Sentence examples for comforting role from inspiring English sources

Ramblers play a comforting role in the British imagination.

Mr. Mayer and his fellow songwriters often play the same comforting role as their forebears.

But hallucinations can have a positive and comforting role, too — this is especially true with bereavement hallucinations, seeing the face or hearing the voice of one's deceased spouse, siblings, parents or child — and may play an important part in the mourning process.

Bush serves as the song's respondent, she assumes a comforting role and with delicate vocals, sings lines such as "Rest your head/ you worry too much".

Parents remarked on further aspects of oncologists' behaviour that were central to their comforting role and additional to their instrumental expertise, particularly their calmness and constancy.

Not since Mr. Reagan have we had a chief executive who seemed so comfortable and comforting in his public role yet so seemingly unbending in his calculations.

Their parents were already in Chicago, so my mom played the maternal role, comforting her siblings while they flew away from a home none of them would see again for decades.

The emperor and Empress Michiko have long played a role comforting the public in tough times, visiting the survivors of the massive quake that killed 6,400 people in the western port of Kobe in 1995.

And as the United States did in the days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Japanese are contemplating whether baseball can play a role in comforting a reeling nation.

Even as they perform their traditional role of comforting their shaken clients, they find themselves having to explain the write-downs, losses, layoffs and capital infusions that they had nothing to do with.

Alianza Dominicana, which is playing a key role in comforting victims and directing them to government assistance and had helped more than 60 families by noon yesterday, and the Rev. Ruben Diaz, head of a Bronx ministry, announced the formation of a fund, "Aid to the Victims of Flight 587" to provide families with long-term help.