encouragement
Example Sentences
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Having won two Tony and Olivier Awards for his work on stage, Pryce added "more investment and encouragement" was needed in Welsh theatre.
From BBC
The Hampton tracks and Basie’s “High Tide” in particular feature the musicians yelling encouragement to one another, in a way that would rarely be heard in a commercial session.
Folks stuck their heads out of windows to shout encouragement.
From Los Angeles Times
Their boss’s words of encouragement are far from reassuring: “Well, this goes right, and . . . we’re all heroes. It goes wrong and none of us are working here next week.”
Later his encouragement helped guide the careers of John Keats, Percy Shelley and Alfred Tennyson.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
