This high-wire stress act accounts for the "less happy" bit of iGen's subtitle.
But, 'colocationists' or 'coincidentalists' are happy to bite the bullet, or make some ameliorating moves (Sider 2008; Rudder Baker 2000, pp. 191 196).
Still, it is hard not to be happy while biting into pillow-soft gnocchi with prosciutto and lobster, or black bass with a sharp pumpernickel crust and mussels in a white asparagus velouté.
In the new cookbook "The Tipsy Vegan: 75 Boozy Recipes to Turn Every Bite Into Happy Hour," John Schlimm makes a case for spiked soups and drunken desserts.
And he puts the capital H in Happy every time you bite into one of his luscious tomatoes.
Our fast-food culture has neither the time nor the aptitude to digest anything more than issue-obfuscating happy talk and sound bites packed with amorphous concepts like values, hope, security and opportunity.
In short, most investors should be happy, but they are biting their nails.
Flip around the animal-obsessed cable channels or search for their Web videos, and you'll find a poisonous Australian jellyfish ("the most venomous marine creature in the world"), a bite-happy Venezuelan anaconda, a hippo that has chomped down on a former Miss South Africa's ankle and about a thousand other examples of nature treating us nastily.
Featuring the familiar bunch of attractive, stereotypical college kids — including the dumb jock (Sinqua Walls), the sensitive intellectual (Dustin Milligan) and the aloof princess with the complicated past (Sara Paxton) — this latest entry in the bobbing-and-bloodbath category is destined to suffer unfavorable comparisons with last year's bite-happy "Piranha 3D".
In Gavin's words, what he usually does, or likes to do on the birthday is relatively quiet: "Preferably I'd hide... but usually I am very happy to have a quiet bite to eat with a few close friends".
