But the legacy of the London Games may lie in something more imponderable, a finer sense of a nation relaunched, albeit in a time of economic doldrums that could yet becalm its renewal. |
One sail is also said to becalm another when the wind is aft. |
Children are guided rather than explicitly directed from one step to another — from mud pie making to hand washing, for instance — through song, because song, or soft song specifically, is understood to becalm. |
The Prime Minister instructed Dyikanbayev to becalm the population and journalists of the country as the issue had been solved. |
I am making a sail according to your lordship's plan, to becalm the hull of the ship, but want sailcloth for completing it. |
An imprisoned man who asks for an Italian book to becalm his fever may be safely presumed to know that language. |