Shelby Steele

Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.

American Author

Richard N. Haass

In a world in which the United States does less, whatever set of calculations, other countries will tend to calculate - to move in one of two ways. Either they will assuage or, to use a more loaded term, appease the strongest power in the neighborhood with all the consequences of that, or they will determine to take matters into their own hands.

American Diplomat

Henry Louis Gates

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

American Critic

Niger Innis

Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

American Activist

Samuel West

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

British Actor

Dan Hill

All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

Canadian Musician

James Nesbitt

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

Irish Actor

Vikram Chatwal

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

American Businessman

Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

German Philosopher

Arthur Erickson

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Canadian Architect

Used to describe reducing the strength of negative emotions or sensations.

Lessening Feelings

Often applied in situations offering comfort or consolation to someone upset.

Emotional Relief

Doesn't necessarily mean to completely remove, but to lessen to a more bearable level.

Not Eliminate

Refers to the action of fulfilling a need or desire to the point of satisfaction.

Fulfilling Desires

Can be used literally, like satisfying thirst, or metaphorically for desires.

Quenching Thirst

Sometimes implies temporary relief or satisfaction rather than a permanent solution.

Temporary Satisfaction

 had a moment of panic and i pick him up and then i started singing i realized when i was doing that um i started to ask myself whose fears was i really assuaging was it his or was it also mine hannah's curiosity led her around the world

Venturing into the Heart...

 on flood protection infrastructure in India, it resulted in 248 dollars of avoided damages. Similar results were shown in other countries. If we can invest in mitigation, we can assuage the cost of flood recovery,

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 were assuaged, he was seldom self conscious about his injury." "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot

Assuage