Sentence examples for idea of consolation from inspiring English sources

"New art" derides the very idea of consolation, of enlightenment, of rising above — it derides it while deriving pride from that derision, as it dances and celebrates.

Even so, the idea of a consolation prize for Mr. McClintock is circulating around the convention hall.

It seemed, among other things, a way for Larkin to tell me what a high value he put on the idea of art as consolation.

With all this buzz, the idea of the borough as consolation for those priced out of Manhattan seems thoroughly passé.

Underneath the silliness was a sharp critique of the idea of art as refuge, consolation, or distraction.

"She found a lot of consolation in the idea that death doesn't really exist — it's just a transformation because we all come from God and everything in the world is from God," he said.

For Henman, the idea of coming close wasn't consolation.

This is grim news, and too hard a sell even for Freud, whose consolation was the idea of a usable past, whereby "a crucial aspect of the individual's sense of free will is a knowledge of his own history that does not dominate, overburden, or destroy him".

And there are other sources of consolation.

The effort of consolation made him bold.

Mr. Fowler found a ray of consolation.