This includes tranquillising 25 or so wolves a year and fitting them with radio collars so they can be tracked. |
Grief tends to soften the rougher edges, acting as a restraint on the author and tranquillising a life led with a deep-rooted, prickly streak. |
Instead of imposing real standards of safety, what you are basically doing with these soft and undefined basic standards is, I believe, trying to give the public a tranquillising pill. |
It has a mild tranquillising effect, which you can experience by merely picking the flower buds and inhaling their scent. |
The wall has for them something tranquillising, morally soothing, final, maybe even something mysterious. |
They have a tranquillising effect, without necessarily causing sleepiness. |