Council members had no desire to make life comfortable for him.
"Obviously, I didn't save enough money where I can live the rest of my life comfortable," he said.
But she, and most of her fellow TV chefs, represent a strand of life – comfortable, bourgeois, self-satisfied – that I find just a little depressing.
Human beings, I figure, were quick to realise that there is great safety in numbers: build a city, and all amenities that make life comfortable and controlled are suddenly on your doorstep: hospitals, libraries, museums, your local cafe.
This Bush administration in particular has gone out of its way to make life comfortable for big coal, and Mr. Goodell, citing chapter and verse, takes it to task effectively.
On paper the enclave – cut off from the rump of Angola and sandwiched between the twin expanses of Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo – should receive 10 per cent of oil revenues, a cash flow which should make life comfortable for its inhabitants.
