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Recent Examples of feel-good
See feel-good acts at Duluth’s waterfront Bayfront Festival Park, including the Reggae & World Music Festival (July 19) and the hometown bluegrass-folk group Trampled by Turtles (July 5).
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AFAR Media, 30 May 2025
Hiking strengthens the muscles in your body, while stimulating the feel-good chemical hormones of adrenaline and endorphins that boost your mood and energy.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
The Opener Country: USA; Running Time: 72 Min. Director: Jeff Toye
The Opener is a feel-good music doc about Philip Labes, a young street-performer/singer-songwriter who decided to write 30 songs in 30 days to process his grief and isolation during the pandemic.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 May 2025
Whether celebrating a special day or enjoying everyday moments, Shein has stylish, feel-good fashion for moms, mother figures and their mini-mes.
—Footwear News, 21 May 2025
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AFAR Media, 30 May 2025
Hiking strengthens the muscles in your body, while stimulating the feel-good chemical hormones of adrenaline and endorphins that boost your mood and energy.
—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
The Opener Country: USA; Running Time: 72 Min. Director: Jeff Toye
The Opener is a feel-good music doc about Philip Labes, a young street-performer/singer-songwriter who decided to write 30 songs in 30 days to process his grief and isolation during the pandemic.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 May 2025
Whether celebrating a special day or enjoying everyday moments, Shein has stylish, feel-good fashion for moms, mother figures and their mini-mes.
—Footwear News, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feel-good
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Why had she been forgotten, when her peers had lingered on as nostalgic figures, totems of a safer, simpler time?—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Corey Feldman, Sean Astin and Ke Huy Quan were among the stars who took a moment to reflect on the major milestone Feldman documented his nostalgic visit to Astoria, Oregon, where the 1985 movie was filmed The Goonies turns 40!—
Grace Harrington,
People.com,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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Digital zoom lens cameras can reduce the image quality, displaying images that are fuzzy and pixelated.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
2 June 2025
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Their everlasting merrymaking might seem warm and fuzzy at first glance, but in truth, there is a gloomy undercurrent to their existence, hiding just beneath the surface.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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On Addison, Rae’s eclectic intentions are loud and clear: to create a distinctive, dreamy soundscape that brings her album moodboards to life — and, naturally, make fun music for people to dance to.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
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Getting to collaborate with him on these movies was dreamy.—
Breanne L. Heldman,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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And yet that scene, as well as the long mourning period Mahnaz goes through afterwards, is followed by several more melodramatic twists in a scenario that requires a certain level of disbelief.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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That Kamen’s script would attempt to marry these concepts with some grand-gesture stuff, real tear-jerking choices that also tend to read as quite cheesy, doesn’t surprise — after all, what’s more melodramatic than life itself?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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As school years around the country wind down, many students have been paying tribute to their own Miss Honey-esque teachers on TikTok, using the voiceover and the sentimental music that goes with it to introduce educators who made a difference in their lives each year.—
Kate Hogan,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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One user posted a sentimental goodbye to their standard matcha latte cream top order at Maru.—
Lauren Ng,
Los Angeles Times,
6 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
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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
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Critics saw in these sermons superficial, saccharine notes divorced from scripture.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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When Herod enters, the music lurches between saccharine waltz episodes and spasms of Expressionistic anarchy—a fracturing of the lingua franca.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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“Feel-good.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feel-good. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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