cajoler

He is "Nature Dad" in his children's classes and the mid-afternoon cajoler.

The delicate art of cajoler was a lost skill in modern law enforcement, one that required exceptional poise under pressure.

After he hangs up, Mr. Harper sounds more like a desperate boardwalk salesman than a friendly cajoler.

While he, like Judge Newman, seems unlikely to become the crusader that Justice Brennan was, he could be the same kind of cajoler.

"Gordon is cajoler, an inspirer, a larger-than-life figure with the highest standards," said Lynn Grossman, a professional screenwriter who has taken the course several times.

Mr. Cushing was a shrewd lawyer, dealmaker and corporate cajoler who favored a tweed jacket cut by Davies of London over mass-produced ski clothing.

Those inspirational rehearsals and performances with Leonard Bernstein as coach and cajoler were a never-ending series of revelations, making me realize that leading an orchestra was my one true life's ambition.

Mr. McCabe, 43, is enforcer, cajoler and overseer of the Council's staff of 340, and he plays a central role in the life of the Council in matters big and small.

The differences between men and women seem to arise from factors such as women's hesitancy, women's role as cajoler and mediator for men, and men's social dominance and sense of themselves as more authoritative.

Locked in the political battle of his life, Representative Dan Rostenkowski, President Clinton's chief arm twister and cajoler in Congress, won renomination tonight in one of the most important primary elections anywhere in the nation this year.

The most effective tools that a chief justice has at his disposal for shaping a court have less to do with his ideology than with his temperament, which shapes his personal skills as a cajoler, diplomat and unifier - in other words, as a boss for an unusually independent group of prima donnas.

In the deposition given to hostile Republican lawyers, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Ickes described himself as the Clinton campaign's "bottom line guy" and chief cajoler who pressed a reluctant President and a less-reluctant Vice President to make fund-raising calls from the White House.