But the image quickly receded, faded into a related but more comforting image.

The comforting image of white stars zipping past on the blackness of space sometimes lulled her back to sleep.

From winter to spring: it is a comforting image, reassuring, suggestive of natural cycles and an inevitable movement toward warmth and light.

In the film's last image - either comforting or terrifying - she seems luminous with untroubled innocence.

Nowadays, she says, Harlem "seems to just pop open like a popover" - an image both comforting and threatening.

What they both needed were the comforting images of their daily lives on Earth.

And suddenly he got an oddly comforting image in his head: file cabinets, their doors sliding shut one after another, locking with a click.

His imagery recast the province's topography in the comforting image of Europe.

It was not a comforting image.

His cheerful round face, with the blue-grey eyes and straight mouse-brown hair, had seemed a subtly comforting image from the beginning of this adventure.