What is "reassuring"

Usage examples of "reassuring".

It is somewhat reassuring that, even though it was extremely well financed and had access to scientific expertise, Aum Shinrikyo was unable to turn botulinum toxin, or anthrax, into an effective bioweapon.

Kovar continued, his tone so incredibly reassuring Vree suspected he was using some sort of bardic trick and she steeled herself against it.

To his mind the depth of her despondency was the measure of her power to realize her imperfection, for he now supposed her depression was caused immediately by the fact that she had been so harshly misjudged, but in the main because of her resemblance to the flower he had tossed away and which he now remembered, with deep satisfaction, was in his note-book, ready to aid in the reassuring and encouraging work upon which he was eager to enter.

Through the open bedroom door he beheld the reassuring sight of the twin guardian Fortresses, glowing in the golden monstrance out in the sitting room.

Ethan was reassuring Sandra Munter that she was doing the right thing.

That their song was simply phatic noise, a way of reassuring each other that everything was okay.

It would have been simpler, more reassuring, could one have seen a wheel turn, a valve lift and fall, but there was little to note within save an odd play of light, a photic anomaly, now at the fringes of the cubicle, now like beads of bright water at its edges, pulsating, corruscating, then in small threads darting across the heavy plastic to join other threads, other ripples of light across the cubicle.

Where such manifestations spring from a one-sided sentiment, as was the case, I fear, with John and Portia, they are apt to be more terrifying than reassuring to the non--or wrong-sided one.

She worked fast with a reassuring calm, even when she turned back the bedclothes and saw the purpura patches her voice remained even and cheerful.

As the housekeeper led Catherine away, Quint tried to give her a reassuring smile.

What he sniffed was not the musky scent of Ratton, but rather the reassuring odor of his own kin.

On August 5, 2001, three days after signing his recusal letter, Griles brought a reassuring message to a gathering of the West Virginia Coal Association, an audience that included his former clients.

Evan reassuring Sally that nobody noticed the soloist going flat during the Handel oratorio.

She listened to the sound of his voice as he talked softly to the cat, reassuring it as he stitched the deep wound.

He was busy flirting with one of the housemaids, his swarthily handsome face creased in a reassuring smile, his gold front tooth glinting in the firelight.