| 31. | He resists repertory he considers premature, despite the importuning of impresarios; hence no Wagner to speak of thus far.
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| 32. | Stalked by paparazzi, he submitted calmly to the importuning of a world ever desperate to profit by capturing his image.
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| 33. | "I beseech you, I importune you, I beg you for that privilege, " he said.
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| 34. | Leacock opened correspondence with Benchley, encouraging him in his work and importuning him to compile his work into a book.
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| 35. | It may also connote an importune, unfounded, and vain effort against adversaries real or imagined for a vain goal.
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| 36. | "persistently importuning for an immoral purpose, and the details of his failed marriage are published in the newspapers.
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| 37. | In a 30-minute interview, she was interrupted four times by cellular phone calls from her brother with urgent importunings.
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| 38. | In vain were his importunings of Pope Paul III Farnese, who assigned him duties that returned him to his native Sicily.
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| 39. | Sir John Price, a Welsh baronet, repeatedly importuned Bostock to raise his wife from the dead, but she refused.
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| 40. | Some of these eager solicitors represent worthwhile causes, and I shouldn't mind being importuned at my residence, I suppose.
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