Sentence examples for happy past from inspiring English sources

"Conways" — which has three acts, set in the happy past and the unhappy future (before returning to the happy past) — allows its central character, a hopeful (then failed) writer, a youthful prevision of the grim, middle-aged life to come.

It was clear that among the celebrations of meeting old friends and happy past times there was still some anger.

I know, from happy past experience, that I can with any luck look forward to a glass of champagne when the interview ends.

Harold Pinter, in "Betrayal," his 1978 play about a love affair gone sour, ran time backward, from the bitter present to the happy past.

Advances in mobile and geo-fencing technologies will soon make the "wait for the cable guy" a thing of the happy past.

Rather than tell its story chronologically, in reverse chronology or via a flashback from the present to the past, "Broken Circle" goes back and forth between then and now, between the couple's happy past and their bleak present.

(Brantley) ★ 'Three Sisters' (closes on Saturday) Lev Dodin's production of Chekhov's masterpiece for the Maly Drama Theater of St .Petersburg, Russia, manages to blend a mixture of hues — from stylized emotional intensity to fine-grained delicacy — into a coherent portrait of lives locked in limbo between reveries of a happier past and increasingly distant dreams of future happiness (3:10).

(She warns against too much nostalgia for the memory-happy past: "An illusion of community was created because tremendous numbers of people learned exactly the same texts").

Mr. Ulvaeus said that his material now sounds more like the score of "Mamma Mia!" to him than like a set of individual hits from the glitter-happy past.

It might be showing us the couples' happier past.

At times it resembles a marriage of nostalgia, surviving on memories of a happier past.