wooingly

(ˈwuːɪŋlɪ)

adv

in a wooing manner

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Shavelson wooingly showcases the "prominence" of the CLA, framing it within the context of reliability and validity.

Measuring College Learning Responsibly

This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here.

"The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body": sovereign sleep in Hamlet and Macbeth

Previously, the Macbeth castle was depicted as an idyllic sight: "This castle has a pleasant seat; the air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself / Unto our gentle senses" (Duncan, 1.6.1-3) or "This guest of summer, / The templehaunting martlet, does approve, / By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath / Smells wooingly here" (Banquo, 1.6.3-6); but after the murder it turns immediately into the castle of horrors, into Hell itself.

The dialects of sin: in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy

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