Literary notes about imploring (AI summary)
The word imploring serves as a literary device to convey a deep and urgent plea, whether through the tone of a character's voice, a pleading look, or even a written word. It is often employed to intensify emotional vulnerability and persuade other characters or the reader to feel sympathy for the speaker's desperate situation, as when a deacon’s face is described with imploring intensity ([1]) or when a character’s voice is laden with entreaty ([2], [3]). Its versatile usage can be found in both intimate personal moments—as a trembling, imploring glance or soft, pleading tone ([4], [5])—and in the heightened language of epic or poetic invocations, calling upon divine favor or mercy ([6], [7]).
- His Reverence looked at the deacon’s imploring face, thought of the disagreeable Pyotr, and consented to dictate.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - You mustn’t,” he repeated in an imploring voice, and kissed her hand.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - I beg you,” she went on in an imploring voice, and she clasped her hands on her bosom—“I beg you to treat us as good neighbours; let us live in peace!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Her eyes now were imploring, soft, and at the same time trustful, caressing, timid.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - She had breath for nothing beyond an imploring “Don’t leave me!”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Urged to the edge By maddening desire, I, too, shall fling myself Imploring thee, Apollo, lord and king!
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho - We shall more certainly compass our end by imploring God's assistance than by using any means drawn from ourselves.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse
