Cajolery

'Or the mixture of the two, called cajolery,' said Mr. Austin; 'and that was the principal art of the Whigs.' ❋ George Meredith (1868)

To every kind of cajolery and social recommendation he presents an adamantine front, and his success has been due in a great measure to his wise choice of instruments. ❋ H., Begbie (1915)

And whether these “problems” are approached with blunt, bullying talk or a degree of cajolery and pious rhetoric, the chosen stance is always backed up with the ever-present threat of military action, up to and including the last of those “options” that always decorate the table: utter annihilation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To Ms. Rosenfeld, common sense became and remains not an honest method of seeking truth but a rhetoric of flattery and cajolery. ❋ Jeffrey Collins (2011)

It came to him curiously that it was his destiny ever to stand on this high place, looking down on unending hordes of black trouble that required control, bullying, and cajolery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And they enslaved you over again — but not frankly, as the true, noble men would do with weight of their own right arms, but secretly, by spidery machinations and by wheedling and cajolery and lies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In early October Polk returned to Nashville and spent a week seeking to solidify his standing among state Democrats through cajolery, entreaty, and old-fashioned political horse-trading. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

I did not mind the actual work or the kind of work, but it was the dishonesty and deception, the flattery and cajolery, the unnatural assumption that worker and diner had no common humanity. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

But naturally Terentia would not leave it at that, and by a combination of flattery, cajolery, and threats that must have been worthy of her husband, she slowly extracted the truth. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Soft light from candles set throughout the room provided ample illumination-making up for the fact that the windows were closely shuttered, and no amount of threat or cajolery on Falconsbane's part would get the servants to open them. ❋ R. Daniel Lester (2010)

That was the method of pleading, cajolery, horse-trading, threatening, thoughtfulness, and downright seduction that LBJ used to get what he wanted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Peters then spends several paragraphs detailing exactly how Obama got this one done, through a combo of cajolery, poker, helping with other legislation, assuaging concerns, etc., etc ... then: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conceivably, with a little pretty pretty cajolery on your part, I will finish my sweep and come back for you; but trust me when I say that you ARE leaving. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Something new: The sigh of relief from Kennedy's intimates was almost audible, and so were groans from the party regulars — though none of this assured that Teddy had put an end to all the craft, cajolery and sheer pressure that a desperate party might summon up in the four weeks before Chicago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And whether these "problems" are approached with blunt, bullying talk or a degree of cajolery and pious rhetoric, the chosen stance is always backed up with the ever-present threat of military action, up to and including the last of those ❋ Unknown (2009)

In politics there is no chain of command, just endless cajolery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's pretty clear that Little George requires a constant stream of flattery and cajolery to keep him going, and this was to be supplied by ❋ Unknown (2008)