| The ideals of the steel will and the will to power are mollified by the self-effacing faith that we're basically decent. |
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| Once mollified, they are possessed once again of that calm which is their birthright, their black gaze deep. |
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| The company's shift has mollified two of its harshest critics, the enviro groups Dogwood Alliance and ForestEthics. |
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| Where his dexterous playing and effortless meter manipulation often buoyed the band's corybantic compositions, here, he's sadly mollified. |
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| I was mollified for the time being, and things resumed their tentative state of normality. |
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| The spider plants I placed all round the house after reading about the NASA research on toxin absorption do not seem to have mollified her. |
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| She looked slightly mollified by the compliment, but I could tell that it would be a long evening before my task was accomplished. |
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| Silver says customers were temporarily mollified when management put up signs warning of upcoming renovations. |
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| Most people have been mollified but there are still a few complainants left. |
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| Forget the friendly bear-hugs and the shaking of hands on the podiums, forget the barbed criticisms mollified by kind words. |
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| Meanwhile, resentment was mollified by extending the honour, so that a quarter or so of workers in an enterprise could qualify as Stakhanovites. |
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| This is mollified somewhat by respondents that claimed in the open-ended comments that they would do so if requested, but do not normally. |
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| I felt slightly mollified by the fact that it hadn't all been my fault, although I was still flaming angry at Andrew for his sneaky, malicious trick. |
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| I was fully mollified and feeling amiable towards him again. |
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| Nevertheless, opposition parties sought prosecution for the PRI officials involved, and were mollified only when Mr Peña agreed to amend the pact, after having at first shrugged off the scandal. |
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| And those who, in the end, must be cut off could still be mollified. |
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| The retailer points out that local banks run branches in 1,150 of its stores, with 250 more to come a sign that it sees these banks as partners, not rivals. None of this has mollified the opposition. |
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| This is a case where action is being taken for its own sake, where people are being mollified with measures that may ultimately do nothing to enhance their security. |
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| The success of Canada's float not only mollified their criticism and their calls for a quick return to the pegged-rate system, it also promoted research at the IMF on flexible exchange rates. |
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| Governor Musgrave had mollified opposition by the unelected members of the assembly with assurances that they would receive pensions or new positions after Confederation. |
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| For every voter reassured on the right, Mr McCain runs the risk of driving away one or more in the independent centre, where elections are won and lost so those voters, too, have to be mollified. |
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| The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed. |
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| On August 4th the government buckled, saying that this year, marks for an English-language portion of the test would not count. It has hardly mollified the students. |
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| Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle. |
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| Northumberland was mollified when he was promised he would be the Warden of the East March, a position that was formerly hereditary for the Percys. |
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| The landlord fixed the heat, but the tenants still were not mollified. |
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