Sentence examples for could have been comfortable from inspiring English sources

As a gifted big band trumpeter and arranger, Jones could have been comfortable as a backroom figure.

I mean, his friends and family did, but I didn't know that and the public didn't – I wish he could have been comfortable sharing that with us".

If a Chinese dissident had won this prize twenty — or even five — years ago, the state media system could have been comfortable knowing that simply blacking out the news from state papers and television would be sufficient to prevent most Chinese citizens from hearing such politically objectionable news.

There was no evidence of injury to the hoof after the race, but Iavarone said he did not think it could have been comfortable for the horse, who was wearing an acrylic patch on his left front hoof, to compensate for a painful quarter crack.

"The second set could have been comfortable, but I obviously played a bad game," said Murray.

Until the phone call, Little could not have been comfortable reading about his imminent demise.

At the end of John Kasich's victory speech in Berea, Ohio, confetti cannons blasted from behind the bleachers at the rear of the stage, pelting those in the rear row with bits of red, white and blue paper and sending up huge bursts of air that couldn't have been comfortable for the candidate.

It could have been the other way around, too, and I would have been comfortable with that, too".

Mr. Comey could have been quite comfortable in his previous job, yet he wanted more.

"It could have been more comfortable but, over the two games, we deserved to win" was Houllier's summing up.

"He broke away from what could have been a comfortable career into uncharted territory," Ms. Wolfe said.