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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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Knowledge-work is the way information is made. This is salutary.

—p.69 Yann Moulier Boutang: Cognitive Capitalism (65) by McKenzie Wark
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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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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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This caution remains especially salutary today, against the facile chorus of those on the Left who have suddenly discovered ‘capitalism’ or ‘fascism’ in the USSR.

—p.147 Lucio Colletti (121) missing author
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Because of what was to come, this was salutary. I used it as a talisman in the desert more than once.

—p.133 MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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These wise restrictions, which include a salutary warning as to the essential impoverishment of the themes themselves, did not prevent the modernists from making much of time

—p.364 CONCLUSION: Secondary Elaborations (297) by Fredric Jameson
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In the apartment, he took her twice with a zeal that was somehow both business-like and insane, and then rolled over on his back and sighed deeply, like a man who has completed some disagreeable but salutary task

—p.207 FIVE Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man (165) by Mary McCarthy
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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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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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I staged five plays that first year. Even if the results were dubious, it was salutary.

—p.147 by Ingmar Bergman
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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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She preferred to think of her current boyfriendless state as salutary and head-clearing.

—p.29 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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shaped by an event that provokes a salutary shock in her

—p.247 by Michel Houellebecq
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It is easy to see why many women—and not just the ones dealing with a history of sexual trauma—might find something salutary in a phantasmic role reversal.

—p.66 Talking to My Students About Porn (33) by Amia Srinivasan
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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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Or else, in a sudden rush of sympathy, you almost feel like sending him salutary messages, tapping with your fist against the partition

—p.211 A Man Asleep (127) by Georges Perec
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This idea had a tremendous impact on the collective view and treatment of romantic misery, suggesting it is a salutary dimension of the process of maturation

—p.3 Introduction: The Misery of Love (1) by Eva Illouz
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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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