A windowless seminar room is made tolerable by a full-service bar, offering cocktails on tap as well as beer.
"Manly Games" is Mr. Svankmajer's first piece of unambiguous social commentary, but its heavily didactic nature is made tolerable by humor: it's easily his funniest film.
Although the climate is scorching, the temperature in the cells is made tolerable by electric ventilators on the ceilings and the ocean breezes that waft through the camp.
They engage with the terrible, slippery randomness of things—all those cold, yawning spaces between the stars which are made tolerable by a kind of baleful, ridiculous humour.
Yates's gloom is made tolerable by his lack of heartlessness and because he believed that humans might somehow handle their own lives, even if they never appeared to do so very satisfactorily.
Life is made tolerable by such small-imagined mercies.
The hours of waiting in medical facilities were made tolerable thanks to our iPods.
Conrad Tao of Sputnikmusic showed high favoritism for the song, writing: [Knowles'] utterance of 'you're my James Dean / you make me feel like I'm seventeen' on 'Rather Die Young' is made tolerable by her honeyed vocal slides.
Sunday night's rather overlong telecast was made more tolerable by the many tweets that went alongside, from the good to the bad to the John Travolta.
Although most have suffered severe declines these last two years, the pain was made more tolerable by the fact that the basket of holdings made each week's decline look insignificant.
