| One of the consolations of getting older is that you become less interested in yourself. |
| It has always been one of the greatest pleasures and greatest consolations of humankind, found in all civilisations. |
| As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food. |
| And deathbed rituals and religious consolations softened even the sting of death. |
| In 1909, he wrote from France commiserating over the grim weather in Cambridge, but suggested the city had many consolations. |
| Furthermore, Crane's prose denies the consolations of sentimentalism, in which the less fortunate are cast as inferior objects of pity and condescension. |
