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