Friends canceling usual plans, dodging your calls, trying to wheedle you into that "Fierce & Fabulous" class again.
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Some Brexiteers dismiss the border question as a ploy by Ireland and "Remoaners" to wheedle a soft Brexit.
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In this weakened state, she lets her husband, Chris, a serial cheater, wheedle her into giving him another chance.
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The only road I would barricade is going to the bride to wheedle a plus-one out of her.
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A scrawny old-time Village-hipster type was driving the nurses crazy about something, likely trying to wheedle drugs.
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His journalistic coups revealed an uncanny ability to wheedle incriminating remarks from defensive suspects and damning observations from unfriendly witnesses.
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Through these questions, you can eventually wheedle out what style will make them happiest and (just as importantly) suit their needs.
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Through these questions,you can eventually wheedle out what style will make them happiest and (just as importantly) suit their needs.
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Since China's long-established banks lend mostly to companies, without the MYbank loan he would have had to wheedle loans from his friends.
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Turns out the boat wasn't stalled at all — Bobby had disabled it precisely so he could wheedle the truth out of this ingrate.
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Parents who have gone through this process themselves, and have the time and resources, can coach, nag and wheedle their children through it.
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Earlier this year, Kertesz said, a younger doctor asked for his advice on pain patients who constantly wheedle, threaten, or demand higher doses of opioids.
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Affable executives dodge almost every attempt to wheedle out useful ways of comparing the firm with its listed peers (it has no peers, they dissemble).
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You will voluntarily allow the ear-worm to wheedle its way into your brain, where it will, for the foreseeable future, make a cozy bivouac.
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Mine workers' unions have successfully managed to wheedle Congress into diverting abandoned mine funds to their benefits programs and have recently sought to divert even more.
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Finally, I wheedle the crushed note out of my pocket and the barman looks at me with a 'death to you and your loved ones' face.
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Meanwhile, friends and relatives fret, wheedle and cajole — often to no avail — to get their aging loved ones to adopt important modifications to make their homes safer.
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My wife finds traditional Southern food to be soft and starchy, and will not cook it, especially after I am no longer around to wheedle and cajole.
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Rather, with few exceptions, such as a scene in which Jack tries to wheedle Valium out of a pharmacist, the play remains trite even as it approaches seriousness.
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It turned out that the accounts were used for something known as "romance fraud," in which scammers wheedle money from women who have contacted them on dating sites.
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Further, U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp, who issued the decision, claimed the "mentally incompetent" argument was just a way for Bundy to wheedle out of the death penalty.
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A devout Catholic, she'd give away what little money she had—although, when Andrew was little, she spent wildly and used sex to wheedle big purchases out of Pete.
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Your dad used a cycle of crisis and negotiation, cheat-and-repeat, to wheedle economic and diplomatic concessions and play for time — time that, in his case, was in short supply.
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Yet, to any sensible woman, Jake is a terrible bet, directionless and shady — we've already seen him try to wheedle drinks from strange women — and the movie's refusal to call him out is irksome.
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The detectives tried to wheedle a confession from Ford by assuring him they'd understand if some calamity had occurred by accident—say, a heroin overdose that led to a hasty effort to dispose of Haas' body.
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It's Littlefinger who experiences the first disturbing jolt, making a transparent effort to wheedle his way into Bran's affections by offering the young man the Valyrian steel dagger given to an assassin dispatched to kill Bran.
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Writing is hard and we all have our bad days; part of an editor's job is to find the most appropriate way to wheedle words out of a writer, even on the worst of all possible days.
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The squeak of a finger across the top of their Whirlpool machine, they discovered, can mimic the wheedle of a high-pitched synthesizer whistle, and the natural judder of a wash cycle rattles like a drum machine.
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To round out the notional gathering, you might wheedle the illustrious publisher into bringing along some of her devoted friends, from Thomas Mann, H.L. Mencken, Albert Camus and Muriel Spark to Langston Hughes, John Hersey and Willa Cather.
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And if that is not odious enough, he now wears the hat of an election lawyer as he taunts Trump about his own prowess at using arcane and arbitrary electoral rules to wheedle convention delegates out of election losses.
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On Tuesday, U Zaw Htay, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's spokesman, reiterated that Myanmar was ready to start repatriation immediately, but then accused Bangladesh of dragging its feet in order to wheedle money out of a sympathetic international community.
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Building upon a nearly two-decade-long career as a pastry chef, Polzine immersed herself in medovik research, poring exhaustively over vintage cookbooks and making multiple visits to San Francisco's traditional Russian bakeries in an effort to wheedle out secrets from suspicious babushkas.
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In the weeks since, Ms. Pelosi — renowned for her ability to arm-twist and wheedle — has quietly campaigned to pick off members of the rebel faction, cutting deals and negotiating compromises to capture 218 pledges of support, and on Wednesday, she struck her most significant deal yet.
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During the former New York mayor's appearance on Tuesday night's live edition of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert tried to wheedle out some hints about what the ad may contain — notably, Colbert recently made it clear he's not keen on political ads airing during the Super Bowl.
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The married couple behind Cork Wine Bar alleges that since Trump assumed the presidency in January, they've been unable to compete with the nearby Trump hotel, a mere 1.5 miles away, as foreign officials and diplomats attempt to wheedle their way into his good graces by patronizing his businesses.
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Magic could happen any night he pitched and so you tried to wheedle your parents into letting you stay up and watch with them on the black-and-white WOR Channel 9 broadcast, or you'd curl up in bed with a transistor radio and listen to Bob Murphy paint the picture for you, of Seaver tossing and tossing.
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But because she's possessed of a jolly hubris, she manages to wheedle and bluff her way into a series of jobs for which she isn't remotely qualified, and then to muscle her way into the most elite blind-tasting group in Manhattan — which would be like me deciding I wanted to brush up on my baseball skills by joining the Yankees for spring training.
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It's another when we don't like it because both neither we nor our partners have ever seen it as a shared experience, one that involves communication and reciprocation in the form that the giver likes, and we never graduate from high school dynamics, with boys who drew their clearest ideas of sex from porn and believe they have to wheedle a BJ out of us to get it — because surely, we couldn't actually want to give it.
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A few key characters are Mrs. Wheedle, Mr. Beaufort, Censor, Mrs. Voluble, Mrs. Sapient, and Jack.
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The new edition was released in spring of 2010. The Wheedle is now back home, in Seattle.
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Toying with Brent Musberger on the sidelines, as well as in celebration with Georgetown's Patrick Ewing, it was a memorable highlight in the Wheedle's career. That same year Seattle acknowledged the Wheedle as an icon, honoring Wheedle as the Torchlight Parade's Grand Marshal. During the early years of the Wheedle's Sonics tenure, Laurel Brown a member of the Sonics staff was the Wheedle as the first female mascot of an NBA team. Her dance moves distinguished her from other mascots of that time.
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Wheedle on the Needle (Serendipity Books, 1974), written by Stephen Cosgrove and illustrated by Robin James, was about a large, round, furry creature called the Wheedle who lived in the Northwest. Bothered by the whistling of workers first settling the city of Seattle, the creature was unable to sleep and became irritable, eventually moving to Mount Rainier to escape the noise. The Wheedle slept there peacefully for many years, his red nose blinking, until the region's growth brought people – and their whistling – to his doorstep once again. In an effort to silence the noise, the Wheedle gathered clouds in a large sack atop Mt. Rainier, returned to Seattle, climbed atop the Space Needle, and threw them into the sky to make it rain.
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With their lips wet from precipitation, the city's residents were unable to whistle, and the creature once again had some peace and quiet. Upset, the people sent the mayor to try and convince the Wheedle to stop the rain; when the creature explained his problem, the mayor had a giant pair of earmuffs constructed to muffle the disagreeable warbling. When they were presented to him, "The Wheedle placed them over his ears, and smiled for the first time in years." In appreciation, the Wheedle gathered up all the clouds, put them back in his bag, and fell fast asleep – and once again, his big red nose began to blink.
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The Wheedle was also the official mascot of the Space Needle from the late 1970s until 1984. In May 1982, the Space Needle opened a new addition at its level amidst controversy about altering the then 20-year-old structure, a mixed-use restaurant and banquet facility called "The Wheedle in the Needle".Notably by Robert Crosby, who performed as mascot for the Seattle Supersonics, as well as the NCAA's Final Four in 1984, joining Brent Musberger on the sidelines, and Georgetown's Patrick Ewing in celebration. Stephen Cosgrove's inventive imagination through The Wheedle and other Serendipity classics have been enjoyed by millions of readers.
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The Wheedle is the title character of a popular children's book by author Stephen Cosgrove. The character eventually evolved into a popular mascot generally associated with the city of Seattle.
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There were also two other children's book featuring the Wheedle, entitled "How to plant a Bunch of Stuff" and "How to Cook a Bunch of Stuff." The cookbook for kids features a pictorial; essay of the Wheedle demonstrating how to cook a "bunch of stuff" and to appreciate what their mothers do in the kitchen. The cookbook was by Stephen Cosgrove with recipes by Nancy Roberts. The garden book was by Stephen Cosgrove with planting tips by Ed Hume.
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The book ends with a short poem: There's a Wheedle/On the Needle/I know just what/You're thinking/But if you look up/Late at night/You'll see/His red nose blinking.
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In 1993, the Wheedle became the mascot for KOMO-TV (Seattle's ABC affiliate), and appeared at many events wearing a KOMO hat and T-shirt. The character represented KOMO for several years before being unofficially retired in the late 1990s. For several years, the Wheedle could be seen encased in a block of plastic "ice," in a small SuperSonics museum, near the Sonics & Storm Team Shop at Seattle's KeyArena. Following the relocation of the team to Oklahoma City, its whereabouts are unknown.
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Its closing quatrain is: There's a Wheedle on the Needle / I know just what you're thinking / But if you look up late at night / You'll see his red nose blinking. The Wheedle has since become a fixture of Seattle. It became the mascot of the Seattle SuperSonics National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise, who played in nearby KeyArena (originally known as the Seattle Center Coliseum). The SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City on July 3, 2008. In 1982, the SkyLine level was added at the height of .
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From 1978 through 1985Husky Comics: the Online Comic Strip About Husky Football the Wheedle was the official mascot of the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, and was part of the organization when they won their only NBA Championship to date (in 1979). It would not be until 1993 that the Sonics would debut a new mascot, Squatch, who was the team's mascot until 2008. While representing the Sonics, the character wore a jersey bearing number 0. Robert Crosby performed the Wheedle as Seattle hosted the NCAA's Final Four for the first time.
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Also, the Wheedle visited Children's Hospital and other charitable organizations dealing with kids. As the Grand Marshal of the Torchlight parade in 1984, the Wheedle expressed an acknowledgement of a Seattle icon for that era. HistoryLink Essay: Space Needle (Seattle) The facility existed as restaurant for only about a year, before it was converted to a full-time banquet facility (now referred to as the "Skyline Level"). The Space Needle adopted a new mascot, "Sneedle," in 1997; however it appears that the character is no longer in use.
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In 2002, a second edition of the book was published. The story was significantly rewritten, generally matching the existing illustrations, but entirely eliminating environmental themes present in the original story and altering it so that the Wheedle was not native to the Seattle area. In 2009, after battling with Penguin US for over 15 years, the rights to the book Wheedle on the Needle reverted to Cosgrove. Under a new agreement with Sasquatch Books of Seattle, Cosgrove has created a third edition which returns to the tone and themes of the original book, while making some revisions for quality.
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Angelo is an 11-year-old boy who finds creative ways to combat the daily struggles of everyday life. He observes and then comes up with elaborate strategies to wheedle, sweet-talk, con, and work around any adversary, with the help of his friends Sherwood and Lola.
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The title of Charlie's play is a reference to Eugene O'Neill's classic play The Iceman Cometh. O'Neill's play is described as being about "dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in one another's company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders", which is a good description of the gang.
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The Needle's observation level roof painted for the 50th anniversary in the original 1962 Galaxy Gold A radio broadcast studio was built on the observation level of the Space Needle in 1963. It was used for morning broadcasts by Radio KING and its sister TV station KING-TV from July 1963 to May 1966, and KIRO Radio from 1966 to 1974. Disc jockey Bobby Wooten of country music station KAYO-AM lived in an apartment built adjacent to the Space Needle's broadcast studio for six months in 1974, which required a permit variance from the city government. In 1974, author Stephen Cosgrove's children's book Wheedle on the Needle imagined a furry creature called the Wheedle who lived on top of the Space Needle and caused its light to flash.
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Lane explained "Kylie sees an opportunity for a better life, but not in a money-grubbing, scheming way. She does love David, and she's not doing anything wrong." Kylie sees the situation as an "added bonus". After Kylie finds out the truth, the pair come up with a plan to "wheedle" his grandmother Audrey Roberts' (Sue Nicholls) salon off her.
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The third stanza talks about the sexist expectations that patriarchal society has placed upon her. As a girl, “she was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.” This list shows the expectations that are placed upon women in society. The patriarchal power within the society is what is responsible for the belief of certain “standards” of women.
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He objects not to professional writers, but to hackney writers. His dunce booksellers will trick and counterfeit their way to wealth, and his dunce poets will wheedle and flatter anyone for enough money to keep the bills paid. The plot of the poem is simple. Dulness, the goddess, appears at a Lord Mayor's Day in 1724 and notes that her king, Elkannah Settle, has died.
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The robbers took the pies, ate them, and died. The brothers took their gold and silver and went on to the Ridere (or Knight) of Riddles, whose beautiful daughter would marry whoever asked a riddle her father could not guess. There, they asked, "One killed two, and two killed twelve, and twelve killed four and twenty, and two got out of it." The ridere could not guess, and sent maidens to wheedle the answer out.
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The amusement park staff frequently gave her oats from a whiskey bottle to wheedle her to move. The Duboises also invited to the park Santa Claus who was accompanied by real reindeer and numerous elves. The park was later enlarged to include a "Santa Schoolhouse", a "Blacksmith Shop", "Santa's Workshop" and a chapel. In 1955, the park was open from June to October. By 1969, the park also had playgrounds, restaurants, and a "Jingle Jamboree".
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Terrified of Scorpius after his experiences on the base, Crichton is forced to agree. Aeryn, who has been growing attached to Crichton, finds herself jealous. Despite various plots by Peacekeepers and an agent of their enemies the Scarrans, the Moya crew manage to wheedle their way out once again, although the Princess is indeed left pregnant. Meanwhile, D'Argo and Chiana begin a relationship based mostly on sex, and Zhaan is tasked with protecting Moya by the Leviathian's creator- gods.
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The series initially focused on the Snow and Goddard family, which was headed by matriarch Peggy Snow. The character was based on Pharoah's mother Maureen, sharing her "decency, warmth and down-to-earth humanity." Peggy's role in the series was to drive the stories featured in each episode by being an investigator. Anthony told Hayward that Peggy's characterisation could be interpreted as nosiness but her "caring and inquisitive" nature allowed her to "wheedle out the stories".
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Barbara unsuccessfully tries to trick Mr. Weller into handing over his copies of Murray's school file. Mr. Weller correctly suspects something is happening and delivers the file to Nelson for safekeeping. Meanwhile, Nelson's pacifist composure is beginning to crack: when menaced by a drunken skinhead, he suddenly and vengefully chases the man down in his car before being stopped by his wife. When Murray visits Nelson's school again and attempts to wheedle him into compliance, Nelson punches him.
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This precarious social balance is threatened by the Tutts' secret: Mrs Tutt was once a barmaid. The Ramsbothams know this perfectly well, and any allusion to it by them causes seismic eruptions from Mrs Tutt. The Ramsbothams have their own family embarrassment: Ernest's unhinged uncle Nicholas who lives in their attic, looked after by a flighty nurse, Tilly. Betty and Charlie separately wheedle their fathers; Ernest is won over, and Fred seems on the point of giving in when his younger son, Stanley, arrives.
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In the morning they find the case empty and the uncle, who is wearing Pommes-Chips' coat, confesses that he could not resist removing all the flesh because he can get a good price for such a fine skeleton. The big race is run and the numbers in Pommes-Chips' coat are the winners. Jo sets Rockie to work on Jérôme, to wheedle him into getting the ticket off his uncle. She seduces him easily enough, and Jo is able to pick the uncle's pocket.
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Before Ghote can leave two constables bring Jack Cooper in for being drunk and disorderly. Cooper tries to wheedle Ghote into having him released and in the process mentions that Bedekar had "Bunny" Bender investigated by a private detective. Ghote revisits Bedekar who claims that before the Raja was shot he discovered one of his racehorses was of good enough quality to win the next derby, which means he has no motive for the murder. By a process of elimination Ghote realises that Professor Rustom Engineer is the only suspect left.
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Mulligan claims to dislike Haines, but seems reluctant to evict him, as he apparently hopes to wheedle some money out of him before his visit is over. The conversation later turns to the subject of Stephen Dedalus's late mother, and Stephen, after some prodding from his companion, reveals that he has been nursing a year-long grievance against Mulligan, whom he overheard referring to Mrs. Dedalus as "beastly dead" shortly after her death. Mulligan is at first confused, then irritated and embarrassed by this accusation, but quickly recovers his joie de vivre.
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Henry Miller, a writer from New York whose money has run out, lives in Paris on the generosity of American friends who give him food and a space to sleep. His wife Mona crosses the Atlantic to see him, but soon leaves when she realises the hopelessness of his position. When he does wheedle a bit of cash, he spends it on drink and women. He finds a job, providing bed and board though no pay, as a teacher of English at a boy's school in Dijon, but soon leaves.
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Owing to the carelessness of his manservant, Joan has discovered that Tuck is at The Gables, along with the despised Mrs Hewlett and Oswald Veal. To Tuck's discomfiture she enters and accuses him of trying to get round the old woman and wheedle some of Joan's rightful inheritance out of her. Simon Veal secretly tells Oswald to get Mrs Hewlett to write a cheque for a substantial sum, to be handed over to Simon at three o'clock, when the other guests are asleep. Tuck and Malone are finally left alone; they go over the details of their planned robbery.
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In the first scene, Oedipus encounters his father Laius, knowing that if all goes according to the book the two will get into a brawl, and he will commit the serious sin of killing his own father. Aware of this, Oedipus is very deferential to Laius, only to find that the father is extremely touchy and hostile to anything that smacks of sycophancy. Despite Oedipus' continued deference and protestations, Laius becomes increasingly angry and finally suffers a fatal heart attack. In the next scene, the Sphinx energetically tries to wheedle him into answering her riddle correctly, which Oedipus does not want to do.
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In 1973, Cosgrove teamed with illustrator Robin James, and wrote his first four books which began the Serendipity Series: "Serendipity", "Wheedle on the Needle", "The Dream Tree", and "The Muffin Muncher". His goal in writing these books was to create interesting, fun, affordable books that contained a moral in each story. The next year, a large New York publishing company offered Stephen a contract, but he refused and continued on in his search for a publisher. Three months later, Cosgrove established his own publishing company, Serendipity Press, where he was the author, publisher, shipping clerk, and janitor.
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The Iceman Cometh is set in New York in 1912 in Harry Hope's downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house. The patrons, twelve men and three prostitutes, are dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in one another's company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders. They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. When Hickey finishes a tour of his business territory, which is apparently a wide expanse of the East Coast, he typically turns up at the saloon and starts the party.
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Sgt. Bilko with Col. Hall The series was originally set in Fort Baxter, a sleepy, unremarkable U.S. Army post in the fictional town of Roseville, Kansas, and centered on the soldiers of the Fort Baxter motor pool under Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko. However, Bilko and his men seemed to spend very little time actually performing their duties—Bilko in particular spent most of his time trying to wheedle money through various get-rich-quick scams and promotions, or to find ways to get others to do his work for him. While Bilko's soldiers regularly helped him with his schemes, they were just as likely to become "pigeons" in one of his schemes.
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After the truth is revealed the other villagers are disgusted and Eileen screams in grief at Paul. Yet Paul turns to the Pastor and tries to wheedle his way out of it saying that the Pastor's quiet community will be interrupted by police officers and publicity. Jane who is aghast that the Pastor is starting to sway towards Paul's idea and attempts to intervene only to be pushed out of the way in anger by Paul and hits her head on a rock and dies. The Pastor decides to banish the rapists from the island with their families, level their houses, and all erase any record of their existence from the island.
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Brenda tried to wheedle her way back into Bethany's life by persuading Sarah to let her drop Bethany off at nursery, but Sarah still refused to let Brenda see her granddaughter. Brenda's grief over losing her son and granddaughter made her mentally unstable and she kidnapped Bethany from nursery, thinking the only way to solve her problems was to join Neil in Heaven, so she decided to commit suicide by throwing herself and Bethany from the tower of St. Savior's Church. However, Emily Bishop (Eileen Derbyshire) spotted them and stopped Brenda before harm was done. Bethany was safely reunited with Sarah and Todd while Brenda was led away by ambulances while she prayed to God for forgiveness.
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The setting of the film is the province of Galicia, circa, 1920, in the impoverished village of San Clemente. Since the Village has no priest, ecclesiastic authority falls to Pedro Gailo, the sacristan, who has a young beautiful wife Mari Gaila. Greedy for any money that comes their way and eager to leave San Clemente and her husband, Mari cares for a hydrocephalus-stricken child and uses him to beg for alms. The child becomes the source of their wealth. Comfortable in the joint guardianship of the child with her sister-in-law Marica, Mari Gaila, encouraged by another beggar woman nicknamed “la Tatula’, decides to go to various fairs and festivals and there puts the hydrocephalus dwarf on display, in order to wheedle funds from good-natured, pitying, sympathetic people. Her husband, Pedro, the sacristan, is afraid that Mari’s activities will ruin his reputation, but his love of money overcomes his fear and pride.
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