For conservative Christians, "Coming to Peace With Science," by Darrel Falk, and "Origins," by Deborah and Loren Haarsma, are accessible and reassuring reads.
Perhaps it was squandered, in a larger artistic sense, but it still makes for captivating, and oddly reassuring, reading — it's a relief to know that, even if your life were more glamorous, you wouldn't necessarily be any happier.
It was reassuring to read other people's experiences were the same as mine.
Similarly, before welcoming strangers into your home it is reassuring to read reviews from other hosts they have stayed with.
Nor can it be reassuring to read that Rupert Murdoch believes that the hacking matter had been handled "extremely well in every way possible".
It is reassuring to read an ad from the Cunard Line which says that the possibility of war gets remoter every day.
The New Yorker, May 7 , 1938P. 11 It is reassuring to read an ad from the Cunard Line which says that the possibility of war gets remoter every day.
To the Editor: It was indeed reassuring to read about the progress toward no-fault divorce in New York ("No-Fault Divorce Finally in Sight for New York," front page, June 16).
In an age when canned hilarity has all but usurped the viewer's right to an autonomous sense of humor, it is reassuring to read a statement like that.
How reassuring to read of efforts to teach Appalachian children not to be ashamed of their rich regional dialect ("Linguist Finds Dialect A-flourishin' in Appalachia," Ellenboro Journal, Feb. 7).
