Sentence examples for happily resisted from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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.

Our language and traditions are the result of complex processes of cultural cross-fertilisation and, as long as they are alive, I expect them to continue happily resisting rigid definition.

"This started out as a story about my own fear," muses Dave, who happily resists the impulse to indulge his psychic aches and pains to the numbing depths he did in three earlier books.

But, happily, Fry resists the urge to update the material.

Happily, I have always resisted.

Happily this was entirely resisted.

Happily, the filmmakers have resisted the temptation to replace Bruce, the balky mechanical shark (actually three of them, used for different types of shots) whose frequent breakdowns helped swell the shooting schedule to 159 days from 55, with a digitally animated creature.

Such an anti-intellectual position makes no sense and, happily, biologists who have resisted the call to halt their investigations have regularly shown that what some thought was irreducibly complex can be better understood as the product of an evolutionary history.