Sentence examples for to comforting from inspiring English sources

I can't help feeling, however, that I imposed the charges (I split the proceeds with local charities of my choice) in order to discourage advertisers – like any editor dedicated to "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable" I regard advertising as something hugely untruthful that tends to get in the way.

Many parents retain warm memories of coming home during their raucous college years to comforting pink chenille bedspreads or, more recently, "Star Wars" posters and Nirvana ticket stubs.

This is a hard lesson, particularly for those of us who cleave to comforting notions of transhistorical literary genius, and justice and fairness.

More worrying still is the fact that – encouraged by Pierre Camillele has taken to comforting the parents by claiming she's met their children in the afterlife.

Over the last 50 years, his idiosyncratic vocal style has gone from causing widespread dismay – "we sounded quite good … then Neil started singing," as one member of his early 60s combo the Squires gloomily recalled – to comforting familiarity.

In addition to comforting creamed spinach and a sauté of earthy mushrooms with herbs that needed only salt to make the dish sing, he created three vegetarian entrees that more than matched their meaty competitors.

To comfort the afflicted.

Yes, she wanted to comfort.

"I tried to comfort her.

That ought to comfort you".

Her husband Marc tries to comfort her.