Mollification

“I said it was okay,” he said, but even though his words were intended as mollification, he sounded angry. ❋ Con Chapman (2012)

As part of our continuing mollification of superannuated subscribers, this week's concerts will feature a big-name soloist playing a very old piece while the rest of the musicians phone it in. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Unlike their forbears, modern-day Keynesians do not argue just for mollification in the rate of deleveraging. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anything with a whiff of potential controversy was being replaced with legislative placebos, with the mollification of leader-writers taking precedence over whether an idea would actually help the nation the parliament was there to serve. ❋ Shelagh Power-Chopra (2010)

Moreover, there is no sign of any mollification in the way Gaza is governed, or the anti-Jew propaganda spewed over the airwaves or indoctrinated into schoolkids. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All of this is aimed at/for mollification of, and reducing the numbers of the masses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't see how it could have played out any differently, so why any mollification about the size of Obama's huevos? ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

There are issues which override party considerations and/or the mollification of an office holder's base. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Usually, a robust defender of reason and science -- and vociferous critic of untested truth-claims -- Shermer has drawn the ire of colleagues and admirers alike with his quixotic missive of mollification to moderates of religion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a statement sent to ABCnews. com shortly after the mini-furor broke last year, she walked the thin tightrope between explanation and mollification. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Therefore the violence-doer knows no kindness and conciliation in the ordinary sense, no appeasement and mollification by success or prestige and by their confirmation... ❋ Enowning (2008)

In the case of this book it needed a lot of mollification. ❋ Jonathan (2005)

Accordingly, our need to relieve our sense of emptiness and powerlessness has grown so insatiable that we roam the world, relentlessly, in search of the means of mollification: But where we go, we leave a wasteland in our wake, including the manner we have fouled our own nest. ❋ Unknown (2006)

After a modicum of mollification, Houdini did consent to perform the Needles. ❋ William Kalush (2006)

I am, as a legal immigrant, I want to know, how can you get involved with the process of mollification before you deal with the problem that these people are illegal? ❋ Unknown (2006)

['Im] [molly] but call me [mollifer] cause im like sooo cool and stuff.' ❋ Boblington987 (2022)