If you saved a poinsettia from last year's holidays, October's the time to start coaxing it back into bloom. |
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Our French photographers swooped in, coaxing her into fun, flattering clothes and complimenting her in their soothing accents. |
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Finally, after ten minutes of coaxing, she got me to the doorstep of my house and hesitantly I pressed the doorbell. |
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It took very little coaxing to get Clyde to bring his dowsing rods to the next class. |
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If they are to be authors, shouldn't we be coaxing them towards the mainstream prizes rather than the ghetto-fabulous hit parade? |
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Sometimes, in calm seas, when the outboard stuttered and needed coaxing with frequent plug de-oilings, Angus would row the boat. |
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Jones proves to be a sympathetic director, coaxing Pepper to one of his most convincing performances as a callous, black-hearted wretch. |
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Under Rather's gentle coaxing, Southards described slaughtering Vietnamese civilians, making his work appear to be that of the North Vietnamese. |
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The charities are brutally businesslike in coaxing dollars from the wallets of the super-rich. |
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Today's shifting is nearly effortless thanks to precise spring-loaded mechanisms coaxing the chain from one gear to the next. |
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We finger-styled Tamara's hair fresh out of the shower, coaxing out the natural wave in her otherwise pin-straight hair. |
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Blanche wormed the details out of a very reluctant Stella with much coaxing and promising of new clothes. |
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Zeke brought his mouth to mine again, this time coaxing me to wrap him in an embrace. |
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To a Latin American, it might mean coaxing life from marginal soil that becomes more degraded with every planting. |
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For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy. |
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I occupied myself in coaxing a very cross fire to burn, which at last it did, quite brightly. |
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Despite the fact he was only thirteen, it seemed the young prince was already a Casanova in the making, an expert at coaxing and cajoling girls. |
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When that coaxing didn't work, he asserted his authority, made the most of his status and simply stomped his feet, demanding more. |
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Granted, they're probably concentrating on coaxing surrenders from conscript units on the front, but this is a task that cannot be ignored. |
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It was his father who saw his potential and started cajoling and coaxing him into playing. |
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She cocked her head to one side with a sly smile, like a toddler coaxing a treat from a grownup. |
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He is adept at coaxing performances from actors with little or no experience. |
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His timing remained exquisite, expertly coaxing laughs from the bleakest onscreen situation. |
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He uses a prepared piano on a number of tracks, sometimes coaxing harpsichord-like timbres from it. |
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He nodded, and soon she went about her work, coaxing the muddy roots from the ground for springtime use. |
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After coaxing them to the surface with your feet, it's a simple matter of reaching down and scooping them up. |
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After coaxing the bird on to his arm, he started to make his way back home. |
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She knew no greater thrill than coaxing a child from the womb, and receiving it alive into her own hands, wet, warm and squirming. |
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My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar. |
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Reaching beyond the comfort zone can take a lot of coaxing and frustration. |
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Repeating attempts of such a coaxing will not be tolerated and will result in deleting of affiliate account. |
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He is so proud of his accomplishment that it takes some coaxing from his father before he is willing to flush the toilet. |
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DiMarco proves himself a capable director by sticking neophyte actors in extreme situations and then coaxing sober, appropriate responses from them. |
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She hypnotized Cory with her free spirit, freer hair, and asinine name, coaxing him out of his shell and into love with her. |
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Tippett uses a prepared piano on a number of tracks, sometimes coaxing harpsichord-like timbres from it, and sometimes producing sounds that are decidedly more eerie. |
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We actually were puddling around in a metre and a half of water, with water up to our chests, coaxing cows along fence lines and onto races and back to safety. |
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Later, I fell asleep to the sound of Lhoucine gently coaxing his camel and faint ululating from a distant stone cottage. |
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He is a genial companion, coaxing the reader through unfamiliar material and finding colour, humour and literary appeal in the most unlikely places. |
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The driver in his black suit, white shirt, and black tie shook the reins, coaxing the white horses ahead. |
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Mondavi also realized the value of coaxing trophy names from Bordeaux into opening wineries in Napa. |
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Rather, he's like a clever magician coaxing not doves but beautiful sound from a secret place. |
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I love this beginning bit, the thought of softening all that hard material, of coaxing a garden out of the solidness. |
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She took over the Center's public shows, coaxing brilliant swoops and dives for schoolkids and anyone else who would watch, enchanted as much as her audience. |
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The principal of a traditional public school is not charged with coaxing capital funds out of voters, scoping out real estate, or overseeing construction. |
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With the minimum of fuss, two masseurs, working in unison, applied hot medicated oils over my body and set about the task of coaxing the knots out of my protesting muscles. |
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Someone had pointed her out to Father Maurice Kwairanga who was coaxing her to speak. |
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But coaxing them from power does not require adding the bonus of a safe tea in London with Lady Thatcher. Which brings in the third argument. |
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Where births continue to decline, coaxing the old to continue to work will be only a partial answer. |
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The heated ergonomic laying surface with the coaxing soft pillows will spoil you at the highest level of comfort. |
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In his research, Dr. Arsenault focused on coaxing the glass microspheres in photonic crystals to self-assemble using chemical techniques. |
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It ameliorated through the 1980s. its bouquet needs a little coaxing, but fragrant. |
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But soon he began documenting his entire life, recording dinner parties, conversations, and coaxing his wife into bed. |
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The named individuals have resorted to coaxing players to quit after encountering stumbling blocks with the clubs in securing the release of the players for trials abroad. |
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Guided by an inner-something that could only have been instinct, she was soon making silly noises and coaxing delighted squeals from the little tyrant. |
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Many of his memories of his homeland are of sitting in traffic jams or waiting in lineups that ate up time he would have preferred to spend coaxing notes from his guitar. |
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In her films the emotional and the political blend, in an intense, unique cinematic experience, coaxing questions from the viewer about issues of our time, both universal and personal. |
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It may require additional mediation or outright coaxing from the project manager for this to happen without further adverse conditions on the evaluation process. |
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The wisenheimer coaxing those light laughs is Adam's best friend, Kyle, played and sometimes bellowed by a shaggy Seth Rogen with his familiar mix of affability, innocence and vulgarity. |
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Naturally, the situation in Belarus still remains serious, but we need to recognise that one way of coaxing Belarus towards the European Union is to recognise and respond to Mr Lukashenko's overtures. |
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This may even come to be a way of coaxing Vietnam into greater democracy. |
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After a little coaxing for Johansson, the Swedes entered the inner sanctum of the panda nursery for a quick visit to see the newborns in their incubators and then it was off to meet the star of the day. |
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Then, they took a trip down memory lane, coaxing veteran metal producer Scott Burns out of retirement and working with him at their old stomping ground, Morrisound studios in Tampa, Florida. |
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Even Mr. de Pury's clever, coaxing manner couldn't scare up any interest. |
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Called Wakey Wakey, the application is a video alarm clock that features lingerie-clad Anderson saucily coaxing the user to get out of bed. |
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For the occasion, the Museum has called on guitarist and electroacoustic composer Martin Leclerc to pay tribute by coaxing music from the horns of ships moored in the Quays of the Old Port during this unusual symphony. |
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The big righthander got out of that jam, coaxing Vernon Wells into a soft lineout to third and Adam Lind into a flyball out. |
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Two lines of approach being considered to regenerate beta cells are spurring the body to copy existing functioning beta cells and coaxing the pancreas to create new ones. |
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The boater was very scared because there were water moccasins in the water, but after a little coaxing from Rockwell he made his way over. |
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His function is to assist the parties in resolving any disputes, without providing subjective opinions on the issues, but rather coaxing them into analysing thoroughly the merits of their cases. |
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The approach ended up being one of coaxing the process forward and the partners to act rather than a strong push by force of money or political pressure. |
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As for your question about family responsibility, I think there is ample evidence that this family may have contributed to brainwashing him, to manipulating him, and perhaps to coaxing him into becoming a jihadist. |
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Gazing down at the churned-up field ahead, I saw two champion rotovators who need no coaxing to turn over soil. |
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In the third fire bay he found Sawdon and Towers crouched down over a small fire made out of shredded sandbags and candle ends, coaxing the flames. |
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