But these haven't been discovered yet, so I can't order up a reassuring mail-order test to find them.
For decades, Europeans and Americans have imposed reassuring intellectual order on a too-diverse, little-known Orient and Africa by means of large labels: the "yellow peril," the "black hordes," etc.
Even if the cosmic order is conceived as a benevolent order in which one is able to feel safe and whose very existence is reassuring, such an order is different from the personal relationship between an individual and his god or gods.
It would therefore be interesting to conduct further experimental, systematic studies of the relationship between specific worrying and reassuring cognitions, in order to obtain additional insights regarding effective situation-specific reassurance.
TOKYO — Japan, a country lulled by the reassuring rhythms of order and predictability, has been jolted by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis into an unsettling new reality: lack of control.
Villaraigosa had been tirelessly traversing the city ever since his return, reassuring the public that order would prevail, and repeatedly declaring, "We are one L.A".
The liberation from decisions about what to eat was welcome, and the knowledge that the kitchen wasn't handling a complex array of orders was reassuring, promising.
More than that, though, it offers a window on the transformation of the city's self-image, and the nation's perception of that image: from the reassuring good-guys-impose-order-on-chaos certainties of the 1930's through the 1950's, to the out-of-joint, toxic terrain of the 1970's, to the more nuanced anomalies of today's safer-streets metropolis.
Those troops will join 4,000 military police whose imminent arrival has been announced almost daily by American officials, eager to reassure Iraqis that order will be restored to city.
Check in on the baker again a few months prior to the wedding to be reassured that your order is still on the books and ready to go as planned.
