Sentence examples for hardly happy from inspiring English sources

market really dying a slow death," Mr. Silbert said, hardly happy about it.

Playing the piano in Paris made Grimaud happier, but hardly happy.

Africans though hardly happy with the borders drawn by colonists, have generally argued that changing them would make make matters worse.

Yet although Case — who has been farming in the Intervale for 10 years — is hardly happy about this, his optimism dominates his attitude: "This was a hard year, of course, but the way things have developed has made it easier in general for us to make a living".

The leader of Virginia's Southern Heritage Association called it "an insult" and said Gilmore was bowing to "racist hate groups such as the NAACP". A state NAACP official, meanwhile, said he appreciated Gilmore's gesture but was hardly happy that Virginia would again officially celebrate the Confederacy.

They were hardly happy, but they sure valued working there.

Nokia's experience of togetherness was hardly happier.

Ms. Yamada also excelled in more subdued and naturalistic registers, in films like Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Twilight" (1957), as a woman who returns to the family she left, and Mikio Naruse's "Flowing" (1956), as the beleaguered madam of a traditional geisha house, an older and hardly happier version of her characters in the Mizoguchi films of the '30s.

That is hardly a happy precedent.

It's unclear, but he hardly seems happy about it.

Though physically fairly safe in their new abode, it is hardly a happy haven.