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consolatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. affording comfort or solace

How To Use consolatory In A Sentence

  • Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions. 
  • Mr. Skillcorn walked off leisurely towards the potato ground, singing to himself in a kind of consolatory aside — Queechy, Volume II
  • Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions. 
  • Numerous proleptically elegiac poems share this prediction, foregrounding the silence that will replace consolatory language in the new round of suffering.
  • Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions. 
  • She should neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress.
  • Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions. 
  • I only long, if it were possible to me, to help in satisfying the need of those who want a reason for living in the absence of what has been called consolatory belief. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
  • Vain the effort to recall consolatory texts pertinent to the occasion! The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life
  • The effect was often consolatory, showing acceptance, or even transcendence in the face of death.
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