entreating

That prompted the owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz, another local landmark, to print T-shirts and bumper stickers entreating fellow residents to “Keep Santa Cruz Weird.”

In one, a Milanese lawyer asks the Vatican to intervene in favor of his Jewish clients; another is from nuns entreating the Vatican to help a family of Jews travel to the United States.

Lina inevitably finds herself moved by the beauty of the city — its food, its vistas and most of all, its prettily entreating boys.

“Come on, come,” the man can be heard entreating.

Soon I heard him earnestly entreating me to be composed.