Xenophon uses it, says Dalmeyda, to pique curiosity, to render the misfortunes of the two more dramatic by the prophecy of them and to reassure his readers about a happy ending.
The story begins with the festival of Artemis at Ephesus at which Habrocomes and Anthia fell in love and ends with their return to her temple to offer thanksgiving for a happy ending out of all their misfortunes.
Happy Ending is her renewed hail and her farewell.
I knew what I was up to when I called it Happy Ending.
I'd like one about a golden-haired girl and a wounded soldier with a happy ending.
If I read King Lear simply as a drama, I find that my feelings call for this 'happy ending.
Some twenty years after the Restoration, Nahum Tate altered King Lear for the stage, giving it a happy ending, and putting Edgar in the place of the King of France as Cordelia's lover.
The story was tragic but I gave it a happy ending.
I am surprised that you should yield to the schoolgirl desire for that shallowest of all literary devices, a "happy ending," by which all the pathos of the book is effaced to "make a woman holiday.
But I am not sure that there will be a--happy ending.
And that's why I want to make the picture for the--happy ending.
It is natural for us to desire a happy ending in stories, as we desire satisfying solutions of the problems in our own lives.
But where powerful and terrible influences have to be combated, only a poor dramatist will make use of mere chance, or compel his characters to do what such people really would not do, to bring about a factitious "happy ending.
Gentlemen, with your kind permission I will read a poem" 161 "--what a happy endingit is!
This must be the ending which Jonas prophesied--but what a happy ending it is!
Subsequently the term is applied to mystery plays with a happy ending.
In the middle ages it meant simply a story with a happy ending.
As compared with tragedy it is distinguished by having a happy ending (this being considered for a long time the essential difference), by quaint situations, and by lightness of dialogue and character-drawing.
For her, at any rate, the comedy had had a happy ending.
Of the fourth act, with its carefully held back but obviously imminent reconciliation between the leading characters, she took in but little, except that she vaguely understood it to have a happy ending.
And every one will go away saying 'I'm glad it had a happy ending.
One minute I feel I want to be alive this time to-morrow, in order that my book, which has become everything to me, may have a happy ending.
Oh, but if I go down, I want to ask you not to think it anything but a happy ending.
And, if these pages can be regarded as my spiritual history, they will have a happy ending, too.
The justice illusion which men have found so indispensable a companion on their way through time requires the happy ending.
All this sounds as if I were getting far from my happy ending, and you begin to see me asking the old question, "Is democracy a failure?
I know how to write a story (of the "happy ending" sort) for magazine readers for whom literature is too good, but I will not do so so long as stealing is more honorable and interesting.
But, look here, do you want a happy ending to this romance?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "happy ending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
