Sentence examples for false consolation from inspiring English sources

Broadcasting may console the ego, but it's false consolation.

It can also provide us with false consolation.

It's difficult to write seriously — without easy resolution or false consolation — about God in the 21st century.

The mark of a civilised society is that it promotes the messy frustrations and delays of the former over the false consolation of the latter.

The prose poem "Report From Liberty Street" is one of the few poetic responses to 9/11 to avoid false consolation and the taint of catastrophe-exploitation.

But the poem has already directed our sympathy to the man whom this "snowstorm" of lyric false consolation turns to "nothing".

The false consolations of art.

The false consolations of religion were a common target of Maxwell Davies's rage.

Without it, Palestinians will face enduring humiliation, the pride of statehood sacrificed to the false consolations of victimhood.

But there's no miraculous healing or tender reconciliation for these characters and no false consolations in the exposed performances of the two accomplished actors onstage.

Jenny Erpenbeck's magnificent novel "Go, Went, Gone" (New Directions, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky) is about "the central moral question of our time," and among its many virtues is that it is not only alive to the suffering of people who are very different from us but alive to the false consolations of telling "moving" stories about people who are very different from us.