This may be vital in making tolerable those activities which are stressful and distasteful.

The ordeal was at once made tolerable.

The fan, because of its evaporative and wind-chill effects, makes 78 degrees tolerable, he says.

But barring the rains, climate is made tolerable by the trees all around.

Even then, he'd realized that life was made tolerable only by the existence of beauty Beauty in nature.

Though the smell could not be obliterated entirely, it nevertheless could be made tolerable.

Dreams which, if they were realities, would make tolerable my life which has more of sadness in it than merriment.

Hot summer daytime temperatures are made tolerable by low humidity and rapid cooling in the evening hours.

But what are we doing to make marriage tolerable and better?

But he defends assisted suicide for patients whose lives doctors cannot make tolerable.