Consolations

Klingensmith dropped into the first round of consolations.

Life in dormitory accommodation may not be the ideal long-term solution for them, but it has its consolations.

It was with such thoughts percolating that French travel writer Sylvain Tesson rented a cabin in Siberia for six months over a winter and wrote Consolations Of The Forest: Alone In A Cabin In The Middle Taiga.

It’s a mordant, witty, rigorously grounded set of indie-country-rock songs about depression, divorce, the absence of God, and the consolations of art.

Moreover, the consolations of Christ come not through the reform of this world, but by invitation to another kingdom; a kingdom not of this world.

Along the way, there were insights into quality rocking chairs, quality guitars and quality cars: Hall is a sermonising believer in the consolations of craft – in another life he could have been a grouchy preacher hurling truths from a pulpit.

Franks rebounded to knock off Mogadore’s Nick Skye 9-3 in the consolations.

Also, they should be taught not to be sad if they do not enjoy the divine consolations they hear others have; but they should know the loving Father for some reason sometimes withholds these.

The final act was "glacial from first to last", and Bizet was left "only with the consolations of a few friends".

They work little, and that little, badly; they earn little, they sell little; they buy little, and they have little – very little – of the common comforts and consolations of civilized life.