As a secular humanist, I'd paradoxically be very happy with any one of a number of bittersweet hymns.
"If your spotlight is so strongly focused on how you can become happy, that actually backfires, paradoxically, and people report feeling less happy the more they try to pursue it," explained Gruber.
Joplin sang it unaccompanied, and although Boden paradoxically adds a mournful concertina, he's happy to classify it as a folk song.
If there's one overriding lesson from last night's school-related elections along Colorado's Front Range, it's that voters in some districts, for whatever reason, are not happy with the status quo, even, paradoxically, when the status quo is about change.
Yet paradoxically the news in New York was preceded by happier tidings from South Carolina, where the flag of the Confederacy still flies at the state Capitol.
But none of that made me feel as good as just being in my present life, happy in my own skin, something that paradoxically comes with age.
This may seem unromantic, but paradoxically its pragmatism has every chance of leading to the happy ending that romantics crave.
Realistic movies about the vulnerable body paradoxically reflect humanity's quest to turn people into permanently happy, perfectly functioning machines.
The Happy Meal may be one of the most paradoxically named products ever to hit the market.
Paradoxically, the film has to offer an exciting beginning and a happy ending at the same time.
