"uplifting stories" is a correct and usable term in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence like this: "I love reading uplifting stories that remind me of the beauty of life."
As uplifting stories of tolerance and self-discovery go, "Spork" has a messy appeal, but it's no "Hairspray".
Sure, I encountered plenty of uplifting stories as well, sometimes from these same people.
But Stalin, who liked uplifting stories and pictures featuring combine harvesters, banned their work as subversive and decadent.
Amid economic misery and urban riots, Britain was desperate for uplifting stories, preferably with a patriotic angle.
By contrast, there are also uplifting stories about people with complex lives that have been changed for the better by the intervention of public sector workers.
However, it would be a great shame if a desire to tell uplifting stories prevented us from transforming patterns of production and consumption.
Isabel's resilience and connection through the written word make this a sweetly uplifting story.
It's supposed to be a gentle, moving, uplifting story, but I found it windy and predictable, if amusing in an unintended way.
"Behind the Music" traditionalists will have to look forward to the Sept. 24 episode and the sad but currently uplifting story of Bobby Brown.
In a more conventionally "uplifting" story, Drew and Tomas, the ambitious Czech émigré teammate who is easily Drew's athletic peer, might cross the racial divide to become best friends.
One might think that the passage of the biggest liberal achievement since Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" would prove an uplifting story.
