Sentence examples for heartening things from inspiring English sources

"One of the heartening things to see is the source of referrals - we are getting many more now from independent agencies than we ever used to," he said.

"Amateur news reporters on weblogs are functioning as their own decentralized media today, and it's one of the only heartening things about this stomach-turning day".

Among the many heartening things about the workers fighting back in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere is the spotlight that is being thrown on the contemptuous attitude of the corporate elite and their handmaidens in government toward ordinary working Americans: police officers and firefighters, teachers, truck drivers, janitors, health care aides, and so on.

"One of the most heartening things about America in 1947 is the spring freshet of enthusiasm for native balladry and folklore that is running through the country from coast to coast," Mr. Lomax wrote in The New York Times.

"They weren't encouraged to be nice about people, but one of the most heartening things was not a single person was judged negatively by anyone else in the show.

And that, in a funny way, is one of the most heartening things about Dark Mofo; the festival – like its summer equivalent, Mona Foma, as well as Melbourne's White Night and Vivid in Sydney – is a truly egalitarian art experience (and it's no surprise that it, like the aforementioned, rakes in mountains of tourism dollars for its host city and state).

For founders and investors alike, the heartening thing to take away is that, in most cases, even a small seed and Series A round puts your company in the top half of startups founded in or after 2003.

That's been the one heartening thing about this year: the antibodies have assembled themselves to try and fight off the fever that America's now in.

But here's the strange, and heartening, thing – and also the riposte to the cultural pessimists (vide supra).

Despite these complaints, perhaps the most surprising, and heartening, thing I discovered in following the graduates over the last year was that, for all the talk of debt and recession, they would not have given up the chance to go to university.

It's thus heartening to learn that things can change, however slowly.