On stage, it had added significantly to his air of menace and deceit; he was treating the beaming Mrs W with wheedling charm while another side of his face was twitching with twisted insincerity.
Supplicants also jostled to stand at his feet, wheedling for contracts, but that was how his business was done.He liked to have the curious brought to him: at one party a British academic, who studies underworld types, was presented for a conversation.
When it comes to keeping his often restive parliamentary troops in line, Mr Schäuble has a talent for wheedling and arm-twisting second to none.
Stories abound of Wade using her charm to best advantage, wheedling stories out of reluctant informers.
The Doctor finding his way around his personal mechanical hell, wheedling out the mysteries of the castle and trying to evade the Veil.
He did it with yelling and wheedling humor, by knowing what to ask and give, and with the aid, as the Times put it in his obituary, of "a tight smile that might mean anything".
At that time, he was concerned mainly with keeping the Mariinsky afloat, wheedling money from donors around the world.
Isn't the main idea to spend a lot of time in back rooms, hearing out and wheedling with colleagues, setting legislative priorities, and counting votes — and maybe occasionally playing golf with the President?
But Alice — I think that was her name — had a tough, nearly incomprehensible accent, small, discolored teeth, a habit of going from wheedling to sharp pokes in the side, a fund of dirty talk, and startlingly precocious ways.
He sounded like a project manager making excuses, wheedling for a passing grade.
