Bonnie Watson Coleman, the state Democratic chairwoman, is presenting Mr. Torricelli's investigation-without-charges as a reassuring round of exploratory surgery.
Setting 1,000 as a target, give or take weapons in reserve, while offering to negotiate along these lines would reassure all round (as would the binding new verification rules Mr Obama is expected to seek before existing ones run out next year).Cash-strapped Russia always worries that unilateral American cuts can easily be reversed.
Also, as last year's Cozy Coupes give way to this year's training wheels, there's something reassuring about the round robin of children's toys.
A group of Japanese women with round, reassuring faces told me in no uncertain terms — with everything communicated by a look in the eye, a touch of the arm, a tone of the voice — that all would be well, and to follow them.
I donned the sky blue helmet, grinning as I strapped it on, feeling its hard, round reassuring weight, like a little planet protecting my head.
Although his 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 second-round victory over Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina was not as coolly reassuring as his first-round performance, it was cool enough.
The whole product feels rounded off and reassuring, demonstrating the triumph of common competence and established procedures over absurdity and mayhem.
Meanwhile, he found himself aggressively reassuring his supporters in a round of interviews on the Sunday public affairs shows.
There was large groups of youths on the Lodge Lane, which is round the corner from my flat, which wasn't too reassuring.
The fence-mending included a few rounds of golf Mr. McNealy played with Mr. Ballmer, which Mr. McNealy doubtless found reassuring.
It is reassuring that at some point in our history, people also stopped arguing about whether the world was indeed round.
