That can be a wonderfully comforting notion, but in the end it was cold comfort to Mr. Simmons.

Many commentators still delude themselves with the comforting notion that all this partisanship is a temporary aberration.

That's what it'd be like to die, he'd thought then and now, or at least the old comforting notion of the process.

History, he concludes, does not support the comforting notion that the church simply elaborates on or expands previous teachings without contradicting them.

That is a comforting notion for the club's pitchers, who are throwing strikes without fear of the ball being hit.

From that conflicting advice emerges a comforting notion for ordinary investors: There's more than one way to invest successfully.

So much for the comforting notion that each of us has privileged access to his own mind.

For that reason, we can never take refuge in simple, comforting notions about their fate.

And they also put forth the comforting notion that the past is retrievable, and, ultimately, worth retrieving.

That wasn't exactly a comforting notion, considering how the computer had operated.