What makes it tolerable is constraint and redress.
I believe you have to do things to life to make it tolerable.
This is very dull, and I make it tolerable by listening to music.
Dear Nadezhda, I hope you have been able to organise your life in prison around small rituals that make it tolerable, and that you have time to read.
The essence of the work being done at The Hill, day in and day out, is so gruesome that mind games are played to make it tolerable.
How many happy endings in which the binary molecule of man and woman embracing rationalises the messy, blood-spattered colonisation of the western half of the North American continent and makes it tolerable anew.
A totally full economy cabin is never an entirely pleasant experience (I woke up drooling on the sari-clad shoulder of a woman next to me, who paid me back by prodding me in the gut while she slept), but Emirates, more than any other long-haul carrier, makes it tolerable.
Among the 20 leading democracies, Britain's winner-take-all plurality system is shared by only the United States and Canada, whose separation of powers and federal structures make it tolerable, and by New Zealand which suffers from the same see-saw of dogmatic minority government as Britain does.
Scraping up the thick plastering of chicken-manure under the roosts, forking up the matted hay on the floor the only thing that makes it tolerable is the thought of how well all this muck and dry matter will compost, and the obvious pleasure the chickens take in the process.
