coaxing

“You know who I am, but who are you?” this coaxing stranger offers, which is like a playground retort twisted to sound pseudo-philosophical.

The Fed, however, would likely limit its actions to coaxing short-end rates lower, he said, not loosening financial conditions more broadly by restarting “quantitative easing” focused on longer-duration assets.

Poitras takes viewers inside Hersh’s process: the notebooks crammed with barely decipherable shorthand, the Rolodexes packed with names and numbers, the long calls coaxing sources to talk.

“We weren’t able to free it by just coaxing it out.”

Staff working on the project start early in the morning, walking around the docks and coaxing workers off the boats with promises of free health screenings and physio.