For Amy, the up side of having a staff of friends is that like real family, we provide consolation when things get rough.

Yet it's an optimistic place, where love arrives sooner or later and Christian faith provides consolation.

Ford "looks to art, rather than religion, to provide consolation and redemption in a chaotic time".

I'm grateful you didn't think of calling on me to provide feminine consolation.

But it won't provide much consolation for the husband.

But that may provide little consolation to those who spent Christmas in the bathroom or, worse, on an emergency-room stretcher.

Professor Lauterborn said such opportunities are available to the top candidates but provide little consolation to those "in the mass middle."

We must face up to what may happen, and do our best to provide what consolation we can.

She provided consolation at the moment of death and acted as an advocate in the court of heaven.

His goal, he said, is to provide "inspiration and consolation."