Proponents of these changes take false comfort in the health of the financial system.
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To its credit, "Beautiful Boy" doesn't reassure its audience with the false comfort of easy answers.
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Investors had taken false comfort from the idea that all property prices would not fall at once.
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It won't be easy to wean ourselves from standardized testing and the false comfort of its data.
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Part of the freak's power is she provides false comfort to the nonfreak: Thank God that's not me.
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But that format can provide false comfort: When it comes to selling merchandise, content can have the same effect as commercials.
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These are all dodges — ways to make Republicans feel better about not pushing back — and they can provide only false comfort.
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Not knowing provides false comfort that we can live in the moment and still make it out OK financially in the end.
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Game of Thrones forced you to identify with villainy rather than allow you the false comfort of believing only bad people do bad things.
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Conan Doyle cared too much for his child to let him go, and Houdini cared too much for his mom to take false comfort.
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With tender performances and dubious conclusions, this story is best appreciated as an explanation for why people seek out the false comfort of gendered pseudoscience.
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But if 2016 has taught us anything, it's that false comfort won't make America great again, and it definitely won't make Rory Gilmore great again.
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The danger is that a deal in Argentina will be used by Trump and Xi to paper over differences, declare false victories and proffer false comfort.
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The problem, rather, is a kind of complicity — one partaking in the false comfort that America has somehow escaped the trajectory of its racially murderous history.
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At one point, Harriet notices she's being tailed while heading to a meeting with a Chinese dissident, and she feels a false comfort when she loses the car following her.
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She noted that after her warm interview with Singal she was lovebombed by "centrists and right wingers" who offered false comfort over how she was being criticized by other trans people.
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It's possible that this is the kind of false comfort that people on a sinking ship murmur to one another about how death by drowning really isn't a bad way to go.
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Speaking to graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Obama derided isolationism as a "false comfort" that will put the country at risk of future terror attacks and diminish the United States's reputation abroad.
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Facing 812 cadets in blue-and-white dress uniforms, Mr. Obama told the Air Force Academy's class of 2016 that they must not allow the United States to turn away from the world, calling the isolationist rhetoric of some politicians a "false comfort" that undermines the country's leadership in the world.
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Writing in January 2017, Arun Mohan Sukumar of India's Observer Research Foundation claimed that "CPEC is an important enough project whose economic and strategic consequences require methodical assessment", adding that "CPEC may be a bilateral endeavour, but New Delhi cannot ignore its spillover effects on regional governance" and concluding that "India would be ill-advised to rely on the false comfort that profits alone will drive China's business with Pakistan". According to China's prime minister, Li Keqiang, Pakistan's development through the project might "wean the populace from fundamentalism".
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The lectures proved to be a lucrative endeavor: it was rumored that he became one of the best-paid Chautauqua speakers. Sadler believed that mediums were a source of false comfort and, after World War I ended, fought against the increased popularity of communication with the dead. In the 1910s and 1920s, attempting to expose purported clairvoyants became one of Sadler's favorite pastimes and he regularly worked with a Northwestern University psychologist and Howard Thurston, then a prominent magician, while investigating psychics. Sadler may have met the magician Harry Houdini (who was also a skeptic) around this time.
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Thus, persons who can declare their naturalistic worldview using the term bright extend beyond the familiar secularist categories as long as they do not hold theistic worldviews. Registrations even include some members of the clergy, such as Presbyterian ministers and a Church History Professor and ordained priest. Dawkins compares the coining of bright to the "triumph of consciousness-raising" from the term gay: > Gay is succinct, uplifting, positive: an "up" word, where homosexual is a > down word, and queer, faggot and pooftah are insults. Those of us who > subscribe to no religion; those of us whose view of the universe is natural > rather than supernatural; those of us who rejoice in the real and scorn the > false comfort of the unreal, we need a word of our own, a word like "gay"[,] > [...] a noun hijacked from an adjective, with its original meaning changed > but not too much.
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