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Which composer wrote Solace, a piece later featured in the movie The Sting?

solace

[sol-is] / ˈsɒl ɪs /




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But the sample does provide some solace to beleaguered bond investors.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

For 23-year-old Sol Burgos, his arrival is a source of solace.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

And these cameras do provide solace, occasionally serving to prevent problematic behavior and even criminal acts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

We’ll see what election day brings, but Raman can take solace in history if she loses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

“True solace can be worth its weight in gold.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

But these small solaces, this idea of a table carefully tended, of a little beauty or attention to hearth and home, take on more power in these uncertain times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

His only solaces are the U2 album Rattle and Hum and poetry.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020

A singer who solaces souls with her soaring soprano, she is just as revelatory as a dramatic actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The solaces John brought her—the quantities of newspapers, the picture papers and others, rugs and shawls innumerable—all that he possessed in the shape of wraps, besides those which she had with her.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band.

From Time Magazine Archive

The medieval idea of the Mater Dolorosa solaced her when she lost her own son.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it was in Western Europe, wrecked by war and brooded over by the neo-Malthusians, but solaced by its industry and by U.S. aid, that "the most spectacular advances were made."

From Time Magazine Archive

From that point on, solaced by his favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m sure she solaced herself by being convinced that some misfit Maingault or Mortemar had got mixed up with the lodge-keeper’s daughter.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

In a handsome production by Christopher D. Betts, all of it takes place on a grassy expanse stretching into the distance, with a spiritual, “Fare Ye Well,” as a solacing aural motif.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

Intimations, Zadie Smith’s slender, solacing new personal essay collection about life during the COVID-19 crisis, is a May book.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020

In Rachlin’s skilled hands, Grimes’s story triggers indignation but also confers solace, Grimes being one of the solacing features.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017

In those early days of fog and joy and compromise, breastfeeding was an epiphany.There was a solacing sense of dignity to my being able to provide him with such basic nourishment, comfort, warmth, love.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012

Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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