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Needless to say, he was not exactly unhappy when he was traded to the Yankees.
Stuie wasn't exactly unhappy, but things could have been better & he thought it his father's fault.
Neither is exactly unhappy, but what has built up in them instead is a sense of surplus, of life unlived.
On the morning we meet, in her favourite Manhattan teashop, she looks if not exactly unhappy, then profoundly ill at ease, someone for whom the business of talking about herself outside a performance presents certain constitutional problems.
They weren't exactly unhappy about it; we just had nothing in common anymore.
The overall vibe is one of traditional femininity, though given the novel's content, it's worth noting that the model looks, if not exactly unhappy, then certainly distant.
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Jeanne is not unhappy, exactly, but she is cramped, hemmed in.
She also suggests taking a little time to think about what exactly makes you unhappy at work.
Call it Tolstoy, American style: all suburban commuters are unhappy in exactly the same way.
There's only that one person, not exactly brave, but too unhappy to be reasonable, who crosses the moat, scales the walls.
Excerpted with permission from Kate Zambreno's essay, "One Can Be Dumb and Unhappy at Exactly the Same Time: An Essay on Failure, the Depressed Muse, and Barbara Loden's Wanda," originally published in Two Dollar Radio's "Frequencies Vol. 2".
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