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The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.
Caitlin Colford: Broom of the Freedom: A David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen Friendship Caitlin Colford 2011
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The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.
Caitlin Colford: Broom of the Freedom: A David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen Friendship Caitlin Colford 2011
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Do angry-faced cars or happy-faced cars come to a complete stop at stop signs more often?
Car faces ewillett 2008
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Over at CJR, Ryan Chittum's gone deep into the belly of Planet BP to find "their greatest propaganda hits," and finds them to be, on balance, "tone-deaf," "obnoxious," possessed of no evident "shame" and heavily bent on happy-faced advertorial mush.
BP Sends PR Professionals To Gulf Coast To Pretend To Be Journalists 2010
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Even the diehards that managed to scrape together a happy-faced rationale for the Palin pick must be shaking their heads in disbelief today.
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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Even the diehards that managed to scrape together a happy-faced rationale for the Palin pick must be shaking their heads in disbelief today.
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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Even the diehards that managed to scrape together a happy-faced rationale for the Palin pick must be shaking their heads in disbelief today.
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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Watching Obama's pleasant, happy-faced surrogates go up against Clinton's kneecappers and hardballers is like watching a scrimmage between the varsity and the JV.
Andy Rosenberg: Help Wanted: Surrogates for Barack Obama Who Can Throw a Punch 2008
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I woke up this morning with visions of bright yellow, happy-faced school buses dancing in my head.
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I woke up this morning with visions of bright yellow, happy-faced school buses dancing in my head.
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