"Out," he urges himself and us, "always out: my penchant is for opening, not closing, sentences (and parentheses — and em dashes, so that this I can spawn or take on other Is, to expand toward the size of the big starry X that is whatever is coming after this, but not have to reduce back to the previous state, to vanish back into its once and former singularity".
The Scot urged himself to "Focus!
Far from basking in the applause, he appeared to check himself each time he provoked it, as if, like the good Catholic he was, he had to urge himself to humility.
"Catch all of the constantly happening football here," he urges, building himself into a furious frenzy.
For "Top Five," he urged Rock to present himself as a star.
During their news conference, Bush declined to answer directly a question about whether he urged Maliki to distance himself from Sadr.
A fighter himself, he urged her to take up arms to "fight against the idea that the Syriac woman is good for nothing except housekeeping and make-up", she said.
Although Hammond did not use the credit cards himself, he urged supporters to use them to make donations to charities.
Murray was talking to himself perpetually, urging himself on; he had his foot on Federer's throat and didn't intend to release it.
Tlass told me he urged Assad to visit Dara'a himself, and to order the arrest of the local security director.
