The act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity.
1 This was no religious rite, no placation of the brutish jungle gods.
2 Lindquist nodded, holding up his hands in a gesture of placation .
3 Seventeen thousand fuseodollars.' He held up his hands in placation .
4 Duncan held his hands up in a gesture of placation .
5 It was faintheartedness, sloth, placation , doubt, vagueness and romantical misconception.
6 He doesn't offer me any more placation ; he quietly exits back to where we left Falon.
7 Lock raised his hands, palms open in placation .
8 Welstiel's quick shift to placation left Chane wary as he followed his companion out to the horses.
9 Tanner was waving his hands in placation .
10 That's why we have mainstream movies that trade mostly in placation , reassurance and the careful coaxing of standardised emotions.
11 He had demonstrated for them all that the old ways of devout placation had no place in this new Age.
12 For the placation of Bildad Rose there was news of a stable, not ruined beyond service, with hay in a loft, near the house.
13 The extremists of his own party to whom he has kowtowed with such deference have grown bored with his placation and are leaving him.
14 "I beg your pardon, Your Majesty." Rue resorted to placations .
15 "I know what you mean, Lou," he said, with an affectionate attempt at placation .
16 "Wait wait." Gerald held up his arms in placation .
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