A soft rumble of thunder rolled from the sky and the rain began to quicken, drumming on the roof in a strange, oddly comforting rhythm. |
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The realization that they all had blind spots and shame issues within their cultural and familial heritage was both comforting and disconcerting. |
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I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. |
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Anna placed a comforting, motherly hand on her shoulder, making her look up. |
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It is easy to Succumb to the siren song of your sofa, or perhaps to the comforting coolness of several pints of ice cream. |
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It's as if moviegoers have been coddled by the comforting filters and film stock of major motion pictures over the years. |
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If I had to spend our time constantly comforting them, they would mow us down with machine guns before you could say Big Bertha. |
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Perhaps it is comforting to us to believe that such awful inhumanity is occurring in a land unfamiliar to us. |
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Rommel's comforting embrace was a key that unlatched the locked door which held all of Jun's accumulated despair crammed within. |
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In fact, perhaps the only way to make it more terrifying is to walk over it rather than have the comforting bulk of a narrowboat around you. |
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Equally inevitably I would be found nestling in the safe, comforting arms of my aunt in her kitchen. |
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Watching the steam rise, she inhaled the comforting vapors and decided to take a bath. |
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Truth is, when the weather is nippy and you need something warm and comforting, nothing beats meatloaf for taste. |
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Sure Ben was nice and held me when I needed comforting but Trevor's touch made sparks fly for some reason. |
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With the exception of plain, wholesome sponge cakes, instead of comforting, the scent of some cakes can be quite maddening. |
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No amount of break-room drip-coffee could quite approach the comforting domesticity of this roundly stout, spouted little object. |
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Dominic's hand slid over, covering hers, and gave her hand a little comforting squeeze. |
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It was very comforting and reassuring to have such high quality care from high caliber professionals. |
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The calm atmosphere wraps around you like a comforting blanket as you find yourself reflecting upon the weekend. |
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I leant into the embrace, nuzzling into the comforting warmth of my only friend. |
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It's comforting to know some of our neighbours are as self-doubting and dissident as us Canucks. |
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The city is small and comforting, and its people live in genteel pockets of suburbia and have 1950s good manners. |
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The warm sand heated our sleep sacks, and the sound of the waves lapping on the shore was a comforting sound to my ears. |
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Winnie took her shoes off, placing her feet in the comforting warm water from the heated pool. |
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The family in question is really quite ordinary, nothing special, but it's exactly that ordinariness that makes the film warm and comforting. |
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They paid their poignant tributes as two teenage brothers were comforting each other after being orphaned in the tragedy. |
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The answer had become clear to Eaton last night, when he had chanced upon Clara comforting Will after Rebecca's accident. |
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I find that two minutes on a high setting is sufficient to provide comforting warmth. |
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I eat them and their cheesy sauce with mounds of blandly comforting brown rice, steamed with a cinnamon stick and a couple of cloves. |
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Those were Swedish fables of love, family and friendship which bathed us in a warm and fuzzy comforting glow. |
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Disgusted, frustrated and utterly deluded about what's going on here, we run for the comforting embrace of sweeties and calorie-laden treats. |
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Elian put a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder to calm the short tempered swordsmen. |
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Strange thing to say, I thought, but there was something comforting about it even so, and I let it pass. |
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The peacefulness I discovered in the city was both comforting and disturbing. |
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The engine was idling, which made a comforting noise, and kept the blowers warm, which made her feel increasingly drowsy. |
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Mrs Dawson, the caretaker, was fat and comforting with a smell like face powder and lipstick. |
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It can be comforting to encounter the familiar faces of cats and dogs and farm animals in foreign lands. |
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It is comforting to consider that real change will be thoroughly unexpected, even incommensurable from the perspective of the present. |
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Stories of her presence comforting soldiers in the trenches of WWI abounded. |
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Police, medical staff, relatives and friends were today comforting the family. |
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They both share the same psychiatrist and are completely dependent upon him as a comforting father figure. |
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Usually the noise of my best friend's family is comforting, but today it was overwhelming. |
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After seeking help from counselors and advice from friends, Betsy and Jack tried to establish as many comforting routines as possible. |
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The concept of a tragic flaw, after all, is strangely comforting, even absolving. |
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It is always more comforting to know that someone else feels the same way you do. |
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There was something comforting about being an intern, to feel that there was always someone above you to call, even at 3am. |
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It's comforting to know that there are some things in life that are constant. |
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The ideal best friend would have found something incredibly nice or comforting to say. |
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Just knowing that I do not have to go through this alone is more than comforting. |
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There truly aren't many better, more comforting smells in the world than baking bread. |
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The warm comforting smell of coffee drifts closer carrying with it the protecting arms of home. |
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I can smell the comforting aroma of butter and black-peppered fluffy baked potato. |
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I have plenty of nourishing and comforting food to eat and never go hungry. |
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There's nothing quite like a big pot of comforting soup bubbling away on the stove. |
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This is a really comforting soup and it's all in one pot so it would be nice and easy. |
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Cooking time can, of course, be longer, but what could be better than the comforting smell of home-cooked food wafting through the house? |
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Mr. Nelson was just deciding that a cup of tea beside a comforting fire was not an entirely unpleasant notion. |
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I need silence, and I've forgotten just how relaxing and comforting it can be. |
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The other artists are those who tend to ignore what is comforting and instead champion life's difficulties, contradictions and inconveniences. |
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All that guided her right now was Jeff's comforting voice, piercing through the blackness, drawing her to him. |
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We'd rather believe that health care is all about healing the sick, helping the infirm and comforting the afflicted. |
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The comforting confraternities added to such standard ceremonies a number of special procedures for the condemned. |
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Such activities were not only affirming but also emotively comforting to the client in ways that more plastic mediums have not been. |
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So all of those things are very comforting and delightful and poetry is at the heart of them. |
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The outdoor area is far more appealing than the inside area, though it is comforting and cozy down the stairs and inside the cellar. |
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I've left the comforting surroundings of rural Norfolk, and I'm staying in a posh hotel in Marylebone Lane, London. |
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Jess walked over and let herself be folded into a comforting embrace, lifted up until she was seated securely on his lap. |
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She awoke again, but this time to the comforting warmth of her couch pillows and crochet blanket. |
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Our pastor preaches a sermon each week that is nearly always inspirational, relevant, comforting, educational and challenging. |
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He confessed that he served his beans on Marmite toast, or added garam masala and dried apricots for a comforting Anglo-curry version. |
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The long, communal dining-table is laden with comforting home-cooked gastropub food. |
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Their song is not overly musical but has a comforting, undemonstrative British garden nature, not gaudy or showy in any way. |
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It is hugely comforting to know that we have local geniuses able to deliver quality work at such modest cost. |
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Head lowered, she raised her arms, and the gloom descended to envelope us, as if she had pulled it down as a comforting blanket. |
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Spent all Friday night either puking, clearing up puke, or comforting hot, traumatised little ones, who are not so little anymore. |
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The flapping of his wings had become an expected and comforting sound, like that of a pendulum of a grandfather clock. |
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It can be comforting to the griever to know that you are not frightened away by his or her grief. |
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The versatility of an electro-acoustic with the comforting, homely feel of an electric. |
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At first he dipped his toe in it then, discovering the waters warm and comforting, plunged right in. |
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The Western provides Americans with comforting images of resolute pioneers and lone gunslingers. |
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This idea is a comforting one, and also an energizer and a stimulus to personal growth. |
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Nothing had changed, which was comforting and a bit disturbing at the same time. |
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It's comforting to think that if we just have enough walkathons and celebrity fund-raisers, we'll cure everything. |
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Physically and mentally exhausted, I sat down in the sand, the warmness comforting me. |
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Elizabeth sighed and pulled herself out of the comforting warmth of her bed. |
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The air in the field became warm and comforting, the light becoming so bright that you could feel the heat radiating. |
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There was a reassuring air about him, a comforting quality that he seemed to radiate from within. |
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Distractions such as rattles, music, or even running a vacuum, washing machine, or blow-dryer may be amusing or comforting to your baby. |
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For a moment, the murk feels strangely comforting, like walking out of a rave into the balm of an urban winter smog. |
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The bright rays of sunshine streaming through her window were not at all comforting to her. |
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I miss the way her hands felt, her skin so soft and loose with age, but always comforting. |
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The language carries its own values, the comforting familiarity of its age-old prejudices. |
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We both were controllable and felt we added a comforting reality check to each other until help arrived. |
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I put an arm around him and try to think of something comforting to say but my mind's gone blank. |
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She has had trouble with her back and was tearful with relief after the comforting reassurance meted out by her principal and tutors. |
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Cool water ran over his hands, and he adjusted the knobs above the sink until the water became warm and comforting. |
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We can even buy Private Eye and indulge its falsely comforting view of a man who is too dumb to know how many beans make five. |
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Tom wrapped her body in a comforting embrace as George answered the question. |
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It was a comforting though as she passed through the archway into the locker rooms, the screaming of the crowds not even registering in her mind. |
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Maybe it was her exhaustion settling in, but the thick layers of silk and lace were as comforting as a pile of blankets fresh out of the dryer. |
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Sometimes the best stress reliever is a comforting hug from someone we love. |
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Behaviors and conversation were noted and were coded by using the theoretical framework of enduring and suffering and comforting. |
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The comforting, if deeply eccentric, typography and layout of the original are still there, along with a mix of photographs new and old. |
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This all seems so much more comforting on a grey monsoon day with the wind storming outside and the Mumbai streets in flood. |
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Perhaps the council's own legal eagles should consider this scenario if only to offer comforting advice to residents. |
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There's plenty of space for luggage under the beds and in the fitted wardrobe where, ominous but comforting, you'll also find two lifejackets. |
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Before ringing off, she again confirmed the order and the address, all very comforting. |
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Still, it was almost comforting to know that it wasn't going to be the topic on everybody's lips. |
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For more than 20 years he was a comforting presence in America's living rooms, particularly during the Vietnam war. |
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They rose simultaneously and Andrew put a comforting arm round his wife to guide her but she pulled away from him. |
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I am in awe of the atemporal feel that her essays have, and I find her words strangely comforting. |
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And there are lovely poached pears, raspberry sabayons or a comforting warm coconut milk rice pudding. |
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While Powers argues for the comforting nature of sameness, Clover argues that sameness is a consequence of the mode of mass production. |
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Opt for simple comforting English fare like fish-finger sarnies with ketchup, or Cornish pasties and sausage and mash. |
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Like a comforting bedtime story, we Sassenachs cannot hear it repeated enough. |
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She stopped walking, turned to him, and with one swift movement knelt down and scooped him up in her comforting arms. |
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This should be comforting, but if you want to make your own deodorant, you can mix baking soda with cornstarch and dust it on. |
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For all that we now quest for absolute fidelity in recordings, I like the comforting scratch of an old record. |
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Long ago masters of ships found it comforting to find such beacons of light in the darkness. |
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I waded through the taxi-park bedlam into a matatu, and was squashed up on all sides by strangely comforting fat hips, warm arms, moist breaths. |
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She let out a sigh of relief as she felt the comforting throb of Sasaki's pulse in her fingers combined with her shallow breathing. |
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His self-deprecating, nice-guy demeanour is comforting, but he's rarely funnier than your funniest friend on an off night. |
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I find it very comforting to know that the owners feed their children the same food that they serve me. |
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They sit at the kids' bedsides, fanning and comforting their cancer-ridden offspring. |
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It was to the poor, weary, toilworn people that Jesus loved to speak His comforting words. |
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It felt strangely comforting to towel off and put my worn, old, casual clothes on. |
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This one ended up being directed at comforting a friend who had been insulted by the best man and was in tears. |
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The bass is the comforting smoothness, and the treble is the piercing clarity. |
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Such sympathy was profoundly misdirected, comforting aggressors rather than victims. |
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The most comforting winter meal on the planet has to be braised beef short ribs. |
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They offer us a shoulder to cry on and place a comforting arm around our shoulders to lighten the burden of sorrow and misfortune. |
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There is a good deal of modal harmony, taken from Scandinavian folk music, which is comforting to the ear but far from anodyne. |
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It's comforting, I suppose, to think that the Government cares so much about our safety to the point of mollycoddling. |
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He listened and heard the familiar and comforting monotone sound of the dial tone. |
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The party's finale after dawn sees bleary-eyed guests comforting Joe for the loss of his sister. |
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The floor is absolutely covered with all shapes and sizes of silken pillows embroidered with comforting symbols in gold thread. |
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Being a true English gent, I lend her the warm and comforting embrace of my morning coat. |
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Whereas a ball-breaker like Camacho bellowed to get his message across, his unheralded successor puts a comforting arm around a galactico and whispers encouragement. |
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After another couple of seconds, the feeling of being enclosed in a small space eased up and I noticed my lava lamp on my shelf, forming their comforting shapes. |
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She was grateful for his comforting words and reassuring gestures. |
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Instead of medicine, doctors prefer to treat their patients with a comforting chat in relaxing atmosphere. |
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The messages, which I could read at leisure, were mostly short but sweet, and comforting words were used that are not always easy to say face to face. |
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It is so comforting to know that one day you will be grand duke. |
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A child accustomed to playing with paper and crayons at home, for example, will find it comforting to discover the same crayons and paper in the preschool classroom. |
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The lamb was delicious, and the risotto was rich and comforting. |
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The scent lingering in the hallway was less than comforting. |
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Imagine needing the comfort of popular approbation so badly that you would voluntarily comb through movie award nominations in search of comforting zeitgeist pellets! |
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It's comforting to have friendly faces together with invaluable local knowledge when it comes to possible stopovers in new destinations on overseas travels. |
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It is comforting to think that his was a death with dignity and solitude. |
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Immediately I am aroused by a strong, familiar, and comforting smell. |
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In answering this question, Smyth seemed unable to go beyond a comforting but unchallenging look-how-far-we've-come-from-those-benighted-days attitude. |
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When I'd broken down, which hadn't happened often but when it did it hit with fierce intensity, she'd been there for me, comforting me in the dark. |
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You walk in, or you talk to people, and you can just feel it wafting around you, warm and comforting. |
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It would be comforting to think that this city, despite its lapse into the present slough of despond and cultural wilderness, may yet rise like a phoenix from the ashes. |
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Somewhere between a frittata and a souffle, this comforting, old-fashioned dish is perfect for dinner when you don't want to spend a lot of time shopping or cooking. |
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It's comforting to imagine Malkovich stumbling around, slurring his words. |
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But if Pixar's going to slump, it's comforting that Disney is back to its old tricks. |
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I didn't believe in the Argyle Monster, but that was the opposite of comforting, because I believed even more in the scariness of the woods in general. |
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What we need is not comforting distance structured through familiarity, but rather the strength to look critically and consciously at that which most unnerves us. |
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Thus the yelps emanating from Moscow in the last two days have been both comforting and worrisome. |
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Then I had a drink from my thermos and a comforting chunk of chocolate. |
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There are, in sum, no comforting conclusions to be drawn any where. |
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This line of argument is comforting and seductive, but not convincing. |
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It would be wrong to either rush to condemn the incumbent for increasing our visibility as a target, or to nestle in the comforting bosom of a father figure. |
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I feel that musically, melancholy tones are the most comforting. |
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Even if you do baulk at some of the more outlandish examples of soporifics cited or quibble with a theory or two, Martin's message is strangely comforting. |
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Every so often there was a comforting buzz and jingle in my ski jacket pocket as the messages came through on chairlifts, on the top of mountains, and in mountain top cafes. |
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Talking to friends and family, even your minister, can be comforting. |
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After being yelled at like that by Christopher, is it comforting or horrifying for Morello to run into Nichols immediately? |
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She made the design as a comment on the comforting nature of wrapping oneself in a rebozo. |
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Thomas Meaney, Yascha Mounk, The Nation Democracy was once a comforting fiction. |
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It is very comforting to know that our service is so well thought of and that future generations are being spared the real problems our refuse would generate. |
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Round and round in circles, no loose ends left over, and it all made for a comforting sense of completeness. |
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But they're comprehensible, and that comprehensibility is surprisingly comforting. |
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It is such a common fib because it is such a comforting fib. |
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The peachy tones at its top deepen to a comforting, enveloping vermilion. |
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There are even a couple of creamy comforting Iberian desserts for afters. |
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As her hand rubs his back in a comforting, circular motion, she can feel the tremors of exhaustion and fear reach her fingers through his silk bathrobe. |
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You can chart a gradual progression from the comforting confines of shoegaze towards a disturbing mish-mash of fuzzed-up guitars and dark drum patterns. |
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A small, wobbly voice cut through the comforting blackness and oblivion, just audible above the constant hiss of the waves breaking on the slimy, moss-covered stone outside. |
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For those who are alone and lonely, that anonymous, comforting voice on the other end of the line might be one thing that prevents them from ending it all, there and then. |
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I hate packing, it makes my natural tendency towards anticipatory anxiety all the worse, but the excitement of having a new sponge bag is strangely comforting. |
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Ryan reached over and put a comforting hand on Marilee's shoulder. |
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The Ritz home was always a warm and comforting place and the food was pretty good too, mostly hearty food such as macaroni and cheese, butter tarts and lemon cakes. |
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Its apple-carrot muffin is a moist and comforting treat that tastes like your grandmother baked it especially for you. |
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Alec Nevala-Lee says the result is vague and unoriginal, yet somehow still comforting. |
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Huts, fences and palisades are often fashioned from saplings and shoots, and basketry is thus commingled with comforting notions of home, security and comfort. |
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Will it be a few months while the culture industry regroups its forces and rejiggers its ideas for new ways of exploiting a public hungrier than ever for comforting fantasies? |
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It is such a relief to know which side is right, and downright comforting to have a hero in the person of that rookie cop who blew the whistle on the six bad cops. |
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In the midst of our recessionary times, it might be comforting to read these great novels about people losing their jobs. |
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In that instance, as it is now, it was very comforting to know that I was wrong and he had been slyly enjoying his years in the land of the living. |
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If a politician cannot speak discomfiting truths without being thrown out of office, then we can expect to have more politicians who will tell us comforting lies. |
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A bowl accompanied by a plate of three perogies, a scoop of mashed potatoes and a gob of the ubiquitous sour cream makes a filling, comforting and extremely thrifty supper. |
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There are comforting things they can say to her that she cannot accept from you, especially if you've bad-mouthed him. |
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It's a comforting fallacy, especially when, as in the case of Iceman, you're about to reach deep into your pocket for a hundred smackeroonies. |
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The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation. |
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Something I hadn't ever tried before, the manti, cute star-shaped dumplings filled with meat, was simple and comforting. |
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The Adopt-a-Church program not only makes comforting reconnections but also helps supply basic necessities. |
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Where once bosomy was seen as warm, comforting, even maternal, now the same curves evoke a much tackier image. |
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In an environment of uncertainty, fixating on the accused is comforting. |
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It provides a comforting myth of religious supremacism to combat the multifaith, multi-philosophy America that so many of them find troubling. |
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Janet Flawn for her personal and comforting service and to James and Sally Dickinson for the funeral arrangements. |
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From now on I'm only going to play darts against men who are at least 20 stone and have a comforting moob or two waiting for me if I lose. |
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First though, we get some houmous and pitta which is addictive, comforting and moreish. |
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For example, the Pastelon de Pavo Picante y Lentejas is a comforting, one-dish meal of ripe plantains and turkey picadillo inspired from Puerto Rico and the Dominican. |
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A hip-hugging sheath dress with a below-the-knee hem is the ultimate in hourglass dressing It's comforting to note cardigans with jeans and a T-shirt is still a good look. |
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It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong. |
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My aromatic murgh shorba proved to be extremely comforting, keeping in mind the room temperature in the restaurant was a little on the lower side for me. |
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In a way it is comforting, perhaps even life affirming, for the majority of human beings, nonsuperstars, to think they have chosen the other course. |
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This was the choice of Allcroft, who wanted the television stories to be an extension of the way they would be told at home in a comforting environment. |
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Rashid gave his sister a staunch, comforting hug and deftly slipped, like a reverse pickpocket, several bills of money into the un-protesting pocket of her gown. |
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The small-town atmosphere was comforting, in a Rockwellian sort of way. |
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There's a real balance of sweet and spice here and a hint of creaminess due to the tonka bean that gives off a mild vanilla note that makes it almost comforting. |
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It was based on comforting childhood memories of hiding in a dark closet. |
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After completing their essays, the stalwart subjects were tasked with the comforting activities of eating cookies and checking off items on a grocery list. |
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Now Crosby Homes' completed Westgate development stands to show if it's all true, with values and saleability feeding off the comforting presence of a deli on the doorstep. |
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Perhaps this distraction was perversely comforting for a dyed-in-the-wool antimachinist like Orr, a sense of continuity at a time of great emotional confusion. |
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Just in time for the holidays, the limited edition Cranberries and Frost line from Febreze eliminates odors while leaving a crisp, comforting scent. |
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