These messages of where the comfort lies go very, very deep in children.
This is a show obsessed by the gap between myth and reality, keen to expose those tales we tell ourselves for the comforting lies they often are.
On Sky Atlantic The Leftovers, which was initially inspired by the events of 9/11, continues to examine bereavement on a grand scale, peeling back the comforting lies its characters tell both to each other and, crucially, to themselves while next week sees the start of Tom Rob Smith's hugely anticipated London Spy.
Comfort lies in seeing that behavior punished and things set right.
For Ms Reno, who is in any case ill with Parkinson's disease, little of comfort lies ahead.
Now her most reliable comfort lies in food, in the instantly fulfilled promise of a tangy barbecue sandwich, or a bag of crisp potato chips with cool onion dip, or a package of devil's-food cookies.
Shambles understandably began weeping recounting this traumatic bit of her history, and The Viper Queen, continuing working on her tan, made insincere noises of pretend comfort, lies so transparent that only Shambles being lost in her grief kept her from seeing how she was being patronized in the guise of caring.
His comfort lay in an idea of England that he discovered in fiction.
" 'And New York City will pass the test.' " The only hint of comfort lay in the reactions of law-enforcement officials who did not respond as if this jetliner crash was caused by terrorism.
Leibniz took advantage of every pretext to leave Hanover; he was constantly on the move; his only comfort lay in his friendship with Sophia Charlotte and her mother, Princess Sophia.
