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New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions.
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New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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He's a little 'west coasty' for me … but he's not afraid of confrontation, yet he's a very good confrontation smoother-over.
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Nowadays NZers are as little more culturally secure so rather than use a foreign fixer-upper to sort out the mess, they dragged out a veteran ’smoother-over of troubled waters’.
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but he's not afraid of confrontation, yet he's a very good confrontation smoother-over.
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