placation

Example Sentences

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But screeching bagpipes, jittery timpani and sorrowful violin interludes keep full rest out of reach, implying that just around the corner from placation, something sinister lies in wait.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2020

Todbaum reappeared and demanded his car keys, and the process of placation had to begin anew.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

On April 24, there’s a clear record of DiSabato requesting help: In an email to Jordan, he pleaded: “You have the platform to cut through the double talk, placation and finger pointing.”

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2018

The Roman poet Juvenal wrote derisively about “bread and circuses” as a form of placation and escapism during the reign of Emperor Augustus in the first century.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2017

As I went up the stairs, I could hear my parents’ voices in the dining room, my mother’s raised in outrage, my father’s rumbling in placation.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly