Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn't watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I'm afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.
Quotes about cajoling (6 Quotes)
It's gentle cajoling rather than arm twisting.
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.
We did a lot of arm-twisting and cajoling. She doesn't do many recitals, and most of her work is in Europe, and I got the distinct impression that she isn't the kind to go from city to city, doing a concert each night.
given the circumstances, the environment, the sense that we were responding to 911, and all of the urgency that was created by the rhetoric and cajoling of the administration.
Finally, after months and months and months of begging, cajoling, writing letters, we're finally going to be able to have phase two of the investigation regarding how the intelligence was used to lead us into the intractable war in Iraq,