it is comforting to think that

It is comforting to think that death merely ends life.'

It is comforting to think that something so voracious is so far away.

And if we fail, it is comforting to think that we will be able to explain it as the ship's fault."

Her playing was a pleasure to hear, and it is comforting to think that such sound judgment and high standards are being passed on to her students.

It is comforting to think that their generation, so distant in time from us, lived in a condition of moral ignorance, and thus innocence, regarding slavery.

It is comforting to think that clean-living, non-smoking, non-boozing folks can get a nice new health-care program free by riding on the backs of smoky and vinous sinners.

It is comforting to think that C.I.A. personnel, no longer needed as cold war fighters against a now democratic Soviet Union, will be able to slip easefully into a new role as preservers of humanistic culture.

Although the titles of Messerschmidt's "character heads" were added after his death, it is comforting to think that he occasionally had fun, since the expressions on the other heads range from painfully uptight grimaces to furiously knit brows-the artist reportedly made the works by pinching himself and studying his reactions in a mirror.

It is comforting to think that fathers like Mitt Romney are prepared to address the doubts and embarrassments of children who experiment ideologically and who need nothing more than a firm hand and wise counsel to return them to an upright path, where they will surely remain for as long as they are able to vote.