more bearable

"But life was much more bearable with him."

Fulton Mackay’s strict disciplinarian Mr Mackay and Brian Wilde’s gentle Mr Barrowclough show prison life at its extremes, while ‘Fletch’ devotes his time to getting one over on the oppressive system to make his five-year sentence more bearable.

Regan said her writing style included plenty of references to Swift to make the writing process "more bearable".

Their kindness made what would otherwise have been a miserable accident just a little more bearable.

He says keeping active also helps control some of the pain, making it more bearable to live with the condition.