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if it's any consolation to you—si te sirve de consuelo
One of the consolations - for gardeners - of the long, wet, dark winter evenings is to sit in front of a roaring fire with seed catalogues and plant lists, and dream of how the garden will look in the summer.
It is no consolation to those affected that this is part of a seemingly unstoppable process of change.
One of the consolations I have is that we often see these people again, and other helping agencies provide them with assistance too.
It has always been one of the greatest pleasures and greatest consolations of humankind, found in all civilisations.
One of the consolations of getting older is that you become less interested in yourself.
He is blind and in constant pain, his family's support his only consolation.
He dares not date girls and the only consolation for his anxiety is to indulge in the world of porn.
My only consolation is the pleasure I must have had killing her children in a former life.
Their only consolation is the hope that the authorities would have informed them if there son were no longer alive.
There is plenty of such colourful metaphor in this book - it is one of the consolations as one contemplates the astonishing greed, vanity, chutzpah and arrogance of the CEO.
Simply put, his wild imagination and inexhaustible creative energy might have been the only consolations for a life that seemed destined for meek destitution from the start.
The hardest news concerned life's two greatest consolations: dogs and liquor.
His performance was one of the consolations of Ireland's mauling eight days ago and yesterday he accelerated the impression of an international career on the mend.
The result was great consolation after a disappointing non-finish in the first race earlier in the day.
Still, he's got a few consolations, including his diary, the keeping of which began as an order from his father.
For this, they remain personal heroes of mine since a close and intimate relationship seems to be one of the chief consolations of growing older, and I worry I lack the requisite skills, or have become stuck in my ways.
My only consolation is the hope that those truly evil men will burn for eternity in Hell.
This fleshy digit is his security blanket, his best friend and sole consolation in an overly-critical world.
The consolation for the visiting support, however, was that after half-an-hour their team had at last posed a threat to the home defence.
One of the few consolations was that its demolition was a long drawn out process, hindered by the very high quality of the original construction (plenty of concrete).