assuagement

"Our main subject is the assuagement of guilt," one said, and the other said, "Exactly.

But art is not about assuagement.

The assuagement is still incomplete when our Judiths arrive.

She looked forward to maternity as an outlet for her natural inclination and the assuagement of her failures.

Fleur got up and sat on the arm of his chair; he had at once a feeling of assuagement.

A declining sun; the need of victuals, and of telling news, will bring assuagement, dispersion: all earthly things must end.

His arms tightened as if he would absorb her completely, grinding her into himself in a desperate assuagement of an age-old hunger.

Both nevertheless bring their full lyrical assuagement, the songful second subject in the first movement without the disruptive over- slowing of tempo sometimes heard.

Conscience seeks its outlet in action, or right conduct; guilt seeks assuagement, or to find a way to be let off the hook.

On June 19, 2010, Taschner declared free agency after refusing an outright assuagement to the minors.

Religion and Science Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of felt needs and the assuagement of pain.

His mother had been home-sick for Europe; but HE had felt no assuagement in Italy and France.

Let us contest your heresy that satisfied longing is the end of love; for in love, the momentary assuagement only leads to further longings."

Violently will my breast then heave; violently will it blow its storm over the mountains: thus cometh its assuagement.

Too, as a Sleen Soldier, on the day of a hunt, during their tenure of power, he had matters much more important to attend to than the assuagement of a female's offended vanity.

That museum owns the becalmed third painting in the series, "The Assuagement of the Waters," while the portentous opener, "The Eve of the Deluge" belongs to Queen Elizabeth II.

Tertullian (c.160 - c.220) compared Noah's dove in the Hebrew Bible, who "announced to the world the assuagement of divine wrath, when she had been sent out of the ark and returned with the olive branch".

He felt the uncontrollable knotting of his belly that told of emptiness, the saliva in his dry mouth as he crawled to the plate and ate from it like a dog, uncaring about anything but the assuagement of his terrible, gnawing hunger.

Seeing how beautiful a woman could be, and how desirable, they, too, wanted so to writhe and move, and, in doing so, to bring themselves, too, to the attention of masters, that they might beg some assuagement for their needs of submission and love.

When he moved abruptly to cover her, to force a place for himself on top of her, levering her legs wider to open her body to him, his coarse, muscled weight was a blissful assuagement of hunger, a hunger burning through her so fiercely that she felt almost faint.

Nay, if that dreary Greenland-wind of benighted Want, perennial from sire to son, had frozen him into a kind of torpor and numb callosity, so that he saw not, felt not, was this, for a creature with a soul in it, some assuagement; or the cruellest wretchedness of all?