| Stuff, it seems, assuages the guilt and responsibility that should be felt by the wives of autocrats. |
| This promise will make whatever reform we get more inefficient and less comprehensive, but it also assuages people's anxieties. |
| Their money cannot buy all they enjoy, and God knows how much of their sorrow it assuages. |
| At the foot of the building, made up of just three floors, the freshness of a Mediterranean garden assuages the summer heat. |
| It is a thought that partly assuages our aspiration to a better quality of life. |
| It assuages the sense of moral panic that has been the handmaiden of prohibition for a century. |
