And while just a few short years ago, wholesomeness might have suggested a regressive nostalgia for the 1950s, today's wholesomeness is determinedly progressive.
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Mom stands for wholesomeness and innocence and a can-do attitude.
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Such nods to wholesomeness have no place in a banana cake.
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So their name carries an implied guarantee of quality and wholesomeness.
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It had to be trendy enough that teens would aspire to wholesomeness.
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By 22015, wholesomeness had effectively severed its ties with evangelical purity culture.
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When you get fake Parmigiano or olive oil, you're not getting wholesomeness.
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Maria Shriver is all for the wholesomeness that comes with the holiday season.
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Family pictures look like ads for the wholesomeness of Canada, where Gigi grew up.
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But, if we are talking about wholesomeness in terms of nutrients, then sadly no.
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See if you can absorb some of the wholesomeness by watching the videos below.
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With this Funko Pop, Veep fans can be reminded every day of his wholesomeness.
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We deserve a dash of wholesomeness, and actor Kumail Nanjiani's father is here to deliver.
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For Bayless, Tebow represented all-American wholesomeness and stoutness of heart, and also clutch performance.
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It values the preservation of traditional racial and sexual hierarchies over fuzzier notions of wholesomeness.
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And that goes fra-- all the way from indulgent, to wholesomeness and health and wellness.
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It's also clearly part of a government-sanctioned effort to cultivate a socialist ideal of wholesomeness.
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His bland wholesomeness forces Tsubasa to do the emotional lifting both onscreen and in the relationship.
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Their inherent wholesomeness hearkens back to a time when disagreement wasn't an act of ideological war.
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Waititi's work is well-regarded for its offbeat, dry humor, originality, and blessedly non-cheesy wholesomeness.
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The recipe combines the perfection of pizza with the heartwarming wholesomeness of a creamy tomato soup.
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Because the internet is in a never-ending quest to find wholesomeness, that video has gone viral.
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He urged pastors to search for alternatives, but Catholic parents quickly defended the wholesomeness of Girl Scouts.
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Wholesomeness has gone out of fashion, and Swift's abrupt moment of maturation finds her playing catch-up.
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The cruelties of the wars had exposed the simplistic wholesomeness of good and evil middle-class morality.
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But it's up to its leading man to set a tone that mixes unwashed hedonism with reassuring wholesomeness.
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These Black sitcoms were racy and youthful in the '90s, an era where wholesomeness and respectability reigned supreme.
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Two things had to change for wholesomeness to move from its Bush-era position to its current place.
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Just give the video a watch above and let the sheer wholesomeness of the thing wash over you.
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And even though I didn't really know what ginseng was, it gave the drink the appearance of wholesomeness.
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Spieth, the first-round leader at Augusta, seems practically an anti-Woods in his decency, modesty and wholesomeness.
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Wholesomeness back then was en vogue for evangelicals, but in mainstream culture, it was Moral Majority dull and dated.
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Like all female anime characters, she seems to insist upon a wholesomeness that every curve and angle suggestively rejects.
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By recognizing China's so-called patriotic church, the Vatican could harm the wholesomeness of Catholic teachings in the country.
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Another time, it was Amanda, whose seeming wholesomeness made me feel somewhat ineligible for the continuing project of being human.
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On the occasion that wholesomeness did manage to become mainstream aspirational, it did so in a tone of deep nostalgia.
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The guys manage to stay true to the idealism and wholesomeness they were known for back in their Disney day.
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His first American encounters, particularly with the merchant's daughters, Flora and Tabitha, leave him with an overwhelming impression of wholesomeness.
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Although I devoured them with blue cheese, they were almost sweet enough for dessert, especially if wholesomeness was your goal.
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Platforms: Nintendo Switch Grandpa Accessibility: ðŸ'´ðŸ'´ The odd wholesomeness of the award-winning Push Me Pull You is unparalleled.
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He's 35 but could pass for 10 years younger, with a face that's almost a caricature of Howdy Doody wholesomeness.
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And that is because our current thirst for wholesomeness is pointed in a different direction than Ellen's much-lauded niceness is.
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Seemingly in response to the ever-engorging horniness of games Twitter, we've corrupted the last bastion of wholesomeness in the industry.
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Still, Cosby erected an entire career -- and became one of the wealthiest performers ever -- on the strength of his projected wholesomeness.
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Its wholesomeness is most welcome at a time when it would be (and is) all too easy to sink into apathetic despair.
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More specifically, though, the Phillips offer a wholesomeness that's similar to what many people found so captivating about HGTV's former first couple.
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What we're left with is a measure of fun and wholesomeness, when the laughter should have had us choking back vomit. ♦
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On a lesser show, Pera's character would be treated like a punchline: an oafish, painfully Midwestern rube whose wholesomeness is sneered at.
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The roses radiate a sunny wholesomeness that somehow brings the aesthetics of the '227s to mind, and they are both accessible and chatty.
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Even so, McDermott is admirably unsettling, and Luke McCoubrey's artfully sterile cinematography adds an air of suffocating wholesomeness that can make you squirm.
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Twin Peaks is a town imbued with a neighbourly American wholesomeness, yet teenagers go missing and evil spirits lurk in the woods close by.
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An unlikely friendship that formed between a 2800-year-old man and an 22-year-old woman has broken the internet with its wholesomeness.
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It is that wholesomeness that has made Peppa Pig's reincarnation as an edgy symbol of counterculture and youth in China all the more surprising.
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Say what you will about Chapman's anachronistic wholesomeness or the intellectual poverty of reducing yourself to a type, the love languages have good bones.
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DeGeneres built her entire brand of comedy around being a beacon of wholesomeness and niceness in an industry often roiled by gossip and tabloids.
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However, others have frequently noted that many of the ship examples qualify as wholesome memes, and align with the internet's love of wholesomeness more generally.
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Wholesomeness as we are currently using the word is about people who are not in any particular position of power being kind to one another.
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I tried to work in some levity and some wholesomeness (pop-punk provided the former; hip-hop the latter), but I mostly wrote about misery.
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But dairy products of all stripes face competition from "imitators attempting to capitalize on dairy's excellent reputation for delivering flavor, wholesomeness and nutrition," he said.
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This isn't a formal study that can prove any kind of real causal relationship between these words, but anecdotally, it does suggest that wholesomeness began to gain traction in the cultural vocabulary around the same time that the vocabulary of the alt-right was at its peak — and that perhaps the rise of wholesomeness was a reaction to the rise of the alt-right.
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If their wholesomeness and kindness is an integral part of what they're selling, do we deserve to know the entire truth before we buy into it?
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The new work retains the same sense of cozy wholesomeness but opens the door to more views on what it looks like to be an American.
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To them a halal certification is a stamp of approval that signifies wholesomeness and high quality due to rigorous controls and checks throughout the supply chain.
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We can define these parameters loosely as: The aesthetic of hopepunk can be seen as part of a broader cultural embrace of "softness," wholesomeness, and gentleness.
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Reed Morano, who directs the beginning episodes, gives this nightmare a kind of serene, back-to-the-land wholesomeness that makes it all the more eerie.
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I won't spoil the best lines for you, but there is a flood of wholesomeness and the internet is absolutely in love after a clip went viral.
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Rockwell's narrative art of national pride and Middle American wholesomeness became likened — by intellectual progressives — to Russian realism and, by extension, the state-regulated production of propaganda.
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But among the depressing stories, exhausting criticism, and increasingly aggressive interactions between people who don't agree, you may stumble across a bright light of wholesomeness: Bongo Cat.
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One of the most reliably funny regulars at the Comedy Cellar is Ryan Hamilton, an observational comic who often riffs on the absurdity of his own wholesomeness.
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An antique sign hanging in the ground-floor dining room ("Fresh/Clean/Seed") sums up the look, designed with the beach and a certain wholesomeness in mind.
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The Nelsons, who appeared in several Coloramas, had personified 1950s-style wholesomeness in their television show, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," which was sponsored by Kodak.
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Denver, an artist who exuded an aura of sunshiny American wholesomeness, co-wrote "Take Me Home, Country Roads" with Bill Danoff and his wife, Taffy Nivert Danoff.
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The board game, on sale now, reimagines the classic, blending the network's go-to wholesomeness — and even a few tropes — with the traditional aspects of the game's mechanics.
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The idea of wholesomeness as friendliness and warmth and support seems to have become not just salable but fashionable shortly after another movement began to gain momentum online.
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And because The Bachelor airs on network television, and must therefore maintain some semblance of wholesomeness, the sex mania is manifesting itself in the cringiest, hokiest ways imaginable.
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"As attractive as she was, I started to understand that there was a wholesomeness and a very deep, caring individual behind all of that beauty," Mr. Pasnello said.
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I love Christmas primarily because the confluence of commercial advertising plus the subconscious longing for religious salvation and the family bond creates a monthlong ritual fantasy of wholesomeness.
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Her Annie is capable of deepest love, and it's clear that she yearns for the wholesomeness that Bart represents, yet her temperament is gritty, pessimistic, yes, perhaps even greedy.
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It's all in sharp contrast to the original source material — with Archie and his pals first appearing in the comics in 1941 as the epitome of classical American wholesomeness.
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But pop culture's love affair with wholesomeness does not bring with it a renewed appreciation for niceness, or at least not for niceness as Ellen is currently using it.
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After the return of Adam, Coleman's grating wholesomeness and two men in the hospital, she gets so depressed she actually calls her mother and checks in to a facility.
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I think it has something to do with the wholesomeness of jogging — the way it suggests capability, self-improvement, female autonomy — and the horror of witnessing its virtues violated.
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Schaefer's idealized version of friendship — a "supportive, enthralling, entirely wonderful" endeavor built on traditions like "Galentine's Day" — makes its wholesomeness seem far less nuanced than it is in practice.
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The word "agrarian" conjures the kind of fantasy that wealthy urbanites like to indulge, centering on a relationship with nature and food that is full of beauty and wholesomeness.
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In fact, Poehler somewhat pokes fun at the show's wholesomeness by reacting to the show's events as if they were Housewives-level showdowns rather than someone accidentally popping a balloon.
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These are upbeat dance anthems, designed to play in public spaces, and shifted into a more sincerely intimate realm by the wholesomeness we associate with acoustic guitars and sepia shades.
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And that's why his schoolyard rhymes always worked well with the disco and funk sounds he would borrow for his tracks; they shared a mutual vibe of good-natured wholesomeness.
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During the patriotic war years, when the company placed eagles on its catalog covers, artwork that played up the wholesomeness of the countryside appealed to many Americans, Ms. Windisch said.
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The meme has been called "the most wholesome thing on the internet," and, as in Carey Jolly's comments, the videos are surrounded by countless comments about their wholesomeness and purity.
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If the series has an implicit spirituality, it's a religion of its own, predicated on wholesomeness and a fundamental belief in humanity's inherent goodness—which feels Christian, but not exactly.
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But it also really defines Madeline, in that she's more concerned with performative displays of goodwill and wholesomeness than she is with being a good person — she wants to get credit.
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Which is just fine, because much of Ms. Chenoweth's appeal is in her perky wholesomeness and golly-gee enthusiasm (not exclusive to the Sooner State, of course), which never feel manufactured.
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A narwhal has been adopted by a pod of beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River, according to CBC, and please be warned, the wholesomeness of this story may be completely overwhelming.
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This is the story of the rise of aspirational wholesomeness, and the word's slow transformation from stale signifier of evangelical morality in the '90s and 2000s to trendy buzzword in the 2010s.
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The coast-to-coast machinations have left a multibillion-dollar industry, after first being hammered into a defensive crouch, scrambling to persuade politicians and the public of the wholesomeness of college sports.
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They exude asexual wholesomeness (in the case of William and Kate) and bad-boy cheekiness (in the case of Harry), and give the appearance of working alongside, not in opposition of, public opinion.
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Minecraft's popularity was built on its credibility as an indie underdog (pre-sale to Microsoft), along with an air of child-friendly wholesomeness (the New Yorker called it "shredded wheat for the mind").
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Striking cheerful poses with his stylish wife, Hermione (a tonier-than-thou Natalie Radmall-Quirke) and their neatly attired son, Mamillius (Tom Cawte), Leontes evokes the accessible wholesomeness of Prince William in a Hello!
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Celeste was the finest platformer to come out in 2018, not only because of its rich, inventive level design that is a perfect blend of precision and puzzling, but also because of its unrelenting wholesomeness.
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In Ms. Monaghan, the producers and Hulu executives believed they found an actor who could embody the wholesomeness and seeming guilelessness the character needed, to help get viewers to buy into a thematically dark show.
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Fox News thought she inappropriately invoked the Black Panther movement, while former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani shamed her for not upholding the wholesomeness of football's most anticipated event — and for encouraging an "attack" on police officers.
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"I experienced for the first time a true synchronization between the music and the people on the dancefloor, in such a total wholesomeness and communion," he recalls of Nervoso's deft take on the percussion-heavy Angolese genre.
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But outside of The Office, his most compelling work has toyed with the image of wholesomeness he projects — showing his awareness of the advantages and expectations that come with it, and the darkness that can lurk underneath.
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Give it a watch, and let the impossible wholesomeness of it all wash over you: "When Elmo has a problem with his friends like Abby, or Cookie Monster, Elmo doesn't get upset," the wise red Muppet says.
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Actress Bella Thorne, known by many for her role as CeCe Jones on Disney Channel's scripted dance show Shake It Up, opened up to Nylon about her freeing transition from the on-screen wholesomeness that Disney demands.
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Because the immediate post-9/11 years involved such a strong embrace of "gritty realism," antiheroes, and bleak dystopias, it's taken us a while to return to a fuller appreciation of wholesomeness, virtue, and positivity in storytelling.
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But fear not: There is wholesomeness on offer in the provisional domestic lair of the happy downtown artist couple (and former Studio coat-check girls), Meesh (Krystina Alabado) and her trans partner, Landon, formerly Landa (Lulu Fall).
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The movie opened to mixed response, but in her New York Times review, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that "McDermott is admirably unsettling" and the "artfully sterile cinematography adds an air of suffocating wholesomeness that can make you squirm."
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In other words, unlike the other two cases, a majority of women did also prefer the gift with immediate, sugary appeal rather than long-term wholesomeness, despite what they had said about the long-term value of fruit.
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Powell's character is a self-absorbed pill; his wife (Jane Wyatt) seems desperate in her wholesomeness; and their young son (Jimmy Hunt, later to be terrorized by his parents in the original "Invaders From Mars") is unrelentingly annoying.
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New Horizons is the newest entry in the larger Animal Crossing franchise, which launched in 2002; 18 years and many advances in technology later, each edition is still defined by the core values of wholesomeness, creativity, and delight.
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Thinking about the mocking cultural reception of "Double Rainbow" then, versus what its reception would have been in the era of Wholesomeness, gives us a picture of how the internet progressed over the decade as the sociopolitical climate worsened.
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Most of what's there, however, is devoted to showing us how much Mercury loves his common-law wife, Mary Austin, who's portrayed as personifying virginal beauty and traditional wholesomeness — everything Mercury could have, the film implies, if only he weren't tragically queer.
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But this January, I decided on a more united approach, baking things that are a bit lower in sugar than, say, your average brownie, and adding whole-grain flour to increase their nutritional value — or at least, to give them a small nudge toward wholesomeness.
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The Petry-Pretzell phenomenon complicates Petry's long-established image as a figure of maternal wholesomeness; where she once bounced children on her knees at Party meetings, she is now more likely to be found on motorboats, in hotel bars, and at summits in the Alps.
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The pieces favored an organic, hand-finished wholesomeness that bridged the institutional-domestic divide with unusual ease: Aalto designs were also ubiquitous in private homes, much more so than the stylishly severe metal-tubing furniture brought forth in the 206s by Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray and others.
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Even when kitchen advice was dispensed by a friendly mascot named Aunt Sammy (presumably Uncle Sam's thrifty wife), emphasis was less on enjoyment — dismissed as "flavor satisfaction" — than on economy, the provision of vitamins and something derived from one of "the hardest-working adjectives in American culinary history": wholesomeness.
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In each pair they hypothesised that the first, with its immediate visual appeal, strong scent or flavour, was more likely to induce a powerful appreciative response in the recipient but that the second, because of its greater quantity, durability or wholesomeness, was likely to be more satisfying in the long term.
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Researchers examining Darger's work have pointed out that the artist was influenced by his exposure to Victorian children's literature when he was a boy, as well as by the public image of childhood wholesomeness that was part of the popular culture of the late 1800s and the early 43th century.
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To summarize: "the colors were composing to create a whole," geometric Flower of Life patterns took over my visual field and peaceful sadness leaked from my eyes as I listened to Frank Ocean's Blonde, every note on the record synergizing with the wholesomeness of reality filtered through a heightened empathy.
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This memoir is full of quirky characters, but more than that, it uses sharp, hilarious, and often moving prose to tell the story of what it is to grow up in rural America, both in the pop culture fantasy of small-town wholesomeness and the real world of a harder reality.
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Though he's played with metal plenty in the past — from pouring molten aluminum in a watermelon to dropping an iPhone in a homemade foundry filled with molten metal — for his new video he's created a combination of wholesomeness and danger even greater than that of lawn darts: a squirt gun that shoots molten pewter.
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"Chipotle is trying to reassure its connection to wholesomeness and quality, but if it does not address the fundamental issue here, which is a breakdown of trust between the brand and the target audience, it risks leaving issues unresolved," said William G. Daddi, president of Daddi Brand Communications, which has restaurants among its clients.
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WATCH: These bears mimic each other's faces while they play As I binge-watched season 3 of Queer Eye this week, I often found myself grinning widely at my TV. Part of this has to do with the wholesomeness of the show, but perhaps another reason is something called facial mimicry: when we see facial behaviors in others, it can produce a similar facial behavior in response.
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Ms. Jean started singing for an audience when she was quite young, first appearing on local radio in her native Scranton, Pa. She was trained as a coloratura soprano and brought a ringing, nimble voice and a crowd-pleasing wholesomeness to the many musicals in which she appeared at a time in Hollywood when child stars like Shirley Temple and Micky Rooney were box-office gold.
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In the brief time since To All the Boys premiered, Peter Kavinsky has become iconic for his wholesomeness: his willingness to drive all the way across town to get Lara Jean her yogurt smoothies, his decision to drink kombucha at a house party because he's driving and also it's supposed to be good for your digestion, his instinct to keep the popcorn bowl from getting overturned in a middle of an impromptu pillow fight.
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