Word: comfortes
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Argument cuts into comfort and bruises our pride, but it's also the way we get smarter, and humbler. This is a time that calls for as much humility as courage: when the territory is unknown it's better not to pretend you know where you are going. Better to listen to advice, argue with passion, even with ourselves and our worst instincts. Our better angels need weapons too, and argument makes them sharper, and every time we fight the urge to panic and help someone else regain his balance, we may better arm ourselves for whatever these next days...
...heed the words of Winston Churchill: "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." To accomplish this victory, freedom-loving people throughout the world will have to be willing to sacrifice comfort, finances, superfluous liberties and perhaps even their lives. We must learn to be patient instead of arrogantly demanding, forgiving instead of litigious, and cooperative instead of contentious and divisive. It is the hour of course corrections, balance, discernment and wisdom. May we rise to the occasion with a new appreciation...
...known for its stability or its comfort,” University Marshal Richard M. Hunt explained during Neil L. Rudenstine’s 1991 installation...
...Romano this weekend, well, there’s also a bar on the second floor. But despite all its overall grandeur and luxury, the theater still evokes a hollow feeling. Like my pyramid of a theater back home, today’s cinematic megaplexes may be the epitome of comfort, but they lack the character of more traditional film houses...
Howie Blitzer is a pie-faced Long Island (L.I.) urchin who quotes L.I. luminary Walt Whitman in the same breath as issuing a tide of expletives. After a young highway hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also...