Rachel Simmons

A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool?

American Author

Howard Jacobson

Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.

British Novelist

Nir Eyal

What Facebook wants to create an association with is every time you're bored, every time you have a few minutes. We know that, psychologically speaking, boredom is painful. Whenever you're feeling bored, whenever you have a few extra minutes, this is a salve for that itch.

Tariq Ramadan

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

Swiss Writer

Rosa Parks

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

American Activist

Sheri L. Dew

In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel - the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls.

Roy Barnes

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

American Politician

Ellie Bamber

I always have Chanel lip salve with me, a sheet mask for the plane, and extra moisturizer. I like to use iS Clinical Moisturizer, luxe eye mask, and drink water.

English Actress

Bobby Bones

The medical protocol for poor people is, if something hurts, get over it. If something hurts real bad, put salve on it.

American Entertainer

Charles Churchill

English Poet

Used in medical or health settings to describe healing products.

Health Context

Salve is a substance applied on the skin, not taken orally.

Topical Application

Though medical, salves can have natural or herbal ingredients.

Not Just Medicine

Verb form can mean providing relief to non-physical pain.

Abstract Healing

Salve as a verb suggests easing discomfort, not curing it.

Temporary Relief

In metaphorical uses, it implies an action that calms a situation.

Soothing Actions

Can refer to emotional or societal healing as well.

Figurative Comfort

 and salve my mouth would dissolve like sugar on tongue, but shame lingered as an aftertaste. And in an attempt to reintroduce me to sanctity, my mother told me of the miracle I was, said I could grow up to be anything I want. I decided to be a boy.

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 a remedy for epilepsy, hemorrhage, bruising, nausea, and virtually any other medical ailment. This brown powder could be mixed into drinks, made into salves or eaten straight up.