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There are plenty more details which contradict the broadly naturalistic designs, and give the feeling of a theatrical universe which is only half-convincing.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 18, 2011

She then enlisted my father—the family’s resident artist—to paint a series of orange flames on pieces of very thin rice paper, which, when backlit with a lightbulb, made for a half-convincing fire.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

He was no poet of the people, but a scholar vagabond, loving the gutter; and so he has the sincerity of the artist as well as the only half-convincing sincerity of the man.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur