easeful

• “The real motherly tenderness that was in this woman's heart was quickly perceived by the child, who did not move its eyes from hers, but lay perfectly still, gazing up at her in a kind of easeful rest such as it had never before known.”

  Cast Adrift

• “It loses sight of the fact that the best books – the books that last – are born of necessity, not just of the need to fill a gap in the market and give us an easeful few hours.”

  The Guardian: Great literature will live on with or without a prize | Observer editorial

• “The women who were once your women find these easeful and revelatory.”

  Fictionaut: Beneath the Light of an Exploding City

• “In his defence, he's equally engaging about why easeful vernacular phrasing by such figures as Dorothy Fields ( "I Can't Give You Anything But Love") and Frank Loesser ( "Sit Down, You're Rockin 'the Boat") makes their writing so strong.”

  The Guardian: Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review

• “Always saying that he sought rest, and always exhausting himself, he may have been half in love with easeful death.”

  The Dark Side of Dickens

• “More than half in love with easeful death but unlike poor consumptive Keats, not a love born of necessity, and bloodier than easeful by more than half.”

  Fictionaut: Alamo Rag

• “It's a tribute to Rimington's chairmanship that this commitment to easeful enjoyment is loyally echoed by colleagues, with her fellow judge and author Susan Hill tweeting: Hurrah!”

  The Guardian: The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett

• “Through the practice you are able to tap into a place of peace that leads to an easeful sleep.”

  Ed and Deb Shapiro: Learn To Sleep The Way A Yogi Does!

• “Perhaps it's easier to adopt a problematic alternative than to live with less light, for with our abundant illumination - as with our easeful travel - we measure the expansiveness of our lives.”

  The Huffington Post: Jane Brox: Light! Less Light! The Evolution Of Artificial Light

• “The car was such asmooth pleasure, with easeful steering and the kind of suspension that insulates you from life's uneven breaks.”

  The Guardian: On the road: Peugeot 5008 Sport HDi 150

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