The result is hardly comforting for anyone favoring civilian or even central control over a military so divided, corrupted and fief-like.

Her final years, during which she was heavily medicated, were hardly comforting.

Nothing more could be seen but the plants, and that itself was hardly comforting.

That is hardly comforting to beleaguered drivers across the Midwest these days.

She had learned much of what she needed to know about the magnets, but it was hardly comforting.

Such rigorous guidelines are hardly comforting for the gift shopper.

He could smell the river water, and it was hardly comforting.

In any case, the incompetence explanation is hardly comforting.

His voice remained calm, but his words were hardly comforting when he spoke.

Hardly comforting for those for whom dance abstraction is dance.