Sentence examples for precarious comfort from inspiring English sources

Showing the masses at their most unwashed, Stroheim captures a heaving, struggling, stinking world of rugged labor, precarious comfort, and primitive naïveté.

Her Collyer Brothers tendencies aside, Bourgeois no doubt found precarious comfort in the nest of this critical mass; she grew up surrounded by textiles in her parents' tapestry restoration workshop, and the act of sewing, she said, was her attempt to keep things together and make them whole.

I slipped up when I asked for a Barbie for my fifth birthday — I wanted only to practice styling her hair, I obliviously assured my parents — but I wised up fast and made a beeline for the closet's precarious comforts.

Its elaborate financial structure, fine-tuned over the last five years, suddenly looks too precarious for comfort.

Normalcy can feel awfully precarious, like a comforting dream blotting out a nightmarish reality.

In a precarious world, it is comforting to avail yourself of the odd certainty.

Few authors capture the acidic angst of downtrodden millennials like Butler, whose heroines, trapped in precarious and soulless work, take comfort in consumption, in cynicism, in ill-fated self-improvement.

A thrill these talks are not, but G. Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College, noted that politics that attended to the precarious details of life could provide comfort to the hard-pressed.

When one considers the needs of humanity, compared with the vast cost of a first-world lifestyle and the comfort it provides, the precarious state of the planet is clear.

Many women seemed to gain a sense of comfort from this, even given the precarious nature of their economic status and the difficulty and expense that acquiring 'healthy foods' to comply with their medical advice created for them.

For Mr. Condra and others in more precarious situations, even the prospect of recovery brings little comfort.