Sentences with phrase «smooth over their pain»

Most of the things we say to a grieving friend attempt to smooth over their pain.

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They could never show and tell how the humanistic artist could still admire Stalin's brand of brutality and communism (which she did even though the film tries to smooth that over by never saying an ill word about its untouchable heroine), and it also failed to show how Frida's work captured the universal loneliness and pain she was suffering from.