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What does consolation mean?

consolation

the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment second place was no consolation to him the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction his presence was a consolation to her

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Simple sentences

It is a consolation that no one was killed.
I didn't win, but at least I got a consolation prize.
That was his only consolation.
That was my only consolation.
That was our only consolation.

Movie subtitles

If it's any consolation, I'm sure somewhere, deep down, he knew you hated him.
But I have the consolation that my good Mother died in the firm belief that I was ill.
My child, take the source of consolation and peace.
Sit down, my only consolation and hope.
One consolation, you can never get lonesome.
There's one consolation.
But my consolation is I am well rid of such a fool.
Yeah, I'm gonna be sad, but I'm not a consolation prize.
If it's any consolation to you I want to you know I'm innocent.
It must have been a consolation to Father.
An English doctor would be a great consolation.
I'm bringing her consolation.
Some consolation to think I'm not the first man who was ever fooled by a woman.
I have sought consolation but without finding it.
But deep within me would still persist something, understand me, something like an aching consolation.
They're beautiful. Isn't it a consolation for the deceased?
Now, now. I'd like to give you some consolation, but all I can say is, chins up.
Please, dear family, thank you for your efforts to comfort me in my bereavement, but I feel there are others who need even more consolation than I do.
Is that of any consolation to you, Gabby?
In this our moment of sorrow, may I venture to offer some consolation?
I thought it would consolation even if met with poor imitation of its class.
I thought it was a consolation to know that he was here.
In that case, I'd have to take the consolation prize. and all the cattle and all the land in this valley.
That's some consolation.
Yes, it is a consolation at times.
One consolation: You can never get lonesome.
A consolation prize for the loser?
You can consider it a sort of consolation prize.
Have you never thought that one day you'll grow old? You will stretch out your arms for love, consolation, but no one will come.
I suppose he gave you the watch as a consolation prize?
Don't you think that in this instance the wife has a right to seek consolation elsewhere?
That's the only consolation.
That's a consolation.
He went to Yvonne for consolation.
If it's any consolation.
Like you, I longed for a memory beyond consolation, a memory of shadows and stone.
I had hoped that you would bring me some consolation.

News and current affairs

Some take consolation from this, viewing it as positive that Europeans prefer leisure to work.
The BRICS' New Development Bank, it was announced, will be headquartered in Shanghai, not New Delhi; India's consolation prize was that an Indian will serve as the Bank's first president.
History offers little consolation.
But that is little consolation, because they can still disrupt progress toward a stable constitutional government.
To be sure, this is not much of a consolation.
When it does, better-equipped quarantine wards will be poor consolation.
A small consolation in the current crisis is that inflation rates are now coming down.
Though the Syrian and Iraqi Baath parties were bitter foes, there was consolation in that both were members of a confederacy of despotisms.
True, Barroso offered Barrot the symbolic title of Commission Vice-President, but this is a mere consolation prize that doesn't fool anyone.
Putin does share Bardot's love of animals - not only his pets (especially his dog Koni, whose consolation he allegedly seeks when grieving), but also the co-stars of his mostly animal-centered publicity stunts.
Research and development offers little consolation.
To be sure, this is not much of a consolation. For one thing, some populist leaders may not accept the result of the next elections.
The consolation is that trying to rely on such an escape clause in most atrocity cases would not pass the laugh test.
Admittedly, the IMF was not alone in failing to interpret the underlying facts that triggered the crisis, but that is little consolation.
The most frequent consolation in this failure is that a really bad crisis is purgative.
He was sent to Washington as a consolation prize, and was never very happy there.
Israel's consolation would be that the Palestinians, too, will have to come to terms with their share of responsibility for the calamities that have befallen them.
True, a small part of the near half of the population who officially do not work are employed in the underground economy, but this is small consolation; certainly it is not in those sectors that the future of the Italian economy is to be found.

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