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(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedial / (adjective) promoting health; curative

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salutary



Like James, he saw salutary effects in how automation organized workers.

—p.71 Against Automation (57) by Gavin Mueller
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1 month ago


what Norman Mailer was going on about when he said that the attack would prove salutary, because only ceaseless warfare could maintain the virility of the US male

lol

—p.194 September 11 3: The days after the day after (189) by Martin Amis
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2 months ago

But to compare little things with large is a salutary habit; the little thing tells you a little about the large thing

—p.136 Transitional: The Sources of the Being (128) by Martin Amis
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2 months ago


Yet since it doesn’t quite know what it wants to say, this salutary didacticism is really a lost cause.

i thought it meant like perfunctory oops

—p.341 Jessica Biel’s Hand (335) by A S Hamrah
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1 year, 5 months ago


This Japanese military tale relates the story of a corporal of an elite regiment who plays a kind of Burmese harp during the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1945, and evokes salutary, peaceful, amazing results.

—p.242 HURRAH FOR THE JAPANESE CINEMA (239) by François Truffaut
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11 months, 1 week ago


The touchstone can be seen during the field labourer’s ‘revolt’ in 1830, when The Times (Cobbett’s ‘BLOODY OLD TIMES’) led the demand for salutary examples to be made of the rioters

—p.728 Class Consciousness (711) by E.P. Thompson
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2 months, 1 week ago


She preferred to think of her current boyfriendless state as salutary and head-clearing.

—p.29 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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10 months, 3 weeks ago


shaped by an event that provokes a salutary shock in her

—p.247 by Michel Houellebecq
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1 year, 1 month ago


Captain Girling informed them that, as a result of what they now saw, war had become unthinkable: "In that way, it has been salutary."

—p.53 by Shirley Hazzard
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4 months, 4 weeks ago


Reading poetry has the salutary effect on me of forcing me to read, and think, at a different pace than the rest of my life demands.

—p.24 by Matthew Zapruder
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3 years, 5 months ago