life-affirming

American  

[lahyf-uh-furm-ing] / ˈlaɪf əˌfɜrm ɪŋ /

adjective

1. expressing or encouraging an attitude that life is worthwhile.

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Other Word Forms

• life-affirmation noun
• life-affirmer noun
• life-affirmingly adverb

Example Sentences

But it says everything about the legacy and life-affirming powers of Python that, when words started failing Jones at the group’s reunion shows in London in 2014, legions of adoring fans came to his rescue, happy to supply the lines they knew by heart.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I wanted to make a light, life-affirming movie. I wanted to leave the viewers with the hope that, no matter what, everything would be fine. We have to believe in something.”

From Los Angeles Times

As Harold Parker Chasen, a wealthy, death-obsessed young man fixated on staging elaborate mock suicides, Cort brought a wounded, wide-eyed earnestness that gradually softened into wonder as his Harold falls in love with Maude, a feisty, life-affirming Holocaust survivor played by Ruth Gordon, then a recent Oscar winner for “Rosemary’s Baby.”

From Los Angeles Times

Through Spear’s resurrection, “Primal” is quietly delivering a zombie drama that’s strangely life-affirming, led by a tenderhearted brute who is sensitive to the other voiceless, helpless beings around him.

From Salon

Eight year old Aura V is nominated for best children's album for Harmony, a bubbly, life-affirming record she made with her dad, Harold Simmons II.

From BBC