Even as it took strong action to head off a recession, the Fed offered a few reassuring words.

The woman's reassuring words appeared to lift a crushing weight from his mind.

The girl made no response to our entry, or to our first reassuring words.

They fear that worse is to come despite reassuring words from the government in Madrid.

He described his condition with reassuring words: "I feel normal."

Now it happens that I have some reassuring words to balance the scales.

Not exactly the reassuring words one wants to hear when you trying to get things changed.

Could the coach offer some reassuring words to the people back home, something that would turn the heat down to a simmer?

She had seen the knowledge hidden behind the reassuring words.

But if that is all they do, psychologists say, their reassuring words can worsen the problem.