Sentences with phrase «false comfort»

The most startling finding is that parents are drawing false comfort in comparing themselves to neighboring districts.
What the school is trying to do is give us some sort of basis, so that when we have a time of sadness or grief, we can deal with it constructively rather than turn to false comforts of drugs and alcohol.
Those who preach faith as the cessation of pain, suffering, poverty, restless nights and turbulent days are offering false comfort.
Just as Rachel resisting false comfort for her children symbolizes the nation in Jeremiah 31:15, so this Everywoman tells everyone's story.
The recently released tactics game embraces a slow, deliberate pace that can lull the player into false comfort.
Given these considerations, we would argue that coastal homeowners, insurers, the re-insurance industry, and every other potential stakeholder in this debate would be wise not to take false comfort from the notion (which the headlines resulting from this paper will inevitably feed) that climate change poses no future Atlantic hurricane threat.
The victimized lender investor is often provided with false comfort about the security and validity of the proposed scheme, sometimes with the complicity of others.
Yes — I agree, there are folks that use «religion» well and some elements that can be exclusive and offer false comfort, including the «religion» of atheism in the the context of the use of the term by way of the Equality Act 2010 in the UK.
«The fact that more people are going to university is really good news, but the government must be careful not to take false comfort in these early figures,» said Lib Dem higher education spokesman Stephen Williams.
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they're sitting on a gold mine.
You can use twisted logic and info to give yourself false comfort justifying the unjustifiable — racism.
...... «we are always in danger of being satisfied once more with a purely external law, alienating our freedom, through sloth or false comfort, by complying with the order outlined by the law.
The story reveals our susceptibility to the seductiveness of food and to the false comfort of being full.
This, Newman argues, leads to false comfort and empty faith.
Pointing people to a false comfort by (at best) purposefully equivocating is not loving them.
One of his central chapters is entitled «The Solitary Believer,» and he holds up as paradigmatic of the modern situation Simone Weil, a Jew who early in life rejected any form of Jewish identity and who, after converting to Catholicism during World War II, refused baptism, in part not to distance herself from the suffering of the Jewish people but also because «she rejected what she considered the false comforts of Catholic communalism.»
It is the faith that begins in disbelief, in the rejection of all false comfort.
Why would you give up reason for a false comfort that has been responsible for so much pain.
Emotional chains of group identlty, of hate, of false comfort, of having no ability to think for themselves because they were born into this slavery.
But religion almost always has negative components of exclusiveness or false comforting.
Claiming to address people's acute anxiety about the modern world, it provides nothing but the false comfort of grievance.
I'd call it a tragedy, but the only ones truly suffering will be the paying audience, forced to endure Allen's umpteenth variation on the false comfort provided by marriage.
Our best school districts may look excellent alongside large urban districts, the comparison state accountability systems encourage, but that measure provides false comfort.
It offers false comfort.
It's false comfort to think that just because a claim wasn't brought prior to retirement means one won't appear in the future or that you can rely on the coverage that was in place while in practice to respond to future claims.
But that's false comfort, as Sarah points out, due to those repositories also facing pressures to cut back.
On the other hand, it likely will provide false comfort to your fellow Realtors for whom bafflegab is routine.»
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