consolatory

Moreover, the present situation had nothing very consolatory about it.

Only a day earlier, I might have interpreted her words as consolatory.

The second subject could be described as being "a consolatory version of the first."

Philip waited behind after the others to say to her something consolatory.

The mere extent of a man's travels has in it something consolatory.

Here was a consolatory thought for one who was himself a failure.

Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory.

My reflections, be sure, were of no consolatory kind.

He tried to murmur some consolatory words, and burst into tears.

She could certainly be a mezzo of a standard type, expressive and consolatory.

The accident cost me a visit to the local doctor, and Mother several consolatory ice creams.

The intelligence which reached Paris from the north of France was not very consolatory.

Apparently this consolatory perspective of a mother's prospects failed in producing its due effect.

With that consolatory remark he unlocked the door leading into the yard, and walked out.

The would-be consolatory remarks had ceased within a year.

It was consolatory to know that he had found such a resting-place for it.

It is in accordance with this grand consolatory principle that I have always acted."

Bigelow won big but Cameron took away the consolatory notion that he had, allegedly, changed the game.

It's actually Zaire,' says Julian, giving me a little consolatory smile.

Matthew's consolatory wit is not very witty; for that reason, perhaps, it fails to console.

As supporters came over to congratulate him, it was hard to miss consolatory cadences in their voices.

Darwin was "sorry to say that I have no 'consolatory view' on the dignity of man.

A romantic history, untouchable and unprovable and finally only consolatory, because my mother is dead.

Yet it would be wrong to give the impression that Krasner's paintings were primarily consolatory.

The porter flashed her a consolatory smile.