| One of the consolations of getting older is that you become less interested in yourself. |
| As rations dwindled, she sustained herself by hymning the consolations of good food. |
| Seriously, the more we seek out divine consolations, the less we need human consolations, whether fancy dishes, or TV, or daily newspapers, etc. |
| And deathbed rituals and religious consolations softened even the sting of death. |
| Furthermore, Crane's prose denies the consolations of sentimentalism, in which the less fortunate are cast as inferior objects of pity and condescension. |
| Still, he's got a few consolations, including his diary, the keeping of which began as an order from his father. |
