They have been so effectively soothed that they have been almost entirely anæesthetised.
But upon the evidence of our contemporary world people who feel their human dignity injured cannot be soothed by material palliatives.
He merely administered the narcotics to the patient, who appeared soothed, and away he went.
Surely that would have soothed some of the more ludicrous press comments.
The people do not want to be soothed, humbugged and drugged any more.
It does not want to be soothed, humoured, or persuaded; it wants its marching orders.
Secure children develop a sense that the world is predictable and that their needs will be met and their anxieties soothed.
Labour disputes, soothed in the 1920s by a general prosperity, became more intractable.
