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Crystalline guitar picking carries her into more surreal realms with phantom percussion and flickering electronic sounds, making her way toward a fuller, self-consoling chorus that simply repeats: “It won’t hurt.”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018

"It will be too lovely!" she ended in a self-consoling murmur.

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

After this self-consoling soliloquy, he calmly went to work to make himself comfortable, by laying his blanket on the bare ground and improvising a pillow out of some logs that lay within reach.

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne