According to witness statements collected by the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), which has investigated allegations against Maglio for one year, many women who say they were drugged and possibly assaulted by Maglio recall feeling comforted by the fact that he was a police officer when they decided to stay with him.
Were Henry VIII's iconoclasts comforted, as they smashed the holy relics, by the anonymity of shadows?
I comforted myself during those long hours with thoughts of all those repeats of the ad, accompanied by invitations to appear on Celebrity Squares and Richard and Judy, plus the occasional guest appearance opening a supermarket for a couple of grand a throw just to top up the massive repeat cheques dropping through my letterbox.
You really do feel delightfully alone when you're 6in to the right of the double yellows, comforted by the ability to go your own speed, your own route, to stop if you fancy it and breathe in the crocuses.
Hitchens found Tunisia to be a "mild" place and, although he expressed disquiet at the 20 years that Ben Ali had been in power, the ubiquity of his image and the general reluctance of people to discuss politics, he was comforted by the availability of contraception, young people holding hands, and other clearly visible signs of "western values" and indifference to the puritan values of Islamism.
What sold it to Thatcher however was the fact that as Letwin pointed out it would also unite the cabinet as "since the radicals would be able to trumpet the Scottish experiment, and the sceptics would be comforted by the absence of any turbulence on the English domestic front".
You can feel very comforted by the fact you're normal".
Chancellor, I know you will be comforted and relieved that I consider the role of members of the House of Lords to be, as Keynes put it, ruthless truth-telling".
You have comforted others with such things, father.
While George Bush criss-crossed the country, Mr Giuliani comforted not just his city, but the entire country.
Once he learned that the sun rotated, he comforted himself with the thought that the sun's rays must somehow sweep the planets around it while a quasi magnetism accounted for the exact elliptical path.
