Fidelity to a subject, or to history, was of less importance to Rose, as she implied in a placating letter to Chaplin, than a "corking" tale.
"Oh, Madame!" "Madame has a quick temper," Michel says in a placating voice, and Hadijah throws her head back and laughs till the Guns n' Roses logo shimmies.
At one point, Payne's camera captures Dern in a subtly placating cringe when he's confronted by a blowhard who has prospered in their home town.
At about the same time, Geraghty, in a perhaps placating note, wrote, "Dear Bill: Recently I have had the occasion to examine thousands of cartoons that have appeared in The New Yorker.
In the suit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Rather charges that CBS and its executives made him "a scapegoat" in an attempt placate the Bush administration, though the formal complaint presents virtually no direct evidence to that effect.
YouTube and comedycentral.com offer collections of their greatest hits, from "Das Negros" (Mr. Key and Mr. Peele in whiteface placating a Nazi played by Ty Burrell of "Modern Family") to the original, sidesplitting "Substitute Teacher" (Mr. Key as an inner-city disciplinarian taking roll in a suburban classroom: "Where is A-A-Ron right now?").
Even the hastily arranged Gulf vacation itself was more of a placation, as in placating those who complained his family time off had not included the BP besieged Gulf shores, making his ringing words of support ring hollow.
Beginning in a desire to placate English Puritanism, the little cloud of Jamesian evasion extended, charmingly, elsewhere in the book.
Then, in Mr. Ben Ali's final days, the president began to release political prisoners in a bid to placate the mounting unrest.
Several big decisions, including changing the constitution in a bid to placate disaffected Sunnis, need a two-thirds majority, so the UIA must team up with other groups.
In a move to placate backbenchers, Lidington told MPs he would work with them to understand their specific areas of concern.
