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I'd say the appeal is something simpler: not just that this is a wishfulfilment world that is more colourful than ours; it combines an idealised nostalgic past with all present-day bourgeois creature-comforts, parlayed through honest-to-goodness melodramatic emotional intensity.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010
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I'd say the appeal is something simpler: not just that this is a wishfulfilment world that is more colourful than ours; but that it combines an idealised nostalgic past with all present-day bourgeois creature-comforts, parlayed through honest-to-goodness melodramatic emotional intensity.
Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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I'd say the appeal is something simpler: not just that this is a wishfulfilment world that is more colourful than ours; but that it combines an idealised nostalgic past with all present-day bourgeois creature-comforts, parlayed through honest-to-goodness melodramatic emotional intensity.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (1990-2005) Adam Roberts 2010
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Maybe we can take the energy that we would have been using to acquire our creature-comforts and try and connect on a personal level with someone who needs the comfort of knowing that he or she is not alone.
George Elerick: Could Culture Emerge Out of a God Who Evolves? 2010
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The older I get, the more I enjoy my creature-comforts.
Storing Up Treasures In Heaven Joyful Fox 2008
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We like our creature-comforts, we are filled with greed for more -food, drink, possessions.
Gratitude Susan 2008
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The older I get, the more I enjoy my creature-comforts.
Archive 2008-07-01 Belinda 2008
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Economic waste means a long-term loss of basic creature-comforts, and I think basic comfort is something Canadians appreciate and strive to uphold.
observation 2005
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We have a little house there with no electircity or phone, but the creature-comforts of hot water, wood fire, gas lights and even a gas refridgerator.
Archive 2005-05-01 2005
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We have a little house there with no electircity or phone, but the creature-comforts of hot water, wood fire, gas lights and even a gas refridgerator.
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