| 单词 | placation |
| 例句 | Nox, now behind Grave, made to do the same, but Grave started cursing at him, and Nox stopped, lifting his hands in a gesture of placation. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now, they hold them permanently in their hand like a small angry animal, gazing crossly into our faces, in apparent need of constant placation. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z What O’Hara gets so right, regardless of the apparent setting, is the relentless rhythm of placation and perturbation. Review: A Shorter ‘Long Day’s Journey,’ Now With N95s 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Much like Paul Newman’s antihero in “Hud,” a favorite of his, these are men who “walk in a straight line all the way to the end of the picture — no placation, no pandering,” he said. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z Would she think the minting of her likeness an honor or an uncouth placation? The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z For hearing people, the promise to learn sign language is less a promise of action than a placation, as if they are attempting to comfort themselves more than me, perhaps shedding some guilt. A Love Language Spoken With Hands 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It had been foolish to believe that the U.S.S.R. could collapse so peacefully, that its ghosts would not demand placation. The Battle for the Mural — and the Future of Belarus 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z 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. Laurie Anderson: where to start in her back catalogue 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z No such package of partisan gains will come from the Tories’ placation of the anti-European wing, regardless of how Brexit is enacted, assuming that it is. From Little Englanders to Brexiteers 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Australia and China continue to trade accusations and placations in an escalating row with far-reaching consequences. Why China's rise exposes Australian vulnerabilities 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Todbaum reappeared and demanded his car keys, and the process of placation had to begin anew. “The Starlet Apartments” 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “But I sense you are in a sleep limbo, so calm is your commentary, or are you just hoping that massive placation ensures this duo continue as long as possible?” Ashes 2017-18: Australia v England third Test, day one – as it happened 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Any smaller signs of cooperation, wrote columnist Huma Yusuf in the Dawn newspaper this week, are only “the piecemeal politics of placation.” Pakistan vows cooperation in fight against terrorist groups 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z 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. Opinion | Five myths about the circus 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z What will make this placation dangerous is that the incoming administration has a ready-made symbol to prop up their lie: Ivanka Trump. The empowerment trap: Ivanka Trump and the art of co-opting feminism 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The phrase substitutes rhetoric for actual discourse and urges placation over protest. Why Calls for a ‘National Conversation’ Are Futile 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The individual need for placation and augmentation plays out in ways big and small. Unease for What Microsoft’s HoloLens Will Mean for Our Screen-Obsessed Lives 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z As religious or magical rites, they prevent danger or establish and restore normal relations with powers which are potentially harmful or require placation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Obama’s strategy everywhere before entering the White House was one of omnidirectional placation. Book Review - The Bridge - The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - By David Remnick 2010-04-09T15:26:00Z I recognized at last how far Lucretia in her lonely agony was beyond any trite placation of mine. The Preliminaries And Other Stories The placation of American public opinion is progressing. My Three Years in America The Diasia was a ritual of placation, that is, of casting away various elements of pollution or danger and appeasing the unknown wraths of the surrounding darkness. Five Stages of Greek Religion As Baldy approached, holding out a hand of placation, and “chucking” persuasively as if he thought James Edward was a hen, the latter reared his snaky black head and stared in haughty surprise. The Backwoodsmen All these things speak to Obama’s concern with continuity and placation. Book Review - The Bridge - The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - By David Remnick 2010-04-09T15:26:00Z There is not a word of proof of the view that the placation of the deity was due to his assimilation of kindred flesh and blood. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV All these he adduces with praise; others upon which he bestows equal commendation, have not held their ground, as ‘placation’, ‘numerosity’, ‘harmonical’. English Past and Present It is surprising to what an extent men's efforts for salvation seem underlaid by conceptions of propitiation, the placation of a hatred, the awakening of a love, in the objects of their worship. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life If remarkable portents and disasters occur, he will agree that there is something wrong in the behaviour of the state, and that there must be some public purification or other placation of the gods. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul But she proceeded to punish him roundly, until he gave over all attempts at placation, and whirled in a circle, his head away from her, his shoulders receiving the punishment of her teeth. White Fang It has tended to make the essence of religion consist in outward observances, and has not infrequently degraded the placation of the deity to a matter of bargaining—it has sold salvation for money. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV "I know what you mean, Lou," he said, with an affectionate attempt at placation. The Market-Place He put out a hand in a feeble gesture of placation, but she brushed it away as she bent toward him, speaking so quickly that her words stumbled and ran into one another. The Fortune Hunter "Well, you have the charm all right," Jim was obliged to confess, for Susanna had an undeniable genius for adjustment and placation. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence. Ulysses In Smith's theory there is confusion between the two ideas of communion and expiation or placation. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV At the base of the whole process by which divinities and demons were created, and rites for their propitiation and placation established, lay Fear—fear stimulating the imagination to fantastic activity. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning This was no religious rite, no placation of the brutish jungle gods. Jerry of the Islands |
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