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Literary notes about Beseeching (AI summary)

In literature, "beseeching" is used to evoke a powerful emotional appeal that combines vulnerability with urgency. Authors employ the term to describe looks, gestures, or tones that reveal a character's deep desire for help or understanding, as when a character casts a trembling, beseeching glance in a moment of crisis ([1]) or wears eyes full of broken, imploring appeal ([2]). It also appears in dialogue and narrative to heighten the poignancy of spoken pleas, infusing remarks with a sense of desperate need ([3], [4], [5]). In more formal or sacred texts, "beseeching" underscores the solemnity of prayerful supplications, bridging the gap between worldly distress and spiritual entreaty ([6], [7]). Altogether, the word enriches the emotional texture of literary works by imbuing characters and their circumstances with heartfelt intensity and earnest longing ([8], [9]).
  1. she replied in a trembling voice, throwing a beseeching glance around.
    — from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov
  2. The look in Vasya's was so beseeching, imploring, and broken, that Arkady shuddered when he saw it.
    — from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. At last Hetty spoke, in a tone of beseeching— “Dinah...help me...
    — from Adam Bede by George Eliot
  4. And then she began beseeching him to love her and not to cast her off, to have pity on her in her misery and her wretchedness.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  5. “Papa, papa, do take a second cab,” said the young girl in a beseeching tone.
    — from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  6. And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down, said to him: If thou wilt thou canst make me clean. 1:41.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  7. Now the king was in prayer all the night, beseeching God of His goodness and mercy to release him from evil.
    — from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
  8. Could she refuse sometimes to answer that beseeching look which she felt to be following her like a low murmur of love and pain?
    — from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  9. But her eyes met Philip's, which were in this moment liquid and beautiful with beseeching love.
    — from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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