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...experience and others like it in My Boyfriend's Back: 50 True Stories of Reconnecting with a Long-Lost Love (Plume). But the biggest incentive may be that hooking up with a friend from the past holds the promise of future ease. "There is an expectation of immediate comfort with someone supposedly familiar, as well as an expectation of similar values based on a common history--and therefore perhaps of not having to work so hard to build a bond," says marriage counselor William Doherty, a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota who has worked with...
...moved in with him in Taos. But they quickly encountered difficulties, primarily over money. Within six months, the marriage was kaput. "People change," says Schwartz. "Experiences change them, and they wind up with emotional baggage and history. In the glow of a renewed love and its feelings of comfort and familiarity, the couple may ignore this...
...Henry Dunster: “Over the Colledge is master Dunster placed, as President, a learned, conscionable and industrious man, who hath so trained up his Pupills in the tongues and Arts, and so seasoned them with the principles of Divinity and Christianity, that we have to our great comfort, (and in truth) beyond our hopes, beheld their progresse in Learning and godlinesse also.” Three hundred sixty-three years and 26 presidents later, Harvard’s marquee public relations publication—the Harvard University Gazette, circulation 37,000—is carrying on the tradition...
...many of the people I had met at The Crimson. College was big, bad, and overwhelming, and thus most of my peers were searching for people who were like them, with whom they could create a niche. It makes sense, after all—there is a feeling of comfort in being understood intuitively, in not having to explain the basic tenets by which one lives...
...otherwise—with my peers at The Crimson. It has been one of the most important places of learning during my four years, mostly because I was so often exposed to different perspectives. It was scary at times, but ultimately a beautiful thing to be outside of my comfort zone so often...