It feels somehow uplifting.

It would make a very uplifting world.

And when I read it it was one of the most uplifting moments of my life.

It almost made me feel a little bit guilty about having an uplifting talk about the future.

In 1994, after three months of covering the South African election, I saw the inauguration of Nelson Mandela, and it was the most uplifting thing I've ever seen.

Now, one of the things that I found most uplifting about all of this stuff that's happened around the book since it came out, is the reaction to it.

They are difficult to watch, but you should look at them with optimism because the horror of these pictures will be matched by the uplifting quality of knowing that they no longer exist.

In this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five practical examples of crowd driven philanthropy, she calls for a new generation of citizen leaders.

Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption. In the US, the expansion of home ownership a key element of the American dream to low and middle income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.