Mollifies

In fact, in the course of composing his explicitly corrective version of the First Crusade, Guibert participates in several contests simultaneously; he "mollifies" the style and corrects the substance of previous writers on the Crusades; he argues for some miracles and against others; he utilizes and attempts to transcend both the ❋ Abbot Of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert (1088)

This pinpoints -- and explains and to at least a small extent mollifies -- the criticism of contemporary blockbuster cinema that the plots often make no sense. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

They don't like to wait and she's found that virtually no excuse mollifies them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But it's a new-world wine that mollifies its oak and allows rich fruit to unfold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sooner or later the two sides will settle on a formula that mollifies Washington and keeps Netanyahu's coalition intact. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She spoke to a cheering crowd at the symposium, along with Rudolph Giuliani and several former Bush officials -- Michael Mukasey, Tom Ridge, Frances Townsend -- who denounced the ongoing American policy that demonizes the dissidents and thereby mollifies the repressive Ahmadinejad regime. ❋ Joan Z. Shore (2010)

He mollifies himself somewhat by the fact he gets a story into one of the books. ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)

A serious problem with it is that religion often intensifies death anxiety as much as it mollifies it. ❋ Matt J. Rossano (2010)

This mollifies her supporters and gets the centrist "experienced" candidate as back-up. ❋ Unknown (2008)

True the Beeb is biased in its favour, but capitulation to a left slanted agenda mollifies it hardly at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the one hand, it definitely mollifies my manic need to fiddle with blank spaces and ticky boxes. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2008)

It'll be mighty interesting to see if that mollifies Republicans who've been claiming they "want" Kerry to apologize. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It'll certainly be interesting to see if Gerstein's praise mollifies his many blogospheric critics. print share ❋ Unknown (2009)

Seeing another creature just like it mollifies it enough for the rest of the Super Friends to arrive and cart it off to Doctor Mist's HQ. ❋ Rob! (2009)