Sentences with phrase «offer little consolation»

Words of wisdom and encouragement such as «Don't take it personally», «It's just business», «You made your bed», or «You'll make it up on the next deal» offer little consolation.

In fact, such texts, most of which date no earlier than the late second century, favor an extreme dualism between spirit and body and offer little consolation for those hoping to celebrate the sexual passions that are so much on Brown's mind.

His charge to finish ninth offered him little consolation.

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One begins to look for a few pitiful rays of light in all this, but, alas, only «Little Testament,» with its utterly brilliant «the sun / unwinds its bolt of bullion» offers even the slightest consolation.

Getting to obliterate NIU in its home state is little consolation for the loss of the undefeated season, but that's all I've got to offer.

He brings his little neighborhood together, doing small favors for the locals that they barely notice (bringing a woman her breakfast in exchange for a ride on her bike, helping a garbage collector with an upcoming test, and offering kind consolation to the vendor at the newspaper stand for the state of her love life).

Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding the Wii U, Nintendo can at least draw consolation from the success (little remarked upon) of the 3DS handheld — achieved despite dire predictions at its launch that handheld games consoles would no longer be able to cope with the rise of mobile phones as gaming platforms: «Some indie developers have told us that when they offer the same software on iOS and Android, and in the eShop on Nintendo 3DS, the 3DS eShop version sells most.

Hubris is destructively confronted by the indifference of the world, and philosophy offers little in the way of consolation.

It's probably little consolation for Pebble devotees who've slowly watched the hardware startup sink into oblivion, but Fitbit's offering up a good will gesture by extending support for the smartwatch's ecosystem for another six months.