mollification

Example Sentences

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They tell people what they think they want to hear and prefer mollification to confrontation.

From Salon • May 20, 2024

They may rationalize it as controversy avoidance or respect for the flag or audience mollification or economic strategy or business exigency.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2020

Working between a strong-willed mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, and a tenacious chancellor, Joel I. Klein, he seemed more comfortable in a role as deputy mayor for mollification: mediating disputes, calming tensions and endlessly listening.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2011

Nonetheless, the self-censorship seemed to fit John Paul's overall strategy of being as diplomatic as possible on Dutch soil and making more gestures of mollification toward his critics than is customary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even failing the mollification of the King, he felt that by taking office he would have entered the official caste, and he would have placed his foot on one rung of the ladder of greatness.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose