happy-ending

A Westerner raised in a heritage of happy-ending life theology is more likely to accept a happy ending story as true.

Happily Ever After… at SF Novelists 2009

"He's also someone who very much is an optimist, a happy-ending guy."

An Odd Couple and a Well-Shod Cat Rachel Dodes 2011

Don't waste time or energy on movies or TV that are violent and depressing -- watch happy-ending love stories!

Maria Rodale: The Art of Living in Balance, Part 1 Maria Rodale 2010

Her senior thesis is about the evolution of the so-called marriage plot in the novel, from the happy-ending weddings of Jane Austen to the spouse-swapping of John Updike.

Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011

But the director is actually intent on making a happy-ending companion for his grim 1935 movie about the IRA, "The Informer."

Five Best: Movie Directors in Fictional Form Patrick McGilligan 2011

In a happy-ending, upbeat story, the protagonist chooses good rather than evil.

Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010

The 2007 movie "Juno," a happy-ending tale of a teen girl's accidental pregnancy, was popular at the time.

Teens And Rhythm Method: Form Of Birth Control On The Rise 2010

But he was not a happy-ending type, and I'd guess his version did not finish the way the movie does: with McQueen and Ali MacGraw emerging like transfigured lovers from a pile of garbage and trucking off to live happily ever after down Mexico way.

Archive 2010-01-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010

In You've Got Mail, Ephron focuses on a superficial happy-ending love story, and seems positively unaware that the story not only glorifies/absolves the practice of rapacious corporate conglomerates crushing locally owned stores, but worse, reinforces anti-feminist stereotypes of women as pathetically weak.

David Sirota: When Julia Became Julie, Content Lost Its Throne 2009

The Republican orgasmatron is in high-gear, with promises of the proverbial happy-ending.

Andy Ostroy: A "Republican Renaissance?" Yeah, and I Hear the Mullet's Coming Back Too 2009