Sentence examples for Brief happiness from inspiring English sources

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The defensive instinct has sometimes led to a reputation for wary insularity, but even that, I'm told, on my brief happiness tour, is breaking down.

His books gleam with the lustre of found beauty and brief happiness: moments of being that exceed the claims of market forces.

There are glimpses of celebration or brief happiness in these photos but largely the exhibition is concerned with the business of getting on with life.

Headstrong, unconventional Claudia Hampton grows up between the wars, falls in love with Tom, a tank officer, while working as a correspondent in Egypt at the time of El Alamein, and enjoys brief happiness before he is killed.

There is her obsessed mourning for a friend shot dead crossing the frontier in the company of an elderly lover, and finally her brief happiness with Paul, a high-spirited mechanic who takes her on motorcycle rides.

We get so concerned with having a nice Christmas, or providing them with more than we had, or making sure they're happy, that we don't realize the ways that short-term, brief-burst happiness of Santa delivering everything they asked for have negative effects later in their lives.

It was a brief moment of happiness for the young man.

The theme suggests an all-consuming gloom that devours any brief glimpses of happiness, which appear mostly in the form of lighter melodies in waltz time.

He recalls a brief moment of happiness that his parents shared at the birth of his brother, but was even that real?

The bleak tone of O'Brien's novels is, however, broken by flights of lyrical description and by the heroines' attainment of brief periods of happiness.