| The Plague offers a salutary counterweight to such utopian longings and millenarian consolations. |
| One of the few consolations was that its demolition was a long drawn out process, hindered by the very high quality of the original construction. |
| It has always been one of the greatest pleasures and greatest consolations of humankind, found in all civilisations. |
| Still, he's got a few consolations, including his diary, the keeping of which began as an order from his father. |
| One of the consolations of getting older is that you become less interested in yourself. |
| And deathbed rituals and religious consolations softened even the sting of death. |
