Those songs are almost bearable.
The world alters a little, for a few moments, to make death bearable or almost bearable.
President Obama's recent executive orders on immigration promise to make life a little more bearable for nearly five million people was a smart move politically -- except for the fact that he didn't do it in October when it might have had an impact on the midterms.
Most symptoms of insomnia are bearable, though.
It almost makes the Simon Cowell episode look bearable.
During World War II, American posters pictured the Japanese as yellow devils, encouraging a degree of generalized hate that made the heavy losses in the Pacific more bearable and the internment of Japanese-Americans more nearly acceptable.
For most people, the NCAA tournament is two and a half weeks of nearly wall-to-wall college basketball entertainment with the added benefit of making office life a bit more bearable through the joy of gambling.
8.22am GMT 65th over: Australia 260-5 (Smith 80, Haddin 53) The temperature has dropped to a positively chillsome 33.1C – nearly 10C lower than today's peak – which should make England's travails in the field a very small amount more bearable.
