The police are calming things down.

"I do not think that the continued closures and cordons will encourage the people interested in calming things down," he said.

"We're so used to MTV and film and television that it's actually a calming thing," he said.

"I think it was a big help in calming things down," he said.

"It's a calming thing," Dr. Sands said.

It was a perfectly calming thing to do: it gave her a feeling that she was putting order back into the world.

Realizing what he had done, he sent a flag bearer named Donald Malcolm with a white flag in hopes of calming things quickly.

Instead of calming things down, my comment made him go ballistic.

It isn't calming things down.

Raoul swore and raged, Linda said calming things to him, Norrey prayed softly.