This is the small, consoling music of the diner.

At the right moments a delicate touch is the most consoling gesture in the world.

He had experienced more consoling thoughts, but this one was not to be despised.

She was so consoling, it made him sick to be deceiving her, but he had no choice.

She put her head over the bowl and breathed in the most consoling fragrance imaginable.

This he delivered in his most consoling voice.

Yet the festival has turned it into a rippingly good show, easily the summer's most consoling piece of theater.

"The idea that you can have companionship even in death is a very consoling thought, whether you are Jewish or not," he said.

That the Justices do a great deal more of their own work than important legislative and executive officials do is not a very consoling thought.

None of this felt very consoling, however.

"I know, Joel," Scott said in the most consoling tone he could muster.

Still, that we were hearing the gleaming Leontyne Price sound at all was very consoling.

Then for the second time Donadieu heard the consoling cry, "A sail!

Not one comforting, consoling defect anywhere.

It proved the connective tissue for countless people worldwide and offered a consoling strength of which we had only an inkling before.

Mozart's eight measures consist of mournful, consoling music in a supple, gently rocking 12/8 meter.

"Not the most consoling metaphor, Bones."

Those were fairly consoling thoughts, but as soon as I put my head down I was wide awake again.

Cardinal Law removed Father Burns from ministry, but wrote him an unusually consoling note.

According to the old, consoling fib, a face becomes more interesting and truly beautiful to behold with every wrinkle gifted by the passing years.

Mrs Chamberlin was most consoling in appearance.

Then with a mutual impulse the two bereaved women flung themselves into each other's arms and had a good, consoling cry, and then parted.

He resolves to see her in her own home, with the consoling theme: "'I can but perish if I go.'

Even amid the anxiety over the future, it was a historic and consoling moment: an Arab leader showing personal sorrow for the death of an Israeli leader.

Otherwise, the Ohio motto may have been most noticeable - and perhaps most consoling - on all the forms sent out from the state's Department of Taxation.

Friends called to console him as if someone had died.

And so I must console myself with the sound of my own voice.

I could think of nothing but how to console him.

Something might happen yet, he tried to console himself by thinking.

He did not know why the story seemed to console her.

She has a lot of friends who called to console her.

We built a fire and I tried to console him.

That control console you saw outside is no longer needed here.

Perhaps there would be time later to console her, but he could not now.

It makes me feel good that the President is coming down to console us.

Maybe it might console you a little bit, that such things happen to me too.

She has no family here, so you offered to help console her.

But as up to the present, the season had been cold, this knowledge did not console him.

She did not know how to console him and made no attempt.

I needed the warm arms of a friend to console me.

But that was not doing much to console her Tuesday.

But at least I can still see, he consoled himself.

I glanced over at the data console to see for myself.

I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

For a full half minute, she tried to console herself with that thought.

This was not a young woman you could easily take in your arms to console.

At least he would have some protection, she thought, trying to console herself with that.

The space was just a place for the computer consoles.

It was the right thing to do, he consoled himself.

I can't remember if my parents tried to console me.