| 单词 | consolation |
| 例句 | It was the one consolation for what had turned out to be a pretty disappointing day. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The commonness of his name was a consolation, too; there were three Henry Smiths in any given oil field of reasonable size. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My only consolation was that I could continue to work for Louis and to learn about animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Judith had shut her mind to any consolation. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Realizing that the soldiers were starving was small consolation when, one morning, I smelled an awful sweet smoke as they burned corpses somewhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It had been such a consolation to me to get wrapped up in Jinx’s story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z With his family, the boy has the intense pleasure of intimacy, the family’s consolation in feeling public alienation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His only consolation was that Aurora and Ares were inching along somewhere behind him, ready to save anyone who fell. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I yearned to hear some words of comfort or consolation from him—from anyone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He expressed his grief over his brother’s death and his consolation in the knowledge that James was in heaven united with their mother and father. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But what consolation can that fact bring against the knowledge that my mother and father have never heard of Garcia Lorca or Garcia Marquez? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The only consolation was that he wasn’t chained. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “That is not the sort of consolation I require.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now his condition was named she felt a certain consolation, though the mystery of the fountain episode deepened. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z That the sea anchors, miraculously, were not lost—they continued to tug at the lifeboat faithfully—was a consolation that had no effect. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Her biggest consolation would be that Ben and her parents would have immunity from gleaning for as long as Citra lived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Her only consolation was that at least she'd had the great good sense not to marry him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Abigail decided to write a letter of consolation, explaining that “reasons of various kinds witheld my pen, until the powerful feelings of my heart, have burst through the restraint.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Poor things! it was the sole consolation they had. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z In May of 1984, I found some consolation that seemed to make up for all the discomforts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They are my only consolation at the moment, and I have been tearfully busy trying to make it a “happy” Christmas for them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Without the support of old certainties and consolations, almost mechanically, he assumes the procedures and doctrines of the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The theory of relativity does allow one consolation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The hot dog will be ready soon,” I added, as if it were some sort of consolation. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It was obscure, but not too cut off from the house, a friendly little place with the consolation of water and not too many shadows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Fat, talkative, with the airs of a matron in disgrace, she renounced the sterile illusions of her cards and found peace and consolation in other people's loves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My friends who had led me to the slaughter came over and offered words of consolation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This is particularly true of prison, where one must find consolation in being true to one ’s ideals, even if no one else knows of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he gave Mole a deer bone for consolation and went to his desk. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to put your hand on Mary’s heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That was my consolation for not being allowed to go aboard the Portia Sue as his hand. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He refused to swear on it, and flat refused to study the esoteric texts, which he called “the consolation of would-be wizards cursed to live in a world without magic.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had not been back to Nigeria in years and perhaps he needed the consolation of those online groups, where small observations flared and blazed into attacks, personal insults flung back and forth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Before I’d even enrolled in kindergarten, he began preparing me for a shining career in medicine—or, failing that, law as a poor consolation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At their first meeting after the estrangement, Bernard poured out the tale of his miseries and accepted consolation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be someday! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When the awareness of it strikes, a man either suffocates with despair or he turns to cling to his woman, to console and seek consolation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanchion led her from the stage and bought her what I guessed was the consolation tankard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The dead man was, however, in no mood for consolation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z By way of consolation, she counseled us to "examine your consciences." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He was seeking other consolations in one of the thatched huts around our rancho. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z What need have we of repose when our minds and bodies continue to delight in activity? of consolation, when we have soma? of something immovable, when there is the social order?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As if this was the consolation prize for the gossip she was in for. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I failed the math final if it’s any consolation. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before we left for Bournemouth, my grandmother had given me, as consolation, a present of two white mice in a little cage and of course I took them with me. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z To bring us consolation in the sorrows of life....’” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z My sole consolation was that I only had to live with that for thirty-six more days. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The numerical success of the calf’s species is little consolation for the suffering the individual endures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After the food and the stories and the consolation, there’s the drinking, and after the drinking, there’s the ride home. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z My classmates had all heard the news by the time the semester began, but their words of consolation didn’t help very much. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The only consolation in such an arrangement was that joyous mo-merits were shared as well. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Perhaps it is better if you wait here, hombre,” my father said with consolation. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Amaranta Úrsula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We had the consolation of being with each other, but that was the only consolation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "If it's any consolation," Teddy said, "pretty much everyone in the world feels the same way." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My only consolation is that at least I don’t get nervous playing the piano in front of an audience. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Some weeks previous, Mr. Sharpe had told my friend Private G—g that I was in demand to play with the orchestra gathered for the diversion of the officers and the consolation of the besieged. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They weren't alone; plenty of other families shared their situation, which offered some consolation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’m frequently in need of consolation, I often feel weak, and more often than not, I fail to meet expectations. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He took some consolation from the fact that Ulbrickson had told the press that the third boat was still in contention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Hazel was the simply the next best thing Nico could manage —a consolation prize from the Underworld. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Was she in love with him, or was he merely consolation? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Joyce was nearby, and that was a consolation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Her only consolation was that at least her parents looked as ill at ease as she felt. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The first week at August’s was a consolation, a pure relief. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As a consolation prize, I offered to bring her back another souvenir. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My only consolation is the knowledge that I then led a life where I’d hardly enough time even to think. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His single consolation was that one day, he would matter. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Ned was offended and turned to Sallie for consolation, saying to her rather pettishly, “There isn’t a bit of flirt in that girl, is there?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I wanted to apologize again,” she said, “but I also wanted to offer you something in consolation.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My sole consolation lay in the fact that he would have to suffer this abuse only for a few weeks more. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Eisenhower made it official on February 7, when he offered Stassen a consolation prize of a position elsewhere in the administration. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I knew she was right, but I took no consolation from that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They hacked off her brother’s head in the hope that it was mine, yet here I sit like some bloody gargoyle, offering empty consolations. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Benji had texted the details of the consolation prize last night. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Send them rescue, send them consolation, send them freedom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They slept at their posts in the shadow of the church so that no one crept in for consolation without their knowledge. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to tell him that he was young and that there were a lot of fish in the sea, but it was little consolation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The victory tankard turned out to be the same as the consolation one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Herbert said, “Certainly,” but looked as if there were no specific consolation in this, and remained perplexed and dismayed. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “This will no doubt be poor consolation for you who felt a brother’s love for him.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But the boy was deeply depressed and spoke constantly of the meaninglessness of life now that he had lost Blanca and could no longer play the guitar, which had been his one consolation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A voice inside her head tried to soothe her with well-intended but misguided consolation. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Her beaux turned to me for consolation, and I gave them the same advice I have for you: Think no more of the minks, because she has already forgotten you. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He knew the only thing that would give him any consolation would be holding Emma and being held by her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned to leave the kitchen knowing I wasn’t needed, but I couldn’t help offering my mom a small bit of consolation on my way out of the room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But I interrupted him by saying that it wasn’t the same thing and that be-sides, it wouldn’t be a consolation anyway. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Her one consolation was that none of them had been on that black dot—the absolute center. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She was in no mood to talk, no mood to explain, no mood for consolation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z If a contestant reached the $8,000 plateau and failed to answer that question correctly, he or she was given a new Cadillac as a consolation prize, worth about $5,000 at that time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “She most of all,” said Ernest, “requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched. But since the murderer has been discovered—” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z My only consolation was knowing that someday I’d be free of all their stupid rules and worries. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Trina looked to Mark for consolation, but he just smiled in return. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Nyaokorefu, if it’s any consolation, I’m taking as big a risk as you. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But this sleep-taught consolation did not seem to be very effective. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z This consolation was denied to the Mexica, who were agonizingly uncertain about what happened to the soul. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The only consolation is that she died much faster than they would have liked, because her body was so weak from drugs and from her infinite despair over Jaime’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had hoped that this consolation prize would settle Minerva happily in Ojo de Agua. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a contingent of canoeists who had finished their races, and been badly beaten, and were bent on holding a consolation party downstairs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But it came out sounding broad, perfunctory, like the token consolation of a kind stranger. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I can offer you no consolation, my friend,” said he; “your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse knew now that he would never be the best runner of the fourth and fifth grades, and his only consolation was that neither would Gary Fulcher. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z But in that case, I would have the consolation of winning my bet, which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z From there he preached Socialism and mulled over his disgust at Blanca’s having married someone else, refusing to accept Jaime’s explanations and consolation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished to comfort her, but there was no comfortable action I could take; I desired to console her, but there was no word that could be a consolation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Just audible lumps: "It's not much consolation, but you'll probably never have any loss this big again." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But I hope you can find a little consolation from the universality of this experience. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The only consolation is that if I was hot, “Queen” Angelita must have been burning up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At least I’m tall, he thought, but it wasn’t much of a consolation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He probably thinks the bar mitzvah is off, and he’s here to offer consolation. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z But this brought him little in the way of consolation, for today he was terrified of his thoughts. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It could be that she was eating for consolation, because of Josef: whatever else might happen, he would never marry her, and she must have known that. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t much consolation, but it was enough to keep her spirit from entirely fleeing her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why did you rob me of my last consolation? I relied on your innocence, and although I was then very wretched, I was not so miserable as I am now.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Such is the consolation offered by any of the current bilingual schemes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s fair, I guess. I don’t blame you. If it’s any consolation, I punched him before I came to get you.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Charles said he took some consolation in the thought that had Annie lived she might have suffered a life of ill health, as he was now suffering. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He give me every consolation in de world. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z My one consolation was that I knew these kids. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The girls couldn’t help laughing, and felt better for it, though Meg shook her head at the young lady who could find consolation in a sugar bowl. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z But twenty-five years later, about forty miles up the road in Odessa at Permian, there was some consolation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even the thought of falling in love with Sam is a consolation anymore. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z There’s a certain consolation to be taken from routine. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd, which had greeted Howard’s announcement with sympathy and understanding, was eager to see its consolation prize. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But a consolation crepe will still be yummy. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I looked away, and she put her hand on my arm, which was the worst, because it was the consolation prize. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Thank Goodness it will always be a consolation to me to know that I instantly went out in a pouring rain and bought the things.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “New art” derides the very idea of consolation, of enlightenment, of rising above—it derides it while deriving pride from that derision, as it dances and celebrates. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z For the first time of my life, moving pictures have proven insufficient consolation from the day’s stresses. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z It's no stretch to imagine that what he's referring to are the temporary consolations of being alive. Small things add up in Matthew Thomas' 'We Are Not Ourselves' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But there is consolation as well as exasperation in the act of asking. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z It’s more like responding and providing, in many ways, consolation. The U.S. poet laureate on what America should be reading now 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The only consolation in losing, he said, was that it was to Laurence Olivier in the limited series “Brideshead Revisited.” Leonard Nimoy, a pop culture force as Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 83 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z As a small consolation, every late November, he changed the menus to include a traditional German dessert. Q&A: A Taste of German Christmas Markets 2013-12-18T22:00:37Z The world has lost a writer of immense talent and heart, a writer who helped illuminate the wonders, losses and consolations of the human condition. Oliver Sacks, Casting Light on the Interconnectedness of Life 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Yet, literature as consolation is a lovely concept, what books do you read or recommend to bring comfort? Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z The notion of “consolation” is one I suspect Krug would regard with suspicion. A Visual Memoir Asks What It Means for Germany to Reckon With Its Past 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Twenty-one years is not a quickie marriage, but that was of no consolation when I realized we weren’t going to get my two-old-guys-on-a-porch-swing ending. ‘We Found Our Groove in Splitting Up’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z It is the invalid child’s consolation, the prisoner’s last hope. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z In time, the baby will learn that crying doesn't bring consolation and will cease the attempt. Why parents should leave their kids alone 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The New York Times, described it this year as “a raw, brooding work that in its brutal honesty provides a kind of tragic consolation.” Met’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ Remains a Lightning Rod 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Gianni finds little consolation with lovely friends — including a neighboring party girl and an old flame — who appreciate him with unspoken wistfulness but see him as a ghost. 'The Salt of Life': Gentle tale about aging among beauties of Rome 2012-04-05T19:26:03Z Asi, the fighter, is allowed to make a plea that offers some consolation, the kind that only theater affords. Review: In Richard Maxwell’s ‘The Evening,’ Going Gentle Into the Night, or Not 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Ms. McLachlan has long been pop’s voice of compassion and consolation; in these songs she needs those comforts herself. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z While Iron Man learned from his mistake, that lesson was likely little consolation to the residents of Sokovia, a nation where countless innocents perished as a result of Ultron's exploits. Iron Man: The secret bad guy of the MCU? 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z While its employees are unsure how they feel about being “right in the flight path,” as one put it, at least they have the consolation of Condé Nast’s elegant cafeteria and lounging-around area. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The hope that a Trump Presidency might inspire an onslaught of artistic vitality can seem, at this point, like foolhardy consolation. A Young Rapper’s Bold Anti-Trump Message on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Winning the weekend at North American theaters, according to preliminary studio reports, was little consolation to Singer or his sponsors at Warner Bros. Slay What? Pricey Jack the Giant Slayer Earns Few Beans 2013-03-03T23:56:20Z I usually found myself being offered the obligatory consolation prize: a role in the dancing chorus. Jenna Fischer: The First Time I Was Paid to Act 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z When his characters speak directly, they more often hit the mark, whether their goal is destruction, consolation or reconciliation. New Books From Louisa Hall, Christian Kracht, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Others 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Fair enough in one way: atheists ought not to be offering consolation either.” ‘Mortality,’ by Christopher Hitchens 2012-08-31T22:50:05Z I'd rather have won something for a book of my own, but there's no nicer consolation than a little pot of crustaceans in seasoned butter. Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy' 2012-02-10T13:50:00Z The show is so kind that even contestants who make it on stage but don’t get to play a pricing game leave with a $300 consolation prize. Game show ‘The Price Is Right’ celebrates its 50th season 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z A consolation – fruit is the only possible follow-up. 20 best seafood recipes: part 2 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z There is no easy consolation in “New People.” ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z A listener is unlikely to experience catharsis or find consolation. Cancer Haunts a Composer’s Life and Work 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z It tells the story of a woman who is denied both the consolations of tribe and her own autonomy, and thus presents a kind of photographic negative of the American dream. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z A small consolation for Hodder, which has also recently lost Jeffrey Archer to Harper Collins, is that Herbert's sixteenth novel, Portent, is now in its eleventh week in the top 10 bestseller list. James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z Baroque music very much suits our time because it has so much drama, so much tragedy, so much power, so much consolation at the same time. A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z If there's any consolation here, it's that bands tend to define their names rather than the other way around. Are there any great band names left? 2011-04-04T22:13:00Z Securing her life and the life of her child is no small consolation, but there’s more than a hint of disappointment that the operation to get Escobar didn’t transpire. ‘Narcos’ Season 2 Episode 4: No One Escapes 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Under the salvos of programmed percussion, new songs like “End of the Line,” “Comeback Kid” and “Leader of the Pack” were anthems of mourning and consolation. Music Review: Sleigh Bells? ?Reign of Terror? Tour at Terminal 5 2012-02-19T21:34:52Z The rest of the album offers more bleakness, more consolation, more romance and more avuncular wisdom from Mr. Cohen, who long ago proved himself one of rock’s most profound aphorists. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z We use what is available to us, the tools and habits of consolation; we use what we have been taught, on ourselves and on others. In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Our memories and the joy of seeing our children and grandchildren thrive will be consolation for whichever one of us is left behind. My life in sex: ‘We must have made love 22,000 times’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z His gaze holds the anguished yet oddly satisfied astonishment of a long-deluded man who has at last stumbled upon the consolations of philosophy. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z When I read “The Book of Strange New Things,” I thought of it as a moving novel about the inevitability of suffering and the elusiveness of consolation. The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The recognition of this forbids him the consolation of the completed story. The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu – review 2013-07-05T17:30:00Z This movie about history ought to have been understood, in its time, as historic; the only consolation is in the long game. The Return of Julie Dash’s Historic “Daughters of the Dust” 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z I ask if there’s been anything — any piece of art or record or minor consolation of philosophy — that has gotten him through the deaths, the breakup, the battle for sobriety, the disappointments. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z If it’s any consolation, I receive several letters a week about ugly tribal discord. My Boyfriend Wants to Sleep In. So What? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “A consolation for people with oily skin is that they tend to age better and not wrinkle as much,” he said. Skin Deep: Men Seek to Reduce Oily Skin 2010-07-21T15:47:00Z For some people, the process of coming out must be tempered with the consolation of being in love. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Her voice also lends itself to the endless layering that becomes both her shield and her consolation. Review: Aurora’s Debut Album Offers Pop Bait and Dark Introspection 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Steering away from consolation, and bowing to the inevitability of continuing bloodshed, Sorley concludes with his favourite metaphor of the scourging elements: "… the storm, / The darkness and the thunder and the rain". Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z Now sisig numbers among the world’s greatest foods to eat with beer, a sip and a bite, one consolation after another. A Filipino Specialty Best Paired With a Brew in the East Village 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z As a result, this isn’t just a book to read — it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It’s a consolation for the rest of us that skinny people also sweat, even ones who are expensively dressed. It’s Hot in the Hamptons, but Cool in Brooklyn 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z If it’s any consolation, so do the peasants. | 'Lush Valley': Lush Valley at Here Arts Center - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:00Z David Bowman would turn out to one of the most isolated people I’ve ever known—isolated on the profoundest levels by a certain traumatic displacement from ordinary human consolation. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But seeing the lighthouse at dawn was a pretty stunning consolation prize. Frugal Traveler: Budget Fun on the California Coast 2014-04-02T18:18:48Z The good news is that a shot at redemption or, barring that, consolation, may soon arrive with the Dec. 4 arrival of "The Great British Baking Show: Holidays," Season 3. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z But there are still music lovers alongside the Grammy metrics team, and the internet is their safe space and consolation prize. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z An ambivalent note of consolation ends the poem: "You will survive, language holding some trace of you for years,/ and the mourners, too." Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z But there are also emotional overtones of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto in the dramatic conflict between orchestral anguish and the soloist's infinite powers of consolation. Penderecki: Violin Concerto No 1; Horn?Concerto Winterreise 2010-08-12T22:00:00Z For the autumn gardener, this year’s long goodbye may be viewed as consolation for a growing season that was trying, to say the least. What this mild autumn means for your plants 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z But as happened in 2012 with the Signature’s superb revival of “The Lady From Dubuque,” a two-week flop from 1980, time often proves Albee’s terrors right, and also his small consolations. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z In warm consolation, earlier in the evening he was presented with an ISM distinguished musician award. Otello; The Minotaur – review 2013-01-20T00:07:21Z Even if by some miracle “Black Parade” does take a big award, it will look less like a victory than a consolation prize. Grammys Snubs and Surprises: The Weeknd, Luke Combs and BTS 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The judges said: "It is about starting over, the consolations of art, the exhilaration of imagination, the joy of breaking down barriers between different people and different historical eras - and even different books." Man Booker Prize 2014: At a glance 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z There are consolations to this kind of unhappiness; there are strange, felicitous side effects. Books of The Times: ‘In Praise of Messy Lives,’ Essays by Katie Roiphe 2012-11-27T16:27:18Z But that will be no consolation to Cineworld employees losing their jobs right now. Time to try harder – James Bond has no licence to kill the film industry | Peter Bradshaw 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z This is somewhat of a consolation prize: Q-Tip won best dance recording with The Chemical Brothers for “Galvanize.” They are musical icons, but they’ve never won a Grammy Award 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Andrews’s seemingly lesser consolation prize was the title role in Disney’s family film Mary Poppins – no match, surely, for Warner’s lavishly produced blockbuster. The 10 best Oscar snubs 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Their major consolations are familiar to the human species: death, and rolling peals of dark laughter. ?City of Bohane,? by Kevin Barry 2012-03-30T23:27:18Z A few fans even hoisted it in the sky during his set, but even that felt like a consolation. 'American Idol' live a grim reminder of show's faded glory 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z “Desh” is art as consolation, and it’s almost, but not quite, enough. Dance Review: ?Desh? From Akram Khan at Sadler?s Wells - Review 2011-10-08T00:37:35Z As so often, nature offers its own consolations. Review: Arvo Pärt and 9/11, Paired at the Metropolitan Museum 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Happily, that fearful vision remained only in my perhaps overheated imagination, but it did cause me to seek calm in my week’s reading — and what better calm than the consolation of philosophy? Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z As a consolation prize, I looked down on the lesser summits along the ridgeline at wisps of breakaway clouds swirling and eddying against protruding rock walls. Bushwhacking Up Maine’s Baker Mountain 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But for Mr Cameron's allies to find consolation from the mayor being in no current position to strike is to miss an essential point. Boris Johnson reminds Tories of what David Cameron has lost 2012-10-06T23:08:26Z He left his Catholic school at 15 and found consolation in the theatre: first by taking drama classes at Stockton and Billingham Technical College and then by becoming a student at Manchester Polytechnic's drama school. Richard Griffiths obituary 2013-03-29T16:52:59Z They pretend to a neutrality that can offer consolation but also condescension. In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z If Sloterdijk's reflections sound obvious or fanciful, consider again the long and vexed history of enclosed but transparent volumes as images alike of freedom and security, futurism and consolation. Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Wieland Hoban - review 2012-02-10T22:55:00Z But when celebrities were live and their messages were heartfelt, they could make a virtual watch party feel less like a consolation prize. Democrats, make some nooooise! Wait, you’re muted. Hello? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z No doubt Odysseus experienced the same sense of anticlimax when he finally made it back to Ithaca from Troy, and he hadn't even had the consolation of visiting Theydon Bois. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z But Brahms, who carefully chose texts speaking to consolation and resolve for the living rather judgment of any deceased, was ambivalent about the title. Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Ever since that moment, watching the films as a child while seeking consolation for the loss of a pet, I have relied on Star Wars throughout my life as a means of comfort. Readers Share Their ‘Star Wars’ Memories 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Her son’s consolation for a swab being jammed up his nose? Through comics, Seattle cartoonists document their lives during the coronavirus pandemic 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z And during the nearly 45 years since, he has continued to be absorbed by the potential of words and images to not only address the ravages of history but to offer consolation. Peter Sacks’s New Paintings at Paul Rodgers/9W 2012-12-23T05:02:36Z And the program chosen by Kirill Petrenko, the Philharmonic’s music director, spoke to this moment of disruption and fear; plumbed spiritual realms; and offered consolation. The Berlin Philharmonic Tests a Musical Path Out of Lockdown 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Beyond the beacon of consolation, beyond the celebratory joy of survival, Dolly’s status as full blown hero is cemented by her supreme grace. Dolly Parton, American icon: Why everything's coming up Dolly now 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Chris, the songwriter and voice of Christine and the Queens, plunges into separation and consolation in “Tears Can Be So Soft.” Dolly Parton Goes Arena Rock, and 9 More New Songs 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z But you get a consolation prize: Anyone who wants to re-create that scene on hallowed ground associated with the movie, as many fans do, is going to have to go to Lake Lure. ‘Dirty Dancing’: Where Kellerman’s Came to Life 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The letters can then become a source of consolation: relics of a precious connection. The Drama of Letters, Swirling With Suspense 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z “Whenever we look to this White House for some leadership or consolation or any semblance of steadiness,” she said, “what we get instead is chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy.” Perspective | Michelle Obama’s speech was like an empathetic neighbor expressing sorrow for what our country has become 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Before I met my husband, I treated therapy like a consolation prize for not having a romantic partner. He Showed Me His Tiles, So I Showed Him Mine 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z He sets up contrasting ideas—panic and consolation, distance and intimacy, happiness and terror—and marches them toward communion. In 2016, How to Dress Well Gets Happy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z As Enrigue writes, "history and stories alike offer the consolation of order," and that "Sudden Death" is "a machine for understanding the world, or the ways in which we name the world." Aztec and European empires collide in the strange and bloody 'Sudden Death' by Álvaro Enrigue 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z My great consolation was British comic books, such as “The Beano” and “The Dandy”—in some ways every bit as mysterious as the adults’ talk, their slang and cultural references largely lost on me. Witnessing the Moon Landing in Ireland, at the Start of the Troubles 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s the consolation for what comes instead of love and what survives love. Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It’s probably small consolation that they mean no harm. Social Q's : The Non-Parent Trap 2011-05-12T22:34:40Z Writ larger, a “balance of power replaced the nostalgia for universal monarchy with the consolation that each state, in pursuing its own selfish interests, would … contribute to the safety and progress of all.” How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But it’s also about the consolations of stories and the balm they have provided for millenniums. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z After the death of a mutual friend, she also had time for wise words of consolation. Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z That changed on Thursday when the perennially snubbed show was finally nominated for best drama, giving fans consolation as they prepare for the conclusion of the small-town family and football series. ArtsBeat: As the Clock Runs Down, the Taylors Look Back On 'Friday Night Lights' 2011-07-15T17:43:48Z The consolation, though, is that all of these books are excellent, as bracing and astringent as a slap. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z There would be anger, one might imagine, and words of consolation and grief. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Is this any consolation when you’re in the throes of the heaviest work? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Caring for an elderly parent? Been there. Now be there for the caregiver. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Was this the real deal, or some kind of consolation prize? TED: Even more elitist than we thought 2012-05-18T12:40:00Z In other words, many of the projects in Frieze New York might offer small consolation for the event’s own frenetic, transactional nature: space enough for us to worry about something more than just having more. | At Frieze New York, Mixing Pleasure with Business 2014-05-07T22:02:57Z Her words sketch characters and situations in enigmatic glances and flashes of candor, while her graceful melodies promise more consolation than they words they carry. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z The song finds consolation in the skyline of San Antonio, where Ms. Robison lives. Two Dixie Chicks Form Court Yard Hounds 2010-04-24T02:45:00Z Her big, moist eyes shift from fear and sadness to a kind of consolation, weariness and resignation — from innocence to experience. Review: An American Gothic Opera Speaks Softly and Hypnotically 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z He felt that he did not fit in at school and sought consolation in science fiction books and computer games. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z Although Goodhart will not join the luminaries at the festival proper this year, he has the consolation of appearing at Hay's smaller How the Light Gets In festival of philosophy and music. David Goodhart's book on immigration earns him snub from Hay festival 2013-05-27T18:10:44Z In consequence, she argued, it fosters empathy and a bittersweet consolation. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z One imagines vicars praying and offering consolation to people, but what you don't imagine is the sheer amount of bureaucracy and the competitiveness. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z Still, if it’s any consolation, he did like the final part a little more. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z PBS was left with a consolation prize: new episodes will continue to air on the channel, but only following a nine-month window. Sesame Street at HBO: do the pros outweigh the cons? 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Harry declares to Sally with a vulnerable, piercing and bleeding heart all the ways he loves and sees her for the person that she is — not just some consolation prize: "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect fall movie that we need now more than ever 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s as much of a consolation as it is a fact. In This Novel, a Grisly Discovery Leads to Self-Discovery 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z “What,” asks the narrator of this novel, “are the consolations of philosophy or the affirmations of religion beside an afternoon’s rich meal of doubles, triples, and home runs?” Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z In January, Mr. Jacobson told The Guardian that he wrote the book in a “fury of disbelief,” and that he hoped it would offer readers the “consolation of savage satire.” Kurt Andersen, Alec Baldwin to Write Satirical Book About President Trump 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s a commonplace to say that food is consolation, but sometimes in McCarthy’s work, food is a vivid reminder that we’re all linked in the meat wheel of life. Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Refusing to find so much as a hint of consolation in the work, his brutal interpretation, less overtly Mahlerian than most, swivelled between unspeakable violence and sullen despair. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-02-10T18:40:19Z Mostly, it’s a cool-one’s-heels aspect of an actor’s career, a wait-for-the-call side of the business, offering the concrete consolation of a weekly paycheck but only occasional, reflected glory. When LuPone or Midler gets sick? The show must go on, and so must the sub 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z There’s no predicting where the narrator may veer next, no warning of when Burns might pivot from the consolation of humor to a tender observation on despair. A Gun Shop and a Family Prone to Breakdowns: What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z For his work in “Wolf of Wall Street,” the Critics Choice Awards handed him the consolation prize of best actor in a comedy, while he won twice at the less competitive Golden Globes. Leo’s Oscar isn’t overdue: He hasn’t won before because he didn’t earn it 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Recent evidence suggests those numbers may have stabilized, but doctors say that’s small consolation when so many people are still too fat. AMA wants obesity education 2012-06-21T13:46:00Z There is even some consolation in the town: Living la Vida Loca in Japan 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z And of course there’s the consolation of watching Mr. Cumberbatch exercise his peerless technique. Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Is Peerless in ‘Patrick Melrose’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Customers repeated these aphorisms warmly in an attempt to offer me some consolation or encouragement. What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z A difficult child, shattered by the suicide of their mother, Kieran eventually finds consolation in the solitude of bicycling. Review: Jane Urquhart’s ‘The Night Stages,’ a Novel of Melancholy and Missed Chances 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Dancing is consolation, even if it doesn’t leave her any less alone. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z But there was some consolation for Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, who won the best actor prize. Brian Cox's star rises after double win at Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2011-03-25T00:05:06Z In reality, sometimes we must accept the consolation prizes we are given. We could black out Black Friday: I dream of a national boycott that demands black lives matter as much as black money 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z In another, Downs takes wry consolation in the fact that we’re all going to die, including the killers. Life becomes art on Lila Downs’s new album about death 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z I hope there is at least some consolation in that. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Do I have to shake hands with The Other Woman? 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Those last months of Dad’s life were not without their consolations, and one superseded them all: Alzheimer’s cushioned my dad from some political realities that would have broken his heart, if not his resolve. How Alzheimer’s took my brilliant dad, Lord Goodhart, in increments 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Kindest Words of Consolation: Presenter Taylor Swift — or as LL Cool J dubbed her, “T Swizzle” — offered preemptive words of consolation to the Best New Artist nominees who wouldn’t take home the prize. Grammy Awards 2015 Recap 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Which may not be consolation to anyone banking on a perfect wedding day, according to Ms. Carter. How the Delta Variant Is Affecting Wedding Season 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Still, if “The Judy Show,” running at the DR2 Theater, is not quite the realization of Ms. Gold’s lifelong dream, it’s a highly entertaining consolation prize for the rest of us. | ?The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom?: She Wanted a TV Show, but the Stage Will Do, Too 2011-07-08T22:02:02Z One consolation for distributors and exhibitors when their own movies tank is that their rivals are likely to be suffering too. Why cinemas love a wet weekend 2012-07-12T18:00:02Z I will never set a world record, but, even if I did, I probably wouldn’t be completely happy with it – and there’s a strange consolation in that. Running: the art of never being satisfied 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Levine tapped into the mellow harmonic richness and wistful poignancy of the music, almost as if offering Sachs consolation, as if urging him not to lose his faith in people. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The book’s lack of consolation is evenly divided between Tom and Marion. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Yes, it's difficult to meet the very high standards that Trebek established, but after having some very qualified names bandied about, Jennings feels like a consolation prize. "Jeopardy!" poll asks who should be host. Why are there only two options? 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The movieland romance of Rpattz and Kstew might be history — or might not, since the subject was never baldly broached — but a famous fella could still get consolation from a stranger. Cosmopolis: Rpattz, from Kstew to Jstew to Dcron 2012-08-16T15:44:46Z We meet Samantha at the moment — “day ten after the fall of Lehman Brothers” — when the ax falls for her, with only one consolation offered. Book review: John Grisham’s ‘Gray Mountain’ is a searing look at Big Coal But in real life, one always gets the sense that curly hair is the consolation prize. The Mirror: Making Waves, With No Apology 2011-08-05T20:14:52Z She is as matter-of-fact when she recalls Mr. Stein’s illness, and their drug consumption at the time: “The heroin was a great consolation. Desperate times, desperate measures, as the cliché goes.” The Tide Is High (Really), but Debbie Harry Is Staying Put 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Julia Raeside The Premier League might have lacked a tense title race this season, but barnstorming conclusions to the race for the European places and the scramble to avoid relegation have proved decent consolations. TV highlights – 08/05/2013 2013-05-08T06:00:04Z It’s some consolation to remember that, even back in the Middle Ages, this was a retail gauntlet, with stalls selling souvenir medallions, candles, and fast food. France’s stunning Mont St-Michel inspires 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z But there’s no miraculous healing or tender reconciliation for these characters and no false consolations in the exposed performances of the two accomplished actors onstage. | 'Hue & Cry': Sampling a Few Spoonfuls of a Savory Irish Stew 2010-09-30T05:01:00Z But with the event scheduled to take place just nine days after the attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City was a tattered nerve more in need of consolation than celebration. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z "I'm like the consolation prize," Ms. Union joked. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Week Stargazing: Day 2 2012-09-08T15:31:15Z The movie has already taken around $120m internationally so the imminent prospect of crossing $200m at the global box office will offer some consolation for the rather weak North American box office. The Hobbit storms US box office and Guardians rise to the challenge 2012-12-17T17:01:26Z About the consolations of food, he reminds us, Louis Armstrong said: “I’ll probably never be rich, but I will be a fat man.” Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z It held honesty for what I’d been through, lacking chocolate, but an acceptance for what is, through the consolation of carob. After I survived cancer, I celebrated with a birthday cake 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z “Klinghoffer” is a raw, brooding work that in its brutal honesty provides a kind of tragic consolation. What ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Could Have Accomplished 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It's more likely, he says, that people find consolation in the music of others, often in the most unexpected way. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z Dedicated to Sibelius, it premiered at the Royal Albert Hall, with the composer conducting on June 24, 1943, and it was immediately hailed for its lustrous consolation amid total war. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z How do you deal with three lost boys for whom an abstract call to love is cold consolation when their mother is gone? Mohamed El Bachiri: ‘Terrorists killed my wife: this is my jihad for love’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z If it’s any consolation, even people raising children in New York are daunted; at any given moment another family is certainly doing something more enriching and entertaining than yours. Taking the Kids: New York 2013-06-13T20:22:22Z But here is the consolation: New ones will form. Dance Theatre of Harlem plumbs the power of pain 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s probably not much consolation for the job seekers that the Manatoses and Millses of the world are excited about the employment tumult. Your boss lost an election, you lost a job — but Tom Manatos is here to save the day. But that’s small consolation considering what a big steaming mess a lot of them are. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z Walking and nature offered him temporary consolations, but until he met Robert Frost in 1913 Thomas seemed certain never to write poetry and very likely to commit suicide. Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:07Z One Filipina woman wearies of her safe, white consolation prize of a boyfriend and his habit of “dumping his responsibilities on her, like a limp, drunk body she had to care for after the party.” Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, he didn’t, but as a consolation prize, he invited me inside the ground-level museum, a showcase of cosmetics spanning more than a half-century. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z As a consolation to our British friends, Lubet offers: “All the more medal-heavy countries were once part of the British Empire.” Women’s soccer earns World Cup rematch — barely 2012-08-07T12:05:00Z When mutual consolation turned into romance, Fisher broke up with Reynolds and married Taylor in 1959. Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z That night, as we ate dinner and then settled in for the nightly vigil, we muttered quiet words of consolation to one another for our bad luck. Chasing the Northern Lights in Alaska 2014-01-03T19:30:21Z When mutual consolation turned into romance, he broke up with Reynolds and married Miss Taylor in 1959. Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z When one despairs of the present, neither the past nor the future offers much consolation. Is it possible to make Noguchi boring? Almost. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Yet he believes that his parents, in moving to Jerusalem, voluntarily left heaven for the false consolations of earth. 'The World Without You': a family in the wake of grief 2012-07-05T20:42:06Z If we confuse its power with consolation, it is through sloppy thinking. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z This mother, the widow of a nobleman, does not even have the pitiful consolation of knowing that her only child is dead. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Here, too, the ending was particularly beautiful, the repeated downward curls of melody resembling nothing so much as pats and strokes of consolation. Music Review: Staatskapelle Dresden, at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-22T21:44:54Z Yes, the days may be dwindling down, but there is consolation. Review: Betty Buckley Digs Deep for the Autumn in Her Soul 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Take a 10 percent sales commission if it’s any consolation. Here’s a New One: Mom, Please Pry 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z I need consolation so I make a feast for myself. 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z The Distinctive Assets gift bag is not endorsed by the Academy but has been creating consolation goodie bags for 11 years now. Oscar "losers" to go home with $45,000 gift bags 2013-02-20T00:17:02Z Thank God, though I hold them the dearest pleasures in the universe, I have a consolation independent of them in the certainty of your affectation. John Keats letter to Fanny Brawne set for auction 2011-01-25T17:32:31Z For consolation, we must make do with the occasional juicy anecdote, like when the producers of “Alien” nixed the original design for the creature’s eggs because their openings were “too vaginalike.” Review: ‘Dark Star’ Peers Into H. R. Giger’s Creative World 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z One of the consolations for the suddenness of Lindsley’s death is that it caught her in the midst of life. Postscript: Lindsley Cameron Miyoshi 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z There is something to admire about Michaux, his perverse integrity in refusing the consolation of metaphor and ignoring the hunger of his readers for meaning. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z But Blake is not one for glib consolation or empty promises. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z Still, if it’s any consolation, he did like the final part a little more. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Of course, there is the likelihood that Beyoncé will win Best Rock Performance, or another minor prize like Best Urban Contemporary Album, only as a consolation prize for losing to Adele in the major categories. Let’s Imagine a Better Grammys 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Happily there is some consolation for tonight's gilded losers. Oscars 2013: live! 2013-02-25T01:16:07Z The stories in Swearingen’s disconcerting and promising debut explore themes of violence, chance and the consolations of imagination. New & Noteworthy, From Joe Biden to a Rock Novel in Verse 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z The experience inspired him to turn to gentler pastel and landscape paintings for coping and consolation, now compiled in “Pastel,” a new art book. In Japan, His Disaster Art Saves Lives 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Maybe I couldn’t be skinny and tall but I’ll settle for being the greatest artist of all time for consolation.” Kanye needs to leave Amber Rose and her child alone: She has nothing to be ashamed of, and she knows it 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z She still writes poetry, which is a consolation. Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Even if Tom Hollander's latest performance doesn't win him awards, riches or the role of his dreams, he has a consolation: it might get his kitchen extension built. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z Spielberg's consolation prize, should "Lincoln" miss out on best picture, is a probable third directing Oscar. Does Oscar crown await Affleck's 'Argo?' 2013-02-21T16:23:11Z If not, don’t be surprised to see Lu making the short trip through Falls Church on his consolation prize: a brand-new bike. At Falls Church apartments, would-be ambassadors and families live in limbo Yet Wallace-Wells insists he’s optimistic; and in fact, he obtains some consolation by peering into the abyss, entertaining the worst-case scenarios of 6 to 8 degrees Celsius of warming. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z That the search is subjective may be of little consolation to the most obvious omissions from the top 10 – there is no Kenneth Branagh nor any foreign actors. Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Mark Rylance? Who is the greatest stage actor ever? 2010-09-22T23:01:00Z If selfhood is a fiction, it’s a powerful one, as much truthful consolation as outright lie. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z While visiting the mother of a woman whose daughter is in a vegetative state, Preacher fails at the art of authentic consolation. ‘Preacher’ has some thrilling, quirky action — but its spirit soon grows weak 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z They are the kind company that misery loves, and therefore a source of unexpected consolation. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z I recently spoke with the Columbia University professor about the consolations of a scientific perspective when confronting existential angst. In this global crisis, there’s one consolation: the beauty of the universe 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z But Beethoven’s consolations seem to be in the now. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z While it showed no new complications, this was little consolation; CSF continued its deadly flow throughout my brain. An orgasm almost killed me! 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z Torres, who was a college freshman when he began dating So, finds consolation in the writing of someone so close that it sometimes seemed as if they shared thoughts. A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning. 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z To refuse that, to choose compassion and consolation, requires a measure of obstinacy, a muscular and brutish willfulness that is also an authentic kind of grace. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z The war ended, and some version of normalcy returned, but Zbanic takes no consolation in the banal observation that life goes on. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z This may have offered some consolation following an incident on Saturday, when a sports car registered in West's name crashed into a Honolulu home. Kanye West makes first live appearance since Taylor Swift incident 2010-06-10T08:57:00Z The consolation is love, if you can hold on to it. Women and desire: the six ages of sex 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Black Friday, Cyber Monday and every sale that you will see advertised from today until the new year are, in many ways, consolation prizes. We could black out Black Friday: I dream of a national boycott that demands black lives matter as much as black money 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Hitchens himself often recommended the consolations of literature for this purpose. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z My second life as a bug is not without its consolations. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z It might also provide a measure of consolation to gloomy, sensitive middle-aged dads who need to sense a kindred soul on the other side of the screen. Review: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Amuses, but Misses Opportunities 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z She looked at me as though this might be a consolation, but I was having none of it. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z He said he was happy to be getting the "consolation prize" of an honorary Palme. Inspired by 'Avatar,' Bernardo Bertolucci goes 3D 2011-05-11T16:26:08Z My friends are going to miss me when I move to Berlin, so it might be a little consolation prize for them. Blind date: ‘I told her I wouldn’t call myself straight’ 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Following his death, she found consolation at the London Spiritual Mission in Notting Hill Gate, where she became a regular member and soloist. Ava June obituary 2013-03-05T18:07:58Z The final stanza achieves consolation, and looks forward to "A last immortal changeless change". Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z Tom Valenti’s popular Oxbow Tavern, which opened this year at Columbus Avenue and 71st Street, was a step in the right direction, and a consolation for those who miss his last great local outpost, Ouest. The Upper West Side Gets Some Dining Upgrades 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Ms Laing’s loneliness was acute rather than chronic, and she overcame it through the consolation of art. Out of isolation 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The verse in Ms. Dove’s career-spanning new “Collected Poems: 1974-2004” demonstrates that this poet’s work leans, too, on the consolations of food: fried fish and hominy, martinis and beer, caviar and sour herring. Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The first goal, at the end of normal time, seemed mere consolation. Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up by David Conn - review 2012-06-28T07:00:02Z But Davies got a consolation prize that seemed to make her happy. - The Washington Post There were words of consolation from Feraday's fiance, media lawyer Mark Lewis. Beeb gets the message over axed DJ 2013-01-04T17:54:10Z Somehow the painting held back death: “He gave me the consolation to return to my own life.” With brush and eye 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This last story, which is less a story in any conventional sense than a sort of song of consolation, has an emotional directness that is lacking in most of the volume’s other tales. Books of The Times: Helen Simpson?s ?In-Flight Entertainment? 2012-03-22T21:51:09Z The loss of his father and his dislike for his stepfather profoundly affected his childhood, he said, and he sought consolation in a fantasy world populated by his teddy bear and mythical enemies and armies. Grayson Perry Prepares His American Introduction 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Here are the first 21 lines of “Family Reunion,” a resonant poem about, among other things, class, family, the Great Migration, code switching and the consolations of the table: In ‘Playlist for the Apocalypse,’ the Weight of American History and of Mortality 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z For those who are unable to catch Judas Priest live, there is some consolation: farewell tours are often followed by comeback gigs. Judas Priest announce farewell tour 2010-12-08T11:34:00Z Even the think pieces perversely noting that Trump’s supporters are about to reap what they sowed, potentially driving some of them back to the Democrats, are no consolation. Mourning Trump and the America We Could Have Been 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Recently, that gaflen, that proud gadfly of the church, “the doctor of dread,” the father of existentialism, has emerged as a curious figure of consolation. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z At the end, Lelio, despairing of finding true happiness, seeks consolation in the creation of Art. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z Perhaps the Art Deco bestiary was a form of consolation for that loss. Art Review: ?Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture? at Japan Society 2012-03-22T20:20:17Z It’s a brief stretch of communion and consolation in doleful times. Wilco Makes an Understated Magnum Opus 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Yet it is also the brilliance of concentration in which both tone and image lean into each other without falling, and hold each other and proffer some slight consolation. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-12-14T22:55:06Z The protagonist of "Thanks for the Light" is a widowed, 40-year-old corset saleswoman, Mrs. Hanson, whose main consolation in life is cigarettes. ArtsBeat: A ‘Fantastic’ Fitzgerald Story, Resurrected in The New Yorker 2012-07-31T20:35:58Z Only his eyes catch the light, two pinprick stars in a universe entirely without consolation. Review 2010-09-23T00:02:00Z “Dictator” goes even further, imparting wisdom and consolation. Robert Harris’s ‘Dictator’ finds new drama in the lives of Caesar and Cicero 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Such a capacious embrace is a consolation, and it’s no mean literary feat. A Poet Who Looks to Nature, and Honors Its Secrets 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z But even for the keenest fans there's the consolation that TV shows these days don't really end. Mark Lawson: Fans of The Bill, Big Brother and all should cheer up ? these shows never really end 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z But after we chatted awhile, he provided a consolation prize: a lunch of leftovers from the previous days events: lechón, rice, pigeon peas and Coke. Frugal Traveler: In Puerto Rico, a Rental Car as a Bed and a Closed Cafe for Lunch 2010-10-13T03:00:00Z Truth is, people turned to culture of all kinds in 2020 — highbrow and lowbrow — to satisfy varied and sometimes conflicting needs: Distraction, inspiration, consolation, escapism, hope. Pop Culture in (ugh) 2020, from the bizarre to the sublime 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z If not permanence, Woolf finds in nature a fruitful tension between destruction and endurance, sorrow and consolation. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z “But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.” That $450 Million Leonardo? It’s No Mona Lisa. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z His only consolation is the loyalty of his crew and his faithful parrot Polly. The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Yo-Ho-OK 2012-04-26T14:15:15Z In the consolation room, a quiet, artifact-free spot in the center of the building, where an orb of rain continuously falls from the ceiling, Marie Scruggs and her family were brought to tears. Pride and Pain on Opening Day at a Museum of African-American History 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But the comfort and consolation we require is. Alone in the dark 2012-07-20T15:55:00Z But it was little consolation, given the shock of what had just happened. The Golden State of hate: “I don’t need to serve you anymore. We’re trying to make America great again” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Turbulence marked the outer movements, particularly in a finale that offered little consolation, while the second and third held their shape, sinuous and desolate. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Take it from me: if your famous friend publicly stepped on his own slappers, maybe you'd call him in private and offer some consolation. Calling out the saddest sacks of 2021, a reckoning by Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's ... friends 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Through his eyes we feel the terror of Fourth of July fireworks, the shock of sudden movements, the consolation of alcohol. Review: A Warrior, Leaning on Shakespeare, in ‘Cry Havoc!’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z "The biggest consolation through all this was just our ability to talk to each other, and spend time together and the openness of being able to tell each other how we're feeling," Spencer Tweedy says. Music provides refuge in Tweedy family's health crisis 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s a song from someone who’s not expecting easy answers; the only consolation is in the warmth of her voice. Critic’s Notebook: Albums by Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan 2014-05-07T21:46:14Z These simple objects, offering no hope — only futility and the bitter consolation of memory — honor the more than 18,000 refugees who have died since 2014 trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The Whiffs’ ritual bleating helps its songsters and their audiences to sublimate dark intimations of their futures in finance or marketing through crooning and camaraderie, which ease them toward Marquand’s lockstep and its clubby consolations. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It was played frequently for its soothing, spiritual effect, and for whatever consolation it provided. Books of The Times: ‘The Holy or the Broken’ by Alan Light 2012-12-09T22:49:21Z The only source of consolation is the Man Booker. When will women storm the arts fortress? 2010-07-15T15:51:00Z Any eventual return to the status quo is a double-edged sword: both a frustration point and consolation for long time readers. ArtsBeat: Comic Book Math: DC to Renumber Series, Starting Again With No. 1 2011-06-01T13:20:46Z But stars’ egos being what they are, the payout was small consolation. | 'Conan O?Brien Can?t Stop': One Ticked-Off Comic, Venting to the Faithful 2011-06-23T21:33:28Z The weird confessionals of her current Unapologetic album must be negotiated, but there will still be consolation to be had from her greatest hits. Tramlines, Devendra Banhart, Rihanna: this week's new live music 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z Among the consolations and scolding about mixing friends and business was a rather harsh reply: “DYOR before investing in ANYTHING! No one to blame but themselves.” They Did Their Own ‘Research.’ Now What? 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z The consolation was our cabin’s sauna: after stripping off our ski gear — and then our clothes, in line with custom — the women, then the men, took their turn in the small, wood-paneled sauna. Explorer: Lapland, From Icy Plunge to Blazing Sky 2013-01-04T18:54:54Z But I doubt that would be much consolation to the unfortunate Karinthy. A healthy dose of sick lit 2010-09-03T09:09:00Z Watching Raina endure something like what they may be going through, and then partly triumph over it, provides solace and consolation and possibly hope. More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z That may be little consolation to Jane Doe, who is Hispanic, if she becomes media fodder. NBA star Derrick Rose expected for rape trial as his accuser loses anonymity 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z They stay transparent; love, mourning and the hope of consolation shine through. Playlist: CDs From Deerhunter, Patty Griffin and Bobby McFerrin 2013-05-17T22:50:01Z The essay that follows that line is basically a repudiation of any consolation the words may have held. From literary heavyweight to lifestyle brand: exploring the cult of Joan Didion 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z And to my heart, too, I should confess, although nostalgia is one element absent from Chesterton's stories themselves, even if consolation is their central purpose. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z They begin with pain and end with consolation. Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond and Dave McKean – review 2013-06-21T17:45:01Z My mother finished washing up the dishes before offering her consolation. Is it cancer?: My paranoid health scares 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z But where nihilism or despair might be understandable, what the Buddhist-inclined Kaplinski sometimes offers is the consolation of nothingness, the dissolution of the self into a vast unity which is itself ungrounded and illusory. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z As a grim consolation, Kidston's only legacy was to create a drug that is still used today in lab experiments to try and understand this debilitating neurological disorder. Why the war on drugs has been made redundant 2013-06-15T23:05:01Z As a consolation Mr. Moles gave me a look at his vast collection, accumulated over decades and stored in drawers and on the walls of his small caretaker’s house. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z Ultimately, this allergy to self-pity allows him to grapple with the consequences and consolations of whatever agency — and dignity — can exist in even the most abhorrent and restricted circumstances. The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Hour-long queues are off-putting, but go later in the day and, even though the cult favourite fatty brisket may have sold out, there are black pepper-barked pork ribs and juicy, snappy sausages as consolation. Rising Arizona: how Phoenix is becoming a foodie city to savour 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z He acknowledged that many kids he knows of are disappointed about not being able to see their kids, but he wanted to at least put a smile on their faces as a small consolation. Wisconsin teacher parodies ‘Friends’ theme song to welcome back students during virtual learning 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z “A novel shouldn’t offer false consolation or false hope, and it shouldn’t skirt over the historical realities of a given period,” he said. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z As the body of a fallen soldier returns from foreign soil, words of consolation flow from politicians and generals to broken-hearted relatives. Cannes film festival: the road that led to Route Irish 2010-05-19T01:20:00Z Kelly says it: “Food, it seems to me, and the smell of food, is the world’s great consolation prize, its way of saying, things can’t possibly be so bad.” Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine,’ a Novel About Changing Race 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Distraction, joy, consolation, a chance to describe how buildings speak — and speak, historically, personally, deeply and differently to different people. Broadway Is Shuttered but Its Buildings Sing: A Virtual Tour 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Kierkegaard said that religion was the great consolation of his life. Experience: I will be plastinated when I die 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Being turned into a fictive symbol is little consolation for the weight of physical and psychological injury these people incur. Stop calling soldiers “heroes”: It stops us from seeing them as human — and dismisses their experience 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The consolation was that we had plans for a birthday celebration with friends that night. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z Can a composer find consolation from sorrow by creating tones that correspond to emotions? Seeking an inner light amid darkness of Dvorak's Stabat Mater 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s one of the consolations of first-rate art that there is somehow always hope in being able to see with newly unobstructed eyes. Review: Reflections That Sear in a Reborn ‘Fires in the Mirror’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Ultimately, our humanity is all the authority we need to offer consolation to the dying. How to die well | Johannes Klabbers 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Shaw was alone in an empty room, his only consolations his Rolls Royce and the bottles of beer that surrounded him. Obituary: Alan Whicker 2013-07-12T11:45:54Z She herself ends by quoting another great writer of detective stories, Raymond Chandler, on the peculiar consolations offered by detective fiction – its solutions to life's puzzles. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z But the deepest delights—delights that offer consolation in a faithless or fake world—are to be found in the novel’s beautiful and cunning construction, and in its brilliantly self-interrogating form. Favorite Books of 2014 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It is no surprise that he sought consolation in Freudian psychoanalysis, in which he never lost his faith. Per ardua ad Astor 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “Cooking had become a distraction and a source of solace in a marriage that no longer offered its own consolations,” he writes. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z She seemed to find scant consolation in the diagnosis, but she offered it anyway. We can’t all be the Bluths: Are we too quick to call our families “dysfunctional”? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z But one consolation is that whatever it is she's brewing with Patty, whether it be partnership or deceit, is a show I'd watch in a subsequent season. On "Kevin Can F**k Himself," a horrible man has eclipsed the show's true hidden potential 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z As a consolation prize, it was his highest charting effort, reaching number one on the Comedy Albums chart and #59 on the Billboard 200. Robin Williams: One of the Great Comedy Recording Artists 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z My consolation prize: the park’s weekly flea market, which offered earrings made of Legos, bulky Soviet 8-millimeter camcorders and many other stylish if more mundane items. Frugal Traveler Blog: After the Thaw: Outdoor Fun in Berlin 2013-05-28T18:26:48Z In some bad movies, a consolation prize comes when the actors are able to transcend, or just steamroll, the weak material and serve up performance pleasures. Review: Churchill Battling a War, and Himself 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z I saw God in the cursive sparseness, the cracked and fragmented verses, the elliptical themes, jumping from story to lesson to consolation to consternation to contemplation. How to be a Muslim at NYU after 9/11 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Characters are pursued by shadowy bureaucracies, tragedy is imminent, redemption fleeting; but there is rapture, too, and compassion and the consolations of storytelling. A Widower and His Son Find Kindness and Cruelty on the Road in ‘Census’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z By the modern era, consolation is mostly off the table. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z And then, more nebulously, there is the consolation it continues to provide. An Online Show that Runs and Runs (and Runs) 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The surf wasn’t cooperating but we found consolation in the camping, the history and the natural beauty. Chasing Waves on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z But the result looks like a fudge, and Burnham's consolation prize looks sheepish. Why did Edinburgh's comedy award settle for second best? 2010-08-29T11:57:00Z She's good, too, on the consolations of gardens at a time when the very idea of a future seemed imperilled. A Green and Pleasant Land: How England's Gardeners Fought the Second World War by Ursula Buchan – review 2013-04-06T16:00:01Z The “crystalline pieces” of this book, Sehgal says, offer “a sense, never belabored, of the stakes of creating essays and the consolations of loving them.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z As Swafford enumerates the endless romantic unfulfillments, the fevers and headaches and close shaves with death, you realize how much Beethoven needed the strength and consolation that he poured into his music. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z As consolation, I was directed to the nearest Cinnamonster, a chain that seems to exist mostly in the lesser parts of Texas, Colorado, and, yes, Kuwait City. My Misadventures Aboard the World's Worst Airlines 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The predominant mood of Mr. Rouse’s “Requiem” is one of uncomprehending grief and fury almost as if, bereft of faith, it were mourning the death of consolation itself. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z And I don’t mean this as consolation prize, along the lines of “but she’s really, really nice.” Review: ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ by Elizabeth Gilbert 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The 60th anniversary shock – or lack of it – will at least be some consolation for listeners who feared their ears were about to be offended with some sensationalised claptrap. The Archers 60th anniversary storyline falls flat 2011-01-04T11:32:53Z Generally, Romantic consolations tend to be poisoned by nostalgia and regret. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z If it’s any consolation, emails are responded to in a timely fashion. Himitsu, previewed: In style, substance and sounds, it’s a winner 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It won't win Allen new converts, but for those of faith, it offers consolation. Film review: Whatever Works 2010-06-24T14:53:00Z Straying husbands and feckless sons are hardly uncommon in literature or in life, but such knowledge would hardly be much consolation for any specific wife or mother. Review: Indelible Heartbreak, Moment to Moment, in ‘A Woman’s Life.’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z What are the limits and consolations of language? In Yiyun Li’s Latest, a Grieving Mother Desperately Clings to Memory 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z At it turned out, both Antlers and Ms. Harris devoted new songs to love and memory, to the anguish of loss and to the hope for consolation. ArtsBeat: The Full-Album Set Is a Plus for Fans and Bands 2011-03-18T18:56:55Z That summing up would probably be too sentimental for Maxwell, who carefully resists the clichés of uplift and consolation. ‘Queens Row’ Review: Richard Maxwell on Life After Doomsday 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Charles and Mary make the best of a consolation marriage, as Smith and McKenna-Bruce, like Golding, do their very best with this material. "Persuasion": It was the best of characters, it was the worst of characters 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z When Ethan returns to find her dead, Frankenstein offers this droll piece of consolation: “Don’t worry – I’ll take care of the body.” 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Did the Finale Surprise? 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z One consolation, though: If you do cancel, you won’t lose your points — or, at least, not their full value. Help! My Pricey Travel Credit Card Wouldn’t Work When I Traveled 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z His pragmatism led him to not care whether it was natural constitution or willful decision, systems age-old or newfangled, that led someone to a life filled with meaning and consolation. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z For me it was, I half-realized as a teenager and fully realize now, consolation. “Battlefield Earth”: Romney vs the Psychlos 2012-05-24T20:42:00Z Through a quarter-century of recording, Sade has heard regularly about how her songs’ mixture of mourning and consolation have brought her fans comfort. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z And clubs around town are offering a half-dozen consolation parties for those who couldn’t score tickets. Kate Bush Fans Travel to See Rare Concerts in London 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z He explained that the babies were there as consolation prizes. People’s Choice Awards 2017: The Good, Bad and Hilarious 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z When the choir first answered her, with lines evoking a mother’s consolation, its tone was so hushed that it sounded like a memory. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z We pine for the consolation of religion, but in its absence allow ourselves to be bamboozled by technology and browbeaten by consumerism. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z And the ending speaks of consolation, but the voice trails off irresolutely. Argento at the Armory, With ‘Das Lied’ 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Walls’s marvelous novel asks what we might look for by way of consolation. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He reaches out to his mum for consolation, and the way she turns coldly away reminded me of Olivia Colman’s portrayal of the queen in “The Crown” and her son’s pain. Review | A ‘Swan Lake’ with echoes of ‘The Crown’ at the Kennedy Center 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Now, at 75, with disdain for “the facile comfort that churches often dole out like Kleenex,” Pagels leads us through the remarkable events of her life by considering the consolations and the tortures of faith. Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The bowed ensemble sound together against the plucked virtuosities of lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, harmonic suspensions clash in despair and resolve in consolation. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z It’s probably little consolation that all she has left to torment is a plastic doll. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z If he had any consolation, it was in the “Romeo” orchestral suites, the first two of which had their premiere before the ballet itself. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z One consolation is that it is currently the rainy season in the Caribbean when fewer tourists visit and some elite resorts on islands like St. Barts are closed anyway. Update: Caribbean Beaches Dig Out From Massive Seaweed Invasion 2011-10-11T18:24:04Z At story’s end, the son gives his father a hard consolation by confirming he’s actually dead, and so together, father and spectral son “sat the silence of anxious vigil.” Black Experience, Past and Present, Made Haunting and Surreal 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z This writing is typical of Walbert’s extraordinary ability to evoke menace and consolation simultaneously. What Do Mothers Want? And Will They Know It When They Find It? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z They find consolation in desperate, frightening rituals, blurring all easy notions of victim and perpetrator. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z It may be small consolation for Weiner, but long before he activated his Twitter account, classic authors such as Milton and Shakespeare looked into his soul. Sex sins of mighty are old hat in literature 2011-06-15T22:06:00Z What would that communicate about a man named Ed Schmidt who, in midlife, was suddenly without the familiar consolations of a father, a stable marriage, a profession and a faith in the power of art? Playwright Clears His Stage and Bookcases 2010-12-09T23:25:00Z At times, Savage also seeks to provide consolation. Tiwa Savage, Queen of Afrobeats, Makes a New Start 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Enlightened, he leaves us for a place where, seemingly, he’ll be given consolation. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z As plain strumming builds up to an electric-guitar squall. they sing, “I never said I’d be all right/Just thought I could hold myself together”; there's some consolation in their solidarity. The Playlist: An Indie-Rock Supergroup Is Born, and 9 More New Songs 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z If it’s any consolation, it will all be over soon. Celebrity moms make me feel better about myself 2013-09-05T22:59:00Z There is, in Chamoiseau’s conjuring and Hurston’s attentive gaze, not restitution but the consolations of kinship and witness, the sweetness of clingstone peaches, of the life built within the constraints. ‘Barracoon’ and ‘Slave Old Man’ Approach the Trauma of Slavery With Care and Kinship 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Yet these damaged characters, in spite of themselves, provide one another with unexpected offerings of consolation and love. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Trinity Wallace-Ellis first recalls associating food with consolation when she was about eight. Don't just blame sugar: how obesity can be a product of childhood trauma 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Unlike one-off pandemic hits like “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Ted Lasso” is about to learn to what extent its acclaim is owed to its audience being mostly captive and in need of consolation. ‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back, but No Longer an Underdog 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z It was no good: this is a novel that does your head in, and your consolation is the number of quotes from reviewers who acknowledge that it had similar effects on them. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z These collaborators don’t offer much consolation — or dance — in their portraits of the zeitgeist. Movement as bleak theater, with some terrific Pharrell music too 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z There’s often an emotional counterpoint in Mr. Simon’s songs: a shifting balance of misgivings and consolations that demands an attentive singer. Music Review: Tuneful Paul Simon Tribute Bridges Decades 2014-04-01T22:19:25Z When scallop season ends, the lobster tail dressed in smoked tomato sauce would make a fine consolation prize, as would the sweet, unrubbery shrimp in a cocktail sauce that leans heavily on Old Bay. From Burgers to Sundaes, the Loyal Plays to the Crowd 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Bio-dramas, while lionizing the gifts of rare individuals, also present their fatal flaws, perhaps as a consolation for those of us in the audience who are ordinary. The ghost of Leonard Bernstein, onscreen and onstage in Hershey Felder's 'Maestro' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z He’s always on the hustle, and part of the hustle is the lie—the lie of strategy, the lie of vanity, the lie of consolation, the lie of self-defense. Adam Sandler’s Misused Comedic Art 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z And so it does, albeit with the not inconsiderable consolation, for humanity, of the invention of wine, as the dead Ampelos is transfigured into the first vine. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-01T17:45:01Z Which may not come as much consolation to this week's A-listers. Readers recommend: songs about disappointment – results 2013-03-14T14:00:00Z By the end of Bell’s program, centered on three big Romantic-era sonatas, I felt little consolation or profound meaning. Review | Finding escape from despair in Bell’s Romantic recital 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Beyond that, vocals were entrusted to Kristina Train, a likeably soulful young vocalist who did her best not to seem like a consolation prize. Music Review: Honoring Herbie Hancock?s 70th, at Carnegie Hall 2010-06-26T00:35:00Z DeLillo’s novels generally offer consolation simply by enacting so well the mystery and awe of the real world, by probing deeply and mystically into so much, and by offering the pleasures of his unique style. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z It is a small consolation for his shockingly early loss that TV now has such a considerable after-life on archive channels and through box-sets. How James Gandolfini reinvented the gangster for The Sopranos 2013-06-20T16:07:49Z I don’t think Rick is getting any consolation prizes this season. What To Expect From Tonight's 'Walking Dead' Season 5 Finale 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z "My loneliness most tragic / my bewilderment unanimous / my perpetuous silence / and my absolute consolation." A small, but potent gesture in support of Tania Bruguera at the Hammer 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z But she is temperamentally allergic to melodrama, and far less interested in the easy shocks and tidy consolations of plot than in the meandering, almost random texture of lived experience. Review: Isabelle Huppert Is Great in ‘Things to Come.’ Discuss. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z On “Just Like That,” Raitt calls for compassion, consolation and perseverance to get through with grace. Bonnie Raitt Faces Mortality With Compassion and Hope 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z “Oh, I like you,” she says, the consolation of it undercut by her implicit acceptance of the premise. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z No. As a consolation prize, my ragged, ripped rolling suitcase, a priority tag contrasting with worn stickers from Turkish and Brazilian bus carriers, emerged first on the belt. Frugal Traveler Blog: Visiting the Frugal Promised Land: Business Class 2012-05-08T20:23:37Z Pockets of people formed in halls and churches around New York to hear musicians form the consorts of consolation. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z His consolation is that his wife becomes a snake, too. Ten of the best: snakes 2011-07-08T21:55:10Z Let's hope it brought him some temporary serenity and consolation. Poem of the week: Tichborne's Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne 2012-11-26T10:26:31Z I felt that the consolation was well-meaning but kind of disingenuous, I suppose. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z His third directing trophy will be an awfully nice consolation prize for missing out on best picture. AP writers pick `Argo' for Oscar best picture 2013-02-21T17:46:04Z In what sanctuary, given these conditions, might you seek consolation, meaning and stimulus? Review | Hilma af Klint, the woman who painted the future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s a consolation for them to see each other, to know that their pain is shared. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z Afterward, she located his heroin stash and sampled it for consolation. Book World: ‘You,’ by Zoran Drvenkar is a thriller/road novel, stylishly written But movies win for all kinds of reasons besides great writing: consolation, sheer verbiage, momentum. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Akbar’s second collection, after “Calling a Wolf a Wolf,” extends his exploration of addiction, sobriety and the uncertain consolations of faith as a Muslim in America: “My sins / were practically devotional,” he writes. Newly Published, From Skateboarding to ‘Hamlet’ in New York 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z And of course it is loved as consolation, or a call to arms, by those who feel the same. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z The music does that, with consolation in its melodies and a life force in its rhythms. Dave Matthews Sings to the Next Generation on ‘Come Tomorrow’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Simultaneously expansive and reassuring, they are, for many, the very definition of consolation. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Such spurious contortions do real damage to how we see and understand the world, offering consolation to Holocaust deniers and those who are unwilling to face history as it is. How fake news, hoaxes and humbug are about race 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The eyes entered a landscape of blood and death, but the mind emerged with that strange, dehumanizing consolation: This all happened far away. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Clearly, we now have fewer offspring per parent; serious harm befalls them more rarely, and when it does, religious consolation is less likely to be available. Rabbit Hole burrows into our ideals 2011-02-07T13:39:43Z But this was slim consolation to investors who had been unhappily watching Hefner live like a sultan at their expense while the value of their shares declined to single digits from a high of $32.19. How Hef Got His Groove Back 2011-02-06T07:48:01Z But Mr. Alden has never been one to seek consolation in the operas he directs or to shy away from pain. Christopher Alden?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at New York City Opera 2011-09-18T01:15:08Z The Oliver of the 21st century is a journalist who has recently been left by his lover, Philip, and seeks consolation with his best friend, Sylvia, an actress. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z Listening to the ensemble of his fellow sailors echoing his own words, he sings, "I know the value of a kindly chorus/But choruses yield little consolation." ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z Weaving memory and illusion — the consolations of a waning mind — into daily routines, the animation allows us to see through the residents’ eyes. ‘Wrinkles,’ an Animated Depiction of Nursing Home Lives 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He said his "consolation" was "in the certainty of your affectation". Keats love letter sold for ?96K 2011-03-29T20:48:25Z Her only consolation is that her beloved 9-year-old daughter is sa fe back in Las Vegas. ‘Swerve’: Well-honed howls of horror 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z You may feel that phoning someone you care for at this point and being offered consolation and diversion would be dandy – it won't. Rooms not of one's own 2010-04-13T09:37:00Z The consolation is that R.E.M. were able to pick the time and place, and to exit with grace and dignity. Remembering R.E.M. 2011-09-22T00:30:00Z The sense is delicately given that Anne is becoming the victim of this previously silent man who has so readily discovered the consolation of talk. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z It may be small consolation, but often, the feelings of shock, intrusion and disapproval are mutual. Cyber Parents, Accessing Perhaps, TMI 2013-05-03T22:57:13Z Fiction, generally, is allowed to stun and depress but there is pressure on nonfiction to offer consolation or at least guidance. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z That inexorable cycle of recrimination and consolation is what gives the play its genuine pity and terror. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z While record executives prepare what must surely be an album's worth of "unplugged" performances, audiences can here catch up with the Londoner's singularly forceful vocal consolations. This week's new live music 2011-04-08T23:07:52Z Like almost every other woman I know, I used to see motherhood as the consolation prize for women who couldn’t cut it in the workplace. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z It has been a consolation all my life, a means to externalise the spirit and express the inexpressible. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z The conclusion might seem to have a consolatory, faintly sentimental touch, but there is something a little off-key about the consolation. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z Well, there is some consolation in Dallman's statistics on how many people gain weight as a result of stress. Mindfulness or cake? The battle against stress and comfort-eating 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z This wistful, breezily-paced car-radio hit from the early 1970s suddenly became a contemplation of chronic depression and the friendship that provides tentative consolation. Music Review: Sharón Clark at the Metropolitan Room 2013-01-30T20:18:58Z How much consolation is it to know that you’ll live simply to die another day? Sean Bean Dies in Everything 2011-11-03T15:29:46Z AZ: Ann, if it’s any consolation, it’s possible to create great art and not hurt people. In ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ looking for the last word on a notoriously unresolved story 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The music of “Carousel,” in fact, hits our ears as a thoroughgoing consolation. A ride on a ‘Carousel’ is just the ticket right now 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Despite all the pain in his life at the time — the separation from his family, homesickness, a volatile foreign press and public — “L’Allegro” stands as a monument to the purity and consolation of art. Review | Mark Morris bares his soul in a refreshingly raw and inspiring memoir 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The British Isles, however, whose very substrate she knows to be cemented with the blood of racial injustice, are too haunted to grant her easy verities or much consolation. From Lahore to Orford Ness, Searching for the Roots of Trauma 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Once at the Pole, crushed by the disappointment of having come second in the race to reach it, Scott breaks into a bar of chocolate almost as an act of consolation. Rewatching a film 50 years on showed me something about modern memories 2012-12-28T16:45:01Z As for one of the evening’s most flagrant snubs, it came with two consolation prizes. Perspective | Megan Thee Stallion, Taylor Swift win big on a Grammy night that felt tastefully small 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Throughout “Ghosteen,” Cave ponders love, faith, loss, consolation, mortality and time itself. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z He writes with a refreshing lack of irony about the little disappointments and consolations that no one is above caring about. Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “I find consolation in thinking I’m a better visual artist than I would’ve been a musician,” Prvacki says as she sifts through drawers of sheet music in her studio. Wrapped in stretchy fabric, orchestral musicians become performance art at Green Umbrella festival 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This piano, built by a Majorcan craftsman, gave Chopin “more vexation than consolation,” according to George Sand. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z They place sadness alongside love and perseverance, the experiences of a long adult life; they savor consolations. Rosanne Cash Takes the Long View on ‘She Remembers Everything’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Daniel Halpern, the publisher of Ecco Press, suggested that the Internet has obviated young writers’ need for companionship, gossip and consolation. A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z Still, Americans have a way of turning to history as a kind of consolation, to give knowable shape to frightening, chaotic events. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Now that the challenge is decided, I find consolation in remembering that Watson, the computer that trounced a pair of very smart humans, is himself the product of humans. Final score on 'Jeopardy!': Computer 1, humans 0 2011-02-17T14:09:35Z If it’s not too soon or too small a consolation, start planning new things to look forward to. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When others had it so much worse, it can feel bad to feel bad about loss 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Shocked and crestfallen, Savage took small consolation in the fact that she had lost to another woman, who had been part of one of Emerge’s weekend “boot camp” training sessions. This group trains women to run for office. Here’s how one outraged, post-Trump class fared. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s a plea for consolation and support from friends and from God; it’s a confession and a rallying cry. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z But her new play “Bees and Honey,” scheduled to start performances May 4 at MCC Theater, offers her mother a consolation prize. Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z She takes consolation in her career but then that's thwarted too. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z Recent evidence suggests those numbers may have stabilized, but doctors say that’s small consolation when so many people are still too fat. AMA wants obesity education 2012-06-21T13:46:00Z Attempts to provide bits and pieces of the Five Freedoms are of no consolation to an animal who has lost his most cherished possession. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Maybe Fairstein is giving us a stoic consolation about the passage of time through her series’s steady focus on the Manhattan cityscape: namely, that human life is brief, but great art and architecture endure. Essay: In mysteries, does the trail grow cold when the detective grows old? 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z I find those words a challenge and a consolation. John Cage: musicians and artists on a legend 2012-08-15T17:51:03Z “In times of crisis,” he said, “it is so important that artists unite and provide consolation and inspiration through our work.” Metropolitan Opera Will Host Concert in Support of Ukraine 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Diarists of the pre-Internet era often wrote in isolation, either for the consolation it provided, or perhaps hoping that someday someone might read — or even publish — their work. Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Music provides the not inconsiderable consolation of at least temporarily defying gravity, in all senses of the word. Review: ‘Now I’m Fine,’ Ahamefule J. Oluo’s Take on Himself 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z This is an intercontinental novel about neighbors, the dangers and consolations of having people next door under oppressive laws. Unlikely Friends, United by Protest and Troubled Histories 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z When he describes his disappointment in the tedium of his day-to-day life, he writes, “After the neon explosions of my hallucinations, I felt like I was living in a consolation prize, a cheap imitation.” David Stuart MacLean’s terrifying memoir of amnesia 2014-02-20T20:03:28Z “Lift” brings an expansive melody to a foreboding consolation — “This is the place it won’t ever hurt again” — with environmental omens: “the smell of air conditioning/the fish are belly up.” On ‘OK Computer,’ Radiohead Saw the Future: Ours 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z For fans mourning the end of Comedy Central’s Key and Peele last month, Monday’s news brings some consolation. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele Will Produce an Undercover Cop Comedy 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “Vortex” is not without intimations of grace and episodes of tenderness, but it also refuses any gesture of consolation. ‘Vortex’ Review: A Split Screen and a Shared Fate 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “Outside the room you give consolation to whomever was attacked,” she said. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z A poster recently went up around the Vatican announcing the raffle of 13 objects as well as more than 30 unspecified "consolation prizes". Pope to raffle gifts given to him to raise money for the poor 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The recording’s profound heart is Liszt’s transmutation of Wagner, in Mr. Levit’s hands a miracle of control and consolation. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But there is consolation in lyrics that observe: “Time rushes by/ Memories fade/ Dreams never do.” Christine Ebersole’s ‘Big Noise’ Cabaret Show Is at 54 Below 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z They are reminders of better things, of hope and consolation and compassion, and hold the implication that of these too, we are all of us capable. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z But that’s not quite the end of it, and Williams’s harsh, funny, overgrown world is not without a measure of consolation, which you might almost call grace. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z She did not get a consolation prize for good sportsmanship. | 'Life After Top Chef': ‘Life After Top Chef,’ on Bravo 2012-10-02T22:21:59Z The only consolation: I had an outlet within arm’s length. For an offbeat museum experience, have a slumber party with penguins in San Francisco 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s also because, when I was sixteen, the goings on in my life were sufficiently complex to require another source of explanation and consolation and possibility—that is, literary expression. Richard Ford on the Drama of Adolescence 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z And that gets at the seemingly small but invaluable thing that art always offers, not consolation or relief from our problems, but the possibility of action and engagement. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But the main consolation, it’s clear, is writing. The death of a sibling: ‘It makes no sense and never will’ 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z If it’s any consolation to fans of the excellent first season, however, at least one character in the upcoming season — which may not air until the fall of 2015 — will be somewhat familiar. The Second Season of FX's Fargo Will Travel Back in Time 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Rather than antagonize the viewer they offer consolation, reaffirming the rightness of their nihilism. A Coming-Out Party for KAWS at the Brooklyn Museum 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z But it’s a strange consolation that this conviction in the primacy of literature, in feeding the lake, is the one thing these three very different, very difficult women — and one wildly indiscreet man — all share. With a Friend Like Him, They Didn’t Need Enemies 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z This consolation seems more than enough to keep Wilson going. Anthill: how biologist EO Wilson turned science into best-selling fiction 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z "Irrefutably alive" because wedded to life itself in all its messiness, shorn of consolation or illusion. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z The sentiment is rooted in a pervasive aphorism, a consolation—it gets better; give it time—that endures in part because it bears real weight. The Singularity of Adele’s Soul 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z That consolation is every bit as present in “Zero K” as it is in the best of DeLillo’s previous novels, down to the pleasures of the final page. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z This was truly person-to-person communication through music: comfort-food consolation of the highest quality, warmed by Ms. Blythe’s palpable love for her invisible audience. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z This time, though, there’s music, too, principally in the shape of Beethoven, who becomes a powerful ally in Nora Webster’s struggle for emancipation, consolation and forgiveness. What to Do This Weekend 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The city Henry James called his “repository of consolations” had been compressed to shareable size: an aquatic utopia, to be beheld on a touch-screen, as the virus scythed its way toward us. At Venice Biennale, Contemporary Art Sinks or Swims 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z I loved Charlie Brown for his insecurity, for admitting that he was unfit for the game of life, for providing consolation in a literary world of supposed role models. Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z I ate one with the grim consolation of knowing I’d gotten exactly what I deserved. The Odeon’s Not-So-Bright Lights Still Beckon 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z If there's a consolation for the end of summer, it's that fall brings an array of books and book events. Fall books preview: A busy literary season ahead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z If it's any consolation I was just as bad at it with Patsy. Digested read: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin 2010-10-11T20:00:00Z Christina’s voice and her music were her consolation at some of the hardest moments in her life. My 700,000 children 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Great writing offers consolations of a different sort, but what are the memoirs, the essays or even the great fiction which you would prescribe? Which books could help overcome stress and depression? 2013-02-01T11:28:00Z “We offered consolation and friendship to each other.” A Blue Moon Wedding for Two Goth Romantics 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z At least there’s some consolation in knowing that apparently everybody else is in the crosshairs too. Lena Dunham’s biggest haters are Bernie fans: “I’m going to turn into a shaking ogre woman” over smears from fellow Dems 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Living is hard, which means poetry can be a consolation, but even more than that, it offers us a lens through which to reveal — to celebrate, even — who we are. Poet Miller Williams dies at 84 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Then he’s asked to resign — the president wants to appoint a fresh face for his second term — and is offered an obscure ambassadorship as a consolation prize. The truth behind the ‘designated survivor,’ the president of the post-apocalypse 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The comedy of watching art aficionados standing in front of these canvases and trying to resist the urge to turn their heads upside down, the better to see them, is a consolation, of sorts. Review | Georg Baselitz is an overrated hack. Art collectors fell for him — but you don’t have to. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z A great comic actor, if he or she sticks around long enough, might win not an actual Oscar but a consolation prize: a lifetime achievement award. Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z She went to him for emotional consolation, which then strengthened their bond even more. Troll-fighter Carrie Goldberg: "I became the lawyer I needed" 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z When you know that what you did can’t be taken back, how can there be consolation? Movie Review: ‘What Richard Did,’ With Jack Reynor 2013-05-10T00:23:11Z Though it is no consolation to the frustrated producers and viewers, there is a certain neatness to the case turning on whether a book with this title may have been illegally sublet. The phone call all TV producers fear 2011-04-11T19:00:01Z But the opposite evidently happened, as he turned to the consolations of landscape painting. Art Review: ‘Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity,’ at Neue Galerie 2012-09-20T21:50:42Z If I could not make movies of my own, owning my own video store seemed a good consolation prize. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z These moments of cultural reassessment can feel like the awarding of a consolation prize; the fallout of past judgments can never truly be reversed. Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z It may feel like cold comfort, a generic consolation, to say that a person lives on in her books, in her words, and in the people those words touched. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Maybe the consolation comes from transmuting complex emotions and weighty observations into objects that are boldly and beautifully precise. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation. Outrage is actually optimism: We’re mad because people should be better 2014-02-22T16:00:00Z Small consolation, but the ordeal has the makings of a great solo show. Getting a Little Help to Go Out All Alone 2010-02-26T05:21:00Z How different from so many jarring “consolation” comments. 'I put my head on her knee and cried': what my 102-year-old friend taught me about grief 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Fear not: the week holds a range of consolations, including Balanchine landmarks like “Symphony in Three Movements,” “The Four Temperaments” and “Mozartiana.” The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z We live in a different time, though, in a world where inevitability is neither excuse nor consolation; even South Carolina seems likely to remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse grounds. Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z In consolation, he began tucking into the free salmon and champagne, before sitting down to watch the end of the 2005 Champions League final. Beating Berlusconi pits a Liverpool cobbler against the Italian PM 2010-06-10T15:52:00Z “But he had the consolation of knowing the adult that my brother briefly became. You don’t even know what your son would have been like as a little boy. I feel desperately sorry for you.” ‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z And the work as a whole moves in an epic arc from turmoil to profound fellow-feeling and consolation, from inhumanity for the sake of effect, as it were, to a humanity deeply felt and registered. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z All three confided their true hearts to Juliet, writing to Shakespeare's fictional heroine seeking consolation, encouragement and friendship. 3 women honored in Italy for letters to Juliet 2011-02-13T17:21:08Z It is slim consolation that, upon his death, we get to write about how much he meant to us. David Bowie changed me more than he changed you 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s no mention of blouses or wandering hands, only a little story of consolation and forgiveness — for him. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z In the past Walker has suggested that the baritone can offer a fake emotion; a consolation too easily won. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z So it appears that maybe, in the long run, the pen does prevail against butchery—but we live from day to day, and yesterday was a hellish day without consolation. The Life-Giving Defiance of the Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But in this wrenching production, you leap at any strand of consolation, no matter your beliefs. Review: In Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Savage Act With Resonance Today 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Ben’s parents are dead, and Herschel’s accident robbed him of the pleasures and consolations of family. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z I sought shelter in libraries, consolation in books. Burial Rites and the loneliness of the long-distance writer 2013-06-04T02:39:45Z In the second episode, she gets a pet teacup pig, as consolation for losing a pageant, and decides to dress him as a girl, which she says will make him gay. The Morning After: Honey Boo Boo Don’t Care 2012-08-09T14:36:08Z Recognizing that he’s not alone is no consolation. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But the consolations of communal grace are felt here, too. What the Rockettes and ‘The Hard Nut’ teach us about the meaning of life 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It's always been a consolation to us, so we want it to be like a plaster to your soul. A band of contradictions 2012-11-22T07:44:23Z "The Janes" and its eponymous subjects, a group of Chicago women who went by that name to protect their identities and families, are in their way a consolation. HBO's "The Janes" spotlights the abortion activists who operated like a spy ring pre-Roe v. Wade 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Protomartyr offers no easy consolations, no release — only tension, wound ever more tightly. Protomartyr Turns Dread Into Post-Post-Punk on ‘Relatives in Descent’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Stoke's council is arguably bloated – it's the city's biggest employer – but this is likely to prove little consolation to those who depend, one way or another, on its services. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z While the phrase was intended first for preschoolers, it became a consolation meme to all ages circulating the Internet habitually during times of crisis. Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z However as a consolation prize, Oliver offered a free certificate in elf spotting on his website. John Oliver Invests Time In Your Retirement 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z That’s a constant of the series, if it is of any consolation. 'Justified' Recap: Decline, Loss and the Good Cheer of Dewey Crowe 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “Among other things, many ignored the reality that millions of African Americans were quite pleased with the decidedly sublunary consolations of equal protection under the law.” Style Invitational Week 1451: Could have said it worse ourselves 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z "As I grow older, the consolations of home take on a deeper meaning," he admits. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z There is consolation for the president outside the theatre: his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which was defaced with a pickaxe and sledgehammer in October, has been repaired. #OscarsSoOrange? Hollywood on edge as politically charged ceremony looms 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z And she doesn't want to experience catharsis or consolation. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z It is some consolation when the new girl next door, named Eli, turns out to understand his agony, since she’s even more of a pariah than he is. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stage Version of a Vampire Novel 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z “The notion of ‘consolation’ is one I suspect Krug would regard with suspicion. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The world has been taking consolation from “Hey Jude” ever since. “Hey Jude” at 50: Celebrating the Beatles’ most open-hearted masterpiece 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “They looked horrible on me,” Johan said airily, by way of consolation. At COS, No Need for a Passport 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “I found incredible consolation in their reaction,” Paisley says, “which was, ‘Huh, I never thought about that.’ Brad Paisley’s country continues to expand its borders But that’s little consolation if you’re one of the unlucky ones whose bag goes missing, especially if all the children’s clothes, gear and toys are in it. Practical Traveler: 7 Tips for an Easier Family Getaway 2012-06-13T16:15:30Z Even the yoga class she teaches is little consolation; she’s home early because nobody showed up. Down and Out in Paris: Amy Herzog’s Belleville 2013-03-06T13:00:15Z In just a few lines, you suggest that women friends are like consolation prizes for not having a man in your life. Do We Need to Tell Our Son That His Dad Has Coronavirus? 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Every bit as deadpan loopy as , it imagines that four people have formed a service in which they impersonate the recently dead as a consolation for surviving relatives. Postcards from Venice: 10 for the Show 2011-09-09T02:50:00Z The matter appeared to hinge on just what form the consolation had taken. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z And yet consolation is also a valuable role of theater. First the Play. Then the Soul Searching. But What Comes Next? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In consolation, Mr. Andrews posed for a picture with my father and showed off his horn, a vuvuzela fashioned from seaweed and kelp, but declined my requests for a practice hoot. In South Africa, Whale Watching Is a Waiting Game (With Penguins) 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But “The Art of Controversy,” if dated, has its consolations. Books of The Times: ‘The Art of Controversy’ by Victor Navasky 2013-05-23T21:40:02Z It used to be held in April, to hand out consolation prizes to Brits who had lost out at the biggest awards show in the world the previous month. The Baftas are so British, and no one blubs when they win 2012-02-12T14:30:01Z Her consolation is a student, Ben, whom she induces to share her strictly scientific approach to global warming. The Heretic - review 2011-02-11T00:20:01Z In Ms. Honigmann’s film, music is protection against that loneliness, and a consolation, too. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z I believe many people find in it something like consolation. Robert Seethaler Talks About His New Book, Writing and Acting 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z |
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