Sentence examples for is placated from inspiring English sources
verb
To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that he or she becomes content or at least no longer irate.
Much rests on whether the unsettled Bafétimbi Gomis is placated and plays to his considerable potential.
But the forgiving nightingale returns, death is placated by the bird's rapturous song, and the emperor is reprieved.
Péquistes such as Mr Lisée argue that the present bargain between Quebec and Canada, under which the province is placated by special treatment, is doomed by the inexorable pressure of demography.
The normalizing that goes on now is the normalizing that one sees in old tales of crazy monarchs making pronouncements that everyone, including those closest to the ruler, knows are pure fantasy, unhinged from reality — three million illegal voters and the evil conspiracy of Barack Obama — but are talked around or through or about or down or all around until the mad king is placated, for a moment.
But newer businesses mom and pops that came in almost anytime after 2010 their whole model is placated on things staying the same, or getting better.
Horsin' Around, the sitcom of which Bojack was the Saget-esque star, plays throughout Bojack Horseman as an alternate universe dreamscape one in which Bojack is placated by canned laughter and saccharine familial ties.
But in the book, Sidda is placating, wimpy and wants nothing more than her mother's love.
With Steve Bannon as his chief strategist, Trump is placating the pitchfork mob that helped sweep him to power.
But she would not be placated.
They are placated, settled, reduced in malfeasance".
Some investors refused to be placated.
