Sentence examples for happy surrender from inspiring English sources

There was the ascent of the digital realm — with the happy surrender, on the part of hundreds of millions, to the congenial omniscience and possibly less congenial omnipotence of Google, and the perplexingly popular appeal of making available online all manner of information of the sort formerly considered private.

"Caleb's Crossing" begins with a confession and ends with resignation — with the happy surrender that the Puritans were famous for even though it bore little resemblance to the arrogance the same settlers often showed Native Americans.

The right is more than happy to surrender British sovereignty to corporations.

Music was happy to surrender its momentum to them, let them run their course and fade into silence.

But, then again, internet users have often shown themselves to be happy to surrender vast amounts of personal information in exchange for all manner of seemingly trivial benefits.

Plenty of business travelers would presumably be happy to surrender some privacy in exchange for fewer hassles at the airport, so there aren't likely to be many complaints about the intrusiveness of the program.

I'm not saying I love everything I've eaten here, but the restaurant works so well as a whole that I'm happy to surrender to the adventure.

The same generation raised on social media is more than happy to surrender three hours at a movie theater where mobile phones are ostensibly prohibited.

By way of illustration, van de Ven cites the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who wrote that, while "admiration is happy self-surrender," "envy is unhappy self-assertion".

One can imagine that provincial governments are unlikely to be happy with surrendering their judicial and prosecutorial power to bodies over which they have no control.

Everyone is happy he has surrendered".