Sentence examples for consolation work from inspiring English sources

On the day of reckoning, several of the unsuccessful bidders, with Munch money to burn, will be able to comfort themselves with a consolation work by the artist: There will be five lesser examples of his oeuvre on the block at Sotheby's, all coming up later in the same sale, with the highest estimate at $7 million -- mere chump change for "Scream" candidates.

Here Roiphe does get at something useful, which is the consolation of work: "For the time it takes to draw what is in front of you, you are not helpless or a bystander or bereft: You are doing your job".

That is my wish and challenge for you: Live truthfully, authentically, and honestly, drawing strength and consolation from work, family, love, and health.

But the consolation prize worked out perfectly for Howells, and made him as a writer.

The clarity of Yanagihara's prose is perfect for dissecting blind ambition, the consolations of work and money, and how these paper over the cracks of fragile, fractured individuals.

Small rises in living standards have been the only consolation for working lives that numb and scar people's sense of dignity and self; now even that promise has run out.

The old footballer appears to share Di Stéfano's pleasures in the consolations of "working with the young".

Flaubert sought consolation in his work and in the friendship of George Sand, Ivan Turgenev, and younger novelists Émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet, and, especially, Guy de Maupassant, who was the son of his friend Alfred Le Poittevin's sister Laure and who regarded himself as Flaubert's disciple.

The usual consolations didn't work.

This movie is that rarest of consolations: a wise work about idiots.

He had spent much of his life translating the great Greek works into Latin, and this last work, Consolations of Philosophy, was written in his desperate hour.