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Indeed, the Australian writer-director laces the film’s many tall tales — like how Pinky’s second husband was eaten by a crocodile right in front of her eyes — with sardonic humor meant to mollify and entertain in equal measure.

Hezbollah has seemed unexpectedly vulnerable in the wake of Israel’s recent attacks, with little in the way of a response that would mollify its internal base.

Last week, the U.S. spearheaded a push for negotiations in the hope of creating a cease-fire in Gaza that would mollify Hezbollah and Iran.

Last week, the U.S. spearheaded a last-ditch effort to forge a cease-fire in Gaza, hoping that a breakthrough in negotiations would mollify Iran and Hezbollah’s demands for revenge.

Leaving aside the differences between Biden and Harris—he is the president and effectively in charge of American foreign policy, and she is not; he was apparently holding smaller events to avoid protesters, which she is obviously not—it is true that there is no single message or combination of words that will “mollify” protesters, at least as long as the war goes on.