solace

Converse of object

• seek: He often needs to seek solace in places near water.
• find: He finds some solace in making a young child's dreams of magic come true by flying her across the night sky.
• bring: His quiet unseen ministry among the sick, the elderly and the dying brought solace and hope to many.
• take: The manager will take solace in signing a new contract at the club, stretching to June 2010, within the next 24 hours.
• offer: Chirac may well cave in to demands to offer some solace to the shareholders, 80 per cent of whom are French.
• provide: With Eddie providing little solace, she turns to Mike, a man familiar with loss.

Preposition: at

center: Oh, wait... __________________________ Seeking solace at the center of attention is like seeking sustenance at the center of a donut.

Adjective modifier

• spiritual: Unable to surrender wealth and power, the white people of California can instead find spiritual solace in their worship of technology.
• little: With Eddie providing little solace, she turns to Mike, a man familiar with loss.
• only: Her only solace is her copy of Woolf's novel.
• great: William Cowper found great solace in these poems during his periods of depression.
• much: And tho I knew this time the cause of my pain wasn't feeling so great herself, it didn't offer much solace.

Modifies a noun

spa: Changes to the for hiking horseback lodge's solace spa sky is montana's.

Preposition: in

• arm: But, cruelly out of place amid the strict protocol of State, Diana seeks solace in the arms of Rugby players and Arabs.
• fact: I find solace in the fact that even Jeremy Clarkson has admitted that he has no clue on how a car works.
• drink: Was he ever tempted to seek solace in drink or drugs?
• music: But when things turn sour only a quarter of us take solace in music.
• company: She felt repelled by her old and fat husband, and sought solace in the company of other men.
• pub: He seeks solace in the pub, leaving the girls to mind the shop.

Preposition: from

world: It provided him with solace from a world he could not control.