Sentence examples for given a happy from inspiring English sources

Only the contemporary story was given a happy ending.

The film portrays a love story and is given a happy ending.

Shakespeare's tale had been given a happy ending, with the lovers escaping Verona's repressive, patriarchal society for a joyful Arcadia - an afterlife somewhere between life and death.

Some may say that Troy Deeney's lags-to-riches story will be given a happy ending if Watford win at Wembley on Monday – but not Deeney.

In ballet, that meant corrected versions of the classics ("Swan Lake" was given a happy ending) or new ballets that leaned heavily toward agitprop: virtuous stonecutters, and so on.

His most widely known story, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', crossed into the mainstream via Hollywood, where it was retitled as Blade Runner by director Ridley Scott and given a happy ending wherein Harrison Ford, a surviving human, rides off into the nuclear sunset with his android lover.

It was…" she gives a happy little shiver.

He didn't have the American impulse to give a happy ending, or a way out".

Molly Ball (@mollyesque) Listening to Boehner give his toast, I realize I've never heard him give a "happy" speech before.

His version of Shakespeare's King Lear, to which he gave a happy ending (Cordelia married Edgar), held the stage well into the 19th century.

What she means is she likes playing parental incompetents – hapless drifters or neglectful control-freaks – whom she can exorcise and give a happy ending.