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Otherwise, this painting simply portrays people: unhappy, bored, disgusted people, perhaps, but just people.

This means that, at a given level of proficiency, happy, unhappy, and happiness are counted as one item.

It believed this group both personally unhappy and a source of malaise for the rest of society.

Many older people are unhappy about the sheer quantity of medicines they are required to take daily.

The contributors recognise the problematic nature of the term, which is, perhaps, an unhappy one.

We may feel unhappy if the opportunity to partake of these pleasures is removed.

By remaining together, both unhappy spouses can carry out their parental roles and by this undertaking receive the community's acknowledgment of their parental status.

Almost half say other villagers would at least 'probably' be unhappy or angry if they took too much fuelwood or fodder.

Looking back over a span of 40 or more years, they could remember difficulties and times when they were unhappy.

Deploying these mechanisms is ex ante mutually advantageous, even if we are unhappy with the results.

Contests for scarce resources in under-funded universities provide situations in which unhappy cohabitations may be remembered more than alternative narratives of co-operative ventures.

A widow or a seriously sick person is likely to be unhappy, though they could be perfectly autonomous.

Since voting generates winners and losers, the losers are unhappy even when they had a chance to vote for their favorite option.

This argument ties happy more closely to -er than to un- and thereby renders unhappy right-branching.

This unhappy state was the result of antidemocratic policies vigorously pursued and enforced by means of terror and repression.

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