It may be based on true events but its feel-good intentions often feel formulaic and it sometimes seems to lack the courage of its convictions. |
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Catering to this segment, the television channel has decided to bring to screen a feel-good story of an underdog. |
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But to be honest, I found it wickedly funny, except for the mushy feel-good end. |
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He presents us with a feel-good spiritualism without any specific obligations. |
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They have seen the feel-good movies that captured the spirit of the good old days. |
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It's a cheerful feel-good story about offering sick children hope and happiness. |
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Seeing as I was with other members of my company, I was quite glad when the movie ended on quite a feel-good note. |
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It's given the area a feel-good factor and raised the profile of the towns. |
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Seen on its own, or as the first part of the classic trilogy of movies, it is still a funny, suspenseful, feel-good movie. |
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Essentially a feel-good movie, it provides a positive message about integration and cultural differences. |
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There is definitely a little bit of a feel-good factor returning and that is spreading outside the area. |
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Just because a movie is a feel-good flick doesn't mean it has universal appeal. |
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People have to be comfortable about investing in that future, so the feel-good factor is important for everyone. |
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So what better time than the feel-good season to mend a wounded friendship? |
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The movie is a twisted satire on the feel-good genre in which an estranged family member returns to the fold and redeems himself. |
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If you're bored with Hollywood blockbusters and want a change from feel-good schmaltz, then I'd recommend this twisted family fairy tale. |
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And your feel-good announcement that you've joined some touchy-feely emotional management group does nothing for me. |
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The result is a lively blend of jazz, restrained hip-hop and funky feel-good rhythm. |
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Fine leather and decorative trim of ash-wood and aluminium add to the feel-good atmosphere. |
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It is not just the stress-busting purpose or imparting the feel-good factor, but a rarefication of the body and mind. |
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Hopefully, Bradford will turn out to be the ideal place to be located with all the new apartments that are coming up in the city and the feel-good factor beginning to return. |
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There's a feel-good factor for people when they see lighting in areas. |
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The feel-good factor in the farmlands of the region is confirmed by the latest rural tourism confidence index run by the Countryside and Business Association. |
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The feel-good element comes from Mumbai having this extraordinary resilience and effervescence of energy. |
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Not only will it boost energy levels, it will also leave one with a feel-good feeling all day, fitness freaks point out. |
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Doing so will help your body produce endorphins, feel-good brain chemicals that can counter feelings of stress. |
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In many cases, those willing to lend a hand to causes just for the feel-good factor it brings are prevented from doing so by the financial pressures of their lives. |
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I love creating things of beauty, simple and useful and feel-good stuff. |
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Journalists and legislators tend to treat regulation as feel-good symbolism, a cheap way to demonstrate right-thinking attitudes. |
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But it proves that there's room for more than one feel-good, cheeky northern comedy. |
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They are feel-good movies and cynical in pandering to ignorant audiences. |
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But the Frankfurt stock market recently hit a five-year high and there are hopes the feel-good factor could feed through to the property market. |
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Prison is not a feel-good kind of place, and it probably shouldn't be. |
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A cleaner area looks better and gives a better feel-good factor. |
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There is something simple, pure and frugal about a home-made loaf, and the feel-good factor is better than a trip to the gym. |
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It amounts to feel-good therapy for the Member States, the Union as a whole and also for this House. |
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The feel-good combination will put you in a situation of deep meditation and relaxation. |
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At the same time, the rise of blues festivals across the country has further commodified the blues as a feel-good music geared largely to whites. |
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This satirical, slapstick comedy is a feel-good film that is effortless to watch. |
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The fast break procession of big-time hoopsters completely overshadows the surprisingly feel-good storyline. |
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This sums up their entire campaign, one of breath-taking arrogance wrapped up in feel-good bromides. |
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The aromas of chocolate-chip cookies, pound cake and lemon chess pie complete the feel-good picture. |
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The key to a feel-good movie like this succeeding has very little to do with the overall plot, which must follow certain time-honored formulas. |
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The jury has long favoured feel-good coming-of-age films, character studies with a moral, well-crafted films from a bygone time. |
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I laughed a lot at this movie, and when it was done, I had that feel-good celebratory feeling that Disney is so good at giving an audience. |
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Strings swirl, melodies are caressed by her velvety vocal quaver, and the songs are simple in their expression of the feel-good sentiment. |
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I was about to pass over this piece of nonsense as just another example of the feel-good, fluffy, new age rubbish the book is stuffed with. |
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Even as a casual observer, I can tell that there's some real tension in the air rather than the usual feel-good vibe that comes out of the event. |
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In the Collins Review it's presented as a vague and ill-defined feel-good motherhood concept. |
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In true romantic comedy style, it tries so very hard to be a feel-good film. |
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Handsomely photographed on strikingly beautiful locations, this is a feel-good film that succeeds in telling a quietly compelling story. |
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Company Chordelia present two works by Kally Lloyd-Jones combining feel-good music and imaginative staging and performance style. |
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This bill is nothing but touchy, fluffy, feel-good nonsense, and it is doing nothing more than promoting and legislating lying. |
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This was supposed to be a feel-good story about a mission to save a wayward cow. |
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Fortunately, they aren't serious enough to lower the film's broad-based appeal or to diminish its quotient of feel-good moments. |
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It would be impossible to extract a feel-good vibe from the star of the webtoon series created for the Flash-animation site. |
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His unashamedly feel-good tunes look set to have us smiling for a few more years to come. |
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Golf fanatics will love this film, as will anyone who has a soft spot for feel-good motivational stories. |
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Others admit to indulging in weekly manicures, pedicures, and facials for a fresh and feel-good look. |
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Our feel-good War on Breast Cancer Peggy Orenstein, The New York Times Magazine The battle to raise awareness has been won. |
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Was it that the insult was directed at child, including one who was among the feel-good stories of otherwise dismal season? |
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But we sustain it because it is the one feel-good story of that terrible time. |
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They are, like their conservative corollaries, embracing a feel-good reality distortion field. |
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These patients are not feel-good allegories for the potential within all of us. |
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There are serious flaws to the agreement that prevent it from being anything more than a feel-good measure designed to mollify the Green Party. |
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Despite its grab-life-by-the-horns platitudes and sappy ending, this feel-good debut is a lively read. |
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Giacomo was supposed to be the feel-good story of Big 'Cap Day, but he finished fifth behind Lava Man, Magnum, Wilko and High Limit. |
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Yes, I accept I'm a doubting Thomas about our capacity for generosity and I do accept that there was a genuine feel-good factor around these last few weeks. |
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Is it the cornball, feel-good premise that lies at the script's core? |
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This is a powerful tool which Mr Blair has in the past pressed into the service of feel-good speeches enunciating the vision thing. |
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But they have a role to play in ensuring that this feel-good factor is not spoiled by a less than impeccable behaviour. |
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It is more than possible that the feel-good factor, procured from moderate consumption, is behind the real health-giving result. |
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Our technology aims to enhance the feel-good factor for everybody with the privilege of riding in a Volvo. |
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A beautiful parquet floor over the new underfloor heating ensures the perfect feel-good factor within your own four walls. |
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It influences how our brains respond to dopamine, a feel-good neurotransmitter unleashed by new and rewarding experiences. |
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It was a feel-good tale that reinforced the ethos of a merit-based free society. |
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The son of noted artist George Grosz, Marty is a 74-year-old vocalist, guitarist and banjoist, and these are two feel-good CDs from 1995 and 2000-01, respectively. |
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It's a non-stop rollercoaster ride of feel-good action, packed with gags, movie send-ups and poignant interludes, making this a thrilling rival to any live-action blockbuster. |
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Bertrand and Bruno Japy's sharply written dialogue is both droll and endearing, enhancing a feel-good movie with a most contemporary theme. |
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The crowds have flocked back, the feel-good factor has been phenomenal. |
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It may sound corny but the feel-good factor is a crucial ingredient on a big night out. |
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Isn't it possible that some of these ceremonies are more feel-good exercises than intercommunion between the people and God? |
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We are signing up to fluffy, feel-good legislation that we cannot enforce, and if we do, we will run the risk of scooping up people whom we should not be attacking. |
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By announcing this meeting with such feel-good publicity, they are placing their successors in quite a bind. |
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Despite a mild yuck factor and general discomfort of watching people's lives in constant flux, I do not hesitate to recommend it as a huge feel-good movie. |
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We are being asked to choose between the cardboard binaries of India Shining and India Whining, the feel-good factor and the all-what-jazz rebuttal. |
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Personally, I thought he blabbered on without establishing the rationale for his so-called policy initiatives, other than in sweeping feel-good ideological terms. |
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It has every predictable, nauseous feel-good film cliche in it. |
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At least two of the three stories presented could be considered to be downers, so if you're looking for a feel-good experience only, I'd look elsewhere. |
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Bickie fans can go green and get a feel-good factor with a recycling scheme. |
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Madagascar is feel-good family fun with an eye-popping and vertigo-inducing finale that will leave you loopily happy and wanting more. |
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With that, there's now a feel-good factor. |
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Organic ingredients give the feel-good factor. |
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Sharapova broke Garcia's serve twice, at 4-2 and 4-4, and the feel-good vibe among the French fans seemed to flitter out of the stadium on the swirling breeze. |
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There is also the feel-good factor as little green seed leaves emerge from the plain dark soil. |
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While the excessive power arrangement that Wall Street and the Fed share may create a feel-good market vibe for a few more years, or even a decade, anarchy and suffering will eventually be in the wind. |
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It sounded like a feel-good sapfest, the kind where exhibitors ought to post a sign at the box office reading Diabetics Enter at Own Risk. |
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Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott came up with his list of feel-good experiences after researching his new book, Ainsley Harriott's Feel-Good Cookbook. |
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Research indicates that the simple act of petting, touching, and caring for animals raises levels of feel-good hormones such as serotonin in the human body. |
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Some new research has shown that laughter triggers endorphins, our own home-grown morphine derivatives and feel-good chemicals. |
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Endorphins circulating in the blood carry the feel-good messages to the brain. |
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But the book's positivity lies not in its ability to dandify gross injustices with feel-good postulations about women's choices, but rather in the euphoria of feminist awakening. |
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If the feel-good factor is slowly returning to Old Trafford, there was a reminder that Van Gaal is inheriting a club where discontent lingers just beneath the surface. |
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And the pervading feel-good factor of humour suggests that stand-up comedy may well survive in a global climate that provides so little else to laugh at. |
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Apparently reading about their shenanigans stirs up dopamine and other feel-good chemicals in our brains. |
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The weather could hardly have been better too, as the sun beat down from clear blue skies practically every day, fuelling the already powerful feel-good atmosphere. |
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But interest among the young in general later fell back, in some cases because they realised that the church offered hard, ascetical discipline rather than faddish, feel-good mysticism. |
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No extra costs due to buying batteries, plus the feel-good factor that comes with supporting environmentally friendly rechargeable battery technology. |
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Sun and light play a central role, whether as energy source for the photovoltaic system integrated into the facade, or as a feel-good factor, with daylight-based light lines interacting with the shading of the interiors. |
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The overall feel-good factor is enhanced by special ingredients like a cocoa bean extract and fragrances of essential oils, which also promote the well-being of both body and senses. |
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So why not mix beauty with pleasure? Topping off your new underfloor heating system with a beautiful parquet floor brings that extra feel-good factor to your home. |
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According to economists, winning the World Cup sparks a collective feel-good factor across the nation concerned, boosting consumer confidence and household spending. |
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Dynamic light of this nature and the associated comfort and convenience that it offers all add up to a real feel-good factor and therefore help people become more productive. |
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So the book divides itself between feel-good, supercozy moments of domesticity and the scientific experiment in which Mr. May became a guinea pig. |
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And that disorder that induces purchasing consumer goods just for the feel-good sensation does vaguely resemble the plight of both rummy and druggy. |
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They also know him as a mentor, a tireless teacher who blends long hours with a fungo bat and a feel-good attitude that keeps nervous rookies loose. |
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A mere 105g offers almost twice the recommended dietary allowance of folacin, which promotes the brain's production of feel-good neurotransmitters. |
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It says that not only does tanning lead to browning of skin but also leads to the release of feel-good chemicals called endorphins which act like heroin and other opiates. |
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