consoling

Speech parts

1. consoling - Noun

2. consoling - Adjective

3. consoling - Verb

5. consoling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Console

Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news.

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Examples

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. Stanley Kubrick

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience. Cesare Pavese

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear. Gabriel García Márquez

If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma, are sometimes consoling. Simon Blackburn

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, - and always to plead it successfully. Anthony Trollope

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong. Richard Wright

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