Wooed
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EU countries that he could not intimidate militarily, owing to NATO, were
wooed
with discounts – or punished with price hikes.
More example sentences with word wooed
And in both Sinatra
wooed
and lost Grayson.
Take for example, Vanity magazine magnate John Coudair (Otto Kruger): enchanted by Rusty's resemblance to her grandmother Maribelle (also played by Hayworth in flashbacks), whom he
wooed
devotedly when he fell in love with her, he tries to relive his youth by fixing what he thinks went wrong between himself and Maribelle.
Hence the visual substitution of the beautiful principals (a young Loren, handsome Della Marra, and a slinky Ms. Maxwell)who make the story much more believable, giving those not familiar with the plot or the music a better chance at being
wooed
into the lovely arias who otherwise might not be.
When the two become romantically involved, a complicated situation forms since Lillian is being
wooed
by Meno Argenti (Omar Sharif), a powerful plutocrat who controls the emerald trade for the rotten Mexican government, thus leading to shared distaste between the two men.
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