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improve verb advance, ameliorate, amend, beautify, correct, cultivate, cure, develop, doctor, edify, edit, elaborate, elevate, embellish, emend, enhance, enrich, fix, flourish, gain, gain strength, heighten, help, increase, modernize, modify, mollify, nurture, perfect, progress, promote, prosper, rectify, recuperate, redeem, refine, reform, rehabilitate, relieve, remedy, repair, restore, retouch, revise, supplement See also: accrue, alter, ameliorate, amend, appreciate, benefit, cultivate, cure, develop, edify, edit, elevate, embellish, emend, enhance, fix, gain, heighten, help, increase, inure, meliorate, modify, mollify, nurture, profit, progress, rectify, redress, reform, rehabilitate, relieve, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restore, revise, supplement, treat How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They are conservatives in the sense of doubting the perfectibility, or even the substantial improvability, of human nature; yet they are optimists regarding the benefits that will accompany the growth of commerce and the institutions that support it. Almost all of Jonathan Demme's major films, from Citizens Band to Beloved, express a belief in the unpredictability and improvability of human nature. This is a particularly striking theme in American society, where the very foundation of the democratic experiment was the belief in the improvability - indeed, the perfectibility - of all human beings. |
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