Placation

And her steps are thuds in Doc Martens, faster-faster, and with each one she hears the word 'placation.' ❋ Roberta Lawson (2011)

I suspect not. if you beat them now, you might not have to do it later in a far bloodier way, much like the short term placation of pre-WWII Germany led to the greater destruction later. read some history, not just the daily kos, folks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

With the Obama administration schizophrenically poised between partnership and poison -- policies of “hot pursuit” across the Pakistani border and placation, showering the Pakistani military with yet more weaponry and cutting off some units from any aid at all -- anything is possible. ❋ Tom Engelhardt (2010)

And she sees that face, and she hears that word placation — placation, the rhythm of her footsteps, and the sack is heavier and heavier on her arm. ❋ Roberta Lawson (2011)

One welcome outcome of Tuesday's election is that there are likely to be fewer Blue Dog Democrats around demanding placation. ❋ Andrew Levine (2010)

This was no religious rite, no placation of the brutish jungle gods. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From centrist liberals, I hear offers of placation to the religious right. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While they will readily say that is actually what they do, their actions constantly demonstrate something completely different, which too often is simply a placation of Special Interests and the few who strongly support them, including many who abuse the system, and then they just give an abundance of subterfuge to the majority. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But she proceeded to punish him roundly, until he gave over all attempts at placation, and whirled in a circle, his head away from her, his shoulders receiving the punishment of her teeth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, Jerry was all placation and appeal, all softness of pleading in a body denied speech that nevertheless was articulate, from wagging tail and wriggling sides to flat-laid ears and eyes that almost spoke, to any human sensitive of understanding. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's honestly hard to tell at this point whether the ONDCP's new approach is a cynical placation device or a more genuine but wary openness and curiosity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A policy of omnidirectional placation had served him well as the editor of the Harvard Law Review, as a community organizer, as a state senator. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Accommodation is a unilateral act of placation, in which one party tries, by any means, to win the approval of the other, usually by bending over backwards. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm gonna go on a [placation], where hot [thailandese] bitches [shower me] with gifts to take them to the mecca that is America. ❋ JimCanSuckMyBalls (2004)

She wouldn't let anybody [get mad] [directly] at her, instead she tried to get everybody to take their anger out on each other. That was how she kept everyone else [placated]. ❋ Solid Mantis (2021)

I just [placated] [the villagers]. They're quite [unhappy] now. ❋ Steve The Dead (2004)