When the Dow was levitating at a record 2,722 in August 1987, technical analysts offered soothing assurances that their indicators proved all was well.

He had held her trembling body with quiet, soothing assurance.

It took all Fizz's invective, plus many soothing assurances from the nurse, to persuade him to allow them access.

With a soothing assurance of bipartisan bonhomie, President Clinton set the tone in his inauguration speech: "The American people returned to office a President of one party and a Congress of another.

The text accompanying the pictures gave no indication that Fall River was anything more than a particularly well-appointed vacation retreat accidentally equipped to dispense soothing assurances of nor- malcy.

No matter how soothing the mayor's assurances may sound, the images and words on these billboards speak louder and more convincingly.

Are we to understand from this that you do not take this point seriously, that you have let yourself be lulled into complacency by these soothing assurances, or are you prepared to really look into these items of evidence?

Soothing, but Impatient Olympus has offered soothing assurances that it wants to remain on Long Island.

This set off a flurry of concern, but within days B.J.P. leaders offered soothing assurances.

Despite the soothing assurances he'd laid on Wallis, this was mind control - of a pretty spectacular kind.