Apathy is a comforting place to be; it is when you decide to take action that it's uncomfortable.
A comforting, delicious gratin.
She calls this a comfort zone activity; the actions are repetitive because the child can't think what else to do.
But like the game as a whole this is strangely comforting, with the action familiar to anyone who played Baldur's Gate or Knights of the Old Republic.
If I were willing to replace my pruners, it would not be with a cheap imitation, but with an identical pair that had the same spring action, comforting heft and smooth blade of top-quality steel.
My husband and I launched into action (a comfort zone for both of us) trying to find a certified local mechanic in an unfamiliar town during the holidays, unloading and towing the car, researching alternative transportation options and alternative holiday plans for the six of us.
As the carnage and moral ambiguities of Vietnam faded from memory, many started to believe in the comforting clichés of action movies, in which the tough-talking hero is always virtuous and the hand-wringing types who see complexities and urge the hero to think before acting are always wrong, if not villains.
The soft sweep of the seconds hand reminds us of the fleeting nature of time while the endless ticking in a dark room is a comfort and a spur to action.
This might be perversely comforting, if the actions of Ukrainian officials did not speak louder than words.
Those destructive, yet sadistically comforting and familiar actions will cease, and it will help stabilize you while you relearn how to live life.
It is deemed that discourse has powers of communication, persuasion, warning and comforting, thus forming ritual action (Austin 1962).
