Isaiah's theology included the sometimes comforting view that God shapes history, traditionally entering the human scene to rescue his people from national peril.
There's a comforting directness to this scene: the better the audience reception, the quieter the room gets.
The exact words of Rosa Lee, comforting Mac in a scene where he is frustrated, are, "I love you, you know?
This put his face in a vaguely sinister half light, but, with his strong accent and the sounds of traffic out on Park Avenue and a headlight occasionally sweeping across the room, the scene had a comforting European melancholia, as though directed by Pabst.
I found it oddly comforting to see these apocalyptic scenes played out, and also to learn that these fears weren't mine alone".
Neither does it quite have the sinew of Emma Thompson's superlative version of Sense and Sensibility, with the punch of those tearful scenes with Thompson comforting the jilted Kate Winslet.
I was watching a film recently and there was a scene with one character comforting another.
I watched the scenes from Newtown: people hugging, comforting, supporting one another.
His job is to teach all the others how to be better versions of themselves, and then to exit the scene on a flood of pious, comforting tears.
