This means that no suasive grounds in reason exist that would also make it plausible. From Wordnik.com. [Atheism] Reference
The virtue of AOA as opposed to OA is that AOA is sufficiently suasive to ensure economic commitment and participation. From Wordnik.com. [Almost Open Access] Reference
“My dear,” said Aunt Margaret, the next morning, speaking in her most suasive tone, “your Cousin Tom is to be allowed to call here.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
"With Joat," Amos said, and then in a far more per - suasive and loving tone, "although it is not well for a child to be alone, without brothers and sisters ...". From Wordnik.com. [The City Who Fought]
About the best one can say for it is that it depends on substantial and moot principles of Aristotelian metaphysics, and, in any case, as a suasive argument, begs the question. From Wordnik.com. [Dialetheism] Reference
In regard to speech a man may study all that which may make him suasive, but if he go beyond that he will trench on those histrionic efforts, which he will know to be wrong because he will be ashamed to acknowledge them. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
There are acknowledged no authoritative classes or synods, in common, great, difficult cases, and in matters of appeals, but only suasive and consultative; and in case advice be not followed, they proceed only to a non-communion. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
Aristotle's time is hierarchically anterior to events in it and even to our awareness of it; and Aristotle is much more per - suasive than Newton in his expostulations that time is intrinsically continuous, and that this continuity is. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Heard suasive pleas, and Zeus through them resolved. From Wordnik.com. [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference
Could blandest suasive eloquence have saved France, she were saved. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
It was impossible to meet any one more suasive and agreeable; his suavity was penetrating as his small dark eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
So spoke the great advocate with suasive eloquence -- with eloquence dangerously suasive as regarded his own happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
"My dear," said Aunt Margaret, the next morning, speaking in her most suasive tone, "your Cousin Tom is to be allowed to call here.". From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
Mike sat beneath the plane-trees, and the suasive silence, sweetly tuned by the dripping water, murmured in his soul dismal sorrowings. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
She had "the art of a suasive tongue," and most engaging manners, but "her words were only words, and all her tears were water" (canto 7). From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
They made the walls of Paris didactic, suasive, with an ever fresh Periodical Literature, wherein he that ran might read: Placard Journals, Placard Lampoons. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Schopenhauer's poem, of the denial of the will to live, he felt creeping upon him, like sleep upon tired eyelids, all the sweet and suasive fascination of death. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
And Kotkin's interpretation of American exceptionalism offers a suasive rejoinder to the idea that it will be China, not the United States, that is dominant in 2050. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Armenia's cause found a forcible and suasive pleader in Boghos Pasha, whose way of marshaling arguments in favor of a contention that was frowned upon by many commanded admiration. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
Thomas, an aspiring soul, in the flush of those discursive hopes and speculations which make ambitious youth restless, Burr employed his usual suasive arts, hopeful of winning a recruit. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett] Reference
George uttered a suasive appeal for moderation, and expressed the hope that in his speech to the Italian Chamber, Signor Orlando would not forget to say that a satisfactory solution may yet be found. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
Prisoner of Zenda ") which a suasive real-estate man once tried to rent to us. From Wordnik.com. [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference
(from London), written with the old suasive facility; which however do not persuade. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
A speaker of the suasive school. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
And her words sweet-suasive plead. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference
And with sweet words suasive doth plead. From Wordnik.com. [Rampolli] Reference
And in wing'd accents suasive thus began. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
Meet judges for this cause and suasive pleas. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
No, though more suasive than the bard of Thrace. From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
suasive no more. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
’Twas by such suasive sounds inspir’d. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
"Well, I know how per - suasive he can be. From Wordnik.com. [Ilse Witch]
Controversy ensued, haughty, magisterial, domineering, on the part of Bossuet; on the part of Fénelon, meek, docile, suasive. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Never, according to Besenval, or hardly ever, had such display of intellect, dexterity, coolness, suasive eloquence, been made by man. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Christopherus Columbus spoke, -- tall, powerful, gaunt, white-headed, gray-eyed, trusted because he himself so trusted, suasive, filled with the power of his vision. From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
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