goad

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Thus began Johns’s career-long fascination with signs and symbols — not as a subject for representation, but as a goad to pure painting.
Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy | Philip Kennicott | September 29, 2021 | Washington Post
He had no choice but to take up the goad and to do what he did.
Daniel Menaker, author and celebrated editor at the New Yorker and Random House, dies at 79 | Harrison Smith | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post
Experts and politicians goad the White House on with demands for tough actions against Russia that they surely know will fail.
Cut the Baloney on Ukraine | Leslie H. Gelb | March 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

Maybe the public display of pro-Gaddafi sentiments acts as a goad for the killings.
Libya Is Still Riven by Violence as Loyalists and Rebels Alike Keep Killing | Jamie Dettmer | July 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Paul, by talking up his isolationism, would goad Romney into sounding like Dick Cheney.
Michael Tomasky: Why Iowa Is Mitt Romney’s Do-or-Die Moment | Michael Tomasky | January 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Social and cultural insecurity has also served as a goad to Mormon productivity and achievement.
Mormons Rock! | Walter Kirn | June 5, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He knew how to improvise, how to lead a fellow actor into a state of mind, how to goad them into their best performances.
John Cazale, A Godfather of Acting | Gina Piccalo | May 31, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
He called to her, he rallied her; he signalled to Thyrsis to help him—to inspire her, to goad her to new endurance.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
The mahout reached down with his silver tipped goad and touched the elephant on the knee.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrath
The mahout, fully awake to the danger, beat the old rascal mightily with his goad.
The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrath
In his hand he carried a long-handled ox-whip, with a short goad in the butt of it.
Earth's Enigmas | Charles G. D. Roberts

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