In his opening match at the ATP World Tour Finals in London's O2 Arena on Sunday, Federer started comfortably, breezily taking the first set over Tsonga by the score of 6-2 in only 21 minutes.
The Black Stars started comfortably enough, but Botswana immediately showed on their Nations Cup debut that they were not there to be overrun, confining Ghana to midfield.
Born with a silver spoon; or things started off comfortably, but his father's business failed when he was 11? Raised in the shadow of three older siblings?
Mr. McCain, after starting off comfortably, seemed increasingly inconsistent and testy as the debate wore on.
It was a collection of individual mistakes and the most maddening part for Hodgson was that England had started the game looking comfortably the better team, passing the ball crisply and threatening in attack.
It reflects a time when the feminist movement (or the idea of it) was starting to settle comfortably into suburbia.
Putting this in mind-boggling perspective, a large-scale brewery can comfortably start a new brew every 90 minutes, thanks to rigorous process engineering, and these usually range from 60,000 to 100,000 litres.
Heady stuff but not enough for the DJ who spends his weekends playing all-night-long sest that start with fans comfortably seated on the floor, enjoying ambient, downtempo and post-classic music that slowly builds up into a ferocious dance party of techno, IDM, and even some jungle, as the night progresses.
Hales played comfortably enough but started the rot when, having hit two boundaries, he drove extravagantly and was caught behind.
In 2005, he started The Sartorialist, capturing the comfortably glamorous people found lingering in the Tuileries Garden or perched on East Village stoops.
Manchester United and Bayern Munich started well, with the Germans comfortably winning their first two matches in Group F, while United strolled past Anderlecht of Belgium in the first game but settled for a scoreless tie last week in Kiev, Ukraine.
