Adults find it comforting.

Yes, that's very comforting.

This is downright comforting.

Which was comforting, but troubling.

Well, I'm the comforting type.

It's comforting to know that.

Thank you for your comforting words.

You're just comforting yourself with a fantasy!

Well, that's out. Here, this is comforting.

Maybe he's dead already. Darling, you're so comforting.

It's very comforting to feel sorry for yourself.

The twin message is as comforting as it is mad.

There's one comforting thought it happens early in the evening.

This to me, in its own strange way, is very, very comforting.

There was something comforting about a voice that was not my own.

Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

I'm not good at comforting anyone, baby. I'm looking for someone to comfort me.

The dark is comforting to me. I've never seen you in the light. That's a fact.

Having this news was comforting in some small way to understand what had just happened to us.

This is quite comforting for people like me I'm a professor this to be over there on the top of creation.

that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

It feels very tense, said 35 year old mother Risa Kusuma, comforting her feverish baby boy at an evacuation centre in the gutted city of Palu.

The comforting thing about the kind of data that Facebook primarily deals with is that it s public. If your friends and other people can see it, so can you.

You can either take the blue pill and stick to your comforting delusions, or you can take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

LONDON We are told that we live in anxious times, with lots to worry about and no more comforting certainty. But just how comfortable were all those past certainties, anyway?

Take charity from their wealth, in order that they are thereby cleansed and purified, and pray for them for your prayer is a comforting mercy for them. Allah is Hearing, Knowing.

Take charity from their wealth, in order that they are thereby cleansed and purified, and pray for them for your prayer is a comforting mercy for them. Allah is Hearing, Knowing.

And the idea was to sort of contrast something very cold and distant and abstract like the universe into the familiar form of a teddy bear, which is very comforting and intimate.

Moreover, as it becomes increasingly difficult for currency markets to perform the role of orderly reconcilers, friction may arise among countries. This could disturb the unusual calm that lately has been comforting equity markets.

Victorians thought the waves had to be waves in some material medium the ether. But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World, where matter is a useful fiction.

Some point out that it is comforting to realize that the Kuwaiti authorities are, at least, aware of such lapses and willingly cooperate with the embassy an example of this cooperation is the recent opening of a Kuwaiti embassy in Manila.

The role of victim is all too familiar to the Chinese, perhaps even somewhat comforting, for it provides a way to explain (and explain away) China s problems. But it is also dangerous, because it derives from China s old weaknesses rather than its new strengths.

What I saw during those hours were, despite my personal condition, the most comforting and hopeful signs that I have encountered in the entire region in many years. Arab citizens of Israel that is, Palestinian doctors and nurses were treating Jewish and Arab patients.

Adding to the sense of comforting normality, several European officials have taken to the airwaves with optimistic pronouncements. Whereas the euro and the eurozone were under threat just nine months ago, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy recently declared, this isn t the case anymore.

Because the dictatorships in America s client states ended more or less when the Cold War did, and were replaced by liberal democracies, many were lulled into the comforting belief that liberal democracy and capitalism would naturally even inevitably come together everywhere. Political freedom is good for business, and vice versa.

The conventional narrative comforting to the big banks and their friends in the Obama administration is that the Treasury has done everything within its power to reform the system. In this account, anyone now complaining about, for example, the lack of legal charges against the banks is some form of dangerous demagogue.

It is nevertheless comforting that Europe s differences on global issues have not had an excessive impact on the EU s internal dynamics. The war in Iraq did not delay the Union s big bang enlargement, and was not the reason for the failure of referenda in France and the Netherlands on the Constitutional and Lisbon treaties.

Nevertheless, the markets evidently regard this as a comforting bedtime story all the more so now that European leaders have averred that Greece will not be pushed out of the eurozone. Officials recognize that cutting off EU support and compelling the ECB to stop providing credit to the Bank of Greece would be Europe s Lehman Brothers moment.

If anything has been laid to rest by China s rising wealth, it is the comforting idea that capitalism, and the growth of a prosperous bourgeoisie, will inevitably lead to liberal democracy. On the contrary, it is precisely the middle class, bought off by promises of ever greater material gains, that hopes to conserve the current political order.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the extremist tendencies are on the decline. This political progress was rapidly reflected in concrete results achieved in the field, and today this war torn country is engaged in reconstruction. It is comforting to note that a growing number of individuals charged with war crimes have been sent to the Tribunal at The Hague.

The obvious lesson of 1907 that Americans learned was that central banks were the best placed institutions to restore liquidity in a financial panic, and, in the longer run, monetary reform gave the US its own central bank, the Federal Reserve, by 1914. So 1907 became a comforting mantra in times of financial stress a crisis cannot happen as long as the central bank understands the problem of liquidity.

These numbers seem to paint a comforting picture of an increasingly autonomous Asia that can better withstand the blows from the West s recurring crises. But research by the International Monetary Fund shows that, beneath the veneer, 60 65 of all trade flows in the region can be classified as intermediate goods components that are made in countries like Korea and Taiwan, assembled in China, and ultimately shipped out as finished goods to the West.