solace

Apparently, my sister and I were far from alone in turning to the small wonders of nature for solace in a trying time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

For generations, the 103-year-old Catholic parish has been a beacon of solace and resistance for residents angry about the latest indignity to befall the historic heart of Latino Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Did Slate politics by chance publish a really excellent feature today on Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, one so compelling and rich that I could find solace just by reading it?

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

In the final phases of the first half, Bristol's Kalaveti Ravouvou appeared to have wormed over for a score that Fiji could take some solace from at the break.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

But that day I received no words of solace, no soothing verbal balm from my schoolmate.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

But these small solaces, this idea of a table carefully tended, of a little beauty or attention to hearth and home, take on more power in these uncertain times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

His only solaces are the U2 album Rattle and Hum and poetry.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020

A singer who solaces souls with her soaring soprano, she is just as revelatory as a dramatic actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

Back home in Birmingham, Wife Anthea, a study in gray, feeds her goldfish and solaces herself with boring novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ceremonies which in an hour of triumph he might have regarded as solaces to weak brethren, he looked on as acts of treason in this hour of defeat.

From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green

The medieval idea of the Mater Dolorosa solaced her when she lost her own son.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band.

From Time Magazine Archive

From that point on, solaced by his favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it was in Western Europe, wrecked by war and brooded over by the neo-Malthusians, but solaced by its industry and by U.S. aid, that "the most spectacular advances were made."

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m sure she solaced herself by being convinced that some misfit Maingault or Mortemar had got mixed up with the lodge-keeper’s daughter.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

In a handsome production by Christopher D. Betts, all of it takes place on a grassy expanse stretching into the distance, with a spiritual, “Fare Ye Well,” as a solacing aural motif.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

Intimations, Zadie Smith’s slender, solacing new personal essay collection about life during the COVID-19 crisis, is a May book.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020

In Rachlin’s skilled hands, Grimes’s story triggers indignation but also confers solace, Grimes being one of the solacing features.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017

In those early days of fog and joy and compromise, breastfeeding was an epiphany.There was a solacing sense of dignity to my being able to provide him with such basic nourishment, comfort, warmth, love.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012

Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, South Africans, Tanzanians, Zimbabweans, one Congolese, and one Guinean sat around eating, talking, fueling spirits, and their different accents formed meshes of solacing sounds.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie