There, late into the night, he rehearsed with her, and she allayed his worries.
She allayed male terrors by pretending to be infantile: she conversed in baby talk, and addressed the doddering, dribbling J Howard Marshall as "Paw-paw".
After she allayed his fears, he reconsidered his options, and said with a devilish grin, "I can pour water way down here, over the side".
She allayed family suspicions about her new husband by dividing up her wealth between her six children and grandchildren, and, reportedly, by making Diez relinquish his rights to her fortune.
"Any insecurities or fears that I had -- she allayed them," Spencer said, dabbing her forehead after walking the red carpet at the Grand Lake. "We felt like family.
"She adequately allayed my earlier concerns".
By the time Ms. Garten and I finished dessert, we both had our feet up and she was allaying my anxieties about coming events, encouraging me to simplify.
It also helps, in majority-black or majority-Hispanic cities, if the chief of police comes from that community as well because, as the public face of the department, he or she can allay suspicions when controversial incidents occur in a way that white police chiefs may not be able to do.
She knew little about business and even less about telecommunications, but a video heavily featuring Donald Trump's endorsement of the company as "one of the best businesses" played at an ACN "training event" she attended allayed her fears.
"Do you draw?" "Do you?" She saw the rhythm of question-allaying she had slipped into, and said, "I draw very small".
