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Recent Examples of feel-good
After two years of silence following the band’s mainstream success, fans expected more feel-good funk from the ensemble.
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Jose Valentino Ruiz, The Conversation, 13 June 2025
The Life of Chuck takes a difficult-to-translate novella and turns it into a feel-good film.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
Swap your high heels for feel-good flats, sturdy ankle boots, or teeny-tiny pumps.
—Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 12 June 2025
These spots, known for their standout evening fare, serve up everything from fine dining to feel-good comfort food.
—Essence, 12 June 2025
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Jose Valentino Ruiz, The Conversation, 13 June 2025
The Life of Chuck takes a difficult-to-translate novella and turns it into a feel-good film.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 June 2025
Swap your high heels for feel-good flats, sturdy ankle boots, or teeny-tiny pumps.
—Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 12 June 2025
These spots, known for their standout evening fare, serve up everything from fine dining to feel-good comfort food.
—Essence, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feel-good
Adjective
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Phaedra gives us a nostalgic update on her youngest son, Dylan, a.k.a.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
23 June 2025
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Enjoy the nostalgic flavors of childhood once again.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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Awards prognostication is similarly fuzzy too, although technical noms will be its strongest play.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 June 2025
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Sometimes the mission has been fuzzy or concealed: not long after the White House deployed seven hundred marines to Los Angeles, purportedly to help quell the protests against immigration raids, photos spread of them detaining a protester.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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Aries is bold, pioneering and direct, while Neptune is dreamy, elusive and idealistic.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
18 June 2025
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Unlike the dreamy, colorful Impressionists whose work was the talk of the capital, Cézanne’s experimental painting had trouble finding a sweet spot with the public, critics, and collectors.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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Yet these persuasive quiet bits sit within the larger shape of a book that was meant to be melodramatic and violent.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, and Daniel Brühl are among the stars gone enjoyably unhinged for this true story of melodramatic conflict among the European settlers of a Galápagos island.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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When the sun journeys through sentimental Cancer, there is a greater focus on home, family and emotional stability.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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This is Spielberg at his most pure and sensational, an undiluted cinematic experience that lacks any of his sentimental claptrap and steers clear of his tendency for multiple endings.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.—
Susan Orlean,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2019
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Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.—
Carla Meyer,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Feb. 2018
Adjective
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When Rudd, 55, appeared on Fallon's late night show to promote his new A24 movie Death of a Unicorn on Thursday, March 27, Fallon, 50, noted that Rudd has performed in just about every genre of film, television and theater one could imagine — except for the soapiest of soap operas.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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There is just cause for the soapier parts: Manet was married, and Morisot wed his brother.—
Julie Belcove,
Robb Report,
23 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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There is always the wide-brim sun hat, which brings a real level of drama and panache to every occasion—and can be subverted from its saccharine ways—just look at how Alessandro Michele paired his at Valentino with a pair of groovy trousers and an opulent cropped jacket on the runway.—
Laia Garcia-Furtado,
Vogue,
5 June 2025
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Despite that high percentage of rye, this bourbon reads as quite sweet on the palate—never saccharine, to be clear, but pleasantly so with notes of vanilla, flamed custard, maple, brown sugar, and milk and dark chocolate.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
1 June 2025
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“Feel-good.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feel-good. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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