Persuasions

Yet for a gang so caught up in persuasions and reversals, the dynamic seldom shifts from the same high, arid plain. ❋ Nelson Pressley (2010)

“Trip to Asia—The Quest for Harmony”: A must-see for music lovers of all persuasions is Thomas Grube’s documentary of the mighty Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s symphonic trek through Asia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What he hit on with this is a worry that affects urbanists of all persuasions, which is about the neo-Jeffersonian attack on cities from "greens" who often seem to want cities to go away, or to become unlike cities, even as current research has shown that dense cities use energy and other resources quite efficiently. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many of the short little commentaries are infected by the lazy trick of pundits of all persuasions, which is to pluck a tidbit of outrage from a news item—a welfare queen who cheats the system, the federal agency that spent $64,000 on remodeled washrooms—and use it as a basis for policymaking or as a whipping boy for the idiocy of government. ❋ Walter Isaacson (2009)

Of course a few percent will likely be of all political persuasions, that is a truism, so logically correct as to not need to be stated in the company of people of normal intelligence .... question is, why make an argument about something not arguable? ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I think this, Van Ariens: Philadelphia may win the vote at this time; she has the numbers, and she has 'persuasions'; but look you! ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)

The latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found that the impact of trade and outsourcing is one of the only issues on which Americans of different classes, occupations and political persuasions agree. ❋ Lori Wallach (2010)

Why not be a little more upfront about your political persuasions? ❋ Unknown (2009)

My homepages on Facebook and Netflix only vaguely resemble yours because our interests and persuasions differ. ❋ Angie McQuaig (2010)