女神殿

placate



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–verb (used with object) 
to appease or pacify, esp. 
by 
concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry. 


　　
As if the filmmakers felt the need to placate modern viewers who might wonder why they should emotionally indulge Nazi authority figures, the opening is swathed in Stauffenberg's feelings about how Hitler and the SS are a "stain" on the German army and his coincidentally contemporary desire for a "change" in the country's leadership. 

Shortly after entering these sentiments into his diary while serving in Tunisia in 1943, Stauffenberg is badly injured and loses his right arm, the last two fingers of his left hand and his left eye; with a black eyepatch, he still looks quite dashing, even if executing a Nazi salute with a prosthetic arm might appear rather irreverent.


assuage
to assuage one's [grief] [hunger] [fears]
abate
to abate a [tax] 
to abate one's [enthusiasm]  
The [storm] has abated. 
The [pain] in his shoulder finally abated.  
mitigate
mollify, allay, appease
Seething with acidic ill will and [un]mitigated vitriol,
militate
have effect or influence
This criticism in no way militates [against] your going ahead with your research. 
slake
Haneke seemed to suggest that recent cinema has cheapened such [slaking] of emotion [into] a near-pornographic fake
slaked [lime] 

vindicate
exonerate 
execrate 
extenuate
to represent a fault as less serious
to extenuate a [crime]. 
Do not extenuate the [difficulties] we are in. 
remittance
His remittance [reached] us on Thursday.
remission
the act of remitting, pardon as of sins or offenses
The patient's [leukemia] was [in] remission.   
Life was a disease, and smoking held it temporarily in [remission]. 
Debilitate