All 7 Uses of
console
in
Catch-22
- His distress was inconsolable.†
Chpt 9 *
- The woman caught him by the wrists before he could fall as he came stumbling toward her in need and pulled him along down on top of her as she flopped over backward onto the bed and enveloped him hospitably in her flaccid and consoling embrace, her dust mop aloft in her hand like a banner as her broad, brutish congenial face gazed up at him fondly with a smile of unperjured friendship.†
Chpt 16
- He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.†
Chpt 19
- Nately slipped out behind her; and when Yossarian and Aarfy entered the officers' apartment almost two hours later, there she was again, stepping into her panties and skirt, and it was almost like the chaplain's recurring sensation of having been through a situation before, except for Nately, who was moping inconsolably with his hands in his pockets.†
Chpt 26
- Nurse Duckett was in tears, and Yossarian was consoling her apologetically as he sat beside her on the edge of a bed.†
Chpt 27
- Hungry Joe was irate and inconsolable until — of all people — the chaplain was led in wearing a maroon corduroy bathrobe, shining like a skinny lighthouse with a radiant grin of self-satisfaction too tremendous to be concealed.†
Chpt 34
- But he chose to remain and console and help her.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(console as in: console her grief) to comfort (emotionally)