| The elegant emollience of Sir Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary, is often mistaken for caution. |
| For all the emollience of the noble lord's statements, two conclusions from his report are inescapable. |
| We can count on less patience, less emollience, less nervous anxiety to please everyone. |
| Listen to the careful emollience and the surprising promises he made. |
| But even if the calculated emollience is a stratagem, it confirms one of the most improbable features of his character. |
| The judiciary should modify its arcane ways, cling to all its powers, enrage the executive and forget emollience. |
