Sentence examples for close to happy. from inspiring English sources
This Close to Happy, by Daphne Merkin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
And keeping Lou's children happy, or as close to happy as is structurally possible, is part of Mindy's job.
Her debut novel, Somewhere Close to Happy, is an upmarket women's fiction novel which was acquired at auction by Orion UK, and in Spain and Italy.
It's not even close to 'Happy Birthday,' much less Marilyn Monroe". I think I have seen one Marilyn Monroe movie in its entirety, and I don't recall its title.
Only one looks truly confident or close to happy: wearing a peach-colored pantsuit with a fox stole flung around her neck, she smiles up at us from the bench of a piano, her crossed legs resting jauntily on its keyboard, like a latter-day Auntie Mame.
In "This Close to Happy," all is explained, even if nothing about her depression and its treatment is certain (other than its appearance and recurrence).
This will nonetheless satisfy Glaucon and Adeimantus if the just are better off (that is, closer to happy) than the unjust in these circumstances.
Presumably, this happens because thinking about a positive event brings you mentally closer to that happy time in your past, and being close to something happy makes you happy.
The guys I'm close to seem happy with what I said.
That was as close to a happy ending as we were likely to get from The Missing, which has finished after eight weeks of unbearably tense, unimaginably grim action.
Lynch, however, offers a consolation that comes close to a happy ending — a concluding image of Laura whispering in the ear of Cooper (or his double), who listens, stunned and wide-eyed.
