mollification

Have a nice time, she'd said by way of mollification.

She shook it, but her big square face showed little sign of mollification.

He has made slow progress in his mollification campaign.

Some mollification for your giant, sweet lady.

The proposal, useful to the mollification of the province's independence-leaning gentry, was quickly approved by Congress.

"I have a few things to attend to," Lottick said, ignoring my attempt at mollification.

With race in the collective mind after that Harlem march, it is hardly shocking that the man who made an art of confrontation tried mollification.

Oleg smiled in nervous self-congratulation for this transparent attempt at mollification.

Later, she said she had been misquoted, though her clarifications then, like ones she offered today, were hardly mollification.

Wounded went Luce to Ross's apartment for long, boozy evening of complaint & mollification.

"Well, that's something ..." his mollification was slight.

The nature of the mollifer chosen means that, except on a set of measure zero, the function is equal to its own mollification.

They may recover the "excess" loss and appear to improve, but the apparent improvement is not the result of any actual reversal or mollification of the disease.

The mollification continued satisfactorily enough during dinner (slow-roasted belly pork; seafood thermidor), at least until a plate of tasteless local cheeses showed up.

Pseudo-Geber's Summa Perfectionis tells us ceration is "the mollification of an hard thing, not fusible unto liquefaction" and stresses the importance of correct humidity in the process.

As he realizes how he frightens the one he would love, he resists mollification with "Love sounds the alarm" then ultimately interrupts their sweet duet, now a trio, and murders his opponent in a rage.

Mayor of Capital City Not far across town, Mr. Camacho, for five years the appointed mayor of Mexico City, was in charge of mollification, pacification and cooptation of the Government's critics.

Working between a strong-willed mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and a tenacious chancellor, Joel I. Klein, he seemed more comfortable in a role as deputy mayor for mollification: mediating disputes, calming tensions and endlessly listening.

Master of the Art Of Mollification Mr. Samaranch responded with an extraordinary energy, apparently driven by his abhorrence of conflict, his Spanish experience of political reconciliation and his vision of an all-embracing Olympics.

Governor Dardo Rocha's proposal for the establishment of a new capital for the paramount Province of Buenos Aires, useful to the mollification of the province's Independence-leaning gentry, was quickly approved by the Argentine Congress following the 1880 Federalization of Buenos Aires.