Could he try to order the light, use his senses to smooth it around him?

He smoothed the afghan around her and went back to his typewriter.

Or, as the Internet itself continues to go mainstream, will the discourse there smooth around the edges?

I once believed that I'd be going for injections to smooth those lines around my mouth and brow.

Deftly he replaced the rubble and smoothed the earth around it.

A kind of delirium smoothed itself around me with seductive insistence.

She smoothed the odd-smelling stuff over and around the burns.

However, his choice of words was unlikely to do anything to smooth relations around the Cabinet table.

"Perhaps not," he said hopefully, smoothing the moss blanket around the base.

"It would be easily three or four times that in Toronto," she said, smoothing the soil around her beans.