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Перевод: placatory

[прилагательное]
умиротворяющий; задабривающий

Тезаурус:

1. As a general rule, this cynical objection is far too crude, not least because it often rests on a false assumption - that it is impossible for theological statements to be both placatory and genuine.
2. Stooping shoulders and rounded back are placatory signals and imply a dangerous lack of confidence.
3. Prior to that it had been viewed in terms of an individual's placatory act of redemption to the deity (or deities) and later as a rite of initiation into the tribe, so marking the male's passage firstly to ordinary, profane existence and secondly to full, public and potentially active membership of society.
4. Herr Nordern gave a placatory smile and was about to say, completely untruthfully, that he - they - understood, when, to his horror, Bodo butted in again.
5. Hogan shrugged, tried to look placatory.
6. Some grain of self-preserving sense must have penetrated Rickie's skull, for he suddenly dropped on to his heels and offered me a placatory grin.
7. Mackie made a placatory remark and Perkin snapped at her too.
8. At a turn of the clockwork motor of the bulky camera, Leavitt had proclaimed that this submission to the seasons, to the rains, to the predations of lions, to the pasturing of cattle and all the placatory rituals that went with it, was unnecessary.
9. Nevertheless, such statements were sometimes placatory and social pressures toward conformity could be strong.
10. Now individuals and community groups had the facts at their fingertips to refute the placatory statements of the developers and corporate businessmen, and no longer had to rely on instinctive judgements to support their case.
11. By around two to four months the baby has learned to smile at strangers (whether in pleasure or as a learned signal of interaction, or as a primitive placatory gesture, is debatable).
12. The reason that has been given for saying that Halley's attempt was serious, rather than merely placatory, is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not, after all, produced decisive results.
13. Louise's tone was placatory.