Sentence examples for a solace for from inspiring English sources

But the young priest had come to say it had been so, and by saying it had found a solace for himself.

He gradually found in the landscape of central Finland a solace for the feelings of loneliness and anger so apparent in Svarta sonetter.

For Barthelme, "the aesthetic potential of language" was just one more concept to have fun with; for Gass, it was a solace for the emptiness of existence.

He pursues the dead writer as a solace for his own disappointments; his literary obsession is, as the epigraph implies, a personal matter.

In the year it took him to recover, he set about learning to sketch, a solace for an outdoorsy boy who had spent summers camping in Canada.

He began to pluck out some of the unlikeliest volumes — "The Law and Your Dog," "Septic Tank Practices," "Successful Fund Raising Sermons" — and stashed them in a bookcase in his office, where, slowly gaining company during the sixties and seventies, they became a solace for him and his colleagues.

To some it seemed rushed out with undue haste, but for others it met not only a demand but a need – solace for the devastated fans who craved more of her very particular brand of salty, rough-edged soul.

Niqabs of/du Canada has become a twisted solace for some in these dark times, a Tumblr stream of photos showing Canadians concealing their faces in a niqab-like fashion during everyday activities: a plastic mask worn by a hockey goalie, the scarf and hat necessary for tromping through a proper blizzard, the thin fabric covering surgeons wear.

It was a complete solace for me.

The request to compose another work for a public ceremony the Symphonie funèbre et triomphale (Funeral Symphony) for military band, chorus, and strings, commissioned for the 10th anniversary of the July Revolution (1840)—was intended as a partial solace for the defeat of Benvenuto Cellini.

It was already a place of solace for me, and a combination of a way to socialize and meet people and learn what was out there without being completely destitute.