Sentence examples for of small comfort from inspiring English sources
"Flood doesn't discriminate between freehold and leasehold, owner-occupation and renting, and it is of small comfort having contents cover if the building itself is left uninhabitable.
Agnosticism, we read everywhere, is blighting the Church; attendance has been falling away; the clergy has turned from the old-time religion to a worldly theology, of small comfort to the humble.
If Labour's fiscal rectitude is of small comfort to some of these Stockton women, they might be glad to hear the oddly contrary message from the great election adjudicator, Paul Johnson of the IFS, who confirmed yesterday: "There's a very big difference between Conservative and Labour plans".
But to those who can't download Facebook Home today because they're using the "wrong" smartphone, it's of small comfort to think that perhaps the product won't ever really be as successful as Facebook promises.
But this may be of small comfort to Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal al-Saud, a 5% shareholder of Apple, whose investment firm Kingdom Holdings announced on Tuesday an 83% drop in second-quarter profits over the year.
Yet this can be of small comfort to someone who hasn't captured a full night's sleep for three days running.
Life is full of small comforts.
Glue fumes robbed her of dignity and the joy of small comforts.
Its characters seem unconnected to one another, so that their supposedly entwined fates add up to little more than a welter of bad news and a scattering of small comforts.
If I am reckless and go in anyway and the worst happens (i.e., I'm killed by the Westies or some other gang), I will know that the guys who did it will force the priest who molested them as children — who has to do everything they say so they won't tell on him — to hide my corpse under the parish house, depriving my loved ones of the small comfort of having a body to bury.
They are currently polling at around 10%.It is of some small comfort to the coalition that many of the most vulnerable Tory councils in England can realistically be gained only by the Lib Dems, and vice versa.
