Sheffield's love letter to the songs that saw him through will resonate with anyone who ever took solace in the radio when no one else seemed to understand.
Art gives solace to those who need it because they are old enough to understand.
There's solace in a patch of scrubland or a derelict building because it seems to understand.
Did You Ever Have a Family is a meditation on enduring the unendurable, about keeping going even when it seems impossible to find anything worth going on for, but it is also a testament to the solace that comes, if not from forgiveness exactly, then from acceptance, from seeking to understand and be understood.
Recent movies like "Syriana," "Quantum of Solace," and "Duplicity" are scripted and edited as overly intricate puzzles, and I've heard many people complain that the struggle to understand the plot becomes the principal experience of watching such films.
"Grief is a frozen state for men and for women, but men can be harder to understand, because we don't like to articulate our feelings," says Field. "Matt Fowler [Wilkinson] gets solace from his friends, but he's still alone.
I hope this book finds a wide readership: It will offer solace to OCD sufferers who will understand that they are not alone and who might gain hope of remission; for other readers, it will provide a harrowing sense of what many OCD sufferers have to endure just to get through the day.
How can a deep-dive into the architectural features designed to ease the mind and provide care and solace to a vulnerable population help us understand our own responsibilities?
In time, he found solace again in literature and [End Page 336] began what would become an enduring practice: reading and writing about the Holocaust so as to better understand what he had witnessed.
That is little solace to Mr. Sidiqi.
Sometimes they offered solace to one another.
