Sentence examples for in a pacifying from inspiring English sources

It was all dreamlike and vague, emotionally muted even during a solo by Mr. Endsley, who played in a pacifying murmur.

I read in the newspaper that you can't reason with them, it's a mug's game, but that they set great store by empathy and calm down if you repeat what they're yelling back at them, in a pacifying voice.

The in-store fare seems to have a pacifying effect on customers in crowded stores.

He is buying a bigger house in Tabajaras, a pacified favela.

Then, from the makers of the TV documentaries - Grant McKee and Ros Franey - came a book which claimed that Carole Richardson had been given a pacifying drug in police custody which may have impaired her ability to make a rational statement.

They were also a pacifying presence in a pediatric center, according to a Brazilian study.

Henry wanted a pacified Italy, in which imperial supremacy was uncontested, and he wanted to receive the imperial crown from unsullied hands.

One of these was a list, quoted in this magazine a few years ago in which the Army summed up its progress in "pacifying" a certain village in S. Vietnam.

As long as NATO remains bogged down in this region absorbed in pacifying fierce tribesmen in forbidding mountains and deserts, Russia and China enjoy a strategic respite to gather strength.

Rupert Murdoch may stand aside as chairman of BSkyB in a bid to pacify shareholders in response to growing unease over plans to appoint his son chief executive of the company.

During his five years there, he was injected with a variety of different drugs in a bid to pacify him and made a roof-top protest during which he sang the song Up on the Roof, before he came down.