This is a forward-looking, life-affirming society. From Wordnik.com. [Something New Out of Africa: A Global Player] Reference
It's always a life-affirming moment - for me, at least. From Wordnik.com. [It is interesting that Sir George Young took the opportunity...] Reference
There's something refreshingly life-affirming about the guy. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Mehno: Never Mind The Beatles Here's The Sex Pistols] Reference
If I didn't hate the phrase, I'd even call it life-affirming. From Wordnik.com. [Songs in the Key of Life] Reference
To which the author replies: This isn't a life-affirming story. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Daniel Kehlmann's Fame: The Self in the Cyber Century (AUDIO)] Reference
Trivial stuff, yes, but life-affirming in a distinctly New York way. From Wordnik.com. [Salman Rushdie's 1001 Manhattan Nights] Reference
It wasn't time to churn up darkness in my "life-affirming" condition. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Up Bones] Reference
Yet Julia's life-affirming pasta somehow makes her slim, slender, svelte. From Wordnik.com. [Eat Pray Love] Reference
Will the Obama Effect translate into a transformative, life-affirming diplomacy?. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Snow: Hey World, What Do You Think of US Now?] Reference
I've come across so much incredible life-affirming art I can't recommend it all. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Elliott: Steve's Thanksgiving List] Reference
A life-affirming album that came at the exact time when we desperately needed it. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Sachs: Ten Records That Made This Cruddy Decade a Little More Bearable] Reference
Roger Ebert and Vincent Canby both found its life-affirming themes annoyingly trite. From Wordnik.com. [Movies With Second Acts] Reference
Try them at breakfast – could there be a more life-affirming way to start the day?. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's peach recipes] Reference
All this shows what great, life-affirming, genuine American-stock folk the Palins are. From Wordnik.com. [Night of the Living Fred (Updated): James Wolcott] Reference
And we're thrilled that our book has ignited something so positive and life-affirming. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Taylor: The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship] Reference
I could just listen to it all day in conjunction with the life-affirming sound of rain. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
By openly acknowledging death, it ends up having a life-affirming impact on the living. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: Japanese Film Departures, 2009's Foreign Language Oscar Winner, Illuminates Asian Rituals of Death] Reference
What is a film this simultaneously heartbreaking and life-affirming doing on television?. From Wordnik.com. [Angie, Baby!] Reference
Now 57, she doubts she could have written such a life-affirming book in her younger years. From Wordnik.com. [ARTFUL AGING] Reference
But it's the best, the fullest, the most life-affirming pain I've felt at a movie in years. From Wordnik.com. [A 'Mother' Lode Of Up-Close Psychological Realism] Reference
Yet Tolan suggests the final nine episodes of Rescue Me are lighter and more life-affirming. From Wordnik.com. [Rescue Me Postmortem: Will Damien Continue to Haunt Tommy?] Reference
This is the time to do it because a life-affirming cultural shift is taking place in America. From Wordnik.com. [John W. Whitehead: Abortion Politics Isn't Saving Lives] Reference
It is the first volume devoted to the (paradoxically) life-affirming power of pre-death dreams. From Wordnik.com. [A DREAM BEFORE DYING] Reference
I know you can get the relief and peace you're looking for in another, more life-affirming way. From Wordnik.com. [Sadie Nardini: Mr. President: I Challenge You To Quit!] Reference
By doing so, they will take an important, life-affirming step toward a brighter and safer future. From Wordnik.com. [Proclamation On National Day Of Concern About Young People] Reference
Its first life-affirming act was to provide food and health care for expectant mothers and infants. From Wordnik.com. [THE MORAL RENEWAL OF THE NATION] Reference
NEWSWEEK devotes its first design issue ever to the celebration of this fresh life-affirming spirit. From Wordnik.com. [It's Cool To Be Warm] Reference
In Italy it's Tuva Novotny's lovely Sofi, a life-affirming and movie-enlivening tourist from Sweden. From Wordnik.com. ['Eat Pray' Preach Preen] Reference
There were just moments where this very genuine, very life-affirming smile would sort of come across her face. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2007] Reference
Best of all, I've had countless adventures and life-affirming surprises, fallen in love with strangers and friends. From Wordnik.com. [Simona Rabinovitch: Should Travel Writers Accept Freebies? I Say Yes] Reference
But, more than anything, this was a life-affirming and exhilarating experience that will stay with me like few others. From Wordnik.com. [Walking in Palestine] Reference
It comes at a price, though, and the play works through the battle between life-affirming passion and alienating shame. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Shoes] Reference
As celebrations of non-denominational and undifferentiated spirituality, they were irenic, life-affirming, even moving. From Wordnik.com. [William Astore: In Place of Mental Health Care, Are Some Troops Being Evangelized?] Reference
KING (voice-over): And the life-affirming sound of the "Let's go, Hokies!" chant at a convocation, earlier the same day. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2007] Reference
The first one's diehards are in it for the life-affirming romp, the second group prefers a softer voice and louder truths. From Wordnik.com. [Still The Boss] Reference
"It's life-affirming for him, so I think he would definitely want to have a child and develop his house and things like that.". From Wordnik.com. [Grey's Anatomy: Will Meredith and Derek Be a Happy Couple This Season?] Reference
The traditional compensation of anovel about death is that it be "life-affirming", "uplifting", offer joy or wisdom amid the pain. From Wordnik.com. [Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard] Reference
Absurdist, chaotic, yet oddly life-affirming, the rudimentary translation (also a debut) is entirely appropriate to this startling book. From Wordnik.com. [First novels] Reference
If this is Hollywood's idea of a heartwarming, life-affirming spectacle, we should probably all go out and get ourselves shot in the head. From Wordnik.com. [You Need This Movie Like . . . ..Mr.-] Reference
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