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In fact, in the course of composing his explicitly corrective version of the First Crusade, Guibert participates in several contests simultaneously; he "mollifies" the style and corrects the substance of previous writers on the Crusades; he argues for some miracles and against others; he utilizes and attempts to transcend both the

The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088

This pinpoints -- and explains and to at least a small extent mollifies -- the criticism of contemporary blockbuster cinema that the plots often make no sense.

Avatar deliasherman 2010

They don't like to wait and she's found that virtually no excuse mollifies them.

Time's running out on that summer reading list (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

But it's a new-world wine that mollifies its oak and allows rich fruit to unfold.

What We Drank 2009

But it's a new-world wine that mollifies its oak and allows rich fruit to unfold.

What We Drank (June 30, 2009) 2009

But it's a new-world wine that mollifies its oak and allows rich fruit to unfold.

LENNDEVOURS: 2009

Sooner or later the two sides will settle on a formula that mollifies Washington and keeps Netanyahu's coalition intact.

Between Barack and a Hard Place 2010

She spoke to a cheering crowd at the symposium, along with Rudolph Giuliani and several former Bush officials -- Michael Mukasey, Tom Ridge, Frances Townsend -- who denounced the ongoing American policy that demonizes the dissidents and thereby mollifies the repressive Ahmadinejad regime.

Joan Z. Shore: Abandoning Friends, Appeasing Foes Joan Z. Shore 2010

He mollifies himself somewhat by the fact he gets a story into one of the books.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Hugo Winners Volume 3 - Isaac Asimov Blue Tyson 2008

True the Beeb is biased in its favour, but capitulation to a left slanted agenda mollifies it hardly at all.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010