placation

White had given him some information, by way of placation.

I backed up a step with my hands raised in placation.

Time for a bit of placation or I'd have another pillow in my face.

Before I could come up with a reasonable placation, he stepped in.

She held up her palms in the universal attitude of placation.

I took care to avoid any tone of placation.

All right,' Un held up his hands in placation.

Stilgar asked, and she heard the tone of placation in his voice, the attempt to smooth something over.

The white-haired bear lifted one big hand in an obvious gesture of placation.

He froze, arms out from his body, palms down, caught halfway between lunge and placation.

Gerald held up his arms in placation.

But any such external placation is temporary and soon the restless wandering will recommence.

But Ramoth was in no mood for placation.

He grasped for placation, desperate to prevent this powerful being from hurting Wyl.

Or does that kind of placation represent self-betrayal?

"I know," Ti Sandra said, raising her hands in placation.

Vandor Grizt put up both hands in placation.

Blond hair swinging, he stepped between the two packs, his arms up in placation but his expression hard.

This was no religious rite, no placation of the brutish jungle gods.

Klingons responded more favorably to confidence and even outright arrogance than to placation.

Illyan opened his hand; not mere placation, by his expression some chain of thought was engaged.

Sam stood, hands upheld in placation.

At the time, many conservative realists argued for détente, risk avoidance and placation of the Soviet bear.

It was a shot at random, but it must have struck home, for Messines raised both hands in a gesture of placation.

My hands out in placation, I insinuated myself between Glenn and the distressed Were.