palliation

Example Sentences

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But the world has always brimmed with bad songs, and worse poems, that are born of authentic pain; sincerity of feeling, in art, guarantees nothing but the passing palliation of the feeler.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 1, 2015

The Earth as we now know it resembles a patient whose terminal cancer we can choose to treat either with disfiguring aggression or with palliation and sympathy.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015

More than four in 10 Americans now meet their end in hospice care, drawn by its promise of palliation and pain alleviation instead of extreme measures in their waning days.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 22, 2011

From all these varied approaches, Dr. Heller is confident, drug treatment will emerge as the equivalent of surgery and radiation, with its powers extended from palliation to actual cure of cancer.

From Time Magazine Archive

To offer any palliation of such monstrous atrocities would only be an insult to the understandings of all unprejudiced observers of royalty!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne