| Furious with herself, she cut into the fruit cake, watching steam rise from its centre, and placed a comfortingly large slice on his plate. |
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| The sand, as Sam had said, was indeed, soft as powder and oozed cool and comfortingly through his bare toes. |
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| A yummy mix of fudge brownie, chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla ice cream, this is an comfortingly indulgent Sunday treat. |
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| The trick is for an aspiring cultural capital to appear to the visitor as both distinctively foreign and comfortingly universal. |
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| Watching him unravel over the course of his story becomes a horrendous and yet comfortingly human experience. |
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| It seems to me that certain gospel-influenced strands of pop music are comfortingly familiar and participatory. |
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| It's impossible to think of one without the other, the partnership being bizarre yet comfortingly familiar. |
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| She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else. |
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| The carnival feeling contrasted comfortingly with the stiffness of the state visit, as if we were reclaiming London for ourselves. |
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| Charity bosses have spoken comfortingly about Olive since her death and promise they will look at what went wrong. |
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| His smile widened into a toothy grin and he squeezed my hand comfortingly. |
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| A new, comfortingly rich deal with EMI bucked them up no end, apparently. |
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| Pieces fall comfortingly into place like tumblers in a well-oiled lock. |
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| A comfortingly modest number missed the deadline or restated earnings. |
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| Il Centro Turistico Città di Bologna, a tourism and services company, meets all the needs of modern open-air tourism by offering comfortingly welcome accommodation to business tourists who normally stay in traditional hotels. |
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