With an audience of about two million people, the 3-hour Univision show (which will come to an end this fall) has remarkably soothed generational, geographical and linguistic divides.
At one point, the French president at the time, Nicolas Sarkozy, threatened to walk out, but compromises were found and tempers soothed.
His sentences are full of neologisms: the adjectives he torqued into verbs ("The north wind brittled icily in the pleached lattice of the hedgerows"), and the verbs he incites to misbehaviour ("Four short-eared owls soothed out of the gorse").
Juventus simply could not cope otherwise with the most devastating forward line on the planet and, on the balance of play, Barça should really have made it a more stress-free occasion before Neymar soothed any lingering nerves with his stoppage-time goal.
Yet she soothed him when gunfire frightened him, vowed to stay with him when he was in bed with chicken pox, she wrote, and he came to be affectionate with her.
"It's easy," the head chef soothed.
The consortium has soothed Australians' worries about the takeover of their iconic carrier by keeping within the foreign-ownership limits set by the government; Australia's Macquarie Bank is leading the bid.
It has soothed and tried to shepherd a flock of anxious allies.
Still, as the government accepts that the increase in applications was spotted at the beginning of the year, one may well ask why it has taken until June for extra measures to be put in place.Nerves will not be soothed by photographs of Passport Office meeting rooms stacked high with applications.
Marijuana soothed his nerves and television afforded countless hours of near-catatonic pleasure.
The old Democratic line proved so persuasive in that case that only one in four House Democrats gave the president their support.This wing of the party, captained by Dick Gephardt, the House minority leader, has not been soothed by good economic times.
