How To Use Uplifting In A Sentence
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The song, printed below, which had its first airing on BBC Radio Swindon, is a blend of guitar and keyboard work with some uplifting words of encouragement for the boys.
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The baseline is a humble, positive uplifting of Shona culture and values, which is why guitars, drums and horns take a back seat to the unassuming little mbira finger piano.
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With the use of uplifting essential oils their metabolisms could be fooled into leapfrogging hibernation, believing they had already arrived in the scent of spring.
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It's as gentle as gentle can be and smells upliftingly of lavender.
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Not only is non-violence a powerful political tool, but it is, and becomes, a spiritually uplifting force.
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Look for a wide band for support, uplifting underwire, and cups made of sturdy rather than sheer fabric.
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It promotes spiritual awareness and is uplifting.
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What matters is how this declaration would contribute to the uplifting of morals by those in government and the general populace and whether it contravenes the rights and freedoms of non-Christians.
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Determined to have more uplifting memories of that day, the members of Loch Arthur Creamery made a batch of unpasteurised organic cheese with the last milking from the doomed dairy herd.
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Chicken with shallot vinaigrette and green salad Finely chopped shallot has an uplifting effect on roast chicken.
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In addition, there has been no correspondence with the various councils concerning uplifting the game's standard.
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But prayer, generally considered, embraces all the above-mentioned parts; when, however, we distinguish one part against another, _prayer_, properly speaking, means the uplifting of the mind to God.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life
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It was an uplifting ceremony which saw a glisten in many an eye!
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Its uplifting theme is that female solidarity is bigger, stronger and prettier than class.
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I should add that the ending is uplifting, but totally schmaltzy.
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Convocation preferred the blight of the coward Science to the cultivation of all that was beautiful, distinguished, humane, and brave; and they reaped as they had sown, they kept the dog smotherer and lost the radiant spirit and uplifting eloquence of the inspired seer.
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
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What makes the programme so uplifting to watch is the utter, naked devotion of the family members who surround each patient.
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And looking down on the unthinking city, the Cathedral kept watch alone, beseeching pardon for the inappetency for suffering, for the inertia of faith that her sons displayed, uplifting her towers to the sky like two arms, while the spires mimicked the shape of joined hands, the ten fingers all meeting and upright one against another, in the position which the image-makers of old gave to the dead saints and warriors they carved upon tombs.
The Cathedral
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The two sources for this uplifting news are what one must call mixed.
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Close friends and new friends, I am very lucky to be around so many uplifting, unneurotic, fun people.
Life is good.
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Being a Leader Without a Title involves being inspirational and uplifting in a world that all too often celebrates the worst of things.
The Leader Who Had No Title
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The lighter, pastel shades are of a higher vibration - softer, more gentle and uplifting.
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These lightweight scents are perfect for a quick uplifting spritz!
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Since his heartening first year in the job, convincing, uplifting displays and results have been in short supply.
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After a car crash in 2008 sidelined bassist Chi Cheng with a brain injury, his Sacramento bandmates shelved finished album Eros and enlisted fill-in Sergio Vega to embark on an uplifting, polychromatic homage to their fallen brother.
Listen Up: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony reunite in 'Uni-5'
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The movie pivots on not one but two such changes, and the result is exhaustingly cathartic, ultimately uplifting.
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Summer: in the south west of France for the May half term; at the uplifting madness that was the Secret Garden Festival please note my boyfriend's chequer board haircut which seemed like an inspired idea after a few cocktails; driving up the M11 and being dazzled by the fields of rapeseed coming into bloom; in Cumbria for our summer holidays, bird spotting with the binoculars.
Where I was 2008
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Every night, you know, we try to close with a musical number of an uplifting nature.
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The pounding beat, uplifting crescendos and psychedelic lights had just the right effect.
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In the second movement Andante, Menissier employs delectable registrations to highlight the uplifting nature of the music.
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Reversing the crescendo pattern used by so many instrumental bands, the song begins with booming drums and layers of distorted bass, high-end guitars, and uplifting piano.
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With its minimal stage backdrop and modest monochrome video screens, this show was a warm and uplifting affair.
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Your letter spoke of victory, and I hesitate to end on a note that is less than uplifting.
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The world is seeking something more uplifting to discuss.
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Chicken with shallot vinaigrette and green salad Finely chopped shallot has an uplifting effect on roast chicken.
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Greenblatt instead wants to write, and most consumers of literary biography want to read, a story extraordinary and uplifting.
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They actually got up and started showing off and playing with each other, I suppose it's quite uplifting when you're down in the dumps.
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It is a place to reflect on noble sacrifice and draw comfort from the balm of uplifting scenery.
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John, I like what you said about contribute to society, very motivational, uplifting.
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He also delighted in needling O'Malley, apparently trying to disrupt the latter's eerily disciplined attachment to talking points stressing innovation, investment, education, and similar uplifting and visionary objectives.
Ehrlich livens up Md. race but doesn't knock out O'Malley
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What emerges is a compelling and often uplifting study, the spatial and temporal boundaries of which extend far beyond Britain between the wars.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And there is something rather uplifting in all this.
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This is a bleak and brooding song yet the uplifting outro give a sense of hope for the flawed central character.
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But while this uplifting story was taking place, a parallel one was unfolding.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity. Oprah Winfrey
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For most, the presence of flowers such as roses, peonies, chrysanthemums, lilies, irises and calendulas for instance represents an aesthetic uplifting of spirit.
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Robert Force has been playing the mountain dulcimer for over 30 years, delivering wildly uplifting performances around the globe.
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There was something extraordinarily uplifting in the notion of consecrating one's talents to the State.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919
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‘Feathered Friends’ is the album's requisite slow track, a rousing, uplifting singsong that eclipses Rocket's previous attempts at balladry.
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The culmination of that was an uplifting climax heightened by the emotional residue of what had gone before.
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Black economic empowerment should be uplifting for blacks in business, in private ownership and so on.
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It is effortlessly uplifting, totally breezy and an ideal way of easing you into what follows.
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Filmed around Wellington, it tells multiple stories of anomie, despair and occasional uplifting moments.
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This film wants to champion personal empowerment, the notion of uplifting the minority class by instilling pride and power to the community.
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Here was faith, religion and spirituality that was manifesting itself as joyous, life affirming and uplifting, as opposed to militant, oppressive and death-dealing.
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What about a bit of fellow-feeling for them at this undividedly uplifting moment?
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It is right to assert an idea of common citizenship and to be hopeful that the public might find it uplifting.
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Stone uses his gifts as a scenarist to create a unique, inventive uplifting story.
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Something uplifting in the criminal action of the girl so touched Frederick that the nearness of tears called a throb to his throat.
Tess of the Storm Country
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And the short-term economic news will not be unrelievedly uplifting.
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The flood in the basement is a less uplifting indicator that a major thaw is underway.
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In the dictionary its meaning is given as lofty, elevated by joy, exalted in character; awakening or expressing an uplifting emotion, producing a sense of elevated beauty, nobility, grandeur, solemnity or awe.
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It can be uplifting to be with friends and it is a healthy challenge to make a meal for other people.
Stay Well This Winter
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Contrasting greatly with the often-brooding melancholia of Tristeza, LaValle manages to inject an uplifting aspect into his solo work.
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Our posters tend to be a bit wittier and more direct, whereas the German contingent are more visionary and uplifting.
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The first single is a moody yet uplifting electronic groover.
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He has written close to a dozen books set among the working class in this region, all of them stark portrayals of affliction, yet his writing is always redemptive and uplifting.
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It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings.
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Along the way, which was only a five minute drive, Lyle silently listened to the uplifting music, and mentally psyched himself up for the date that was less than half an hour away from taking place.
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Probably the critics of modern art are nostalgic for beautiful and uplifting art like the Sistine Chapel.
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It is right to assert an idea of common citizenship and to be hopeful that the public might find it uplifting.
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The two sources for this uplifting news are what one must call mixed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Think swaggering verses, an uplifting chorus and a mighty brass crescendo perfect for ringing in the great British summer.
The Sun
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This promises to be an uplifting and exciting concert, but tickets will sell fast so get in quick.
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Well worth the price, and an uplifting experience.
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But even when these songs have heart-rending subject matter, there's usually something uplifting near the surface, delivered without schmaltz or gushing sentimentality.
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He did good, professional work but reportedly lamented the dearth (to him) of more uplifting assignments in comics.
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Fishing a lovely loch, or lake even, for the first time is invariably an uplifting experience.
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And the film manages to capture the painful glory of first love, misplaced love and the temptations of sex over true affection, with a brave and uplifting ending.
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All are welcome to what promises to be a memorable and uplifting evening.
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The chance to share with like-minded souls provides an uplifting experience that gets many mothers through the week.
Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
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The film is absorbing rather than depressing, uplifting rather than sad.
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What follows is an uplifting, funny and touching journey.
The Sun
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It is right to assert an idea of common citizenship and to be hopeful that the public might find it uplifting.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a film that's honestly committed to being heart-warming and uplifting, it just about gets there.
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What emerges is a compelling and often uplifting study, the spatial and temporal boundaries of which extend far beyond Britain between the wars.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is the general mental effect that the well-selected word of encouragement, the expression_r of willingness to help, the uplifting effect of the first aider's evident capability can be given.
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It was nice to do something different and something uplifting rather than something dark and deep.
The Sun
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This bright July day, Nikodemov in the air and The Eagle's band on the ground, both felt the uplifting joy of the early Afghan summer.
KARA KUSH
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He expressed his general interest in creating something uplifting, something he has essentially done for the nearly two decades of his turntablism career.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Sun People the World Over
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These documentaries are supposed to be uplifting, but it looked like thankless, horrible work.
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Beaumont, Elie de, on the uplifting of mountain chains, 51, 300; influence of the rocks of melaphyre and serpentine, on pendulum experiments, 167; conjectures on the quartz strata of the Col de la Poissoniere, 266.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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If she truly held him in such high regard, the book would be an uplifting story and not a nasty little tell-all.
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But this music has always been a part of my life, and its effect is always soothing and uplifting.
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As the hand moves forward the spear is released by uplifting the forefinger, and the woomera remains in the hand.
Spinifex and Sand
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Transform an interior with minimal effort by hanging some uplifting art.
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Rigorously avoiding sentimentality, Jacobson opts instead for something far more uplifting, which is honesty.
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It can be very uplifting seen from afar but, if it becomes a intrusive presence in our lives, it provokes huge resentment.
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In the background, strains of Latin music blend with sounds of sizzling from the kitchen to create an uplifting, cheerful atmosphere.
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On one level the little arms around you and the fact that he regards you as a safe harbor in a pinch is a great, uplifting feeling.
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It pulsates with a humanity that, in spite of its bleakness, is life-affirming and ultimately uplifting.
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Practicing law and ‘uplifting the race,’ Chambliss says, were always his childhood callings, not a career in football.
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It suggests that under some circumstances people can misattribute the uplifting work that their brains have done to a fictitious external source.
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That is partly true, but I think that the best-seller list tends to be larded with ideological hackery, which is a less uplifting market.
Economic Elitism Thought Experiment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Chicken with shallot vinaigrette and green salad Finely chopped shallot has an uplifting effect on roast chicken.
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It is right to assert an idea of common citizenship and to be hopeful that the public might find it uplifting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
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Pari, your newsletter is always uplifting to me, so be sure you keep me in the reader/friend category.
Email Ejection
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It was an uplifting, exciting feeling to drive the Skidoo pulling only one sledge over a perfectly flat smooth surface.
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Poo! poo!" said Captain Pharo, turning the whole flower indifferently to his questioner, and drawing a match with a slight, genteel uplifting of the leg; "I smoke, as the 'postle says, on all' ccasions t 'all men, in season an' outer season, an '' specially when I'm a darn min 'ter.
Vesty of the Basins
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You're going to be my spiritual guide and write me uplifting letters!
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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It promotes spiritual awareness and is uplifting.
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Her return pilgrimage to Lourdes last year was an uplifting experience during her illness.
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the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky
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In my opinion, Jewish women are the authority on this body image stuff -- Jews invented the word zaftig and live lives peppered with proverbs like "Worries go down better with soup" and the ever-uplifting, "Eat and drink for tomorrow you may die.
Leslie Goldman: Oy, You Should Eat!
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The priests and monks priested it, tight girding their girdles and uplifting the Crucifixes, while the Moslem shouted out the professions of the Requiting King and verses of the Koran began to sing.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But while this uplifting story was taking place, a parallel one was unfolding.
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A slick piece of indie rock, it showcases Hayes' soulful voice through a string of songs tinged with sadness yet which are ultimately uplifting.
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This uplifting track plays around with the dubstep genre and avoids sounding formulaic.
The Sun
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Look for a wide band for support, uplifting underwire, and cups made of sturdy rather than sheer fabric.
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His kindness and moral generosity I found uplifting in today's squalid world of denigration, spin and hypocrisy.
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Chicken with shallot vinaigrette and green salad Finely chopped shallot has an uplifting effect on roast chicken.
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What I was instantly drawn to with Dogs was their happy uplifting songs, with often child like lyrics comical content.
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From then on the album takes a beautifully mind-bending trip through some intimate, yet uplifting soundscapes that provide near-perfect therapy for our stressed out routines.
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It can be uplifting to be with friends and it is a healthy challenge to make a meal for other people.
Stay Well This Winter
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But, those in need of uplifting, fear not.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just to be can be so very rewarding, so uplifting, so transformative.
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a spirit which Satan had bound, the schoolmaster caught sight, -- caught from its commonness, its grimness, its defeature, inspiration and uplifting, for there he beheld the oppressed, down trodden, mire fouled humanity which the man in whom he believed had loved because it was his father's humanity divided into brothers, and had died straining to lift back to the bosom of that Father.
The Marquis of Lossie
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The author stumbles a touch in the third act, dragging his ending out too long, and giving us a finale that's either falsely uplifting or cruelly imagined by a dying boy.
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Never before has he cut such a powerful figure on the world stage, an adrenaline-charging sensation for the globetrotter and an uplifting spectacle for his audience back home.
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Yet far from being too depressed, the upbeat rhythms and musical arrangements give rise to an uplifting single that boasts a terrific chorus in a style reminiscent of Jeff Buckley and that type of songwriter.
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Chicken with shallot vinaigrette and green salad Finely chopped shallot has an uplifting effect on roast chicken.
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It was informative and educational but also funny and uplifting.
The Sun
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Regardless, Wash's latest single is "I've Got You," which she describes as inspirational and uplifting, with a lean toward the pop genre.
NPR Topics: News
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He simply exhorts parents, in the tradition of the uplifting revivalist, to do the things that will focus their kids on school and prepare them for better lives.
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But might he be asked to confine his activities to singing, rather than taking part in uplifting social work?
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The true essence of our uniqueness is a combination of uplifting and moving music with serious and emotional lyrics.
Jeff Rivera: Introducing JazzEktro!
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To try to pray and attempt to learn on a daily basis - one article or one shiur at a time - bringing me to this inspiring and uplifting article.
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And from our breakfast perch on the windowless hotel verandah high above a rainswept gorge almost overrun with verdant, luxuriant jungle dotted with palms, frangipani, hibiscus and pink orchids, the rain was positively uplifting.
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Since his heartening first year in the job, convincing, uplifting displays and results have been in short supply.
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It was so uplifting, almost, you know, flag-waving patriotic.
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You'll probably be looking for something uplifting and cheery.
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The church or cathedral spire would be built over a vortex to promote the most spiritually uplifting experience for worshippers.
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Mr. Charyn is not burlesquing our past; he is reimagining it as an uplifting fable of his own, complete with acts of valor and humaneness in the teeth of bestial cruelty.
A Revolutionary Romp
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The music here is rooted in this particular religion: this accounts for its warmth, depth and subtly uplifting quality.
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Last night's ceremony was a moving and uplifting occasion as their inspirational stories were told.
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The result is uplifting, but there is still a lot of work to do over the next fortnight.
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Stone uses his gifts as a scenarist to create a unique, inventive uplifting story.
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The 70's style, easy-going samba funk is wonderfully uplifting, but is made much more contemporary by the skratches, gritty electric keys and basslines, and a sound that clearly understands the important developments between that era and this one.
As I look south (Music (For Robots))
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I am going through a transition period right now and your emails are uplifting to me.
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“Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay” is, while perhaps not outrightly uplifting, a wonderfully concise acknowledgment of the paradox that a capitalist democracy inevitably is: a place that is often well worth complaining about, and which allows you to complain as loudly as you wish.
And the New Six-Word Motto for the U.S. Is … - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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This group of crazies is more interested inn crearing a fascist state than in uplifting the United States.
Rove slams Obama over 'bitter' comments, flag pin
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The album is chilled, but ultimately uplifting.
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He said: ‘It is a bit uplifting, from being down in the dumps - Kylie being born, Thomas getting married and now this medal - three good things that have come out of it all.’
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The two sources for this uplifting news are what one must call mixed.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only a little less uplifting to be a guest in the VIP tent, amongst not-very-beautiful beautiful people in cream trouser suits who looked as if they'd eaten well, although they still had room for a snackette of champagne and lobster.
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The results are somehow uplifting.
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These songs appealed to common ground and shared values as topoi, but not as uplifting principles for emulation.
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This is an uplifting story of triumph by a black woman who overcame adversity and became an inspiration for millions.
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Since the days of rousing Fourth of July orators on village greens, Americans have heard uplifting patriotic stories on this star-spangled holiday.
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This is an uplifting story of triumph by a black woman who overcame adversity and became an inspiration for millions.
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World renowned for their lively, personal and vibrant performances, Sweet Honey has shared an uplifting vision with countless audiences.
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You'll probably be looking for something uplifting and cheery.
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But while this uplifting story was taking place, a parallel one was unfolding.
Times, Sunday Times
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The culmination of that was an uplifting climax heightened by the emotional residue of what had gone before.
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All in all, a delightful and uplifting evening.
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He added that the City has indeed embarked upon several major projects over the last twelve months with the sole aim of uplifting the living standard of the residents.
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It is has a strange otherworldly and mythical quality to it, like a cinematic dream and the result is not vacuously uplifting but powerfully moving.
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Since then there's been a whole lotta uplifting going on.
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It can be very uplifting seen from afar but, if it becomes a intrusive presence in our lives, it provokes huge resentment.
Times, Sunday Times
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On one level the little arms around you and the fact that he regards you as a safe harbor in a pinch is a great, uplifting feeling.
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It's uplifting symphonic praise, enticing us musically back into the Age of Aquarius.
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Visiting sites like the Fourchon Maritime Ridge with folks volunteering their time and expertise to rebuild a little piece of Louisianan wetland is uplifting.
Bill Chameides: Working on the Wetlands: One Blade of Grass at a Time
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But full of jokes and also oddly rather uplifting.
The Sun
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This uplifting book mixes his own climbing stories with a learned investigation into man's fixation with dizzy heights.
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It was informative and educational but also funny and uplifting.
The Sun
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But in the uplifting of this deposit, as it was inelastic, the strain split it in every direction, and down the rifts thus formed danced the torrents from higher granitic and schistous ranges, forming the gorges of the Tarn, the Ardêche, the Herault, the Gaves, and the Timée, in
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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The results are somehow uplifting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Transform an interior with minimal effort by hanging some uplifting art.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a memorable visit, and uplifting for both monastic orders.
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What emerges is a compelling and often uplifting study, the spatial and temporal boundaries of which extend far beyond Britain between the wars.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Isn't it uplifting to see society being reinvigorated by so much new blood?
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The band plays high-energy, uplifting music that effortlessly fuses jazz, funk, hip hop, electronica and world music.
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His reputation as a skilled guitarist and uplifting performer continued to grow.
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To bring the beneficent influence of the countryside into the city, parks provided "uplifting" rural scenery.
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AFTER seeing many bad stories on Afghanistan it was a great delight to finally see an absorbing and uplifting programme on the war-torn country.
The Sun
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And at a time when the country needed to be cheered up, the sight of our reverential politicians getting the mickey taken out of them was as uplifting a vision as could be.
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There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity. Oprah Winfrey
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How do we know they found plainchant uplifting?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Yet reading this novel, even a tone-deaf person could feel the delight and excitement that music enthusiasts experience when they hear an uplifting melody.
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He can show some enthusiasm, but he can't make it seem, as McKay did, that we are ever in the presence of uplifting, spectacular happenings.
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Only the churlish or cloth-eared could deny this music's uplifting qualities.
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It is right to assert an idea of common citizenship and to be hopeful that the public might find it uplifting.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the key job of the producer but the two of them are very uplifting in the studio.
The Sun
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But how beautiful, how sane, how uplifting it seemed, compared with the feverish haschisch dream in which she was now living.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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I like cheerful, uplifting middle-of-the-road pop.
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See, his goal of creating a mature, uplifting pop music that reaches beyond simple multiculti fusion is a commendable one.
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And there is something rather uplifting in all this.
Times, Sunday Times
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Think swaggering verses, an uplifting chorus and a mighty brass crescendo perfect for ringing in the great British summer.
The Sun
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Chicken with shallot vinaigrette and green salad Finely chopped shallot has an uplifting effect on roast chicken.
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