emollient
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(adjective) making soft or supple / (adjective) soothing especially to the skin or mucous membrane / (adjective) making less intense or harsh; mollifying / (noun) something that softens or soothes
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This reformist vision of public space – as the emollient of class struggle, if not the bedrock of the American polis – is now as obsolete as Keynesian nostrums of full employment
like exfoliant lol
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I grew to be wary of that rich emollience of tone, that tempered, bourgeois liquidity
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