short-lived happiness

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• short-lived — [ˌʃo:t ˈlıvd US ˌʃo:rt ˈlaıvd] adj existing or happening for only a short time ▪ Our happiness was short lived …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• short-lived — adjective lasting only a short time: Our happiness was short lived …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• short — adj., adv., n., & v. adj. 1 a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b not long in duration; brief (a short time ago; had a short life). c seeming less than the stated amount (a few short years of happiness). 2 of small… …   Useful english dictionary

• The Sandman (short story) — The Sandman Author E.T.A. Hoffmann Original title Der Sandmann Language German Published in 1816 …   Wikipedia

• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness — Infobox Film name = The Inn of the Sixth Happiness caption = Original film poster director = Mark Robson producer = Buddy Adler writer = Alan Burgess (book) Isobel Lennart starring = Ingrid Bergman Curd Jürgens Robert Donat distributor = 20th… …   Wikipedia

• White Nights (short story) — White Nights is a Russian short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer s career. Film adaptations have been made by Italian director Luchino Visconti, by French director Robert Bresson (as Four Nights of a… …   Wikipedia

• Gus Abraham — is the veteran polemicist and author of mixed Highland and Jewish background. His father an exile from post war Germany and his mother was an inker (print industry setter) in Paisley.Abraham set up the short lived Happiness Factory in Glasgow in… …   Wikipedia

• Roblès, Emmanuel — ▪ Algerian French author born May 4, 1914, Oran, Algeria died Feb. 22, 1995, Boulogne, France       Algerian French novelist and playwright whose works came out of the war and political strife that he witnessed in Europe and North Africa. A… …   Universalium

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

• performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …   Universalium

• japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …   Universalium