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

Those who made the appointment intended it to be a gesture of mollification, an invitation to calm.

From Time Magazine Archive

I doubt not it failed to contribute to a mollification of their painful forebodings.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp