assuagement

Example Sentences

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For Hamlet, Sanders represents an assuagement of the stereotypes of what Black men can to do achieve success.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

It used, as foils, those landscapes of assuagement and the way they morphed over the decades to match the times.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2021

But she offered oddly little direct assuagement to the unsettled working class that still craves her assurance.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2016

Form, in other words, allows him to draw some assuagement from the very source of the agony itself.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

She was not of the weak fiber to find assuagement in many tears, nor had she nerves that needed the chemical soothing of flooded eyes.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Baily, Waldron