Give it to me, he said, using the supplicatory mode.

The work is based on the Marian anthems with their supplicatory text.

But our prayer was to be intense supplicatory prayer even before it came.

For all his supplicatory gestures, the right always suspected him to be an Establishment Republican at heart.

As he made a supplicatory gesture, the wadded-up poster fell from under his coat.

Without the drive of a dance beat, Destiny's attitude tends to the supplicatory and subservient.

Some were drinking the blood, but most were gazing up, holding out supplicatory hands. '

The spare accompaniments, by a male choir, contribute mightily to the supplicatory atmosphere.

Opened up, it contains only a rapid sketch of the artist's hand holding a supplicatory top hat, above the characteristic signature.

All the sack-people are in a victimized or supplicatory position, hanging, kneeling or reclining.

Ms. Carlson followed with a lot of upper-body movement (her lower body, you see, was still brick), sometimes wild, sometimes supplicatory.

Prayer-sticks, that is sticks with feathers attached as supplicatory offerings to the "spirits", were largely used by the Pueblo.

Complain's gesture was angry, but Vyann's was supplicatory.

He jumped to his feet and came round the desk, arms outstretched to her, his expression both desperate and supplicatory.

She besought him, more pathetically and earnestly, with her little supplicatory hand, than she could have done in any words. '

Beethoven is declarative; Schubert is supplicatory.

The pottery vessels represent supplicatory offerings...

He was careful to use the supplicatory tense: he was not really asking, he was simply suggesting.

The congregation traditionally stands during the entire repetition of this prayer, which contains a variety of confessional and supplicatory additions.

These branches, originally intended as a charm to avert failure of the crops, were afterwards regarded as forming part of a supplicatory service.

These supplicatory gestures were of a piece with his earlier conversion to the policies of Ronald Reagan, whom he had once accused of "voodoo economics."

Although he was the co-chairman of the World Economic Forum meeting in May, his tone with the hundreds of business people before him was almost supplicatory.

After the applause fell away, her accompanist played a few supplicatory notes, and Ms. von Otter began quietly to sing one of Schubert's lieder.

The most popular Paraklesis is that in which the supplicatory canon and other hymns are addressed to the Most Holy Theotokos (the Mother of God).