If a person solaces himself for being fat by eating more, he's going to eat more to solace himself for the extra weight. |
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There are other small solaces, not least in the quality of Claude's cellar, which he imbibes passively. |
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He yearned for the petty solaces of the motel, his family sorted onto twin doubles, with room-service club sandwiches, more pay-per-view Disney. |
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The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion. |
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These parishioners, indeed, are not seeking such solaces. |
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In giving and receiving love's solaces let modesty be ever present. |
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In Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, a mother pregnant with her second child, suffers from anomie and solaces herself with snatches of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. |
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