| The characters in both the novel and film are very two-dimensional topped off by a smug happy ending which feels empty. |
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| The movie adds a happy ending, which seems the most unrealistic portion of the script. |
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| It used to be that a happy ending was required to make a summer blockbuster a hit. |
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| In any genre where a happy ending is not only not guaranteed, but almost forbidden, one is likely to find a Tragedienne. |
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| There was a happy ending, though, as Canadians don't really care about the US anthem anyway. |
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| Like the best disaster film that's never been made, but no hero to give us the happy ending. |
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| It tells the story of a girl's life as a geisha that is full of struggle but with a happy ending. |
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| Jin does not endow his protagonist with high powers of lyricism, brevity or a particularly happy ending. |
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| He is quite a Prince Charming and this is a love story with a happy ending. |
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| Both parties behave reprehensibly to each other throughout the film until the all-too-convenient happy ending. |
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| We as the audience root for him to get out of trouble, get the gun, and bring a happy ending to his quest. |
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| Thus begins an adventure in which Measle finds friends, braves dangers, wreaks vengeance and discovers a happy ending. |
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| The book is a tedious affair that meanders along the journey of its plot before marooning us in an improbably happy ending. |
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| Even though it leaves us expecting a sequel, the play does have a happy ending of sorts. |
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| Fortunately, Coraline has a happy ending that is appropriate, moving, and earned. |
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| However, a happy ending was not waiting for me at the end of my quest for financial aid. |
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| The families said their prayers were answered, giving a happy ending to a harrowing adventure. |
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| It is a gorgeously realized and refreshingly carefree love story with a genuinely happy ending. |
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| There never will be a happy ending if society continues to tolerate poverty and the marginalization of some of its citizens. |
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| For Margie and her family, the rescue was a happy ending and the end of a horrible ordeal. |
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| So in the end it sort of has a happy ending, in that you get to see Grace exact vengeance. |
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| Luther adds the final piece to the happy ending, giving the cruise tickets away to his formerly quarrelsome neighbors. |
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| Jill, your book has a happy ending that created consternation among some early readers. |
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| Through its improbably happy ending, the Athenians can retain their special 'earthborn' status and claim ancestral authority over all Ionians. |
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| There is a happy ending, however, as Zigby, pricked by a guilty conscience, builds the friendly ants a new home out of mud. |
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| The storyline skips through similar romantic entanglements and political intrigues, en route to another happy ending. |
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| As this is ballet, like opera, there are lots of improbable plot twists before the story concludes with a happy ending. |
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| Sing-alongs, puppets and a pinch of magic all make for a jolly time at the theatre and a happy ending of course. |
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| Let's not start with the holes in plausibility, or the falsely happy ending. |
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| However, this being the mortal plane and not Hades, these various screw-ups all had a happy ending. |
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| Harlequin romances idealize traditional male and female gender roles and always have a happy ending. |
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| The play focuses on how a couple grows apart, and how love doesn't always have a happy ending. |
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| Of course for some there is a happy ending, and the office singletons have to narrow their search. |
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| Even the deaf-mute village idiot, trailing through the desert with a giant catfish in his arms, comes to a happy ending. |
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| In this case there was a happy ending and everybody did live happily ever after. |
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| Like most stories about the City News, even this one about the scoop that got away has, in its own hardbitten way, a happy ending. |
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| I was, however, expecting your typical romantic chick flick with a happy ending. |
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| Of altruistically serve the various problems, many, hopefully they have a happy ending. |
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| You'll be glad to know that the story has a happy ending, with only several thousand Londoners drowning horribly in the rising floodwaters as a surge tide invades the capital. |
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| However, the overall intent and effect of the play was one of a happy lark through the Gordian knot of contemporary socio-political problems and out to a happy ending. |
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| The story has a happy ending when a local wealthy person offers not only a place to stay, but, equally important, a much needed job. |
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| Life is already something of a fairy story, and as real as it seems it is not your true reality, but it will however have a happy ending. |
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| As with all good fairy stories this one has a happy ending with the audience applauding a clever transformation scene where the Beast finally becomes human again. |
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| Whilst we were there we put up the partition walls in the neighbouring rooms too, so the action movie also had a happy ending. |
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| In this Philoctetes there is no chorus, no deus ex machina, no sudden appearance of Heracles that would make a happy ending possible. |
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| From behind their masks emerge incommunicable grudges and frustrations, thus calling into question the 1945 film's happy ending. |
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| The two hightail it out of there, but they ultimately get their pie and their happy ending, too. |
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| Storywise, things begin to blur around the edges at this point, but Bourne contrives a suitably happy ending. |
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| The concert's video-assisted storyline was about a boy-girl romance with a happy ending. |
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| That's West in one sentence, trying, but only qualifiedly able, to commit to a happy ending. |
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| At the last moment, Levin abruptly bails out, makes everything go right again, and wraps it up with a happy ending. |
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| The ending is tough because I didn't want to cheat on the audience, I didn't want to have an American happy ending. |
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| And it had a happy ending, in which Rooster visits Mattie at her family ranch. |
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| So, if this ill informed, ill educated, condemned criminal gets the happy ending of life eternal with God, may we not also have similar expectations? |
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| In actual fact, this is, in a way, a story with a happy ending because there is quite a lot of agreement as to the objectives. |
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| The end of World War II brought no happy ending for Maczek and his Polish troops. |
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| Lawyers are interested in protecting the interests of their particular client who is not a statistic or someone else's happy ending story. |
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| In wish I could give this story a happy ending but that isn't what happened. |
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| Every story should have a happy ending, and our investigation had its silver lining, too. |
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| A story with a happy ending is that of a young mother of two who started attending one of the groups for young mothers, some years ago. |
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| But out of this muck I wove a conversation, a story with no chance of a happy ending. |
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| But what makes this story so extraordinary is the firm conviction of the winner of Ironman to have a happy ending. |
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| The good news is this is a story with a happy ending that has yet to be written. |
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| The saga finally came to a happy ending on the evening of May 30 when the humpback whales left discreetly in the middle of the night. |
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| So the story comes to a happy ending as a result of Jonah having finally accepted his responsibility. |
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| In the month before its release, the movie went through a series of edits and reshoots, including a new happy ending that lets the couples live happily ever after. |
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| To try to find some happy ending, in a way, falsifies, flees from the reality. |
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| He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to federal prison, creating a happy ending in a domestic abuse story. |
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| It is to be hoped that he can find salvation in the songs which have enthralled so many others, and that his remarkable story has the happy ending many feel he deserves. |
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| In the happy ending, the victim wins and you can vicariously enjoy her retaliation against the other woman. |
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| I didn't for one moment believe that there was anything between the characters, and I certainly didn't care whether their love story had a happy ending. |
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| Anger or sullenness are certainly well-used tools in my emotional repertoire, but their employ doesn't usually lead to a happy ending for anyone in the household. |
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| The trouble with films is that we've come to expect them to follow a basic formula, usually involving all loose endings being tied up and a happy ending. |
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| Twenty minutes later Erwin Koeman fed a long ball into Van Basten from the left, the unfortunate Kohler was penalised and thus began Holland's happy ending. |
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| For them these deportations have not had a happy ending. |
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| The point of the journey is not to reach a happy ending through magic. |
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| Lastly, the rules for commercial cockpit crews remain embryonic, even though they play an essential role in guaranteeing passenger safety, as the happy ending to the accident in Toronto on 2 August 2005 showed. |
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| Such a happy ending will not be reached without planning and thought. |
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| To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, there's no such thing as a happy ending. |
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| With regard to this, I would like to express, once again, our deep gratitude for the steadfast support shown by France and French institutions, helping to make this happy ending possible. |
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| Or will producers retcon them out for a happy ending? |
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| The critical question is, how do we make sure your emerging success story has a happy ending? |
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| He is responsible for the play's happy ending, when he influences Theseus to overrule Egeus and allow the lovers to marry. |
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| Scottie's obsession leads to tragedy, and this time Hitchcock does not opt for a happy ending. |
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| The main differences from the original are an extended role for the monkey god Hanuman and the addition of a happy ending. |
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| Sometimes the sailors are rescued and the story has a happy ending. |
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| I think the last time there was a shemozzle like this, it was Zidane in the Stewards' Cup, so let's hope we have a similarly happy ending. |
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| Together, we are creating a story with a happy ending for women here. |
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| This story has a particularly happy ending, as Malian authorities have confirmed that the two Canadian diplomats are in good physical and mental condition. |
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| A little extra work before you begin will guarantee a happy ending. |
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| But, unlike so many songs by the Mancunian miserabilist, this tale has a happy ending. |
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| Children's stories end that way too, with a happy ending. |
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| I am afraid we are discovering, through some worrying facts, that the political and economic populism of this wealthy republic does not have a happy ending. |
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| What a pity that happy ending only happens in the movies. |
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| The happy ending of the dramatic two-month long ordeal finally allowed the miners, their families and the people around the world watching the rescue operation with hope and concern to breathe a sigh of relief. |
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| None of the films by von Trier, Moodysson, Dresen or Susanne Bier are glamorous, star-driven, cloying or inevitably with a happy ending and yet the public appreciates them. |
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| What I loved about Hysterical Blindness was the truthfulness of it, the fact that it had no epiphanies in it of any discernible nature which would give us a happy ending. |
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| It's a bittersweet rom-com with a happy ending. |
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| There's nothing like a story with a happy ending, so it's with a big smile on my face that I bring you glad tidings from the hearth of the Berzerker. |
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| Are you sure you're not addicted to this cloak-and-dagger double life just as much as the happy ending, even though getting caught is your biggest fear? |
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| After their onslaughts on Gabrieli and Merullo for the unjoyfulness of their wedding music at Venice, no doubt the academicians felt bound to give Euridice a happy ending. |
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| And the happy ending is the reestablishment of social harmony. |
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| Originally commissioned by the Kirov Ballet, it was rejected by them when Prokofiev attempted a happy ending and was rejected again for the experimental nature of its music. |
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| Life is not to be conceived on the analogy of a melodrama in which the hero and heroine go through incredible misfortunes for which they are compensated by a happy ending. |
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| The earliest, Romeo und Julie in 1776, a Singspiel by Georg Benda, omits much of the action of the play and most of its characters and has a happy ending. |
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