#assuring

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#because #color #films #horror #horror movies

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. ↗

— Julien Benda

#concerning #contrary #could #even #examination

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#advances #analysis #automatic #believed #costs

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#against #american #american government #assuring #elderly

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#appear #assuring #badly #calmness #come

Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#business #committed #deterrent #effectiveness #having

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#aware #become #changes #clarity #constantly

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#depend #entire #excited #future #i

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reassuring #true #true