ingratiating, diffident, conciliatory

Reuters

Taiwan's new president urged China today to "drop the baggage of history" in an otherwise conciliatory inauguration speech that Beijing's Communist Party rulers had been watching for any move towards independence. Find out more: http://reut.rs/27HnUTO

Iran Moderate Wins Presidency by a Large Margin

By THOMAS ERDBRINK

Hassan Rowhani, who advocates greater personal freedoms and a more conciliatory approach to the world, avoided a runoff in the election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 

Not that the tennis player, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), seems at first to be consumed by such appetites. An Irishman of modest background, he takes a job at an exclusive London club, helping its rich members polish their ground strokes. He seems both easygoing and slightly ill at ease, ingratiating and diffident. Before long, he befriends Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), the amiable, unserious heir to a business fortune, who invites Chris to the family box at the opera. From there, it is a short trip to an affair with Tom's sister, Chloe ( Emily Mortimer), a job in the family firm and the intermittently awkward but materially rewarding position of son-in-law to parents played by Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton.

beau geste n, pl beaux gestes or beau gestes [F, lit., beautiful gesture] (1914)
 1: a graceful or magnanimous gesture 
2: aningratiating conciliatory gesture.

conciliatory

Pronunciation: /kənˈsɪliətəri/

Definition of conciliatory

adjective

intended or likely to placate or pacify:a conciliatory approach

ingratiating [Show phonetics]
adjective DISAPPROVING
describes behaviour that is intended to make people like you:
an ingratiating smile/manner 非奉承