John Lanchester, in his 2006 review of Jonathan Haidt's "The Happiness Hypothesis" and Darrin McMahon's "Happiness: A History," sounded a thought that echoes Parker's review from nearly eighty years before: The psychological study of happiness might seem to be something of a bust.
It sounds like a Thought Catalog-y glamification of writing to say that all the real writers are romantics, but it isn't.
It sounds like a Thought Catalogue-y glamification of writing to say that all the real writers are romantics, but it isn't.
When the family left, I said, "Sure, sounds good," without giving a thought to my boyfriend or to poor Sonja and her adenoids.
His father asked him, "What are we striving for?" and Billy replied, "Free education!" Billy then added a thought that sounded like a fragment of dialogue from a 1970s after-school special: "I'm just trying to get my family out of the ghetto," he said.
It will have a sound, carefully thought-out core idea, with an organisational structure that enables good execution on the ground.
One's heart beats faster at the sight, sound, or thought of something one has learned to fear.
At his declamatory worst, Kerry can turn good, sound thought and cogent argument into a swamp of sound that inclines the listener to tune out, much like the mwah-mwah-mwah of adults in "Peanuts" cartoons.
"This is a sound and well-thought-out budget," Brown said.
Those horrible Clapton (as in Eric, not the resolutely Labour part of Hackney) Surrey Delta guitar licks, the louche drums, the vocals that sound like the thoughts a man suffering a midlife crisis can only bear to relay to his dog.
