Sentences with phrase «cajoling american»

True to its title, Final Portrait chronicles, in tiresomely repetitious detail, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti's cajoling American writer James Lord to sit for what becomes Giacometti's final portrait.

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Cornyn has tried to cajole lawmakers to support the act to stop China using its «tentacles» to undermine American security through the acquisition of advanced technologies.

Sanchez played in a 2 - man frontline for Chile at the World Cup, and it was his goal scoring exploits for the South Americans that eventually cajoled Wenger into bringing him to the Emirates.

Thus, the dawning of this truth has cajoled Single American girls to look for husbands online.

For all of its simplemindedness and deck stacking, the film is distressingly well made — Pollack is no artist, but he has a glistening technique (there aren't many American directors left who know how to plan their shots for such smooth cutting) and a strong sense of how to hold, cajole, and gratify an audience.

Educators also need to encourage and cajole their professional organizations (e.g., National Council for the Social Studies, the American Historical Association, the American Sociological Association) to address other genocides in their official journals and to encourage the inclusion of such topics / issues at their annual conferences.

These are men who spent their salad days being cajoled, cussed out, and inspired by Carroll Shelby, building cars on a wing and a prayer in Shelby American's impossibly cramped, 10,000 - square - foot shop in Venice.

In the mid-70s, when Weisman couldn't cajole the staid board of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) into raising its sights beyond William Randolph Hearst's medieval furniture and Walt Disney's American Impressionists, she organized a cabal of powerful collectors — including Eli Broad, Douglas Cramer, Lenore Greenberg, and Beatrice Gersh — and founded MOCA.