Sentences with phrase «scant comfort»

This may be good news to the Christian, but it is scant comfort for the Jew, the Moslem, the Hindu, or anyone else who does not accept the unique position of Jesus Christ in relation to God.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

The killer gives a speech justifying his actions, which is scant comfort for those already dead.

But the win against Indian authorities is scant comfort to foreign investors.

This arguably good development can give us scant comfort, however.

All these, however are scant comfort!

Knowing that my privacy has been legally violated (as opposed to illegally violated) gives me scant comfort — the net effect to me is precisely the same.