Fred O'Connor was out, no doubt placating his sweethearts after his four-day hiatus to Scranton.
She leaned back to kiss him, the feel of her soft lips against his both infuriating and placating.
In ancient Rome the Di manes, or as we should say the blessed dead, who reposed in their necropolis outside the walls, were specially commemorated on the dies parentales or days of placating them (placandis Manibus).
Madison had no false hopes of placating the Federalist opposition, but as.