In the same-sex community (as you note in your book), the people with an interest in continuing to challenge traditional marriage have not had nearly the impact on our cultural conversations as those who want to work for full access to Marriage (and not to marriage-light consolation prizes such as Domestic Partnerships or Civil Unions).
"Everyman" was a welcome contrast, edging emphatically toward the light... Consolation, pain, consolation, pain, final consolation.
Those goals and Farid El Alagui's fine consolation lit up a largely poor game as the rivals met on league duty below the top flight for the first time.
It is for this reason, that today my heart is filled with gratitude to God, for never did He leave me or the Church without His consolation, His light, His love.
Stringing lights may be a consolation for those staying home.
I popped along not once, but twice to a well-known hotdog joint this week that does a sideline in furniture: Ikea, the huge blue monster squatting by the dual carriageway that swallows you up and spits you out three hours later, exhausted, disorientated, £300 lighter and clutching a consolation pork snack.
Love is not consolation, it is light".
Gloomy stuff, but he's followed by Laurence Binyon, who finds a positive undertow to the city: "A sudden consolation, a softening light, touched me: the streets alive and bright, with hundreds each way thronging, on their tide".
If there's any consolation, perhaps there's light at the end of the waiting.
Both -- especially Garden of Lights -- understand the power of nature as consolation and a new invocation of life.
Only his eyes catch the light, two pinprick stars in a universe entirely without consolation.
