Sentence examples for modest comforts from inspiring English sources

Life in Africa, he said, had taught him to appreciate even the modest comforts of Park Hill.

We are not talking about a life of luxury and ease, but about modest comforts and reasonable expectations: a decent job with health benefits and vacation time, a loving family, a house of your own.

But when people living paycheck-to-paycheck splash out on plastic to buy themselves the material trappings of the rich and famous -- or even the modest comforts of the merely solvent -- their emulation can cost them 18 percent interest or more.

The Maddens' new first-floor apartment on Beekman Place, one of Manhattan's most prestigious neighborhoods, goes well beyond such modest comforts, although it does contain cherished items like signed first editions from Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, whom Ms. Madden represented in her publicity days.

Hearing a song like "Suggestion" and seeing bro control is a real, if modest, comfort.

Jeremy Corbyn can take modest comfort from an outcome less grim than many foretold.

On this day that fetishizes finitude, that reminds us how rapidly our own earthly time share is shrinking, allow me to offer the modest comfort of infinities.

But he takes modest comfort from the free press and the independent constitutional court, although even that independence is under threat.

"We are people of this generation," it began, "bred in modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably at the world we inherit".

If he is willing to sacrifice what modest comfort that income provides in order to help others, he should be admired.

Gabler's eloquence is, in a sense, a rebuttal to the bile of the trolls, but his sophistication should be only modest comfort.