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One amusing (but untestable) hypothesis has it that females were the principal hunters on the African savanna and that they invariably threw with their right arms, because they were carrying their babies in their left arms up against their hearts, the beating of which soothed and quieted the infant.
The sore feelings of a harassed parent bringing up mischievous boys might be soothed by the Shetland motto Mony a pellit [troublesome] foal haes made a good horse or Dere broken pots in aa lands , as a reminder that the problem is universal.
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 ).
His second marriage and his bucolic Vermont retreat have soothed Mamet without softening his brutal work.