Gallup considers people to be suffering if they rate their current lives and their future lives in five years at four or lower.
Ms. Chamberlin became so immersed in her subjects' history and current lives that at one point she realized she had written 72 pages about the Halseys alone.
Individually, students write a 2-3 personalsonal essay that reflects on how their own class status affects their current lives and long-term aspirations.
In analyzing the texts, the researchers found strong correlations between the content of people's current lives and the stories they tell.
Its two elderly lovers pick up after a gap of 50 years, and reveries of their earlier involvement intrude into their current lives.
The film then jumps ahead 10 years, to the current lives of Alexandra Hauglum in a tiny, snowbound Norwegian village and Mia Hansen in a leafy Sacramento suburb.
The implication was that their current lives were insufficient, but they could read about John Foster Dulles or Georgia O'Keeffe and gain access to a higher realm that they might someday join.
It won't be too long, I imagine, until someone produces a glossy and sexed-up television drama about the real lives of pirates — their emotional foibles, failed romances, and emotional baggage that led to their current lives of crime.
Mitchell also unspools the lonely realities of their current lives: Chloe beautiful but isolated, Lois spending most of her time with her stalker, Sean, who is desperate for the inside track on her abduction.
Among my favorites was the "Personalities" chapter, in which people now living in Israel or North America sent in remembrances about their years in Antopol, or updates on their current lives.
For many Dominicans in New York, these journeys home are the defining metaphor of their complex push-pull relationship with their homeland; they embody, vividly and poignantly, the tug between their current lives and their former selves.
