Lincoln concluded his speech with an eloquent plea for calm and cool deliberation in the face of mounting tension throughout the nation.
But the 1917 section of the story, on which the movie focused, became Dean's most eloquent plea to parents, and to fathers, to speak of feeling.
Focusing instead on the need to tell their stories, these programs constitute eloquent pleas for understanding.
She makes an eloquent plea, but the Count rebukes her over her adultery.
Advisory panel meetings often feature eloquent pleas from patients that a drug be approved or kept on the market.
Among other things, its stark black-and-white design makes an eloquent plea for racial harmony.
This stupid broad's somewhat eloquent plea had almost unnerved him.
Pausing to draw a breath, he said, "If I've ever heard an eloquent plea for term limits, that's it."
After several eloquent pleas, the dilemma remains unsolved and Ralph is about to be incarcerated.
And you have this woman and her eloquent plea to thank for it.