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For a generation sometimes derided for its sense of privilege, there’s a refreshing simplicity and wholesomeness to these recipes built for social media’s culture of imitation and iteration.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

I’m biased, but Reeves brought a giddy wholesomeness and blended naïveté with a commanding onscreen presence when needed to the role of Clark Kent and his alter ego in every appearance.

From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2023

The techniques that permitted the transformation of aurochs and wild sheep into beef and lamb have a hint of wholesomeness about them.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2022

And even if that wholesomeness was largely a facade, the comfort it imparted was intoxicating in retrospect.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2022

But, like the simple-minded publisher previously mentioned, I find indications, if not of piety, at least of normality, sanity, wholesomeness, virtue, in nearly every poem which this so-called "decadent" wrote.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce