emollience

Creams are used when more emollience is required on these latter areas.

One of the ways the book suggests he has most changed is in the embrace of emollience.

"Emollience" falls into a tricky class of words because it has a homonym.

This sovereign emollience, rather than a striking interest in policy, has always been Wakeham's unique selling point.

Courtesy, emollience and gentle good humour are virtues in a private individual but do not guarantee success at the Treasury.

He told her that she would have to resolve it by talking about it; he loved the language of emollience and reconciliation.

Mrs Thatcher's dominant style contrasted with his emollience, patience and capacity for negotiation.

He cannot count on a similar level of official emollience from the authorities of Israel or the West Bank.

The Macadamia tree, originally native to Australia, has been a traditional source of skin-softening emollience.

His emollience is his strength.

No one could capture the lives of women, of children, of the workaday world with such simple gravity, such emollience.

The elegant emollience of Sir Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary, is often mistaken for caution.

But every so often in English church history, compromise and emollience have triggered a countervailing reaction: an upsurge in faith of a more passionate kind.

The Iraq inquiry seems to be an exercise in exquisite emollience and obfuscation, while the manifest contradictions in the various testimonies are never touched upon.

The Tories are not the only people to have spotted the link between Labour's emollience over the strike and the identity of the union which called it.

But in Maradona's combative rhetoric there were traces of emollience, notably when he was asked to name the players by whom he had been most influenced.

One also saw how, like the matador’s sword concealed behind his cape, Whicker hides his ruthlessness behind his emollience.

A little emollience would have gone a long way to persuade us that the Government was on top of this and not relying on Ireland to protect consumers.

The country is suspicious of meaningless emollience and as tired of homogenised politics as it is contemptuous of celebrity politicians.

If Labour has avoided disunity, it is partly because of his personal emollience and partly because nobody is being told anything they do not want to hear.

Californian Tia pumped her arms and let out of big smile after spelling each of her quarterfinal words: "emollience" and "scission."

It is true she lacked her friend Ronald Reagan's flair for radiating emollience while shaking up a country, but he himself became a villain to many Americans.

Either she retreated into streetfighter mode, cultivated in her native Compton, the notoriously tough suburb of Los Angeles, or she attempted a little emollience.

And Labour councillors like Hamit Karakus (born in Turkey but now steeped in Dutch emollience) stress the need for sensitivity to the “host” community.

They offended his sense of emollience and he also realized that, if submitted and published, their clamant discourtesy would almost certainly have the effect of swinging opinion towards the King.