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comforting prospect

noun as in silver lining

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Then there’s what the shift in his beliefs has already taken from him: the comforting prospect of spending the afterlife with people he loves.

It’s a comforting prospect, gathering with the people of your choosing to celebrate the season.

From Salon

Neither is a comforting prospect.

From Time

The two fight together with very nearly equal forces, but this doctrine reveals the comforting prospect of a distant future in which Ormuzd shall finally triumph over Ahriman, and fills the trembling believer with elation at the thought that after æons of the tragic struggle between good and evil, at the end of the world the curtain will fall on the victory of good.

The comforting prospect offered to Americans looking for an end to a war that is costing upward of $100 billion a year and a slow but steady drip of U.S. casualties is that the U.S. is training and equipping Afghan security forces projected to number 300,000 by October.

From Time

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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