persuasive

But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.

He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives;

That would be twenty-seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.

Those four words carried not only a lot of complex information, but also the persuasive force of a proverb.

The weak point of this book is that it's less than persuasive when the married author recommends not being married.

Tom knew that Mary could be very persuasive.