And yet he had to admit that all this felt curiously comforting, if not comfortable.

Mrs. Storridge tended to mother her, something Eve found curiously comforting.

Ramagecould not think, but he found her nearness curiously comforting.

Members of the congregation were encouraged to call out the names of missing loved ones, a curiously comforting exercise.

Now, twenty-eight years later, he found it curiously comforting to know that there was a living reminder of what Adriana might have looked like.

They were curiously comforting, enfolding her and reassuring her that she was, after all, safe.

His recognition of that fact, and his acceptance of it, were curiously comforting.

And the rules of normal life are suspended in curiously comforting, death-defying fashion.

It was colder than snow and yet curiously comforting.

It was curiously comforting, a moment's warmth in the icy cold.