(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedial / (adjective) promoting health; curative
Like James, he saw salutary effects in how automation organized workers.
Knowledge-work is the way information is made. This is salutary.
But to compare little things with large is a salutary habit; the little thing tells you a little about the large thing
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
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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.
Because of what was to come, this was salutary. I used it as a talisman in the desert more than once.
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
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
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
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.
I staged five plays that first year. Even if the results were dubious, it was salutary.
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
She preferred to think of her current boyfriendless state as salutary and head-clearing.
shaped by an event that provokes a salutary shock in her
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.
Captain Girling informed them that, as a result of what they now saw, war had become unthinkable: "In that way, it has been salutary."
Or else, in a sudden rush of sympathy, you almost feel like sending him salutary messages, tapping with your fist against the partition
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
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.