Sentence examples for great consolation from inspiring English sources

No17 seed Karolina Pliskova wasn't exactly a great consolation prize.

"The great consolation always comes in the form of Hitchcock," he said.

My mother had just died, and it's a great consolation drink.

He said, "Art is a great consolation to the individual but it is useless against history".

But the Nets will counter with Kidd, which is a great consolation for Scott.

"It's a great consolation, it's not expensive, so you don't feel guilty".

But endings – as opposed to ends – are one of the great consolations of fiction.

"Endings," said the novelist Sarah Moss in a recent interview, "are one of the great consolations of fiction," and I think she's right.

There was talk of permanent separation, but in 1931 Althea gave birth to Rosemary, providing Thurber with one of the great consolations of his life, and stitching the marriage back together for a while — they didn't divorce for another four years.

"One of the great consolations of English literary life," Mr. Taylor observes, wonderfully, is the idea that "seriousness is automatically the preserve of people with cheery, proletarian values and prosaic lifestyles — that a barfly with a private income and a web of well-connected friends has already damned himself beyond redemption".

But the truth is, one of poetry's great consolations is the theater of the moment when it first meant something to you.