Also, not easy circumstances.
A sense of continuity — creating a home base in not very easy circumstances.
A sense of continuity creating a home base in not very easy circumstances.
There on the train, the word "comfortable" took on all its implications: the physical sense of well-being, free from stress and doubt, easy circumstances, content and complacent.
It's not been easy circumstances and everyone has taken to them a bit this year – in very adverse circumstances they have held their heads high and managed to get to Wembley.
The rest of his life he passed quietly enough, being in easy circumstances thanks to his private income, the royalties on his plays, and his not very exacting posts in the civil service.
Perhaps the most inspired, and funniest, borrowing from the Book of Common Prayer occurs in "Pride and Prejudice," when Mr. Collins makes his infamous marriage proposal to Elizabeth Bennet: My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony in his parish.
He said he was proud of what he has achieved "in what have not always been easy circumstances".
This is the way to give extraordinary service, consistently, day in and day out, in good times and bad, easy circumstances and hard.
But these are not easier circumstances.
They clung to this in a way that is humbling for the rest of us, who stumble and fall in far easier circumstances.
