| The roguish Milo steals the show and is completed Maura, his wife, in a more consolatory role. |
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| The effect was often consolatory, showing acceptance, or even transcendence in the face of death. |
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| Numerous proleptically elegiac poems share this prediction, foregrounding the silence that will replace consolatory language in the new round of suffering. |
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| The Virgin Mary could be tolerated for her merciful, loving, consolatory virtues if only one didn't at the same time have to buy into her passivity and sexual repressiveness. |
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| There is no respite from the tension of the first movement, and the key remains resolutely in G minor except for the consolatory central Trio section in G major. |
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| In actual fact, it seems increasingly less consolatory seeing as, three years later, very little headway has been made towards attaining that objective. |
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| His 400 volumes, all lost, included On the Withholding of Assent, two popular introductions to Academy philosophy, and a consolatory letter to his compatriots on the fall of Carthage. |
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| This, however, is a consolatory fantasia: a black-and-white fairy tale in which noble, downtrodden Egyptians rise up to cast off foreign overlords and a parasitic ruling class. |
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| My colleague Mark Steel, an unlucky runner up for Best Comedy for his brilliant In Town series on Radio 4, approached Gaunty late in the evening, and attempted to plant a consolatory kiss on his mouth on this column's behalf. |
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| He gave me a consolatory slap on the back before sploshing off down the track with his crazy-eyed sheepdog, leaving me worrying about what I'd got myself into. |
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