Sentence examples for good marriages for from inspiring English sources

She observes that William Dean Howells's novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham" depicts an upwardly mobile Boston businessman whose plans to build an expensive house have the object of making good marriages for his daughters.

It's not just that Tevye has to make a hardscrabble living, to ensure good marriages for his daughters, to keep the faith.

ABC left behind a good marriage for a trophy wife.

He had made a good marriage for her.

"It's a good marriage for both the state and the community".

There are moments of uplift here, too – on the track Good Marriage, for instance – but even in such songs, McKenna writes with a boldness most stars never approach.

Having arranged a good marriage for Tzeitel (Sally Murphy) with the town's widowed butcher, Tevye is poleaxed by the news that she won't marry the old man; in fact, she has pledged herself to the gangling, impecunious tailor, Motel (the droll John Cariani).

(To clarify, good marriages are good for you. Bad ones are the soul of misery).

And, most of us would agree that good marriages are healthy for couples, both mentally and physically.

This, utterly hilariously, comes from Plutarch's Conjugal Precepts, his advice for good marriages and happy conjugal bliss in the future.

The delightful erotic tension is the beginning of legendary love stories that make for good marriages.