Sentence examples for taking comfort in the notion from inspiring English sources

Administration officials in Washington declined to comment publicly on Saturday and privately played down the importance of the move, taking comfort in the notion that Mr. Karzai effectively has the final say and has kept on appointees in the past for months despite political opposition.

As Wall Street rallied this week, it seemed that investors were taking comfort in the notion that the economy had become so imperiled by the crumbling housing market that it was forcing the government to finally mount an aggressive rescue effort.

While rightwing Republicans intoxicated themselves with hints of Iraqi involvement in 9/11 and overheated rhetoric about the war against the beast, liberals took comfort in the notion that the White House was at last taking seriously the need to confront religious tyranny.

The sinners here take comfort in the notion that "Christ is married to the backslider," and will forgive their trespasses "seventy times seven" (Matthew 18 22).

Whatever happens, Mr. Kaplan takes comfort in the notion that he will be remembered as a player in the great e-commerce revolution.

People once consulted advice columns when they wanted a broad, seemingly omniscient perspective, when they wanted to break out of their small network and take comfort in the notion that their problems were universal.

Mourning the ill-kempt hair that she has had to "endure from losing Jane," Mrs. Wheeler takes comfort in the notion that Jane will "suffer more, probably," presumably from the ill effects of a freedom she sought only under the influence of the abolitionists.

I would ask that all of you who have heralded the return of Russia as a player on the world stage, and those of you who swallowed the Kremlin propaganda about who provoked the recent war in Georgia, and indeed anyone who takes comfort in the notion that Russia is back as a predictable, unified Great Power with a coherent sense of policy or strategy, pay close attention.

We took comfort in the notion that "the best and brightest" would be taking over.

As we reprise the financial circumstances of previous generations, we can take comfort in the notion that work may have been the secret to their long-lived intelligence.

But faking unfailingly patient parenting and perfect children is something closer to betrayal — not of some strict notion of "reality," but of other parents, who get through the tortured mess of raising children in New York only by taking comfort in the details of the tortured mess that other parents confide.