A few years ago, when the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to J.M. Coetzee, it was striking how many commentators, including the members of the Nobel Prize Committee, referred to Coetzee's pitiless vision of the world and the absence of any consolation in his writing.
Lots of things contribute to a successful profit-sharing program: low employee turnover, competitive pay, absence of paternalism, refusal to give consolation prizes when profits are down, frequent (quarterly or semiannual) profit distribution, and plenty of opportunity for employees to question the management decisions that affect future profits.
I would have said to him, "You have already accomplished it, you have helped to remove their mask," but instead of this I had to offer words of consolation to his family, sitting in his absence in that room in the humble neighborhood of La Chirusa.
June 23 2011 July 9 201111 As a consolation for the absence of "Romeo and Juliet" from the season's lineup, fans of Prokofiev will get his syncopated, more jagged "Cinderella".
With a rueful smile, Jane explained that the puppy was a consolation for the absence of Robert's daughter, Raleigh, who had recently gone away to college.
"Of course there was a bit of consolation.
A word of consolation, though, from soul diva Beverly Knight.
There was one rather powerful note of consolation.
Mr. Fowler found a ray of consolation.
That is always some kind of consolation.
There is some sort of consolation.
