In the midst of all this overheated special pleading, which is made up almost entirely of monologues, thoughts are described but not dramatized.
In 2002, after much begging and pleading — which he recounts in a bizarre eight-minute monologue at the end of "Dropout" — he persuaded Jay-Z to sign him to his Roc-A-Fella label as a rapper.
So far the Justice Department has offered no indication that it is willing to discuss a deal unless Andersen pleads guilty, which the firm has resisted.
The charge can be up to 10 times higher if someone is found guilty after pleading innocence, which magistrates say is undermining the justice system by encouraging innocent but impoverished defendants to plead guilty.
The man in the adjoining cubicle to me pleaded guilty, which, I suppose, he was.
Defendants would be more likely to plead guilty, which means less time and money spent on trials, he said.
She promptly pleaded guilty, which, in light of the YouTube videos of her sobriety test and her booking at the police station, was no surprise.
Eighteen of those convicted had pleaded guilty, which argues that there was a genuine foundation to many allegations.But the investigation has grown and grown.
The husky, pleading tone, which eventually breaks out into a stuttered scream (at 2 14 and 2 29) sounds almost as if he's about to be sick with longing.
This pessimism about the possibility of finding a stable truth may be realistic, but it seems to sanction, even encourage, special pleading — of which "God's Crucible," for all its virtues, is an example.
