It dates only from the sixteenth century, and is quite unconvincing as to any art expression which its builders may have possessed.
In spite of this, however, there is very little inspiration to be derived from a study of this quite unconvincing cathedral, locally known as the Eglise de la Sede.
These date from the eleventh century, while succeeding eras, of a mixed and none too pure an architectural style, culminate in presenting a singularly unconvincing and cold church edifice.
It applies to the works of those speculative philosophers who have denied the empirical origin of man's moral feeling, and who have had recourse to subtle and unconvincing theories in order to assign a supernatural origin to the moral senses.
She has also to learn how impossible it will be for the ordinary mind to accept the unconvincing and contradictory expositions of the Faith which are now offered to us under the title of Christian apologetics.
If we grant Berkeley his premisses, the main lines of his argument are fairly cogent, however unconvincing may be his own positive views.
Her majesty was as superficial and unconvincing as everything else about her.
They seldom "showed" her into any room, nor did they dream of acting before her the unconvincing comedy of going to "see" whether masters or mistresses were out or in.
It is in unconvincing Gothic, with nothing remarkable about its constructive elements, and little or nothing with respect to its details.
The high altar is decorated with some good sculptures, and there are a series of paintings, which might be modern, or might be ancient, so far as their unconvincing merits go.
The drawing, however, is so very sensitive in this canvas that it makes good for the unconvincing anaemic colour scheme.
Stuck's "Nocturne" is affected and unconvincing and scarcely representative of this master's style.
Joan made an unconvincing effort at speaking casually: "A man named Matthias--a playwright, I believe.
She would shed tears over harrowing but unconvincing narratives of destitution at the back door.
Unjust and unconvincing though his arguments are, and inspired by theological motives, his thesis nevertheless deserves to be noted as an assertion of the progress of man in social morality.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Even when one untangles the plots from the maze of circumstance in which he involves them, they are unconvincing because they are so deficient in human motive.
Timrod as a youthful versifier passed through his period of unconvincing extravagance, and even in his earlier work showed by occasional flashes that he had his own gift for expression as well as a receptive mind for poetry.
And for the first time in her life she glanced uneasily at the new page in the book of self, numbered according to her years with the figures 23, and headed with the unconvincing chapter title, "Love.
Nasty knock for me," he admitted, with a curiously unconvincingnote of gloom in his tone.
That's all right, Dick," Jacob answered, with unconvincing cheerfulness.
Well, that's that," gulped Pennington, with an unconvincing laugh.
It doesn't matter a bit," said Carpenter, in a rather unconvincing voice.
Jan made no reply beyond an unconvincing little laugh; of plain denial he looked as incapable as he actually was, in his surprise at so shrewd a thrust.
If these and similar pronouncements were well founded, the play as a cross-section of life would have the great weakness of being unconvincing at a very vital point.
Unconvincing precipitancy in the conduct of situations marks his work elsewhere, notably in the Amends for Ladies.
Result: earlier acts, largely of exposition and talk, or of illustrative action slight and unconvincing because characters forced into a crucial situation can hardly reveal how they brought themselves to it.
When Nathaniel Rowe produced his Ambitious Stepmother in 1700, Charles Gildon bitterly attacked it as unconvincing in its very fundamentals.
Of course, conduct initially unconvincing may be so treated as to become entirely satisfactory.
The others, from their fitful unconvincing talk, their expressions of being slowly and painfully smothered, seemed to be suffering from the toil of social life and the horror of good food as much as himself.
She was perhaps forty; her hair was an unconvincing ash-blond; and if her chest was flat, her hips were ponderous.
Ted woke to grin, and to mutter with unconvincing defiance, "Good morning!
When the sisters-in-law had embraced, with that unconvincing fulsomeness which is apt to result from a charitable act of oblivion, Janet turned lovingly to George and asked after his mother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unconvincing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
