal convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 30] Reference

I dare say that he would justify the device with great skill and convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference

Absolutely impersonal reasons would be in duty bound to show more general convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

But the convincingness and earth-rooted humanity of the others is once more beyond cavil or dispute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II] Reference

Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

Milton, too, describes an Inferno, but it lacks the convincingness of one who has seen it for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platform Monologues] Reference

His own faith in it lent a certain convincingness to his words and Norine Evans hung upon them entranced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow's End] Reference

I spoke of the convincingness of these feelings of reality, and I must dwell a moment longer on that point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

Yes, there the assurance stood, circumstantial, in all the convincingness of the sturdy, small black type.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend Prospero] Reference

As a show it lacked convincingness -- except the delicatessen-shop, whose sights and odors silenced criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your United States Impressions of a first visit] Reference

Whilst I thought it started promisingly, it seemed to come off the rails half way through and steadily lose convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [DVD Times] Reference

It almost seemed to the captain that the blissful moment had already arrived, such was the persuasive convincingness of McCoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Sea Tales] Reference

Everybody endeavored to find reason for the situation, but none had been presented which seemed of sufficiently logical convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Tembarom] Reference

As has been already said, the greater part of them over-estimated their convincingness, but they could not but see that they did not, in fact convince.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession] Reference

There's a lack of convincingness behind the plot here, reducing it to something really quite childish, and that's the biggest complaint I have with this episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference

No doubt it was that power which gave later to his group of historical plays (written by him between the ages of thirty and thirty-five) their convincingness and authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Portions] Reference

One hopes, for a time, that Margaret herself will save the situation: but she goes off instead of coming on, and has rather less individuality and convincingness at the end of the story than at the beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Novel] Reference

There are also parts of the court speeches in which the orator seems to have calculated out all the possible methods of meeting a particular case, and to be applying them in turn with more ingenuity than convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1] Reference

They disengage, in their talk, in their profound seriousness, in their sense of humour, in the sound organization of their industry, and in their calm assurance -- they disengage a convincingness that is powerful beyond debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference

Or is Pauline, for all her convincingness, a pure creature of imagination? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal's Snuff-Box] Reference

It had an overpowering dramatic convincingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference