persuader

Example Sentences

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Weinberg is a world-class persuader, though, and a majority of the trustees and a surprising number of benefactors and city officials fell in love with Hammons’s ghost pier.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

In multiple, ragged television appearances, the would-be suave persuader has proved a constant, volcanic erupter of unproven assertions and emotional outbursts, yelling at interviewers and fellow panelists alike.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2019

In Bannon, Harnwell saw a gifted persuader — somebody he calls a “pioneer” and a “great genius.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2018

More than 60 of them appear in this big, beautiful, passionate show of art that functioned as seismic detector, political persuader and defensive weapon.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2018

The one thing that a Maven is not is a persuader.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell