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Example sentences for: soothed

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In the '70s, Kissinger downplayed ideological conflict with Soviet Communists in favor of soothed relations, just as Sino-apologists (including Kissinger) today ignore China's Communist authoritarianism, human rights violations, and suppression of democracy.
Stress (evident in terms like prowler, skulker, lurker , as well as Trojan horse, worm, vulture, leech ) is soothed with (or disguised by) a variety of linguistic palliatives: generous helpings from pop culture ( cookie monster, Kermit ) and science fiction ( cyberpunk, core wars, cosmic rays, emoticon ); chummy diminutives ( archie, newbie, smiley ); and jingly rhymes ( snail mail ).
I would like to think my inscription soothed the pain for him, cheered him up, and naturally this was my intention.
For example, stress was not soothed by a cookie monster which locked up your terminal and kept you from working until you provided a required response (whose exact form was not necessarily known by the victim) to its demand for a cookie.
None of this soothed the cable operators, who have kept UFC off the air.