The songs were sturdy, melodic and espoused wholesome self-reliance.
That delicate sensitivity has been replaced by a wholesome self-assertion that becomes more convincing the more she forsakes beautiful sounds to belt aggressively.
In today's post-Freudian, do-your-own-thing era of free sexual expression, the movie stands to be a wholesome self-help fable about the unlocking of shame and its magical transformation into pleasure and personal liberation.
With breathtaking ease, Annabella rejects an offer of marriage from George Eden, a wholesome if self-centered clergyman who continues to play a minor role in the novel, as her counselor and confessor.
Wholesome, accepting, self-assured trust is capable of absorbing rejection, attracting genuine help, and will easily detect the occasional exploitative person.
It does nothing to foster greater care in the future or a wholesome sense of self.
When Deb Gardner got there, beguiling but guileless, sexy but wholesome, an un-self-conscious siren to men, Priven began to fixate on her.
Sam Goodyear Dear Diary: Went on a first date with a mid-20s, self-described wholesome, Midwestern boy.
Jaeggy's shipwrecked alter egos have little use for self-understanding, wholesome productivity, and virtuous happiness.
JETS In the spirit of the Jets' new wholesome image, Rex Ryan begins self-censoring his news conferences, which shrink to 11 seconds in length.
Wily publishers, keen to exploit a growing market for more self-consciously wholesome material, picked up their pitchforks in sympathy with this moral panic.
