Unconvincingly

At the end of the day, we’re a great power," Skabeyeva exclaimed, albeit unconvincingly, to an audience of head nodders and yes-men.

Iranian officials have unconvincingly claimed she died of natural causes after the patrol stuffed her in a van and carted her off to a grim detention center.

That decision paid off when Bradley Roberts went close after peeling off a driving lineout, then captain Steff Hughes kicked to the right wing for the unmarked Baldwin to (rather unconvincingly) dot down.

She shakes and shimmies as a smarmy male singer, while bikini-clad babes dance behind her or unconvincingly “play” instruments.

But it was another less than convincing performance from Alberto Zaccheroni’s side – who needed a late penalty from Ahmed Khalil to rescue a point in their opening game against Bahrain, before India were unconvincingly negotiated 2-0 on Thursday.

Valverde made four changes to the side that unconvincingly drew 0-0 with Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Tuesday, as a returning Messi started on the bench once more.

And, sure enough, what starts out as a straightforward if not unconvincingly enthusiastic typing tool veers off into appropriately surrealist territory.

Each of us has his time and place, I unconvincingly and almost mournfully repeated over and over to myself.

There’s absolutely nothing unusual about it,” he argued, rather unconvincingly.

Although the techniques originally used were distinctly amateurish – British agents would often pose unconvincingly as botanists or archaeologists – more professional tactics and systems were slowly put in place.

He batted unconvincingly and reached 28 when he hit a ball to Jack Ikin ; England believed it was a catch, but Bradman stood his ground, believing it to be a bump ball.