There's a particularly nutty scene, involving a dogless tail causing a near riot in a bar, in which Smith turns his gaze to a boorish patron: "Mr. Harold Gay, in spite of his comfortable size, was not a comfortable companion.
The reader must sometimes follow him unwillingly, for "Russian truth is not a comfortable companion — not the everyday pravda but the immortal istina, which is the very soul of truth.
Just as the physical object of a book, even one with musty and yellowing pages, seems a more comfortable companion to me than words scrolled across a computer screen, I find the physical space of a gay bookstore intrinsically inviting and encouraging.
Nothing uncovered by the geologist contradicts what the biologist is working on; the chemist is unsurprised by theories on the composition and function of distant stars; the physicist has no quarrel with the climatologist; the psychologist and physiologist are comfortable dinner companions; the botanist and archeologist can lie down together in an excavation.
Delivering a mixed narrative that weaves together history, myth, and his own style of ekphrasis, his even-toned voiceover makes him a comfortable traveling companion.
"Satire is supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted," her companion raged.
Robert Maigret, the chief creative officer of Sphero, told The Huffington Post in a recent interview that the BB-8 toy could help people get comfortable with having robotic companions in their homes.
Stuff to sleep in - unless you are comfortable with your travel companions knowing you sleep naked!
Witty and weighty, Home Cooking is a culinary companion as comfortable beside your bed as your cooker.
It's funny to think that a husband could be so much less comfortable as a sleeping companion than a row of books.
