Olive-branch

As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!

That was intricate reporting plus reasoning plus olive-branching and remonstrating.

The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.

“Let me help you out,” I olive-branched him, “I do know what you pulled me for; I crossed the double yellow line.