unconvincingly

• “Spock’s perfect concentration was broken; he glanced over at McCoy, his expression unconvincingly calm, clearly expecting the worst.”

  Simon & Schuster: Demons

• “Yet Palin unconvincingly blames her political enemies — including those questioning whether she was really the mother of her last child — for forcing her July resignation as governor, for the good of Alaska.”

  'Rogue' Palin hints at ambitions

• “As far as we can tell, all the elimination decisions rest solely with the public for the remainder of X Factor, which leaves Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne with little more to do than squabble amongst themselves in unconvincingly stage-managed ways.”

  X Factor Betting Odds: Simon And Dannii, Sitting In A Tree?

• “The correct view is exactly the opposite-if McCain knows the truth, doesn't really believe what he's saying and tells lies unconvincingly, that is evidence of the far deeper corruption of the man.”

  Later On

• “Humperdinck's take on Sleeping Beauty reconfigures it unconvincingly as a version of Parsifal, writes Andrew Clements”

  The Guardian: Anna Nicole - review

• “Also, Jordan Dorsey, he who last sang an Usher song so unconvincingly he seemed to give up about half way through the song.”

  The Washington Post: 'American Idol' 2011: Lucky 13 [Updated w/ Poll]

• “I wached some special on the History channel the other night where a lot of people were very unconvincingly trying to convince the world of this.”

  Mushroom Hunter Meets Mountain Lion

• “Davies overplays the part unconvincingly (but it really is a bizarre performance that has to be seen to be believed).”

  Weekly Mishmash: August 9-15 : Scrubbles.net

• “George Is Dead," which features Marlo Thomas as a self-centered socialite who is thrust without warning into widowhood, starts out like a bloated version of one of the satirical comedy routines that Ms. May used to do with Mike Nichols back in the 1950s, then lurches unconvincingly into pseudo-seriousness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: You Hear the One About the Hunchback?

• “Mr. Bollen has to keep a lot of balls in the air, and he ultimately loses his touch in an unconvincingly violent and coincidence-layered ending.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rootless Urban Transplants

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