Shell still has some partners and enablers willing to give it some feel-good cover for its feel-bad work -- but if the millions of Arctic defenders around the world keep calling out these partnerships, Shell's polar playtime may soon be over.
Danis Tanovic's An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (New Wave, 12), meanwhile, works overtime for its feel-bad credentials; even that commercial death wish of a title feels calculatedly austere.
The manned space program, fuelled by superpower pride and competition, was a human indulgence, and, insofar as it continues to exist, should be sold to us not for its supposed "spin-offs" and indirect benefits, and not for its scientific yields (machines do, in fact, do the science better), but for its feel-good hubris and its conquering heroism.
A recent study found that volunteering -- a practice long known for its feel-good benefits -- has a physical payoff, too, at least for the heart.
Qualitative validation is done by exposing and surveying 19 interventional cardiology residents at four major educational institutions to the simulator for accuracy of its feel.
The first time you step foot in a business, you get a feel for its spirit.
For all its feel good good feeling, "Mary's Place" isn't just about blowing it up on Saturday night.
Professional skier Chris Davenport who reviewed the ski area, praised it for its throwback feel "when ski areas just had the lift and a warming hut.
It is lauded for its cosmopolitan feel and quality of life.
When Video Games first went viral it became an underground sensation praised for its authentic feel.
