Sentence examples for largely unhappy from inspiring English sources

He says he was unconfident and largely unhappy at school.

Zinovieff's account of the largely unhappy childhood that hardened his nature does much to explain Heber-Percy's behaviour, if not always to excuse it.

Even at just under three hours, there is never time to really get to know or care about the story's largely unhappy and disagreeable family.

Instead, he offers a slideshow of key moments in Rimbaud's short and largely unhappy life, together with thoughtful readings of "Le Bateau Ivre", "Une Saison en Enfer" and "Illuminations".

They turned down Bad Boys II but seized on Michael Arndt's screenplay Little Miss Sunshine, a bittersweet comedy about a failed motivational speaker taking his largely unhappy family on a road trip to a child beauty contest.

At any rate, having launched Gauri on this course of action, the novel toils on through several more decades of its ramifications, chronicling Bela and Subhash's largely unhappy existences in a glum narrative of withdrawal, rejection, isolation and guilt, all done with Lahiri's usual tasteful restraint, though I have to say that in this instance even this virtue becomes problematic.

Hastings repeatedly makes the grim point that the British Army was, throughout the war, largely exhausted and unhappy with its leadership (as it demonstrated by throwing for Labour when it had the chance), and that Churchill knew it.

He also insists that despite the year-long recovery and the rapid decline in unemployment, voters remain unhappy, largely due to structural changes in the labour market hollowing out old professional middle class jobs, a trend that predated the recession.

Investors, their patience tried by years of slack performance, have been unhappy but largely loyal.

Grenville's ministry (1763 65) was unhappy and disastrous, largely because of his lack of finesse, eloquence, and imagination and his determination to control all crown patronage.

Though opponents to the property tax here received a $12,000 donation in 2010 from the American Tax Reduction Movement, a sister group to the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which grew out of California's Proposition 13, members say the efforts here were largely organic, the result of unhappy property taxpayers getting fed up.