Sentence examples for slightly appeased from inspiring English sources

Investors, who had abandoned Xerox in droves, seemed slightly appeased.

My own sadness was only slightly appeased when the surviving Elders elevated me to their company.

And horror over the church's attitude towards the raped child was slightly appeased when Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, admitted that talk of excommunication had been "insensitive, incomprehensible and lacking mercy .Even so, all this is a far cry from the hopes expressed by many when Benedict was enthroned in 2005.

It may slightly appease hurt feelings in Washington and New York, though US hypocrisy on extradition ("No, you can't have those patriotic IRA bombers back") is in a class of its own.

I was appeased slightly when I went online to discover that the ad was directed by non other than Spike Lee; after all, not only did he drink the corporate Kool-Aid a long, long time ago, he helped make it!

By permitting Cahill his mid-season move, that pair may be appeased as they shift slightly up the pecking order.

In August 2016, the FCC, in an effort to appease opponents, slightly raised the rate caps (13 cents a minute for prisons, for example).

The primal appetites rumbling to be appeased in the competitive, rancid-with-testosterone domestic zoo and the taboos spoiling to be broken are given a slightly camp edge in this staging.

People were not appeased.

But Gladwin wasn't appeased.

She was more than appeased.