Sentence examples for happily resist from inspiring English sources

The actors happily resist showing us how much they're enjoying themselves.

The middle variations had an unexpected freshness here; the 18th variation, agreeably sentimental, happily resisted the familiar dose of syrup.

And while it follows many of the genre's conventions, it happily resists the anthropomorphic impulse of recent nature productions to give each animal a specific familiar name.

Beneath Trellick Tower you'll find London's "little Morocco", a rough-and-ready street in west London that has happily resisted gentrification for decades.

We happily hidebound conservatives resist direct federal funding for the arts on the principle that control of the money ultimately means control of the artist.

Happily, the book resists any tendency to cultishness.

Those of us who resist fantasy in novels or plays happily swallow it in the most heightened art form of all.

Alex, although happily married to Rebecca Bernadette Peterss), a psychotherapist, is helpless to resist when Suzie (Sarita Choudhury), a young assistant in the soup kitchen where he volunteers, furiously flings herself at him and refuses to take no for an answer.

"There are too many of us who happily embrace Madiba's legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality.

The hyperbole is probably warranted, given that it's almost impossible to resist this whimsical performance art that awakens the happily screaming child in all of us.

It's ravishing stuff that can happily be watched in episodes although you may be hard-pressed to resist the temptation to consume it all in one sitting.