Humoring

I was humoring his particularity regarding kitchen instruments, and as we walked to the store I prattled on distractedly, working through some big idea that I hadn’t quite wrapped my head around yet.

When they later attempt to release him using a box cutter, Reacher shows he was just humoring them by allowing them to be applied in the first place, because he just flexes them off.

As he lashes out, aggrieved, and dangerous, commentators speak about humoring the president with time to move through the three phases of loss: denial, rage, and eventual acceptance.

By the end of the Namek arc, Vegeta’s completely outclassed by Goku– the real legendary – and spends the rest of struggling to keep up with a “rival” who’s mostly just humoring an enemy turned hostile companion.

We worry about Barbara’s meetings with the school psychologist, Mrs. Mollé (Zoe Saldana: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), because while she seems nice, she’s maybe a bit nice, you know, like she’s only humoring Barbara.