| Politicians sought to assuage those feelings with a range of new anti-crime measures. |
| But his language has a cracked and schizoid relation to reality and cannot assuage the sense of existential dread that haunts his world. |
| In buying their children accommodations to assuage their own anxiety, parents are actually locking their kids into fragility. |
| Perhaps, he is seeking revenge, or perhaps, he is simply looking to assuage the pain. |
| However, my task is to pursue the best interests of the child and not assuage parental feelings. |
| The film had so much potential to please the aesthetes, to assuage the jangled nerves. |
