"The Olympic victor, I said, is deemed happy in receiving a part only of the blessedness which is secured to our citizens, who have won a more glorious victory and have a more complete maintenance at the public cost.
As a teacher of history, she would be familiar with Solon's admonition to Croesus of Lydia — no one's life can be deemed happy until it is over — which makes her hope for answers equally fascinating and futile.
The 60% who gave the highest score on every question were deemed happy.
Google is buying Jetpac, a "city guides" company with a twist which used image recognition and neural network technology to recommend places it deemed the happiest, most popular or with the best views and scenic hikes.
Meanwhile Llandrindod Wells was deemed the happiest place to live in Wales.
But is he, as some have said, more broadly, a social conservative, creating stories in which people must end up married, or at least in long-term relationships, for them to be deemed successful and happy?
The government of Martín Rodríguez (1820 1824) and his minister Bernardino Rivadavia, then Las Heras and finally Rivadavia himself as the first president of Argentina from 1826 to 1827, developed an economic plan deemed as "The happy experience".
Executives at ABC's Standards and Practices who first reviewed the 1970s TV comedy Happy Days deemed that the Fonz's leather jacket suggested a life of "criminal, violent and homosexual behavior," according to Farren, and they insisted on a pale-blue nylon windbreaker.
The other 17%, who said they were "sometimes" or "rarely/never" happy, were deemed unhappy.
For some people it's a bigger job, higher salary, a new house, a fancy car, an adoring partner, losing twenty pounds of body fat or any number of things that society have deemed would make us happy.
But since you have all the qualities Flaubert (Madame Bovary's author) deemed necessary for a happy life: "To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless".
