imploration

And sure enough, an imploration in the lyrics lifted me — “keep on shining.”

“No celebrity imploration or profusion of misinformation will change that. The information we are releasing today is from the trial transcript, and it disproves every claim that he is innocent.”

On “Chemical,” a woozy, spectral meditation on the intoxication of love, the chorus becomes an imploration: “And love is a chemical / Start it, start it again,” he sings, his voice dissipating into mist.

And being the most powerful man on Earth, he was successful in his polite imploration.

The book seems, on its face, to be a relatively benign imploration towards politeness.