Or perhaps it is just that espers also need comforting myths to sustain them.

The idea that Americans couldn't possibly be as warlike, simplistic, and whatnot as their laws and policies suggest, so it "must" be the influence of evil corporate and neocon forces, is a comforting myth the left tells itself.

The First Men would probably, in such a situation, have swung violently either into spiritual nihilism, or else into some comforting religious myth.

The author posits that many comforting myths have to be surrendered, along with the belief in the total veracity of the Gospels themselves.

Reality may be the handy label, but television continues to dabble primarily in comforting myths.

A comforting myth.

Prothero's admirably old-fashioned opinion is that to rebuild core knowledge we must resist comforting ecumenical myths.

A comforting myth the Querent has outgrown.

Our grandparents passed on a comforting myth, a self-aggrandizing belief in Jewish immunity and moral superiority, with this saying: 'Shiker is a goy!'

A reviewer wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that the book 'requires us to reevaluate our heroes and consider the complexities of science instead of merely clinging to comforting and heroic myths.'