It was rainbowed and beaming when happily and hissily besmirching her "friend" with the sarcastic term "precious one", or even when genuinely happy, high on unkindness, after a rare coup: but its cochineal would plummet, in repose, to a clownish moue, a faded curtain of dried lip-lines rusted with frustration.
Even when people are happy, they are hysterically happy.
Mr. Lemire's characters, even when they're happy, have a melancholy look to them.
Even when he is happy with a particular swing, he said, his timing is a tick off, the difference between a pop-up and a line drive.
On the one hand, I feel like I need to engage in a sort of relentless performative sadness to be taken seriously, for people to understand that I really am depressed and that each day – each moment of each day – is a struggle for me, that even when I am happy, I am still fighting the monster.
And yet I may hesitate to tell someone to light the fuse, even when I am happy to tell him to light the fuse and step back, if I know that, given his tendency to be carried away, he is most likely, if he lights the fuse, not to remember to step back.
Even when you are happy, you must not show it.
Now I know that part of being a good parent is encouraging your child to do things you know will make them happy, even when those same things may make you anything but happy.
Studies show that smiling even when you aren't happy will help you calm down and be happy.[1].
"I get embarrassed even when people sing me 'Happy Birthday.' ".
