America's trouble is related to and to some extent parallels a loss of confidence in democracy being experienced across the globe, which at first glance might provide Americans with a kind of reassuring sense of commiseration or comparative health. (firstthings.com)
A light touch of humour seasoned with a subtle - yet - reassuring sense of self - awareness — check. (elitesingles.co.uk)
Yet critics find it well nigh impossible to discount the way the Book of Mormon, appearing as it did at a time when all America seemed set adrift in a bewildering new world, furnished Jacksonian believers with a reassuring sense of time and place. (religion-online.org)