His parents, happier halfway up a hill, didn't much like football and didn't want him to play but he wasn't backing down.
It could be a job where you are perfectly happy only halfway up the career ladder or in a lower-paying but higher satisfaction position that doesn't necessarily capitalize on your MBA.
In fact, it makes me so happy to be halfway through the solving week, let's get up and dance like ZORBA.
Happy to get halfway toward their goals, religious enough to resort to prayer in difficult moments and pledged to a monogamous vision of romance, the characters in Bon Jovi songs could be in an Andy Hardy film or a Stephen Foster ballad.
Often enough, I'm happy to discover halfway across the Atlantic that they are not only good at making the time pass, but are often also complex and well-written.
Lou seems to make Will at least "halfway happy," and her determination to impress him leads her to read improving authors, to watch foreign movies, even to join the once-fearful local library, where she uses the computer to communicate with other caregivers and quadriplegics.
"If you know you're a giant hit right out of the gate, you're going to be very tantric," says Pratt. "'We're going to save that [storyline] for season four.' While we're like, 'No, we're going to pump as hard and as fast as we can!'" Moreover, you get the sense that this is an ensemble who are happy to fly halfway across the world if it means getting to arse about in each other's company.
Despite her traumatic experience, Caridad is obviously happy at the halfway house and is very affectionate with Arlene, one of two social workers there.
Both men violated a public trust, but the public was more than happy to meet them halfway.
When she saw him late in November, he was a first lieutenant in the Canadian army, and he seemed happy that he was "halfway" to England.
