1.   The sensation of being in control of the boat, at least, was oddly comforting.

2.   But the ordeal is also oddly comforting.

3.   Could be oddly comforting.

4.   It was oddly comforting to have the box there.

5.   Oddly comforting, she never changed.

6.   That it was the throbbing heart of Kennedy country was oddly comforting.

7.   This continuity with the illustrious hucksters of the past is something I find oddly comforting.

8.   What she discovered through her discomfort was oddly comforting.

9.   This unlikely piece of synchronicity is oddly comforting.