The phrase "as salve" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a misspelling or misinterpretation of "as a salve," which can be used metaphorically to describe something that provides relief or comfort.
Example: "The kind words from her friend acted as a salve for her troubled heart."
Alternatives: "as a balm" or "as a remedy."
An element always in short supply around pop music is emotional realism as salve, rather than as shock or cudgel or propaganda.
Rascal Flatts is the union of a kick in the gut and a warm bath, the tension between feeling as assault and feeling as salve.
To replicate real system operation, uncertainties are considered in both master as well as salve system parameters and adaptation laws for uncertain parameters are analytically derived using Lyapunov stability theory.
It may seem unlikely that a melodramatic small-town car-crash song has been offered up as salve for an international disaster, but, in its way, "Last Kiss" has always been a vehicle for pain.
During the same period the enormous expansion of the cult of the Virgin left a notable mark upon hymnody, the early 11th century seeing the composition of Marian hymns, including such ubiquitous texts as "Salve Regina" ("Hail, Queen") and "Alma Redemptoris Mater" ("Sweet Mother of the Redeemer").
Included on the program are five works by Charpentier -- a Te Deum, two Magnificat settings, "Le Reniement de St. Pierre" and "Litanies de la Vierge" -- as well as Salve Regina and Regina Coeli settings by Lully, and excerpts from a suite by Marais.
Term limits, lobbying restrictions, electoral reforms, institutional reorganizations, and much more have all been presented as salves to contemporary dissatisfaction.
So it came as no surprise on Super Bowl Sunday to see marketers compile a laundry list of American anxieties and then offer their products as salves to help relieve them.
Such desires, accordingly, can never be satisfied, any more than the corresponding fears — e.g., the fear of death — can ever be alleviated, since neither has a genuine referent, i.e., death as something harmful (when it is present, we do not exist) or wealth and power as salves for anxiety.
Note that most home remedies such as salves and creams merely treat the inflammation symptoms and don't remove the popcorn kernels or the plaque build up that ultimately leads to gingivitis and periodontitis.
But baseball, in doses both large and small, can serve as a salve, as a distraction, as a reason to believe in infinite possibility.
