Sentence examples for happy alternative from inspiring English sources
"It's a happy alternative to a 9-to-5 world".
Last week, at a deli on Avenue B, customers were finding a happy alternative to pricey packs and illicit loosies.
A happy alternative to great orchestras playing banal repertory is less-than-great orchestras offering one fascinating piece after the next.
Once the child has calmed, a parent can explain the reason for saying no, offer the child comfort and a happy alternative to the original demand.
In the commercial, she explains how easy the Wii Fit Plus is to assemble, what a happy alternative it is to a gymnasium ("Gym is a palaver"), how varied are its effects – it's almost, she says, "like having a new lover every day".
This proved a happy alternative to home for some years, but when Jill suddenly converted to Catholicism, the 11-year-old Caradoc was removed from the school he loved and shuttled from one Catholic college to the next, including a novitiate from which he was expelled.
While the long-term effects of inflation are unpleasant, there are no happy alternatives to our current problems.
Watson regards phenomenology as "the most underrated movement of the twentieth century," and finds in its emphasis on happy sensations, on the thisness of life, the happiest alternative to old-time religion.
A thought experiment: Imagine a happier alternative universe in which Ms. Kennedy's brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., had not died in a plane crash, but ran a glossy political magazine for several years, actively raised some children, served on a bunch of boards and then decided, at age 50 or so, to seek public office.
Regret is magnified when we feel closer to a happier alternative.Ariely uses examples of an Olympic medalist in second place versus third place or a passenger missing a flight by two minutes versus two hours to illustrate how our proximity to a better outcome can increase our feelings of regret.
The name of the article challenges the traditional views on marriage with the idea of a happier alternative.
