Sentence examples for instead happy from inspiring English sources

We are instead happy to see archetypes revealed and youthful libido alive and well.

After Mr. Marcon had announced the first encore the orchestra surprised him, playing instead "Happy Birthday," in honor of his 50th.

Instead, "Happy Valley" miraculously manages to treat the ugliest behavior imaginable with humane insight, while never letting the perpetrators off the hook.

Instead, happy urban areas tend to interact with other happy areas more than they interact with unhappy areas and, similarly, unhappy areas tend to interact with other unhappy areas more than they interact with happy areas.

He's instead happy because he's making a great living, has tons of autonomy, and does work that's useful to the world (he raises his pigs on food scraps from nearby casinos that would otherwise go to waste).

In my current work on beatitudo in 13th-century theology, I am following Chaucer's lead and using "wellful" and "wellfulness" instead of "happy" and "happiness".

But they're not going to do that, so this will have to do instead... Happy birthday, Anna! Have a lovely day!

Or when we attack people for wishing "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays"?

Similarly, karaoke bars often have all-you-can-drink offers instead of happy hour.

They are, instead, the happy gurglings and raucous cheers of a thousand reborn inner children romping around a favorite playground.

Perhaps Redgrave and the multiple Other Dudes might instead be happy with a team gold: one per boat.