Sentence examples for salutary refinement from inspiring English sources

The Lutheran theologian Anders Nygren (1953), who protested that a Christian Platonist is not a Christian, differed only in his judgment of the facts, not in his reading of them, from his critics J.M. Rist (1964) and Catherine Osborne (1994), who maintained that Platonism in Origen's hands was not so much an adulteration as a salutary refinement of the gospel.

The debate is salutary.

Salutary, though?

A salutary lesson.

That's salutary.

The period of the Renaissance also saw the refinement of a host of lyric and song forms; the rapid development of English music during the second half of the 16th century had a salutary effect on the expressive capabilities of poetic rhythms.

A salutary debate ensued.

Her success is salutary.

The bias proves salutary.

Highly enjoyable and salutary.

Harsh, but ultimately salutary.