| Still, he's got a few consolations, including his diary, the keeping of which began as an order from his father. |
| Seriously, the more we seek out divine consolations, the less we need human consolations, whether fancy dishes, or TV, or daily newspapers, etc. |
| Simply put, his wild imagination and inexhaustible creative energy might have been the only consolations for a life that seemed destined for meek destitution from the start. |
| Furthermore, Crane's prose denies the consolations of sentimentalism, in which the less fortunate are cast as inferior objects of pity and condescension. |
| One of the consolations of getting older is that you become less interested in yourself. |
| In 1909, he wrote from France commiserating over the grim weather in Cambridge, but suggested the city had many consolations. |
