There must be highs and lows, at least one climactic moment of chaos and, most important, an uplifting ending.
Presentations of the Hallmark television series, sponsored by the greeting card company, almost always had an uplifting ending and were shown about five times a year, usually two weeks before major holidays.
Typical made-for-television movies take pains to find uplifting endings, no matter how contrived.
Also he feels blessed to be the only one to know the whole story including its uplifting ending, the miracle of Juliet's resurrection.
Finally, it comes to a handy moral in time for an uplifting ending.
A colleague forwarded this London Review of Books blog post, responding to the notion of uplifting endings to poems, to me with the e-mail subject "Made me laugh."
I think the answer is yes, provided it were given an uplifting ending.
We're looking for stories with an uplifting ending, ones that have an emotional connection and leave you with a feeling of hope.
"I think I must have been expecting something different, maybe a romantic love story with an uplifting ending, something along the lines of Jane Eyre."