It is a salutary discipline to consider the vast number of books that are written, the fair hopes with which their authors see them published, and the fate which awaits them.
He implies that South Korea's hard landing after the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98 was a blessing in disguise-a salutary shake-up that propelled it into the OECD club of rich nations.
She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted, knitting her brow at it with a grand air.
Yet, despite such salutary affections, we may not be able to overlook some more troubling dynamics shimmering beneath the surface: When we invite them for dinner, they repeatedly 'forget' to say thank you.
The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary an example, took counsel together on the expediency of shipping off Oliver Twist, in some small trading vessel bound to a good unhealthy port.
You too have principle and mind: your tastes and habits resemble Diana’s and Mary’s; your presence is always agreeable to me; in your conversation I have already for some time found a salutary solace.
But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and then returned to his farm to let his virtuous fervour run in a more placid, but not a less salutary stream.