His unsuccessful mollification of the mob. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She did not reply, but he sensed her mollification. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
In the case of this book it needed a lot of mollification. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
It took ten minutes of strenuous client mollification to calm him down. From Wordnik.com. [We Have a Pope!] Reference
All of this is aimed at/for mollification of, and reducing the numbers of the masses. From Wordnik.com. [Distributive Justice: Barack Obama, Bush and Luke 6: 42] Reference
There are issues which override party considerations and/or the mollification of an office holder's base. From Wordnik.com. [Bi-Partisanship in a Non-Partisan World] Reference
Unlike their forbears, modern-day Keynesians do not argue just for mollification in the rate of deleveraging. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Pento: How Dr. Keynes Killed the Patient] Reference
I don't see how it could have played out any differently, so why any mollification about the size of Obama's huevos?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's military victory.] Reference
The woman's voice had a note of mollification -- as though she had suddenly recognized the right of the two Japanese to enter the apartment. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
In a statement sent to ABCnews. com shortly after the mini-furor broke last year, she walked the thin tightrope between explanation and mollification. From Wordnik.com. [White Women Punishing Obama, Not Oprah] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2006] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [It's October, 1956.] Reference
His Pia desideria of 1675 enunciated six aims that were to become the program of Pietism: biblical study, lay activity, ethical revival, mollification of theological polemics, reform of theological education, renewal of evangelical preaching. From Wordnik.com. [PIETISM] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners of Envy: Wal*Mart Nihilism Versus the Punk Rock of Blogging] Reference
Mr Obama's strategy of mollification could tip him over the edge, Mr Shaath said. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It brings us back to the heightened state of narcissistic injury, which brooks no logic, reason or mollification. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
ABCnews. com shortly after the mini-furor broke last year, she walked the thin tightrope between explanation and mollification. From Wordnik.com. [The Hutchinson Political Report] Reference
We discovered, after millions of us had been slaughtered, that mollification, negotiation, and submission was not a successful policy. From Wordnik.com. [AMERICAN DIGEST] Reference
As a point of reference, there were some at Fox who found my "few words" in regard to Patton so abhorrent that we took them down as part of a mollification process. From Wordnik.com. [Home Theater Forum] Reference
Nearly all the grimness it taken out of the "expergating" of my books by the subtle mollification accidentally infused into the word by Susy's modification of the spelling of it. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters from My Autobiography] Reference
He gives them a final-ish warning, and spitefully confiscates the Halwa, leaving poor li'l Ramu pawing at thin air, and his sister pawing at him in an attempt at sweet (pun intended) mollification. From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
MF: Still, and getting back to my point about the mollification of the artistic community, there seems to be fewer and fewer expectations that an artist will or even should engage in world politics. From Wordnik.com. [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference
I am told that the Learned has advice by this last ship that after indeavouring to have a mollification of the instructions, they were concluded to be rather smarter, especially in the point of waste paper. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Lady Charlotte could have submitted to the intrusion of one of those at times wholesome victims, for the sake of the mollification the unhappy proud thing might bring to a hero smarting under injustice at the hands of chiefs and authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Scientists and technical people will be required to lend their knowledge and expertise to refine and operate the instruments of surveillance that utterly destroy all privacy, and the instruments of mollification (chemical and otherwise) that utterly subvert the will. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
To say that she had always been flighty, and that it was what might have been expected of a woman as headstrong as she had been as a girl, was no mollification of the blow to the local conscience, acutely sensitive in all that pertained to the honor and sanctity of the marriage tie. From Wordnik.com. [Otherwise Phyllis] Reference
498: Some mollification for your Giant, sweete Ladie. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
Let’s not forget mollification, either, as a classic of manipulative behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Study: Abusers Give Flowers More Often] Reference
On November 13, Churchill attempted a general mollification of the Commander-in-Chief: “Since war began you have gained two dreadnoughts on balance and will by 20th have twenty-seven superior units to twenty. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
I think what we’re struggling with is a lot of people who believe the answer is to deny the existence of that journey at all, and who insist that the way to peace is through mollification–they want to maintain the status quo. From Wordnik.com. [Reflection by Red State Rabble - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"No," she said (betraying a meagre mollification at every offer), "I'll not stop. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
With Iran it was mollification. From Wordnik.com. [The Acorn] Reference
Some mollification for your giant, sweet lady. From Wordnik.com. [Twelfth Night; or What You Will] Reference
Surely this is worthy of mollification. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
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