Though it has no shortage of devotees, most people are still more comfortable looking at paintings with a subject, just as they prefer novels and plays with complicated plots and four-movement symphonies with familiar harmonies, and my guess is that they probably always will.

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Planes with jet engines were faster, more comfortable and somehow more modern-looking than ones with whirly things on the wings.

ECONOMIST: Business travel

However, the episodic script and some rather pedestrian direction by David Veloz end up leaving you a lot more comfortable with what you're looking at than common sense would suggest you should be.

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We are looking at other metal and material alternatives to offer a more comfortable price point to our end consumers.

FORBES: Connect

This generation is more comfortable working with professionally run multinationals, rather than looking for loopholes in a labyrinth of rules or lobbying in the unkempt corridors of bureaucrats.

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Hard and hollow plastics are giving way to softer feeling and more elegant-looking surfaces, car seats are becoming increasingly supportive and comfortable and dashboards are being reconfigured in novel ways to accommodate an array of connectivity and infotainment features.

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And more Wall Street strategists are looking to the less fashionable bond market as a comfortable alternative for those who are scared by giddy share values.

ECONOMIST: Wall Street