But more times than not, such incidents end up being resolved happily.
Thomas added: "It would be very nice for everyone if this was resolved happily before Christmas".
Hopefully, [this lawsuit] is resolved happily and if not, that both sides are equally dissatisfied with the outcome.
Judge Sir John Thomas said: "It would be very nice for everyone if this was resolved happily before Christmas".
You have only 14 pictures to introduce your characters and a plot, an obstacle to overcome and then to resolve it all happily.
The code to do this is alarmingly simple: Extract intent from a tweet (which is a well-studied problem, Bing and Google do it every time you type a search string), find accounts that would happily resolve said intent, and tweet that intent in their general direction.
In Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, for instance, Dame May Whitty's absence on a continental train is first falsely explained and then happily resolved.
All is happily resolved, of course (for 10 up) In Factory of Shadows (Hodder £4.99, pp150) Thomas Bloor has produced another surreal, blackly comic adventure with wonderfully eccentric characters.
Tom returns early to town, happily resolved on this course, but when he arrives at Dora's house he finds she is not alone.
His great talents and his great desires, his will to create and his will to control, came into conflict — a conflict which, judging from his recent remarks, he hasn't happily resolved to this day.
