The Knot Bench: what needs to sound calmer?

The Knot Bench is for ordinary wording knots: tone, pressure, facts, assumptions, and sentences that are trying to do too much.

Today’s prompt:

What needs to sound calmer?

You can answer with the sentence you’re trying to clean up, or just name what it’s doing.

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