| It's startling that the church of Bergman's youth and the theatre of his adulthood should be so close together: a metaphor for the twinned inconsolability and solace with which his rebellious work always contends. |
| People have found some comfort, as I have found comfort in other poems, in its very inconsolability. |
| Ames and Byron are intended as clowns of inconsolability, a kind of country-and-Western Vladimir and Estragon. |
| There was so much we shared: the tone playful, sometimes acid the Pierson jaw, the gab at parties, the inconsolability. |
| There is a certain Byronic pride in the poet's inconsolability. |
| He deeply respects Larkin's inconsolability in the face of the surest fact of all, but responds more vividly, in the end, to Yeats's visionary transformations. |
