Sentences with phrase «cajoling with»

The energy was evident, as various agents walked by the front desk interacting, laughing and cajoling with the front desk staff.

Using these programs, we can close as fast as 7 days if necessary, although we certainly prefer not to, as it requires a lot of cajoling with respect to our appraisers.

Armed with a battery of classics from Rodgers and Hammerstein's famous score, Forbush attempts to wash that man right out of her hair, while Cable cajoles with the men in affirming that there's nothin» like a dame... especially when you're planning some enchanted evening.

He uses color, he uses the camera, he uses film in the most exceptional and unimaginable ways and he has this great imagination and this great power to put on 2D what is actually 3D and he confuses us and he plays with us and he cajoles with us,» opined Estelle Lovatt, art critic.

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Others confuse marketing with the need to convince, cajole, and push»n' sell.

Now Carney's predecessor is trying to cajole Canadian companies to do something productive with their profits.

We imagine sitting round a dinner table with them, only instead of cajoling them into eating a cream cracker, we'll be sharing wine with them, talking about why they like it, hearing them make jokes, and asking them about their travel plans.

The Civic Center was filled with everything that made Chicago such an exhilarating and alarming city — jostling, shouting, joking, cajoling, backslapping, backstabbing, bargaining, dealing, favors granted, grudges paid with interest, intimidation, bribery, conciliation, grand gestures, obscene remarks, and the occasional spontaneous act of generosity.

We use color, action, typography, design, words, sounds — to surprise, cajole, titillate, bribe or bludgeon our audience into getting involved with us.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

In the real world, Smith demonstrates that patients requesting assisted death are more likely to be suffering from untreated depression, and are more likely to be cajoled into their decision by family members and medical personnel with decidedly mixed motives.

(eh eh) While I agree with you, let's give due credit: the organized religions have done a fine job of establishing an environment that invites, tricks, cajoles or forces gullible people to buy their fantasy, for the purpose of power and control.

Animists believe that various objects, such as stones, trees, mountains, or the sun — objects we would call inanimate — are actually suffused with supernatural spirits who must be propitiated and cajoled.

I liked it so much I even cajoled her into splitting a second slice with me!

Jurgen Klopp was on his feet for the whole game, cajoling his players and giving instructions, while Arsenal fans often complain that Wenger just sits there playing with his zipper and throwing water bottles, but this is positive proof that Wenger really can make a massive difference to what goes on out in the field.

Anyone concerned with either Arsenal or Man City will also have been a temporary fan of Norwich City this weekend, and not just in the hope of hearing a «tired and emotional» Delia Smith drunkenly cajoling the Norwich fans with a microphone.

With eating you can threaten or cajole, but at the end of the day, the child can clench his teeth, spit the food out or choke on it.

But instead of spending the rest of the evening catching up on your chores and clocking some precious time with your partner, you're in and out of your child's room, cajoling her to sleep.

As if we hadn't spent the past year doing the potty - training two - step, with rewards, encouragement, bribery, cajoling, trickery, and everything short of witchcraft to try to get our sweet girl to poo regularly in the toilet.

Oh, we can try; we can cajole, threaten, guide, educate, bribe with stickers, purchase 600 thread - count underpants for them and tell them about starving children in the world, but ultimately, we can not actually get inside their little brains and force them to eat, sleep, poop, pee, feel an emotion or get their period.

They had tried almost everything: encouraging, cajoling, rewarding, bribing and eventually insisting that he pick an activity and stick with it.

Chipper appears when you finally satisfy the gods of sleep and food, or at random and unsustainably inconvenient moments; like right at the end of a toddler play date, when the child you've spent two hours trying to cajole into playing with the other child finally decides to do so.

Cuomo said during a news conference this afternoon after meeting with his cabinet that the goal is to cajole legislators and convince the public to lobby their state representatives as well.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

So he cajoled his girlfriend Savino along with Valesky and an incoming freshman, Carlucci, to join him.

Both sides are confident: «Steve's message of fiscal responsibility and his record of cutting taxes and creating jobs has convinced the delegates that he is the one person who can win in November,» the Levy camp said Tuesday near the end of a day filled with cajoling delegates for support.

He has little more than a bully pulpit with which to persuade or cajole a firmly entrenched Legislature that is perfectly happy with the status quo and altogether adept at preserving it.

His legislative accomplishments as governor — same - sex marriage legalization, a gun control law, increases in the state's minimum wage — came after cajoling Republicans in the chamber, who hold a narrow majority there and have had to share power with the Independent Democratic Conference.

«The EU of those days was very different from the EU today... If Margaret were with us today she may not be leading Brexit but she certainly would be cajoling the leaders of the various campaigns to get their act together.

But, off stage, perhaps no elected official in New York spends more time on the telephone with reporters, calling them day and night, coaxing, massaging, disputing, and cajoling — always off the record.

In the Assembly, O'Donnell had cajoled, needled, commiserated, reasoned, flirted, and swelled with conviction.

She needed little cajoling to add her name to Parramore's petition, but said as long as Spitzer «didn't use public money for his sexual adventures,» she was fine with him on the ballot.

CAJOLING bored friends to keep playing with you is not limited to humans.

Instead, they've come to recognize that the genuine leader is just as likely to be the candidate who turns away with a smile and a casual joke, or the boss who cajoles her subordinates into beating their quarterly targets.

At the same time, as Lincoln is cajoling Mary into allowing her eldest son Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) to follow his own path into the military or reminding Robert himself of his father's influence — such that the son ends up assisting Ulysses S. Grant (Jared Harris) and not on a frontline — you see as well the sometimes unsettling intimacy with which he wangles his authority.

As Hunt removed the explosive piece of «gum» from his pocket, Kittridge told him that he had «bribed, cajoled, and killed» using loyalties on the inside: «You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me.

A reflective Rick laments his inertia, submitting to guilt - fuelled poolside parties with Hollywood's glitterati4, among them Antonio Banderas's Tonio, a serpentine smooth - talker sent to cajole him into sinful decadence.

Van Heflin is superb as the sour Horatio Alger, a former golden boy turned brutal opportunist willing to do anything to get what he's sure is due him, and he shifts from one pose to another to charm and cajole those around him with cold - blooded focus.

Even before a few Russian mobsters get in on the action, taking this loaded but legal enterprise in a more sordid direction, Molly has no shortage of greedy, overconfident men to cajole, spar with, counsel and occasionally turn the tables on.

The premise of the film is that divorced father Will Hayes (Reynolds, Smokin» Aces) is cajoled into relating the story in how he met his ex and the mother of his precocious daughter Maya (Breslin, No Reservations), who seems sure that she can get them back together if he could remember why he fell in love with her in the first place.

Aging ex-stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) has an unexplained grudge against such gals, and after cajoling them at an Austin bar, he lashes out on lonely roads with his battering - ram of a car.

One by one Gary cajoles, lies, tempts, and pleads with his old friends (Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan) to join him for one more night of debauchery which is interrupted by old arguments and alien robot replicants.

Carl ends up being a bit of a hothead jerk, with Dupree constantly needing to cajole him into loosening up a little and having some fun.

Events transpire that give Andrew the chance to succeed or fail, with Fletcher cajoling, threatening, flattering and inspiring Andrew in a brutal set of tests and tasks that comprise the kind of crucible that either makes one stronger or utterly destroys them...

The answer to that tricky question is to gather a bunch of bad people with interesting abilities and cajole / threaten them into becoming a fighting force for just such an occasion.

With a dogged determination and endless optimism, Eddie eventually cajoles the washed - up ski jumper turned alcoholic Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman) to become his coach and together they set their sights on qualifying and competing in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

They are a great team, with his ability to charm, cajole, and put people at ease teaching her a thing or two about the human side of the job and her genius putting together disparate clues into a pattern that eludes everyone else.

For her, advisories are critical: «Without the ability to form relationships with our students beyond just being their teacher, I don't think we could coax and cajole and do the work we do with them.»

In interviews with 40 principals, 37 admitted to using some type of harassing supervision — cajoling, pressuring or threatening — to get teachers to leave in order to circumvent the byzantine removal process mandated by the union contract.

So she bargains with them, perhaps cajoling a teacher into doing one part of a strategy if the leader will do the rest.