Sentence examples for the happy effect from inspiring English sources

While the city held only modest strategic advantage — Union vessels had maintained a fairly effective blockade of the harbor since May 1861 — the happy effect on the American public of recapturing the fort and city could not be overestimated.

Bringing down Saddam, Wurmser predicts, would have the happy effect of destabilizing both Syria and Iran.

But they can't stay mad at each other for long, and fortunately a murderous cataclysm erupts that has the happy effect of reuniting them.

Surely the happy effect this has on the reader, and the elephants, is not the result of our (or their) having been propagandized to accept colonial hegemony.

Conventional English history sees Henry through a rose-tinted haze: a rambunctious old dog whose type-alpha personality had the happy effect of freeing England from the tyranny of papal authority.

Leighton House had the happy effect on me of stoking a desire to understand the Victorians and their crass, dynamic and rumbustious period better, an ambition achieved in London with ease.

And in the cities and suburbs of New York, Denver and Minneapolis, the women who have devoured the books say they are feeling the happy effects at home.

If laboratory science does produce happy effects in the "untamed world,… it is not the truth of anything that causes or explains the happy effects" (1992, p. 60).

That's the cause that has produced this happy effect in each and every one of them.

Embodied in the novel's structure, however, this same complexity has the less happy effect of obscuring the texture of the narrative and blurring the insights Bingham offers in abundance.

The one happy effect of the 1972 championship match was the interest it excited in chess.