Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even read like a Christian, for he asks paradoxical questions about even the basic assumptions of the faith. "Is God dead?" he sometimes asks his students, in a jolting-challenge to their conventional idea of God. "It could well be that the God you believe in and take comfort in is dead...
Although small, there was a degree of comfort in seeing the new apartment dweller's plight so truthfully reported on your pages...
...recent years she has resided safely and quietly in Paris, well cared for by doting Frenchmen, who used to value her at $10 million, now insure her for $100 million and really think she is priceless. Just the same, if high-level negotiations work out the details for her comfort, Leonardo da Vinci's enigmatic Mona Lisa will leave the Louvre next year for her first visit to the U.S. to tour the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, and maybe make a quick side trip to California...
Hoffmann felt de Gaulle showed his great ability in handling the Algerian War. De Gaulle came to power with statements so ambiguous about Algeria "that the conservatives were sure he was committed to a French Algeria while the liberals could comfort themselves with the ambiguity, saying that he was a liberal unable to any what he believed...
Whatever its material from burlap to brocade, a hostess gown assures the lady of the house comfort, glamour, and a kind of one-upmanship on her guests. After a day over the old hot stove, she can slip quickly and ungirdled into the easy camouflage of full-length draperies. And while her guests have had to settle for party dresses of unspectacular street length (the better to get in and out of cabs or family cars), they are sure to find their basic blacks outshone by the lady in skirts who rustles out from the kitchen with...