Nevertheless, despite the humanitarian ideas inculcated in him by La Harpe and despite his own wish to make his people happy, Alexander lacked the energy necessary to carry out the most urgent reform, the abolition of serfdom.
The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable.
By Richard Brody January 14 , 2015The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable.
Their songbird is a happy nightingale that lacks the melancholic feel of previous poetic depictions.
The first is that the happy dancing Girl (Anne Marsen) lacks a proper partner (though she makes friends while searching for one) until she meets the Gentleman (Daisuke Omiya).
The performances in this TACT production, as directed by Scott Alan Evans, are generally too stagy to give the characters the humanity the script lacks; the happy exception is Lawrence, as Mother, whose subtlety and humor nearly save the whole thing.
Still, Lori's book lacks a happy ever after ending about her Mr. Good Enough.
As war ends, she writes: "There is no doubt that women are not happy, that men lack a certain quality that we look for.
And one assumes that the American publisher (which paid an advance of $560,000) will do something similar to help all the Bosnian "Anne Franks" whose stories still lack happy endings.
Each scale has 20 items and participants are asked to rate statements (e.g., "I am happy" and "I lack self-confidence") on a 4-point Likert scale (rated from Almost Never to Almost Always).
