Sentence examples for defused of from inspiring English sources

Freud got on the scent of transference in the late eighteen-nineties, during his early, hit-or-miss treatment of hysteria by the "cathartic method" of Josef Breuer, in which memories of the events believed to have precipitated hysterical symptoms were evoked under hypnosis — and thus presumably defused of their power over the sufferer.

Those changes in the energy landscape – and an intense outreach campaign by McCarthy and other officials – could defuse of the opposition, said Paul Bledsoe, an energy consultant who served on Bill Clinton's climate change task force.

Her demeanor defused some of the tension surrounding her family of late.

His jovial relationship with McGuinness was a cathartic expression of the broader process of defusing decades of sectarian suspicion.

Mountbatten defused most of these would-be secessionists with a mixture of sweet-talking and bluster.

Such moves would have defused some of the criticisms.

But Sundhage at least had defused some of the lingering ill will.

In recent years, he defused some of the public antipathy about his presidency by maintaining a low public profile.

Concert bootlegs and unfinished studio versions circulating online have defused some of the surprise from the finished album.

Since then, rapid efforts by South Korea to move toward reconciliation with North Korea have defused some of the tensions.

One source says that the bombs failed because the French authorities had defused all of them after uncovering the conspiracy.