7 sentences with 'comfort'
Example sentences and phrases with the word comfort and other words derived from it.
• « Here is Emerson's conclusion: "While sitting in the comfort of advantage, he lies down to sleep. When he is pressed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something." »
• « Brian and I phoned the Cystic Fibrosis Association, and it was a comfort to learn that much of what I had read was outdated. »
• « We were both desperately in need of comfort, but we had grown so far apart that we no longer knew how to ask or give it to each other. »
• « It is therefore a mistake to regard the medieval church as nothing more than a kind of 'con', for it provided significant guidance and comfort to medieval Christians, and some of its members were exemplary thinkers and important intellectuals. »
• « Instead of a handful of super-rich expropriators, all could share in material comfort and freedom from scarcity, something that had never been possible before. That vision of revolution was a powerful one for the young Marx, who wrote that, given the inherent tendencies of capitalism, revolution was inevitable. »
• « Modernism was a movement of scepticism directed towards the post-Victorian middle class, a revision of the whole legacy of comfort, security, paranoia, rigidity and hierarchy. »