Elegies are often accounts of searching for, and discovering, the ancient consolations, among them poetry.

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There is no doubt that Pentecostalism first took off among the poor and the dispossessed and that it offers some dubious consolations.

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And there is this: Religions are sustained in the long run by the consolations of their teachings and the charisma of their leaders.

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Only thus can we probe, to borrow a key verb from the aficionados, the ridiculous for the sublime: those terrors, or unlikely consolations, that lurk within.

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Modern economists have raised similar concerns about today's redistributive welfare states: by subtracting from the rewards of work and adding to the consolations of idleness, social transfers sap economies of their vigour.

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And this recalcitrance in the Muslim world, this attraction to the consolations of hatred, is one of the world's great problems today whether in the suburbs of Paris and London, or in Kabul and Karachi, or in Queens, N.

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We need to reiterate to them that the truth of this campaign against terror holds in Netanya and Kabul, and that the way out of political ruin is an Arab break, once and for all, with the false consolations of terror.

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"We're 18 months into that generation change, there's no hiding that, " said Ponting, whose batting form was one of the few consolations in Melbourne, and saw him come within one run of being the first man to score hundreds in each innings of a Test on four occasions.

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