When Cardona was sentenced, in 2009, his lawyer pleaded for something shorter than a life sentence.
The risks plead for something bold, for the bottom could still be an awfully long way down.
Dinner had its necessary absurd magnificence whose great artifice only a fool would deny (even if an exasperated guest was pleading theatrically for something identifiably edible, rather than intellectually challenging, to be put on his plate).
To brutally shoot and execute fellow nationals pleading for their lives is something which would have required intense commitment.
One of Rowling's 7.5 million Twitter followers posted a desperate tweet, pleading for her to "do something" about the result.
Williams will even stand there and rant to himself, pleading for an answer to how something like this could happen.
"I cannot plead guilty for something that I don't know".
What's more, its early scenes bring in something genuinely grim; it's startling when a comedy includes the machine-gunning of a man pleading for his life.
He was pleading for time.
