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

And consensus expressed as a simple, stark number can be a powerful persuader.

From The Verge • Mar. 2, 2018

The wise persuader starts from one or two commonplaces he knows he has in common with his audience—and, where possible, arrives at one too.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith