"I am happy to observe that the decades of vulgar excess are finally over," the columnist India Knight wrote in The Times of London.
They decided to restrict themselves simply to describing behaviors that were visible to the human eye: they couldn't tell you why someone developed obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, but they were happy to observe that such a person is often "over-conscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality".
Although most of the guests were people who had already figured out their own victory strategies without recourse to Welch's bullet points, all were happy to observe Welch's eighth and last rule of leadership, as expressed on page 78: "Leaders celebrate".
It is also noticeable, we think, that both in France and Italy public opinion supports British efforts on behalf of peace, and there is one moral, drawn, we are happy to observe, by a Jingo contemporary, that the influence of Great Britain at this crisis and her strength as a mediator are due to the fact that "she alone of the Great Powers is not bound by a definite alliance".
We were happy to discover that our bet paid off.
Levine, who is fifty years old, grew up in England, and was the sort of geeky kid who was happy to stay up all night observing his pet snails to see how far they would move, or to sit in an ice-cold bath for an hour to try to figure out how much body heat he had lost.
He seemed to want to sit back and observe, while I was happy to be in the middle of the action.
She was happy to see him happy.
The Humboldt-Universität was happy to cooperate.
