Word: comfortes
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...briefly found happiness during a decade in which the work of his pen and the peaks of his professional achievements coincided with the nation's upheavals. But Schulz knew better than anyone that he could never really become a sunny citizen of the Golden State. He found little comfort in fame or prosperity or the California sun. Pain gave him his core. "I think that one of the things that afforded Sparky his greatness," a friend would say after his death, "was his unwillingness to turn his back on the pain...
This, however, is the way Boies lives today: with Mary and their two teenage children in a long and lovely red-brick mansion that seems as if it has been transplanted from the Virginia Tidewater, poised on a small rise overlooking the undulant comfort of upper Westchester's gentrified farmland. He lives on airplanes that take him to trials all over the country, bring him home for a son's football game or a daughter's school event and then shuttle him back again. He travels each summer on cross-country Jeep trips with some of his six kids...
Edith Wharton wrote subtly withering novels of privileged folks whose moral myopia appalled her; she screamed in whispers. Lily is an affront to social order--the order of financial and emotional comfort. Her luck turns to ashes when she rejects love (Stoltz) for a betrothal that promises security. She must be reduced to poverty by an upper class tired of her coquetry and unaware of her special heroism in refusing to destroy a rival (Linney...
...history to see that that humanity has survived its many travails over the past millennium. Furthermore, the predictions of the French priest Raoul Glaber that Satan would be unleashed upon us and that the great Apocalypse would arrive last January have not come true. We can also take comfort in what one of our forebears thought of the passage of the last millennium, one thousand years...
...next several years, friends and advisers suspect he will keep at least one foot firmly planted in the political sphere - and his name and likeness highly visible. And while the sting of his defeat at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court may linger, he can take some comfort in new numbers released Tuesday by the Gallup Organization. According to the granddaddy of polls, Gore's approval rating has shot up in the days since he gave his concession speech. Fifty-seven percent of Americans polled regard him favorably, versus 40 percent who view him unfavorably. That's a stunning...